Homes for Canadians (I) by Howard David Brian

“…This text is an exercise in examining this question of “dwelling” and “home” through an allegorical poetical focus (drawn from Walter Benjamin and Charles Baudelaire) focusing on a newly completed suburb in the Canadian city of Halifax, Nova Scotia.…”
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Homes for Canadians (II) by HOWARD DAVID BRIAN

“…This text is an exercise in examining this question of ‘dwelling’ and ‘home’ through an allegorical poetical focus (drawn from Walter Benjamin and Charles Baudelaire) focusing on a newly completed suburb in the Canadian city of Halifax, Nova Scotia.…”
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Postcards: Flotsam and Jetsam: Art, Allegory, and Shipwreck in the Twenty-First Century (I) by Howard David Brian

“…The catalyst for bringing these two groups together was a photograph I took several years ago in Sambro, Nova Scotia (a small fishing village located just outside of the city of Halifax) depicting a forlorn sunken fishing vessel. …”
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Flotsam and Jetsam: Art, Allegory, and Shipwreck in the Twenty-First Century (II) by Howard David Brian

“…The catalyst for bringing these two groups together was a photograph I took several years ago in Sambro, Nova Scotia (a small fishing village located just outside of the city of Halifax) depicting a forlorn sunken fishing vessel. …”
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Comment moderation strategies in Canadian news media and their principles by Ahmed Al-Rawi, Joseph Nicolai

“…The outline of how news-related UGC is moderated within Canadian news is achieved by looking at the online comment policies of major Canadian news organizations like . the CBC, CityNews (Halifax), CTV News, Glacier Media, Global News, The Globe and Mail, Narcity Media, Postmedia, QUB (Québecor), and Torstar.The policies highlight how Canadian news organizations have practical strategies to manage news-related UGC but also call upon positive and negative social principles, to flag ill practices, foster democracy, and fight against online hate speech and libel. …”
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Multi-objective optimization and heuristic based solutions for evacuation modeling by Mohimenul Kabir, Jaiaid Mobin, Muhammad Ali Nayeem, Muhammad Ahsanul Habib, M. Sohel Rahman

“…Finally, the work has performed a case study on the city of Halifax to show the efficacy of our framework where our multi-objective optimization based solution (Heuristics-based solution) can evacuate all evacuees within six (nine) hrs. …”
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Whither RDS? An investigation of Respondent Driven Sampling as a method of recruiting mainstream marijuana users by Cousineau Marie-Marthe, Brochu Serge, Asbridge Mark, Erickson Patricia G, Hyshka Elaine, Hathaway Andrew D, Duff Cameron, Marsh David

“…Based on sampling conducted in a multi-city study (Halifax, Montreal, Toronto, and Vancouver), and compared to samples gathered using other research methods, we assess the strengths and weaknesses of RDS recruitment as a means of gaining access to illicit substance users who experience few harmful consequences of their use. …”
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Impact of land–water sensitivity contrast on MOPITT retrievals and trends over a coastal city by I. Ashpole, A. Wiacek, A. Wiacek

“…<p>We compare MOPITT Version 7 (V7) Level 2 (L2) and Level 3 (L3) carbon monoxide (CO) products for the <span class="inline-formula"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" id="M1" display="inline" overflow="scroll" dspmath="mathml"><mrow><mn mathvariant="normal">1</mn><msup><mi/><mo>∘</mo></msup><mo>×</mo><mn mathvariant="normal">1</mn><msup><mi/><mo>∘</mo></msup></mrow></math><span><svg:svg xmlns:svg="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="34pt" height="11pt" class="svg-formula" dspmath="mathimg" md5hash="18e249d247dd6d35235fb683ecd82671"><svg:image xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xlink:href="amt-13-3521-2020-ie00001.svg" width="34pt" height="11pt" src="amt-13-3521-2020-ie00001.png"/></svg:svg></span></span> L3 grid box containing the coastal city of Halifax, Canada (longitude <span class="inline-formula">−63.58</span><span class="inline-formula">^∘</span>, latitude <span class="inline-formula">44.65</span><span class="inline-formula">^∘</span>), with a focus on the seasons DJF and JJA, and highlight a limitation in the L3 products that has significant consequences for the temporal trends in near-surface <span class="inline-formula">CO</span> identified using those data. …”
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Cities and climate change science after Edmonton: Knowledge, people, and organisations' influence and outreach by Nina Hunter, Brenna Walsh, Gian C. Delgado Ramos, Julie Greenwalt, Debra Roberts, Cathy Oke, Daniel Nielsen, Rob Slotow

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