Belanger, Yale
Chair/Professor
- Phone
- (403) 382-7101
- belayd@uleth.ca
Belanger Lab
- Phone
- (403) 380-1882
About Me
Dr. Belanger is a former Member, Royal Society of Canada, College of New Scholars, Artists, and Scientists (2017-2024)
Dr. Belanger is currently not accepting graduate students. As funding becomes available, he will post his intention to accept applications.
Biography
Examiner: Dr. James Rodger (JR) Miller, Canada Research Chair.
2000 Master of Arts (M.A.). Political Science, Native Studies and Anthropology. University of Manitoba, Winnipeg,
Manitoba.
1998 Bachelor of Arts (B.A.). Honours Arts Program, Native American Studies (NAS). University of Lethbridge, Alberta.
Publications
Belanger, Y.D., Hanrahan, M. (2021). Ways of Knowing: An Introduction to Indigenous Studies in Canada, 4th Ed. Toronto: Nelson Education Ltd.
Belanger, Y.D. (2018). Ways of Knowing: An Introduction to Native Studies in Canada, 3rd Ed. (Toronto: Nelson Education Ltd.), 458 pp.
Belanger, Y.D., Lackenbauer, P.W. (eds.). (2014). Blockades or Breakthroughs? Aboriginal Peoples Confront the Canadian State (Kingston & Montréal: McGill-Queen's University Press).
Belanger, Y.D. (2014). Ways of Knowing: An Introduction to Native Studies in Canada, 2nd Ed. (Toronto: Nelson Education Ltd.), 422 pp.
Belanger, Y.D. (ed.). (2011). First Nations Gaming in Canada (Winnipeg: University of Manitoba Press), 307 pp.
Belanger, Y.D. (2010). Ways of Knowing: An Introduction to Native Studies in Canada (Toronto: Nelson Education Ltd.), 381 pp.
Belanger, Y.D. (ed.). (2008). Aboriginal Self-government in Canada: Current Issues and Trends, 3rd Ed. (Saskatoon: Purich Publishing), 429 pp.
Belanger, Y.D. (2006). Gambling with the Future: The Evolution of Aboriginal Gaming in Canada (Saskatoon: Purich Publishing), 232 pp.
Articles & Chapters (since 2022 & forthcoming; *Refereed)
*Yamaguchi, S., Russell, M., Kheibari, S., Daley, M., Mustafa, F., Nichols, N., Victor, J., Urichuk, L., Belanger, Y. (slated for 2026). “Participatory Design in the Co-Creation of a Roadmap for Information for Youth Homelessness Prevention.” International Journal on Homelessness
Belanger, Y.D. (slated for 2026). “Homeless By Design: When Institutionalized Indigenous Homelessness Meets Local Settler Government Intractability.” In A. Lund & S. Buhler (eds.). pp. 319-361. Legal Unhousing. Vancouver: UBC Press.
*Belanger, Y.D., Moncrieff, A. (slated for 2026). “Disrupting the Small Alberta Settler City: Supervised Consumption and the Limits of Belonging.” Settler Colonial Studies
*Yamaguchi, S., Russell, M., Kheibari, S., Daley, M., Mustafa, F., Nichols, N., Victor, J., Urichuk, L, Belanger, Y. (2025). “Towards Youth-Centered Information Practices to Support Youth Facing Homelessness: Experiences and Perspectives of Youth with Lived Experience and Community Service Providers.” Journal of Social Distress and Homelessness: 1-14. DOI.org/10.1080/10530789.2025.2485686
*Coleman, K., Laing, S., Graham, J., Belanger, Y., Laramee, H., Maurer, K., and Donnan, M. (2025). “Comparing the Homelessness Plan Experiences of Small Canadian Cities: Emerging Insights for Policy and Practice.” International Journal on Homelessness 5(1): 188-207. DOI.org/10.5206/ijoh.2023.3.17759
*Christensen, D., Roberts, A., Williams, R., Allami, Y., Belanger, Shaw, C., el-Guebaly, N., Hodgins, D., McGrath, D., Nicoll, F., Smith, G., and Stevens, R. (2024). “Awareness and Impact of Casino Responsible Gambling/Harm Minimization Measures Among Canadian Electronic Gaming Machine Players.” International Gambling Studies DOI.org/10.1080/14459795.2024.2339333
Graham, J., Belanger, Y.D., Walsh, C. (2024). “Homelessness in Canada.” In C. Bevan, International Handbook of Law, Policy & Homelessness. pp. 225-237. London: Routledge.
