Yale D Belanger
Biographic Data
| ID | 3427906 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Yale D Belanger |
| GIVEN NAMES | Yale D |
| FAMILY NAME | Belanger |
| SIGNATURE | BELANGER Y D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Lethbridge |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6105-4780 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 14 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 18 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1969 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Towards youth-centered information practices to support youth facing homelessness
Introduction Youth face a difficult journey once they become homeless, often struggling to navigate multiple systems. Information collection and use is a starting point to support youth accessing services. We aimed to better understand the experiences of information collection and use when accessing homelessness services for Canadian youth (18-30 years old) who have lived experience of homelessness and the community service providers (CSPs) servi…
Disrupting the small Alberta settler city
This article examines the contested politics surrounding the supervised consumption site (SCS) in River City, highlighting how harm reduction spaces have become flashpoints of settler-colonial anxieties about Indigeneity, visibility, and urban governance. Despite clear life-saving benefits, local political and business elites framed the SCS as a threat to the city’s moral and economic order rather than a site of care, which underlines how settler…
Emergent Spaces and Structural Limitations of First Nation Urban Reserves
Resolving urban land claims is an important facet of enacting sovereignty in cities and is occurring in the cities of settler states like Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. The creation of urban reserves is an important means by which First Nations in Canadian cities, especially on the Prairies, are settling outstanding land claims. Findings from interviews with key informants on the urban reserve creation process in Saskatchewan, Canada's two l…
Making Change
Whereas gambling treatment-seeking rates are low, rates of self-change attempts are high. The public health challenge is to promote self-change efforts among people beginning to experience gambling problems, facilitate success at self-change by providing accessible support for use of successful strategies, and provide seamless bridges to a range of other treatments when desired or required
Lost in Transition
Rural homelessness is an emergent social concern in Canada but it remains overshadowed by urban homelessness policy and research agendas. Thus, it is rare to find extended academic discussions of rural homelessness and its causes. In this paper, we report on the findings of a mixed-method rural homelessness study in a small Alberta prairie town (Canada). We explore the nature of transitions and how they place individuals at risk of housing risk a…
Predictors of gambling and problem gambling in Canada
This is an Indigenous city; why don't we see it?” Indigenous urbanism and spatial production in Winnipeg
This paper examines indigeneity and spatial production in the city of Winnipeg, home to the largest urban Indigenous population in Canada. Using data from semi‐structured interviews with Indigenous inhabitants, municipal officials, and Indigenous leaders, this paper argues that the right to the city and to difference are deradicalized for urban Indigenous communities. Indigenous engagement in processes of everyday urbanism occurs through broadly …
Water Stewardship and Rescaling Management of Transboundary Rivers in the Alberta-Montana Borderlands
Surface water access in northern Montana and southern Alberta is an historic political and economic concern that continues to spark contentious debate. It has however also led to several innovative attempts to reconcile differences through regional cooperation in management of transboundary rivers. One attempt—the formation of a Joint Initiative Team (JIT) in 2008 (to 2011) to investigate opportunities for each jurisdiction to improve shared wate…
Public attitudes towards Indigeneity in Canadian prairie urbanism
Prairie cities have large and growing Indigenous populations. The great resurgence of strong Indigenous cultures in Canada should foretell the impact Indigeneity will have over coming years across the full spectrum of urban geography. The study uses original 2014 survey data collected from seven prairie cities to examine the following question: What does the non‐Indigenous majority public think about increasing the role of Indigeneity in the proc…
The Abandoned Ones
This paper explores contemporary issues facing Non-Status Indians in Canada, and their struggles to politically organize in particular. Using James Scott’s theoretical position that political states attempt to create legible populations in order to administer them more easily, this paper examines the category of “Non-Status Indians” and the impacts of federal policy making on their ability to organize. The National Indian Council (NIC), establish…
