The term femicide was used to refer to the murder of women. Intimate femicide referred to the murder of women by men with whom they had an intimate love relationship. The purpose of this research was to make visible the intimate and domestic nature of femicide by describing all femicides in Saskatchewan between 1988 and 1992 inclusive. A second purpose of this research was to learn about prevention both from committed femicides and from two women who had survived an attempted intimate femicide. This research was feminist in nature and utilized elements of both quantitative and qualitative research methodologies. Data were gathered on all women known to be murdered between 1988 and 1992 from sources such as newspaper searches, coroners' reports, and police files. Based on these data, femicides were classified as intimate or non-intimate femicides and as possibly preventable or not preventable within the femicidal incident itself. Further data were gathered from interviews with two women who had survived an attempted intimate femicidal attack. Both sets of data were then reviewed and themes relating to the prevention of femicide were elicited. These themes focussed on failures of the communities in which these women resided or were murdered, failures of the medical community to correctly identify femicidal men, failures of the judicial system in their dealings with femicidal men, failures of the organized church, and failures of the institution of the family. Ten femicides were classified as possibly preventable within the femicidal assault itself. In addition, the interviews with both survivors identified many areas of possible intervention relating to prevention over a longer period of time. The study concludes with my reflections on the process of engaging in research on femicide, discussions about areas for further research and the identification of possible implications for public policy.

The goal of this thesis is to analyze the philosophy and pedagogy of an almost forgotten figure in Saskatchewan history, whose work has had a lasting impact on the theory and practice of adult education. Watson Thomson, who was appointed as director of the Adult Education Division (AED) by the newly elected CCF government of Tommy Douglas in 1944, initiated an ambitious program designed to animate the citizenry of Saskatchewan, bring a variety of educational services to the common person, and develop co-operative and community enterprises throughout the province. Thomsons work is significant for a number of reasons. First, I compare and contrast it with the pedagogy of Brazilian educator, Paulo Freire. Second, I show that it was influenced by the humanistic philosophy of Personalism, especially that of Emmanuel Mounier. Third, and perhaps most importantly, Watsons philosophy embodies insights from the depth psychology of Alfred Adler enabling him to advocate a distinctive, dialogical pedagogy. Fourth, his influence as director of the AED was considerable as can be gauged from the fact that within one year of its formation, the division had organized over 500 study-action groups and more than 100 cooperative enterprises. Fifth, Watsons educational achievements are important not only for historical reasons but as a model for the development of social economy enterprises today, as evidence from a recent UNESCO report shows. The thesis uses an interdisciplinary approach of intellectual biography, historical documentation, and philosophical and psychological analysis in order to establish a comprehensive account of the theory and practice of this important figure.

The term femicide was used to refer to the murder of women. Intimate femicide referred to the murder of women by men with whom they had an intimate love relationship. The purpose of this research was to make visible the intimate and domestic nature of femicide by describing all femicides in Saskatchewan between 1988 and 1992 inclusive. A second purpose of this research was to learn about prevention both from committed femicides and from two women who had survived an attempted intimate femicide. This research was feminist in nature and utilized elements of both quantitative and qualitative research methodologies. Data were gathered on all women known to be murdered between 1988 and 1992 from sources such as newspaper searches, coroners' reports, and police files. Based on these data, femicides were classified as intimate or non-intimate femicides and as possibly preventable or not preventable within the femicidal incident itself. Further data were gathered from interviews with two women who had survived an attempted intimate femicidal attack. Both sets of data were then reviewed and themes relating to the prevention of femicide were elicited. These themes focussed on failures of the communities in which these women resided or were murdered, failures of the medical community to correctly identify femicidal men, failures of the judicial system in their dealings with femicidal men, failures of the organized church, and failures of the institution of the family. Ten femicides were classified as possibly preventable within the femicidal assault itself. In addition, the interviews with both survivors identified many areas of possible intervention relating to prevention over a longer period of time. The study concludes with my reflections on the process of engaging in research on femicide, discussions about areas for further research and the identification of possible implications for public policy.