Belanger, Y.D. (2024). “The Policy of State as a Social Determinant of Health: Canada’s Indigenous Homelessness Policy.” In C. Bevan, International Handbook of Law, Policy & Homelessness. pp. 238-256. London: Routledge.
*Fawcett, B, Walker, R, Belanger, Y.D. (2024). “Emergent Spaces and Structural Limitations of First Nations Urban Reserves.” International Indigenous Policy Journal 15(1): 1-25. DOI.org/10.18584/iipj.2024.15.1.16311
*Allami, Y., Williams, R.J., Hodgins, D.C., Stevens, R.M.G., Shaw, C. A., el-Guebaly, N., Christensen, D.R., McGrath, D.S. and Belanger, Y.D. (2024). “Predictors of Problem Gambling Remission in Adults: A Canadian Longitudinal Study.” Psychology of Addictive Behaviors 38(4): 465-474. DOI:org/10.1037/adb0000964
*Allami, Y., Williams, R.J., Hodgins, D.C., Stevens, R.M.G., Shaw, C. A., el-Guebaly, N., Nicoll, F., Christensen, D.R., McGrath, D.S. and Belanger, Y.D. (2023). “Canadians with Problem Gambling: Relative Popularity and Helpfulness of Treatment Options.” Journal of Substance Use & Addiction Treatment 14(4): 55-65.
Belanger, Y.D., Hanselmann, C. (2023). “What We Have Here is a Failure to Anticipate (Again!): Indigenous Peoples, Self-determination, and Canada’s COVID-19 Pandemic Response.” In K. Brock & G. Hale (eds.). Managing Federalism Beyond Pandemic. pp. 119-139. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.
Belanger, Y.D., Newhouse, D.R. (2023). “Back to the Future: The United Conservative Party’s Indigenous Policies, 2019-2022.” In T. Harrison & R. Acuna D. (eds.). pp. 421-446. Anger and Angst: Jason Kenney’s Legacy and Alberta’s Right. Montreal: Black Rose Books.
*Williams, R.J., Belanger, Y.D., Christensen, D.R., el-Guebaly, N., Hodgins, D., McGrath, D., Stevens, R. (2023). “Etiology of Problem Gambling in Canada.”Psychology of Addictive Behaviors 37(3): 483-498. DOI.org/10.1037/adb0000843
*Shaw, C. A., Hodgins, D. C., Williams, R. J., Belanger, Y. D., Christensen, D. R., el-Guebaly, N., McGrath, D. S., Stevens, R. M. G., & Nicoll, F. (2022). “Gambling in Canada during the pandemic: Six months after the national COVID lockdown.”Canadian Journal of Addictions 13(3): 36-45 DOI.org.10.1097/CXA.0000000000000157
*McGrath, D., Hodgins, D., Leonard, C.A., Williams, R.J., Belanger, Y.D., Christensen, D.R., el-Guebaly, N., Nicoll, F., Smith, G. (2022). “Differences in Problem Gambling Severity, Gambling Behavior, and Comorbidities in Gamblers who do and do not Use Cannabis: Evidence from a Canadian National Sample.” Addictive Behaviours 137: 1-6. DOI.org/10.1016/j.addbeh.2022.10752
*Hodgins, D.C., Williams, R.J., Belanger, Y.D., Christensen, D.R., el-Guebaly, N., McGrath, D.S., Nicoll, F., Shaw, C. A., & Stevens, R.M.G. (2022). “Making Change: Attempts to Reduce or Stop Gambling in a General Population Sample of People Who Gamble.” Frontiers in Psychiatry 13: 1-7. DOI.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2022.892238
*Hodgins, D., Leonard, C.A., Williams, R.J., Belanger, Y.D., Christensen, D.R., el-Guebaly, N., McGrath, D., Nicoll, F., Smith, G. (2022). “Gambling in Canada During the COVID-19 Lockdown: Prospective National Survey.” Journalof Gambling Studies 38: 371-396. DOI:org/10.1007/s10899-021-10073-8
*Williams, R.J., Leonard, C.A., Belanger, Y.D., Christensen, D.R., el-Guebaly, N., Hodgins, D., McGrath, D., Nicoll, F., Smith, G. (2022). “Indigenous Gambling and Problem Gambling in Canada.” Journal of Gambling Studies 38: 67-85. DOI.org/10.1007/s10899-021-10022-5
*Christensen, D.R., Nicoll, F., Williams, R.J., Shaw, C.A., el-Guebaly, N., Hodgins, D., McGrath, D., Smith, G., Belanger, Y.D. & Stevens, R. (2022). “Responsible Gambling in Canada: An Analysis of the RG Check Patron Surveys.” Journal of Gambling Studies 38: 905-915. DOI.org/10.1007/s10899-021-10052-z
*Christensen, D.R., Nicoll, F., Williams, R.J., Shaw, C.A., el-Guebaly, N., Hodgins, D., McGrath, D., Smith, G., Belanger, Y.D. & Stevens, R. (2022). “Harm Minimization Training, Knowledge, and Behaviour of Canadian Casino Employees.” Journal of Gambling Studies
Belanger, Y.D. (2022). “Permanent Precarity? Racial Exclusion, Discrimination, and Low-wage Work and Unemployment Amongst Canada’s First Nations.” In J. Peters & D. Wells (eds.), Canadian Labour Policy and Politics: Inequality and Alternatives. pp. 252-269. Vancouver: UBC Press.