Manufacturing regional disparity in the pursuit of economic equality
The Province of Alberta in 2001 implemented the First Nations Gaming Policy (FNGP) to improve First Nations development potential by permitting the construction of reserve casinos. This article argues that during the policy development stages provincial and First Nations leaders failed to consider the geographic placement of reserve communities, both in terms of where casinos would be placed and how gaming revenues would ultimately be distributed…
Assessing the Impact of the Introduction of Casinos in Two Northern Alberta First Nation Communities
This article argues that socio-economic analyses of reserve casino projects, specifically those studies structured to offer an overall assessment of success or failure, need to embrace mixed methods approaches. In particular, eliciting community-based perspectives through qualitative data gathering techniques is essential to provide a level of context required to better understand the casinos' overall influence. To date researchers tend to rely o…
The First Nations’ Contribution to Alberta’s Charitable Gaming Model
En 2001, l’Alberta a mis en place une politique, la First Nations Gaming Policy, qui permet aux Autochtones de construire des casinos dans les réserves, mais qui stipule que 30 % des revenus du jeu réalisés par ces casinos doivent être versés au gouvernement qui les utilise ensuite à des fins caritatives dans la province. Durant les six années qui ont suivi l’ouverture du premier casino sur une réserve, presque toutes les nations autochtones ont …
The United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples and Urban Aboriginal Self- Determination in Canada
The United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (2007) implicitly recognizes urban Indigenous self-determination and acknowledges collective and individual Indigenous rights. This essay examines the tensions associated with the Declaration’s acknowledged Indigenous individual choice to determine political affiliation with its recognition of Indigenous collective self-determination. The purpose is to expose the complexities inhe…
First Nations Gaming as a Self-Government Imperative
At the end of 2008, there were 17 First Nations casinos operating in Canada. Recent statistics confirm that all are money-making enterprises, and that individual First Nations are using the money to improve social programming and augment infrastructure. What has been overlooked to date is local health: specifically, limited funding was set aside in all Province-First Nations gaming agreements to implement problem-gambling treatment programs for o…
Outsiders in Their Homeland
Aboriginal peoples in Canada are increasingly moving to urban communities in search of educational and economic opportunities. For many urbanization is not an easy process, in particular when they move to cities that historically have had few Aboriginal citizens and where social traditions of resistance and resentment towards Aboriginal rights prevail. In this paper we explore one such case through studying the phenomenon known as NIMBY (not in m…
Homelessness, Urban Aboriginal People, and the Need for a National Enumeration
The growing rate of urban Aboriginal homelessness is a concern in Canada, yet, to date, no national enumeration of the homeless community has been attempted. Consequently, policies implemented to guarantee vulnerable populations access to housing are being struck in the absence of reliable data. Obtaining good data on the prevalence of this homeless community is one step in improving our collective understanding and response to urban Aboriginal h…
Housing and Aboriginal People in Urban Centres
This paper explores the current state of urban Aboriginal housing in Canada, by providing an up-to-date mapping of national urban Aboriginal housing conditions. This paper demonstrates that home ownership helps to reduce the gap between mainstream and Aboriginal rates of core housing need, for Aboriginal renters are substantially worse off than their non-Aboriginal counterparts in terms of core housing need and overcrowding. Métis and Non-Status …
This is an Indigenous city; why don't we see it?” Indigenous urbanism and spatial production in Winnipeg
This paper examines indigeneity and spatial production in the city of Winnipeg, home to the largest urban Indigenous population in Canada. Using data from semi‐structured interviews with Indigenous inhabitants, municipal officials, and Indigenous leaders, this paper argues that the right to the city and to difference are deradicalized for urban Indigenous communities. Indigenous engagement in processes of everyday urbanism occurs through broadly …
Public attitudes towards Indigeneity in Canadian prairie urbanism
Prairie cities have large and growing Indigenous populations. The great resurgence of strong Indigenous cultures in Canada should foretell the impact Indigeneity will have over coming years across the full spectrum of urban geography. The study uses original 2014 survey data collected from seven prairie cities to examine the following question: What does the non‐Indigenous majority public think about increasing the role of Indigeneity in the proc…
