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To date, most postsecondary music teacher education courses in Canada have not held substantive space for Indigenous knowledge. In this paper, we first examine the broader efforts of Canadian universities to decolonize their institutions, then discuss issues that Indigenous scholars have raised that are relevant to embedding Indigenous knowledge in postsecondary music education classes. We describe one course at the University of Victoria dedicated to the process of decolonizing and Indigenizing music education and share our study’s findings regarding the course’s effect on the teaching practices of some of the educators who took the course. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Voice Your Celebration was a public computing installation at Canada's National Music Center, which offered a re-staging of computer code as a heterotopic form of participatory theatre. In the same way that the stage and the script can stand in between the audience on one hand, and actors and creators of a play on the other, in performances involving live digital art, pre-written code can also separate the coder and creators from the interacting audience. In this paper, we illustrate how Voice Your Celebration sought to address this divide by creating opportunities for the audience to become participants in the code itself by incorporating their voices and stories as integral parts of a widely used computational algorithm (Reynolds's algorithm) for simulating flocking behaviour. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article discusses the importance of promoting school psychology in Canada to address the mental health needs of children and youth. It highlights the pressing concern of poor mental health among Canadian children, exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic and a shortage of mental health professionals. The article emphasizes the need to raise awareness about school psychology and its role in supporting children's mental health care. The Advocacy Committee of the Educational and School Psychology Section of the Canadian Psychological Association has published a Position Paper advocating for equitable and accessible psychological and mental health services in the public education system. The committee has also created outreach materials and organized webinars to improve the training and recruitment of school psychologists. The next steps involve sharing the Position Paper with relevant stakeholders and finding ways to improve diversity within school psychology training. [Extracted from the article]

A complex dynamical network (CDN) can be considered as the composition system with the nodes subsystem (NS) and the links subsystem (LS), and both subsystems are coupled with each other. Therefore, the dynamics of NS affects the dynamics of LS, and vice versa. In this paper, two vector differential equation (VDE)s are employed to describe the dynamics of NS and LS, respectively, in which the dynamics of NS is proposed as the VDE with the second derivative term (SDT) for more realistic engineering applications. Compared with the existing literature, the key advantage is that the dynamics of links is utilized to assist synthesizing the tracking controller of NS. The results show that when the state of LS tracks asymptotically the synthesized auxiliary tracking goal (ATG), the state of NS tracks asymptotically the given reference signal. Observing the eventual topology of CDN, all eventual links between nodes depend on the proposed ATG when NS achieving the tracking target, in which one special case is that if all target signals determined by ATG are not zero, all nodes are not isolated. Finally, the effectiveness of the proposed control scheme is verified by a numerical simulation example. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

"Before Canada: Northern North America in a Connected World" is a collection of papers presented at a 2019 conference at McGill University. The book explores the long-term human history of northern North America, with a focus on Indigenous peoples' history and encounters with European colonialism. The essays cover diverse topics such as social networks in Beringia, the Apache people's migration, Inuit intercultural exchanges, European cultures in northern North America, and European-Indigenous exchanges. The book also raises important ethical considerations regarding the inclusion of Indigenous voices in the study of early Canadian history. [Extracted from the article]

• Bibliometric techniques identify the productivity and influence on research. • Fuzzy systems are an area of study with potential for further research. • Zadeh is known as the most influential author in fuzzy research in North American. • The United States is the most productive and influential country in fuzzy research. The objective of this paper is to apply bibliometric techniques to analyze the evolution of fuzzy systems research (FSR) in the United States of America and Canada. The aim is to visualize the progression of FSR since Zadeh's first publication of fuzzy sets and the regional impact that these ideas have in the scientific community. This work obtains data retrieved from the Web of Science (WoS) scientific database. Using a hybrid methodology designed to maximize the obtention of representative results, we analyze 20,317 documents published between 1965 and 2020. The main findings show that Zadeh is the most influential author and that Pedrycz is the most productive author at FSR. Journals such as Fuzzy Sets and Systems (FSS) and IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems (TFS) publish most of the FSR articles. The results show a greater contribution by the United States of America compared to Canada in FSR. This analysis contributes to visualization and evolution in the field of study of FSR in diverse regions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article discusses the history of the Bank of Montreal and the bank's influence on Canada's financial and economic history. It looks at how the Bank of Montreal was the first to introduce paper banknotes in Canada in 1817 and how it changed the country's financial system. Particular attention is also given to Edwin Henry King, who became president of the bank in 1869 and was known for his contributions to the business aspects of banking.