The goal of this thesis is to analyze the philosophy and pedagogy of an almost forgotten figure in Saskatchewan history, whose work has had a lasting impact on the theory and practice of adult education. Watson Thomson, who was appointed as director of the Adult Education Division (AED) by the newly elected CCF government of Tommy Douglas in 1944, initiated an ambitious program designed to animate the citizenry of Saskatchewan, bring a variety of educational services to the common person, and develop co-operative and community enterprises throughout the province. Thomsons work is significant for a number of reasons. First, I compare and contrast it with the pedagogy of Brazilian educator, Paulo Freire. Second, I show that it was influenced by the humanistic philosophy of Personalism, especially that of Emmanuel Mounier. Third, and perhaps most importantly, Watsons philosophy embodies insights from the depth psychology of Alfred Adler enabling him to advocate a distinctive, dialogical pedagogy. Fourth, his influence as director of the AED was considerable as can be gauged from the fact that within one year of its formation, the division had organized over 500 study-action groups and more than 100 cooperative enterprises. Fifth, Watsons educational achievements are important not only for historical reasons but as a model for the development of social economy enterprises today, as evidence from a recent UNESCO report shows. The thesis uses an interdisciplinary approach of intellectual biography, historical documentation, and philosophical and psychological analysis in order to establish a comprehensive account of the theory and practice of this important figure.

Innovation Parks in Canada / Innovation Parks became an innovation and economic development policy instrument in the Western world more than two decades ago. While Canada was slow to catch up to this phenomenon, it did eventually join the trend. This study analyzes the policy rationales for innovation parks in Canada through a national and sub-national lens. For this purpose, Ontario and Saskatchewan are chosen as comparative points. It compares the Saskatchewan Innovation Place (SIP), McMaster Innovation Park (MIP), and David Johnston Research and Technology Park (DJRTP). The study develops a three-pronged analysis of institutions, interests and ideas to explain why governments support innovation parks as a policy instrument. It is argued that the continued support of these initiatives is largely a function of institutional path-dependence and policy lock-ins manifest through sunk infrastructure investments, desire to balance different interest groups – mainly the commercial real estate sector and the organizations representing the research parks. These institutional and structural struggles are underpinned by the ideational frames of economic development and knowledge-based economic growth. / Thesis / Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)

L'objectif de cette étude consistait à déterminer dans quelle mesure des changements dans la taille du groupe influencent la sélection des ressources à plusieurs échelles spatiotemporelles chez le bison des plaines (Bison bison bison) du parc national de Prince Albert, Saskatchewan. Nous avons évalué la sélection de l'habitat à trois échelles spatiales au cours de l'été 2005 et de l'hiver 2006. Nos résultats ont révélé que la répartition spatiale du bison à chacune des échelles spatiales était influencée à la fois par des facteurs abiotiques (e.g., route, couvert de neige, pente) et biotiques (e.g., biomasse et espèce végétale), et que l'effet de ces facteurs variait en fonction de l'abondance des individus. Notre étude suggère que la sélection de l'habitat par le bison des plaines est un processus influencé par les compromis entre l'acquisition des ressources de haute qualité, les coûts associés aux déplacements et le risque de prédation, et ce, à différentes échelles spatiales. De plus, les résultats mettent en évidence que la nature de ces compromis change en fonction de la taille du groupe. / This study had for objective to evaluate whether habitat selection by plains bison (Bison bison bison) in Prince Albert National Park (Saskatchewan) was influenced by group size at multiple spatio-temporal scales. We evaluated habitat selection at three spatial distinct scales during summer 2005 and winter 2006. Our results revealed that both abiotic (e.g., road, snow cover, slope) and biotic (e.g., biomass of plants, plant species) factors influenced the spatial distribution of bison at each of the three spatial scales, and that the effects of these factors on resource selection changed with the abundance of individuals. Our study suggests that pattern of habitat selection by bison is affected by trade-offs between the intake of high-quality resources, movement costs and predation risk at different spatial scales. Moreover, our results showed that the nature of the trade-offs varies with group size.