Predictors of gambling and problem gambling in Canada
Manufacturing regional disparity in the pursuit of economic equality
The Province of Alberta in 2001 implemented the First Nations Gaming Policy (FNGP) to improve First Nations development potential by permitting the construction of reserve casinos. This article argues that during the policy development stages provincial and First Nations leaders failed to consider the geographic placement of reserve communities, both in terms of where casinos would be placed and how gaming revenues would ultimately be distributed…
The First Nations’ Contribution to Alberta’s Charitable Gaming Model
En 2001, l’Alberta a mis en place une politique, la First Nations Gaming Policy, qui permet aux Autochtones de construire des casinos dans les réserves, mais qui stipule que 30 % des revenus du jeu réalisés par ces casinos doivent être versés au gouvernement qui les utilise ensuite à des fins caritatives dans la province. Durant les six années qui ont suivi l’ouverture du premier casino sur une réserve, presque toutes les nations autochtones ont …
Homelessness, Urban Aboriginal People, and the Need for a National Enumeration
The growing rate of urban Aboriginal homelessness is a concern in Canada, yet, to date, no national enumeration of the homeless community has been attempted. Consequently, policies implemented to guarantee vulnerable populations access to housing are being struck in the absence of reliable data. Obtaining good data on the prevalence of this homeless community is one step in improving our collective understanding and response to urban Aboriginal h…
Housing and Aboriginal People in Urban Centres
This paper explores the current state of urban Aboriginal housing in Canada, by providing an up-to-date mapping of national urban Aboriginal housing conditions. This paper demonstrates that home ownership helps to reduce the gap between mainstream and Aboriginal rates of core housing need, for Aboriginal renters are substantially worse off than their non-Aboriginal counterparts in terms of core housing need and overcrowding. Métis and Non-Status …
First Nations Gaming as a Self-Government Imperative
At the end of 2008, there were 17 First Nations casinos operating in Canada. Recent statistics confirm that all are money-making enterprises, and that individual First Nations are using the money to improve social programming and augment infrastructure. What has been overlooked to date is local health: specifically, limited funding was set aside in all Province-First Nations gaming agreements to implement problem-gambling treatment programs for o…
Outsiders in Their Homeland
Aboriginal peoples in Canada are increasingly moving to urban communities in search of educational and economic opportunities. For many urbanization is not an easy process, in particular when they move to cities that historically have had few Aboriginal citizens and where social traditions of resistance and resentment towards Aboriginal rights prevail. In this paper we explore one such case through studying the phenomenon known as NIMBY (not in m…
The United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples and Urban Aboriginal Self- Determination in Canada
The United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (2007) implicitly recognizes urban Indigenous self-determination and acknowledges collective and individual Indigenous rights. This essay examines the tensions associated with the Declaration’s acknowledged Indigenous individual choice to determine political affiliation with its recognition of Indigenous collective self-determination. The purpose is to expose the complexities inhe…
Assessing the Impact of the Introduction of Casinos in Two Northern Alberta First Nation Communities
This article argues that socio-economic analyses of reserve casino projects, specifically those studies structured to offer an overall assessment of success or failure, need to embrace mixed methods approaches. In particular, eliciting community-based perspectives through qualitative data gathering techniques is essential to provide a level of context required to better understand the casinos' overall influence. To date researchers tend to rely o…
The First Nations’ Contribution to Alberta’s Charitable Gaming Model
En 2001, l’Alberta a mis en place une politique, la First Nations Gaming Policy, qui permet aux Autochtones de construire des casinos dans les réserves, mais qui stipule que 30 % des revenus du jeu réalisés par ces casinos doivent être versés au gouvernement qui les utilise ensuite à des fins caritatives dans la province. Durant les six années qui ont suivi l’ouverture du premier casino sur une réserve, presque toutes les nations autochtones ont …
Manufacturing regional disparity in the pursuit of economic equality
The Province of Alberta in 2001 implemented the First Nations Gaming Policy (FNGP) to improve First Nations development potential by permitting the construction of reserve casinos. This article argues that during the policy development stages provincial and First Nations leaders failed to consider the geographic placement of reserve communities, both in terms of where casinos would be placed and how gaming revenues would ultimately be distributed…
