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In recent years, the face of much of rural Québec bas undergone a series of important transformations : vast areas of marginal farmland have either been abandoned or reforested ; large tracts of cleared land in the Saint Lawrence lowlands have been converted from general farming to specialty crops ; several of these areas of specialty crops are now being swallowed up by urban expansion ; the Laurentide hills and large sections of the Eastern Townships area are rapidly being transformed into sprawling tourist playgrounds. With the aid of 1964 air photos and 1965 land use data the authors record and briefly discuss some of the more striking trends in the evolution of rural land use patterns in the area between Montréal and Québec City, on the north shore of the Saint Lawrence River.
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In Quebec, community housing is an alternative to private for-profit housing and to publicly funded low-income housing. It is collectively owned housing that takes the form of either a housing cooperative or a housing non-profit organization (NPO). These two legal forms of organization, the cooperative and the association, besides providing affordable housing, encourage residents to take responsibility for the area where they live by fostering their direct or indirect participation in the management of their housing complex. Creating this type of housing requires the involvement of civil society stakeholders, the availability of public funds and a willingness to question the logic of the marketplace. Community housing thus represents a social innovation on the consumer, production and governance levels. In this paper, we highlight not only the benefits, but also the limitations of this threefold social innovation characteristic of an association-based form of housing regulation.
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In this paper, it will be argued that there are two dominant styles of leadership which dominate in the United States today : one is the style of the culture warrior, who takes a defensive posture towards the dominant culture ; the other, more traditional, is that of the churchman, who teaches what the Church teaches, but lets the laity engage that teaching in the culture.
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This paper is a commentary on new orientations in educational research in North America, with a particular focus on Francophone Ontario in the years 2000-2001. When addressing the issue of student learning, political institutions tend to stress results instead of processes, emphasizing the principles of imputability and results-based management. Schools must produce results. It is therefore important that we take stock of contemporary studies on cognition pertaining to student learning, and use research findings to assess the current obligation to improve the student success rates, independently of the construction of meaning that constitutes the learning process.
Keywords: Évaluation du processus, obligation de résultats, systèmes d'évaluation, évaluation du produit, Process evaluation, result based accountability, evaluation systems, product evaluation, Avaliação do processo, obrigação dos resultados, sistemas de avaliação, avaliação do produto
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ABSTRACTThis paper looks at the near-term and equilibrium effects of loan-rate volatility on the optimal liability-funding policies of a risk-neutral intermediary that exhibits constant returns to scale in its asset transformation technology. It is shown, first, that given convex adjustment costs, the flow of current new savings is an increasing function of the shadow price of existing deposits. It is shown, next, that increased credit-rate volatility raises this current flow of new savings; and rate volatility also affects positively the expected long-run holding of core deposits, if the loan rate is serially uncorrelated. These results hold true for most cases of serial correlation as well. Finally, it is shown that when credit rate fluctuations show temporal persistence, the model will lead explicitly to long-run disintermediation under the following restrictive conditions: the adjustment cost technology is more convex than the intermediation technology, where more convex hinges on serial correlation in rates, the discount factor and the attrition rate of core deposits.