Táncház in Toronto: A Transplanted Tradition

Noise exposure while commuting in Toronto - a study of personal and public transportation in Toronto

BACKGROUND With an increasing proportion of the population living in cities, mass transportation has been rapidly expanding to facilitate the demand, yet there is a concern that mass transit has the potential to result in excessive exposure to noise, and subsequently noise-induced hearing loss. METHODS Noise dosimetry was used to measure time-integrated noise levels in a representative sample...

Tantra in Practice: Mapping a Tradition

As with all the books in this series, the present volume has the word ‘‘practice’’ in its title. Practice is impossible without agents of practice, that is, practitioners, and the first four sections of this volume comprise those contributions that focus on Tantric practitioners or actors. These include Tantric preceptors (gurus) and their followers; kings and priests; and devotees and the Tant...

Tradition in Nordic architecture

Paradoxically, in the globalized world, contemporary architecture is represented as an illustration of the contemporary rupture between the rigor of structural geometry and the turgid corpulence of imagination. Moreover in times of cultural globalization local specificities dissolve. Nevertheless, there are trends, cultural traits, and influences of critical or intellectual tradition that persist.

ASAC Toronto

n today’s globalized business environment, North American workplaces are becoming increasingly diverse. In Canada a growing number of ethnic minorities and women has increased their percentage of the existing workforce (Cox, 1991a, 1994; Wilson, 1996). The Canadian paid labour force is now comprised of approximately 60% women and visible minorities, and this trend continues to increase (Statist...

Beyond Tradition