Marika Morris

Carleton University · School of Indigenous and Canadian Studies

This article provides a comparative analysis of Government of Canada interventions in three areas of Inuit public health: tuberculosis (TB), suicide, and smoking. Each public health case study focuses on a different period from the 1940s to the present. Common themes across these times and health issues are identified: the extent of the health issu...

This chapter documents Inuit life in Ottawa through oral histories and ethnographic investigations of Inuit institutions and services, primarily focusing on local organizations, Tungasuvvingat Inuit (TI) and Inuuqatigiit Centre for Inuit Children, Youth, and Families. Through the stories of seven Ottawa Inuit, we see the importance of these organiz...

This is a report for the Canadian Cancer Society Cancer Prevention Program featuring a scan of the research, organizational literature and full and partial consultations with 22 people in all Inuit regions and four of the six main urban areas in which Inuit live. These were almost all Inuit who worked in health, Inuit organizations, and governments...

This evaluation is being shared with the permission of the client. The Learning Network is an excellent model for a network which creates and shares feminist, intersectional materials about gender-based violence (GBV). The Learning Network (LN) is an Ontario-wide initiative based at the Centre for Research & Education on Violence Against Women &...

This presentation is a brief overview of the origin, purpose and state of gender mainstreaming (Gender-based Analysis Plus or GBA+) in the Government of Canada, with links to federal GBA+ training. This presentation was given at a United Nations Development Programme meeting on gender mainstreaming in public institutions in New York on August 22, 2...

Image credit (c) Donnell Taylor, from his painting "Mother Teachings". Report description: The Government of Canada is already engaged in many of the best practices outlined in the literature, including having a clear representative workforce police, a voluntary self-declaration system in place for Indigenous employees, buy-in from the top, Indi...

This discussion paper outlines considerations for developing a policy on equity-based analysis for a national library and archive. It includes definitions, principles and suggestions of how an equity-based policy could be applied to acquisitions, analysis and interpretation of library or archival material, cataloguing and highlighting items in coll...

This is a tool prepared for Library and Archives Canada to help in applying equity-based analysis to policies, programs and practices. Users are asked to consider five questions in relation to the following equity groups: Women and girls; racial, ethnic, religious and linguistic minorities; Indigenous peoples – First Nations, Inuit, Métis; people...

La présente étude a été entreprise pour déterminer si les femmes occupant des postes de leadership au sein de la fonction publique fédérale canadienne (FP) ont eu une influence sur les politiques, les programmes, les opérations, l’administration ou le cadre de vie au travail, cerner cette influence et déterminer le moyen de la mesurer. L’influence...

This study was undertaken to determine whether women in leadership positions in the Canadian federal Public Service (PS) have had an impact on policy, programs, operations, administration or workplace conditions, what that impact might be, and how to measure it. The impact of other Employment Equity groups (persons with disabilities, members of vis...

This brief explores the issue of violence against women through the lens of its effects on health and interactions with the social determinants of health (income and social status, education and literacy, employment and working conditions, social environments and community services, health services, housing, physical environments and geography, per...

This brief explores the issue of violence against women through the lens of its effects on health and interactions with the social determinants of health (income and social status, education and literacy, employment and working conditions, social environments and community services, health services, housing, physical environments and geography, per...

Over a quarter of Inuit in Canada now live outside Inuit Nunangat (Inuit traditional lands). Many have migrated to large Canadian urban centres such as Edmonton, Winnipeg, Ottawa and Montreal. This article pieces together data from the Census, National Household Survey, Aboriginal People’s Survey and General Social Survey on Victimization to create...

This article describes the process of developing an academic and community participatory action research partnership on Inuit youth and violence prevention through social media. Pauktuutit Inuit Women of Canada chose the topic, defined the research goals, co-developed the first draft of the project and its methodology, established and chaired an In...

The study examined 1,467 articles and broadcast segments from seven Canadian media outlets/programs with high audience/readership numbers and a national reach (online versions of the Globe and Mail, Toronto Star, National Post, La Presse, CTV National News, CBC The Current and ICI Tout le monde en parle). Only news sections of the online versions o...

Canadian housing cooperatives are a tool for building an inclusive society, bringing together people diverse in income, race, age, and ability/disability. This six-year case study of an Ottawa, Ontario, Canada housing co-op found that co-op housing provided benefits for its members: reducing the depth of poverty, physical, material and emotional he...

This article is a documentary analysis of Inuit knowledge about suicide prevention which yields insights into how structural and cultural factors are essential to curbing suicide in marginalized populations. This study investigated the grey literature produced by Inuit community organizations and Inuit-led regional governments for Inuit understandi...

Racism is a barrier to developing effective research and health promotion, in that racialized population groups are often seen to be homogenous. For example, Inuit are frequently assumed to be living in the Arctic and pursuing traditional lives, whereas the increasing urbanization of Inuit has resulted in one quarter of the population living in lar...

Despite the title of this edited volume, the family-work debate has never closed. It is even in vogue in the popular media. Recent academic books and articles on this topic include Amy Marcus-Newhall, Diane Halpern, and Sherylle Tan’s edited work, Changing Realities of Work and Family (2009). Nevertheless, some chapters in Krull and Sempruch’s book...

More researchers and activists are now trying to look at the interconnecting and interacting root causes of marginalization, poverty and exclusion, but it is often difficult to do this in a systematic way. Intersectional feminist frameworks (IFFs) is a term which for us represents the following principles: • There are many factors that have an impa...

This guide is an accessible tool for community organizations to plan, conduct and communicate their own participatory action research. It is written from a feminist perspective, and is aimed at all social justice organizations. Students and instructors may also find elements of this guide useful. The contents are based on the success strategies put...

This synthesis paper is a review of 45 gender-sensitive studies of home and community care and caregiving conducted primarily but not only in Canada. The paper identifies themes, major research findings, research gaps and policy implications. Consistent research findings include that: Women form the majority of unpaid caregivers, paid caregivers an...

Le présent article examine des points importants concernant les thèmes de la recherche sur la santé des femmes, la conception, les examens éthiques, l’analyse, la présentation et la diffusion des résultats, ainsi que les possibilités d’action subséquente et de modification de la politique. Il explore la question du pouvoir et de la perspective qui...

Women form the majority of home care recipients, home care personnel and persons responsible for the care of elderly, disabled or ill family members. The extreme gender imbalance in every aspect of home care means that home care policies and practices have a significant and varied impact on women’s lives.This research builds on previous studies tha...