The Abandoned Ones
This paper explores contemporary issues facing Non-Status Indians in Canada, and their struggles to politically organize in particular. Using James Scott’s theoretical position that political states attempt to create legible populations in order to administer them more easily, this paper examines the category of “Non-Status Indians” and the impacts of federal policy making on their ability to organize. The National Indian Council (NIC), establish…
Public attitudes towards Indigeneity in Canadian prairie urbanism
Prairie cities have large and growing Indigenous populations. The great resurgence of strong Indigenous cultures in Canada should foretell the impact Indigeneity will have over coming years across the full spectrum of urban geography. The study uses original 2014 survey data collected from seven prairie cities to examine the following question: What does the non‐Indigenous majority public think about increasing the role of Indigeneity in the proc…
Water Stewardship and Rescaling Management of Transboundary Rivers in the Alberta-Montana Borderlands
Surface water access in northern Montana and southern Alberta is an historic political and economic concern that continues to spark contentious debate. It has however also led to several innovative attempts to reconcile differences through regional cooperation in management of transboundary rivers. One attempt—the formation of a Joint Initiative Team (JIT) in 2008 (to 2011) to investigate opportunities for each jurisdiction to improve shared wate…
This is an Indigenous city; why don't we see it?” Indigenous urbanism and spatial production in Winnipeg
This paper examines indigeneity and spatial production in the city of Winnipeg, home to the largest urban Indigenous population in Canada. Using data from semi‐structured interviews with Indigenous inhabitants, municipal officials, and Indigenous leaders, this paper argues that the right to the city and to difference are deradicalized for urban Indigenous communities. Indigenous engagement in processes of everyday urbanism occurs through broadly …
Lost in Transition
Rural homelessness is an emergent social concern in Canada but it remains overshadowed by urban homelessness policy and research agendas. Thus, it is rare to find extended academic discussions of rural homelessness and its causes. In this paper, we report on the findings of a mixed-method rural homelessness study in a small Alberta prairie town (Canada). We explore the nature of transitions and how they place individuals at risk of housing risk a…
Predictors of gambling and problem gambling in Canada
Making Change
Whereas gambling treatment-seeking rates are low, rates of self-change attempts are high. The public health challenge is to promote self-change efforts among people beginning to experience gambling problems, facilitate success at self-change by providing accessible support for use of successful strategies, and provide seamless bridges to a range of other treatments when desired or required
Emergent Spaces and Structural Limitations of First Nation Urban Reserves
Resolving urban land claims is an important facet of enacting sovereignty in cities and is occurring in the cities of settler states like Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. The creation of urban reserves is an important means by which First Nations in Canadian cities, especially on the Prairies, are settling outstanding land claims. Findings from interviews with key informants on the urban reserve creation process in Saskatchewan, Canada's two l…
Towards youth-centered information practices to support youth facing homelessness
Introduction Youth face a difficult journey once they become homeless, often struggling to navigate multiple systems. Information collection and use is a starting point to support youth accessing services. We aimed to better understand the experiences of information collection and use when accessing homelessness services for Canadian youth (18-30 years old) who have lived experience of homelessness and the community service providers (CSPs) servi…
Disrupting the small Alberta settler city
This article examines the contested politics surrounding the supervised consumption site (SCS) in River City, highlighting how harm reduction spaces have become flashpoints of settler-colonial anxieties about Indigeneity, visibility, and urban governance. Despite clear life-saving benefits, local political and business elites framed the SCS as a threat to the city’s moral and economic order rather than a site of care, which underlines how settler…
Political science (13 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Economics (7 works) · Geography (7 works) · Business (6 works) · Economic growth (6 works) · Gambling Behavior and Treatments (6 works) · Homelessness and Social Issues (6 works) · Indigenous Health, Education, and Rights (6 works) · Law (6 works)