L’identification des facteurs qui déterminent les patrons de répartition et d’abondance des animaux est un sujet de recherche actuel et majeur en écologie. L’objectif général de ma thèse était de mieux comprendre comment un facteur en particulier, la prédation – prise au sens large pour inclure la chasse par les humains – influence les liens entre l’utilisation de l’espace et la dynamique des populations. Ma thèse explore les liens entre le risque de prédation, les déplacements et la sélection de l’habitat, le taux de mortalité et la viabilité d’une population vulnérable d’un grand herbivore. Le modèle d’étude a été la population de bisons des prairies (Bison bison bison) du parc national de Prince Albert, en Saskatchewan, soumise notamment à la prédation par le loup gris (Canis lupus) et à la chasse par les humains. Dans le chapitre 1, je mets en lumière les stratégies d’utilisation de l’espace des bisons face aux loups, et vice-versa, à l’aide d’analyses de déplacements et de sélection de l’habitat. De la deuxième moitié de l’été au début de l’hiver, les bisons réduisaient le temps passé sur des parcelles riches en nourriture suivant l’augmentation du niveau de fréquentation à long terme de ces parcelles par les loups. Les bisons quittaient également ces parcelles rapidement lorsqu’un loup était à proximité. En hiver, cependant, les bisons ne semblaient réagir qu’en s’éloignant lorsqu’un loup était à proximité. L’absence de réaction par les bisons au risque à long terme de rencontrer un loup en hiver pourrait s’expliquer sur une base énergétique : la nourriture est alors moins digestible et la neige rend leurs déplacements plus coûteux. Bien que le risque de prédation influence l’utilisation de l’espace des bisons, je démontre dans le chapitre 2 que la prédation par les loups, ainsi que des épisodes stochastiques de maladie (anthrax), ne représentent pas actuellement des dangers pour la viabilité de la population. À l’inverse, sous les conditions actuelles, la chasse par les autochtones – légale mais non réglementée – est la raison principale pour laquelle le risque d’extinction de la population atteint 66% sur les 50 prochaines années. Les bisons sont vulnérables à la chasse lorsqu’ils sortent du parc pour se nourrir sur des champs agricoles, attirés par une riche nourriture. Mes analyses précisent que chaque 1% de temps additionnel passé sur des champs avec permission de chasse de iii 2011 à 2016 augmentait le risque de mortalité par la chasse de 9%. Je révèle en outre que le temps passé sur ces champs devrait chuter de 70% pour que l’effectif actuel de la population se maintienne dans le temps suivant un scénario où la population est encore soumise à la prédation par les loups et à des épisodes d’anthrax. L’utilisation de seulement cinq champs agricoles comptait déjà pour plus de 70% de l’utilisation totale des champs avec permission de chasse par les bisons. Mettre en place des plans de gestion qui ciblent davantage ces cinq champs serait une stratégie efficace à court terme pour freiner le déclin de la population. Bien qu’une telle stratégie puisse mener les bisons à augmenter leur utilisation d’autres champs, l’impact démographique de la chasse devrait diminuer en conséquence, au moins à court terme, car cette activité est interdite dans la plupart des autres champs utilisés régulièrement par les bisons. Enfin, dans le chapitre 3, je compare, à l’aide d’un modèle basé sur l’individu, l’efficacité de différentes interventions de gestion manipulant la profitabilité (c.- à-d., le ratio entre quantité d’énergie digestible et temps de consommation) et la répartition de la nourriture pour réduire le temps que les bisons passent à l’extérieur du parc. Mes simulations suggèrent qu’assécher des prés à l’intérieur du parc pour y augmenter la disponibilité en nourriture naturelle serait peu efficace. Cependant, mes simulations suggèrent également que la mise en culture, à l’extérieur du parc, d’espèces végétales moins profitables pour les bisons que la nourriture disponible dans le parc serait une meilleure intervention. Cette thèse révèle d’abord le caractère dynamique et complexe des stratégies anti-prédatrices d’utilisation de l’espace d’un grand herbivore dans un système multi-proies. Ce travail met ensuite en lumière l’utilité pratique des différentes approches reliant l’utilisation de l’espace et la viabilité d’une population afin d’orienter la mise en place d’interventions de gestion plus efficaces. Le résultat final est une étude de cas approfondie visant à améliorer notre capacité à sauvegarder à court terme des populations vulnérables à des menaces reparties de façon hétérogène dans l’espace / Determining the factors that shape patterns of animal distribution and abundance is a major topic in contemporary ecological research. The overarching objective of my thesis was to better understand how one such factor, predation – in its broader meaning to include harvesting by humans – influences the links between space use and population dynamics. My work explores the links between predation risk, movement and habitat selection, mortality rates and the viability of a threatened population of large herbivore. The study system was the plains bison (Bison bison bison) population of Prince Albert National Park, Saskatchewan, subject most notably to predation by grey wolves (Canis lupus) and harvest by humans. In chapter 1, I use movement and habitat selection analyses to reveal the strategies of space use deployed by bison in response to wolves and vice-versa. From mid-summer to the onset of winter, bison reduced the time spent in patches rich in food as the long-term risk of encountering wolves there increased. Bison also left these patches more quickly when wolves were relatively close by. In winter, however, bison were observed to only react by moving away from nearby wolves. The absence of a bison response to the long-term risk of encountering wolves in winter could be explained by energetic constraints, as food is less digestible and movement more costly due to snow cover during this season. Although I reveal that perceived predation risk influences bison use of space, I show in chapter 2 that neither wolf predation nor disease (in the form of anthrax outbreaks) represent a threat to the viability of the population. Rather, the main reason behind a probability of population extinction of 66% over the next 50 years under current conditions is the legal, yet unregulated, harvest by native hunters. Bison are vulnerable to harvest when they leave the park to forage on rich food available in agricultural fields. My analyses refine our understanding of this pattern by showing that every additional 1% of time spent in fields with hunting permission from 2011 to 2016 increased the risk of harvest mortality by 9%. I also reveal that the time bison spend in such fields must drop by 70% for population abundance to remain stable at its current level in a scenario of continued wolf predation and anthrax outbreaks. More than 70% of bison use of fields with hunting permission were limited to just five fields. Management interventions targeting these riskier fields would be an effective short-term strategy to halt the population’s decline. Even though such an approach might lead bison to increase their use of other fields, the demographic impact of harvesting should consequently diminish, at least over the short term, given that harvesting is not permitted in most other fields used by bison. Finally, in chapter 3, I use an individual-based model to compare the relative effectiveness of different management interventions manipulating food profitability (i.e. the ratio between digestible energy and handling time) and distribution to reduce the time bison spend outside the park raiding crops and, thereby, the number of individuals harvested. My simulations suggest that draining meadows inside the park to increase the availability of natural forage there would not be very effective. However, my simulations also suggest that cultivating crops outside the park of lower profitability relative to natural forage inside the park would be a better intervention. My thesis reveals the dynamic and complex nature of the anti-predator movement and habitat selection strategies deployed by a large herbivore in a multi-prey system. My work also highlights the practical interest of linking spatial distribution to population viability to lead to more effective management interventions. The overall result is a thorough case study aimed at improving our ability, over the short term, to conserve populations vulnerable to threats which are distributed heterogeneously in space