An introduction is presented in which the editor discusses various reports within the issue on topics including the approach of the bio-fibre industry to reuse material, the ban of plastic bags in France, and The Pulp and Paper Technical Association of Canada.

This paper examines the relationship between the church and the state in Canadian society within the contextualization of the "Sacred Polity." The terminological differences between the church and the state become one basis for the consideration here. The paper centrally argues for the fundamentally religious nature of the religious and the secular with claims taken on faith. Claims on faith-building worldviews fundamentally different in titles and content, but similar in ways of knowing: faith. In essence, a polity is a Sacred Polity by the nature of the views held by all, whether "secular" or "religious," being, fundamentally, religious worldviews. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper aims to incorporate a high order diffusion term into a SIQR epidemic model with transient prophylaxis and lasting prophylaxis. The existence and uniqueness of the global positive solution is proven and we find a condition ensuring the extinction of an infectious disease. The existence of a stationary distribution for the stochastic epidemic model is investigated as well. Numerical simulations are conducted to support our theoretical results and an example of application with COVID-19 data from Canada is used to estimate the transmission rate and reproduction number associated with the stochastic model, while constructing a model fitting the data. • A stochastic SIQR epidemic model with higher-order perturbation is investigated. • The existence and uniqueness of the global positive solution are studied. • A stochastic threshold is established for extinction. • COVID-19 data from Canada are used to estimate the transmission rate. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article focuses on the recent donation of Louis Riel's private papers by his descendants, offering a poignant glimpse into the Métis leader's emotional and financial challenges during his exile. Topics include the acquisition of the manuscripts by the University of Calgary, and the digitization of the collection, providing a rare opportunity for the public to explore the personal and intimate life of Louis Riel and gain insight into the historic struggles of Métis people in Canada.

As elections around the world become digital, governments have begun adopting regulations to govern the use of voting technologies and protect electoral integrity. Canada, however, is an exception. Despite the prevalence of voting technologies in Canada's local elections, notably online voting, no regulation framework has been initiated. In particular, there are no guidelines or standards surrounding the use of online voting. While research documents online voting has positive effects for participation, implications for the integrity, accountability, and transparency of elections are stark. Canada's multilevel governance structure has meant municipalities mostly deliver elections on their own terms, resulting in a patchwork of online voting models and cybersecurity requirements. Many municipalities also lack the resources to vet vendor solutions adequately, and an increasing number of cities are eliminating paper voting. These conditions highlight an urgent need to regulate the design and procurement of election technology in Canada. To proactively respond to these developments, this article draws upon interviews with select officials and experts and regulation models in other jurisdictions to argue for a new model of electronic voting regulation that would be a good fit for Canada. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article discusses investigation into the Canadian Border Services Agency's (CBSA) handling of refugee claimant cases, focusing on the organization's conduct regarding immigrants who died in its custody. Topics include the suicide of deported hotel maid Lucia Vega Jimenez, the death of illegal immigrant and convicted fraudster Maxamillion Akamai, and allegations that the CBSA released Akamai in order to avoid dealing with his imminent death.