At a time when the rest of Canada, and indeed much of the Western World, was looking for alternatives to large custodial mental hospitals, people in the Western Canadian province of Saskatchewan celebrated the opening of one of the country's largest asylums. The province remained committed to the institution throughout the interwar years, offering few alternatives for people deemed insane or mentally defective. People on the outside often saw the asylum as an economic boon, a marker of civilization, or as an institution that was crucial for protecting the health and safety of the public. Patients and their families, however, struggled against an institution where patients were subjected to a broad range of indignities. By carefully considering Saskatchewan's regional social and political culture, I examine the values that were projected onto the asylum by those on the outside and the boundaries that were established between the patients and the public that enabled the public to see the asylum as necessary despite widespread patient suffering. I argue that the public accepted the Weyburn Mental Hospital first as a monument worthy of celebration and then as a necessary, though perhaps regrettable, tool for segregation. The asylum in the interwar years is best understood as a political rather than a medical institution, where politicians and the asylum administration cultivated an image for the institution that conformed to regional values. The government and the media defined the patient experience for a curious public, portraying the institution and its patients in a way that not only legitimized the asylum but that also assigned it meaning far beyond its stated medical function. The values associated with the asylum changed over time, but were always guided by political concerns and were always facilitated by manipulating the relationship between the asylum, its patients, and the surrounding community.

Seventeen glacially sheared stumps in growth position and abundant detrital wood fragments were exposed by stream avulsion at the terminus of the Saskatchewan Glacier in 1999. The stumps lay buried beneath the glacier and over 5 m of glacial sediment until historical recession and stream incision exposed the 225- to 262-year-old stand of subalpine fir, Englemann spruce and whitebark pine trees. Crossdating and construction of two radiocarbon-controlled floating tree-ring chronologies showed that all the subfossil stumps and boles exposed at this location were killed during a Neoglacial advance of the Saskatchewan Glacier 2,910 ± 60 to 2,730 ± 60 ¹⁴C years B.P. These findings support the Peyto Advance as a regional glaciological response to changing mass balance conditions.

The focus of this practicum project is to provide a culturally relevant, as well as mentally, emotionally, and spiritually supportive, funeral home for the Indigenous community in Saskatoon and surrounding area. The current Westwood Funeral Home at 1402 20th St. West in Treaty 6 Territory and owned by the Saskatoon Funeral Home, was updated in order to improve the services offered to their Indigenous patrons. Drawing on key principles of Indigenous worldviews regarding the natural environment and experience, the proposed design is a result of the investigation of three main theoretical frameworks: traditional Indigenous worldviews, nature centred design, and sensory perception involving multisensory design. / February 2017