• An approach for cleaning and reconciliation of tags in open data portal (ODP) categories using natural language processing methods. • A data structure for connecting ODPs – cross-portal metadata alignment structure generated using ODPs' tags. • Formal context reduction based on semantic similarity measure through means of natural language processing. • Cross-portal dataset categorization - determining appropriate category for a dataset using the metadata alignment structure. • Quality assessment using datasets obtained from Canada's and New Zealand's ODP. Due to openness and transparency initiatives, a vast amount of data is being made publicly available. This data has great significance for business and society. However, it also led to challenges that need to be overcome for this data to reach its full potential. In this paper, we are focusing on the problem of connecting open data portals (ODPs) through metadata alignment. We investigate the available metadata accompanying datasets, especially the part related to categories datasets belong to and tags that closely describe datasets. The methodology we propose is relying on Formal Concept Analysis for the creation of the hierarchical structure used for determining the similarity of tags' usage in different ODPs. We propose such a structure to be used for open data portal metadata alignment. Further, we apply semantic similarity measures to reduce the complexity of the cross-portal data structure while preserving all its characteristics. We demonstrate how our approach can be used for determining dataset category across multiple ODPs aligned using the data structure our approach generates. We envision our approach to improve cross-portal search and metadata enrichment through open data categorization. Lastly, the quality of our approach was tested using datasets obtained from Canada's and New Zealand's ODPs. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper proposes a uniquely Canadian strand of Musical Futures, which it argues should incorporate the principles of both informal music learning, studied by UK professor and researcher, Lucy Green, and soundscape listening/creating, designed by Canadian composer and educator, R. Murray Schafer. It asserts that these two approaches to music learning and teaching can complement each other to provide a creative solution to some of our current issues in Canadian music education. This paper examines the lack of music instructional selfefficacy among generalist teachers and the need for music pedagogy relevant to today's students, specifically within the Ontario elementary school context, in order to illustrate the benefits of a national strand of Musical Futures. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper is the second of a two-part series outlining the history and current trends of the El Sistema movement in Canada. The first installment, El Sistema a Recent History; Part 1 (Lorenzino 2015), offered a brief account of the origins of El Sistema in Venezuela as well its implementation in Canadian provinces outside of Ontario. The work explained Canada's role as a leader in international El Sistema development and discussed the future of El Sistema and Sistema-inspired programs in Canada. The paper concluded with speculation about Canada's future involvement in the global development of this initiative. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A white paper from Canada and the United States focuses on collaboration between the two countries on their commitment to deal with the overdose crisis. "Substance Use and Harms During COVID‐19 and Approaches to Federal Surveillance and Response," issued Sept. 27, states that the increase in "substance use harms and deaths" during COVID‐19 is partly due to a decrease in access to services. The white paper itself focuses on the restrictions to methadone access in the United States and says little about the Canadian rules, but they are much more lenient. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper examines music's role in the integration and upward social mobility of immigrant families. Immigrant parents often strive for a positive future for their children when entering a new culture and society, such as Canada (Ichou, Oberti, & Waine, 2014). Music education's potential use as a tool for social mobility and integration is examined with reference to Bourdieu's concept of capital, Yosso's (2005) theory of community cultural wealth, and Lareau's (2003) concepts of childrearing. The important role that music educators play in the lives of immigrant students in developing their musical cultural capital is emphasized along with the encouragement of open awareness of the culture of social mobility in immigrant families. Possible negative aspects of using music education as a tool for social mobility are discussed, with a further recommendation for educators to incorporate a more inclusive school music curriculum within Canada. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this article, theatre artist/researcher Sonia Norris delves into the complicated question, "what is Canadian clowning?" Canadian clowns provide a diverse array of possibilities in answer to this question depending on their location, training, and linguistic and cultural background. However, the international clowning community often associates the term 'Canadian clowning' uniquely with the style of clown training and performance developed by Richard Pochinko in the seventies and eighties. Furthermore, their perception is that this style of clowning is a form of Indigenous or 'Amerindian' clowning. Norris scrutinizes this perception with Indigenous theatre artists Monique Mojica, Jani Lauzon, Rose Stella, and Gloria Miguel. Lauzon and Mojica worked with Richard Pochinko and his longtime collaborator Ian A. Wallace, Stella worked with Pochinko-trained teachers as part of her clown training, and Miguel's work with Spiderwoman Theater incorporates clown and Trickster. This discussion presents a re-contextualization of the term 'Canadian clown' and investigates the differences and connections between Pochinko's approach to clowning and Indigenous clowning and Trickster traditions in Canada. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper is the first of a two part series focusing on the history and implementation of Venezuela's music pedagogy system El Sistema throughout Canada. Opening with background information on El Sistema and founder Maestro Abreu, the article goes on to provide a brief profile of Canada's current El Sistema and Sistema-inspired programs (with the exception of Ontario and the northern territories which will be dealt with in Part II). An explanation of Canada's role as a leader in international El Sistema development, highlighting five key players, and her unique application of the fundamental of "collaboration" is outlined. The work concludes with speculation as to the future of El Sistema and Sistema-inspired programs in Canada and the role that the nation will continue to play in the global development of this initiative. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article discusses the history of a letter written by Canadian Henrietta Sewell to her brother in 1827, an artifact in the collections of the First Post Office museum in Toronto, Ontario. Topics discussed include paper made out of cotton, the dangers associated with tandem sleighs, and social life in Quebec City, Quebec.

The article describes the history of the First Nations higher education movement in Canada from 1969 to 2000. Topics discussed include the "White Paper" drafted by then Canadian Department of Indian Affairs minister Jean Chrétien that blended the natives into the major Canadian society, the formation of the Saskatchewan Indian Federated College (SIFC) in September 1972, and programs made by SIFC like the Indian Studies Support Program and the Centre for International Affairs.

The author discusses the instance of the promotion of political doctrines on campus in Canadian Universities which he states that it undermines academic freedom in universities. Topics include the author experience of progressive ideological politics on campus when he presented a paper on academic freedom; educators being political involved by using mob violence on issues such as social justice rather than promote education equality and the use of intimidation to stifle academic freedom.

• A fully automated, real-time forecasting model for COVID-19 transmission to help frontline health workers and government policy makers. • Use of Artificial intelligence (AI) and Deep Learning to model Infectious diseases without loosing temporal components. • One of the early studies to use LSTM networks to predict the COVID-19 transmission. • We showed the trends of different countries and compared them with Canadian data to predict the future infections. On March 11 th 2020, World Health Organization (WHO) declared the 2019 novel corona virus as global pandemic. Corona virus, also known as COVID-19 was first originated in Wuhan, Hubei province in China around December 2019 and spread out all over the world within few weeks. Based on the public datasets provided by John Hopkins university and Canadian health authority, we have developed a forecasting model of COVID-19 outbreak in Canada using state-of-the-art Deep Learning (DL) models. In this novel research, we evaluated the key features to predict the trends and possible stopping time of the current COVID-19 outbreak in Canada and around the world. In this paper we presented the Long short-term memory (LSTM) networks, a deep learning approach to forecast the future COVID-19 cases. Based on the results of our Long short-term memory (LSTM) network, we predicted the possible ending point of this outbreak will be around June 2020. In addition to that, we compared transmission rates of Canada with Italy and USA. Here we also presented the 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12 and 14 th day predictions for 2 successive days. Our forecasts in this paper is based on the available data until March 31, 2020. To the best of our knowledge, this of the few studies to use LSTM networks to forecast the infectious diseases. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article offers news briefs related to the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA). A research paper outlines the case for free tuition fee in universities. The nonprofit organization's economists Seth Klein and Armine Yalnizyan discuss the proposals of reducing poverty. Two reports from CCPA indicated the negative impact of approving the Trans-Pacific Partnership Trade Agreement (TPP) on the regulation and cost of medication in the country.

The article reports that the U.S. retailers enacted corporate policies that will eliminate chemicals of concern (COCs) from all their products worldwide as Canadian companies and regulatory agencies fail to enact rules addressing the risk of COCs in humans and ecosystem. Topics include the health impact of chemicals, the reduction of publicly listed chemicals in personal care, paper, and cleaning products, and the challenges facing the Canadian government for its chemicals regulatory system.

The article discusses the highlights of a panel discussion titled "The Academy According to Dickeson: How Can Theatre and Performance Studies Thrive in the Corporatized University?" where participants shared insights on how to navigate the "program prioritization" process happening across many universities in Canada. Each of the panellists' position papers provided persuasive storylines faced by those tasked of making the case of the indispensability of the programs to upper administration.

Background Drug-related problems have been identified as a major contributor to emergency room visits, hospitalizations, and death. The most commonly implicated medications are nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs), antiplatelets, and anticoagulants. Considering a significant proportion of these harms are preventable, indicators to identify risky prescribing before they lead to harm have been developed. Objective To examine the prevalence and patterns of potentially inappropriate prescriptions (PIPs) in a primary care population who are using high-risk medications. Setting This study was performed within two multi-disciplinary family medicine teaching clinics in Winnipeg, Canada. Method A cross-sectional electronic/paper chart audit was conducted within two multi-disciplinary family medicine teaching clinics to evaluate the prevalence of 13 evidence-based high-risk prescriptions. Patients were included if they were prescribed an oral NSAID, antiplatelet, or an anticoagulant within the 12 month period between June 2012 and June 2013. Main outcome measure The proportion of PIPs associated with an increased bleeding risk for NSAIDs, antiplatelets, and anticoagulants. Results Of the 567 patients included in the review, 198 (35 %) patients had received at least 1 PIP in the past year. The most common PIP was the use of an oral NSAID with one or more GI risk factors without adequate gastro-protection. Only 34 (6 %) of these patients received a full medication review performed by a pharmacist. Although not statistically significant, patients who received a medication review had fewer inappropriate prescriptions (27 % with review, 35 % without). Conclusion Over one-third of the patients who were using high-risk medications were using them potentially inappropriately. Although pharmacists have been shown to reduce the amount of inappropriate prescribing, very few patients using these medications were referred to the pharmacist for a full medication review. These data suggest that there is opportunity for the identification and assessment of these patients when prescribing or dispensing these high-risk medications. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The aticle informs that papers uncovered in a joint investigation conducted by Vice News and Motherboard following a two-year fight by government lawyers of Canada reveals that the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) has been decrypting BlackBerry Messenger messages since 2010. It is noted that BlackBerry has been accused for making unbreakable encryption for BBM.

The article discusses the creation of One Stop or integrated student services in colleges and universities across the U.S. and Canada as a solution to the complex transactional business processes being housed in separate silos. It suggests several things one can do without a One Stop to eliminate the bounce such as eliminating paper forms, mapping out the pathway a student has to take to accomplish the task, and creating service-level agreements.

The article presents the author's views regarding the attributes of the concept paper titled "Canadian Library Association: A Proposed New Vision for our National Association" for the Canadian Library Association (CLA). The author introduces the Future CLA Working Group which intends to provide services to CLA on governance, membership and financial service. The author also highlights the challenges and opportunities for libraries, archives and museums in Canada.

Information about marketing in the library profession discussed by Kitty Pope, Nancy Collins, and Jessica McPhee at the 2014 Students to Canadian Library Association program is presented. Topics mentioned include a marketing strategy that integrated discussing libraries during the civic election, photobooths and buttons as methods to promote the University of Waterloo Libraries, and Pope's experience with selling Paper Bag Princess bags.

The article reports on the development of the Greenfield Specialty Alcohol pilot plant at Aditya Birla kraft pulp mill and Ensyn bio-fuel plant in Ontario, Canada which will serve as a test site for a prototype technology designed to extract and separate sugars from wood and enhance fiber recoveries. Topics discussed include the involvement of the Centre for Research and Innovation in the Bio-Economy and the use of a modified twin screw extruder for extracting "clean sugars."