Research Interests
Indigenous Housing and Homelessness
Youth Homelessness/Housing
Media, Communications and Politics
Current Research Funding
2021-2024. Making The Shift (MTS) project funding for "Co-creating a data and knowledge roadmap to support youth homelessness research in Canada." PI for Data & Technology Grant: Y.D. Belanger. Total Grant Amount: $499,800.t
Selected Grants
2020-2022. SSHRC Insight Grant entitled "Organizational Challenges to Address Homelessness: Lessons learned from 3 Mid-sized Canadian Cities." PI for Insight Grant: J. Graham. Co-investigator: Y.D. Belanger. Total Grant Amount: $97,806.
Alberta Gaming Research Institute (AGRI).
Williams, R. et al., Y.D. Belanger co-applicant on $665,000 funding from AGRI. April 2018-April 2021.
Canadian Observatory on Homelessness
Gaetz, S. et al., Y.D. Belanger co-applicant on $2.5 million funding from SSHRC (Partnership Grant). April 2013-June 2018.
Borders in Globalization: Cultures, Governance, Market Forces, Security, and Sustainability
Brunet-Jailly, E. et al., Y.D. Belanger collaborator on $3.98 million funding from SSHRC (Partnership Grant). April 2013-February 2020.
Urban Aboriginal Knowledge Network Research for a better life
Newhouse, D. et al. Y.D. Belanger co-applicant on $2.5 million funding from SSHRC (Insight & Connection Grants). 1 May 2012 - 30 March 2018.
Nieghbourhood Change, Diversity and Inequality in Global Cities
Hulchanski, D. et al., Y.D. Belanger co-investigator on $2.5 million funding from SSHRC (Partnership Grant). April 2012-June 2019.
City Planning and Aboriginality in Canada's Prairie Provinces
Walker, R., Belanger, Y.D. Co-investigator on $343,968 funding from SSHRC (Insight Grant). April 2013-June 2017.
A Mixed Methods Study to Assess Urban Aboriginal Gambling in Canada's Prairie Provinces
Belanger, Y.D., Williams, R.J. Principal investigator on $138,821 funding from Alberta Gaming Research Institute. 1 January 2012-31 December 2013. Ethics protocol #2011-090.
Homelessness Research in Alberta: Prioritizing Health Indicators through Community-based Research and Knowledge Exchange Forums (KEF)s.
Graham, J.R., Belanger, Y.D., Richter, S.M. Co-investigator on $25,000 from Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR). April 2013-December 2013.
Does Subsidized Housing Aid Aboriginal Transition into the Urban Environment?
Belanger, Y.D., Treaty 7 Urban Indian Housing Authority. Primary investigator on $14,921 from Urban Aboriginal Knowledge Network Research for a better life. 15 January 2013-20 December 2013. Ethics protocol #2013-020.
Funding to establish a regional Aboriginal research centre.
Gregory, d. Belanger, Y.D., Fiske, J. Co-principal applicant on $62,000 funding from SSHRC (Aid to Small University Grant) (May 2008-March 2012).
Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal Perspectives on Housing Needs and Barriers to Attainable Housing.
Belanger, Y.D., Fiske, J., Gregory, d. Principal investigator on $97,500 funding from SSHRC (Standard Research Grant) (April 2008-March 2012).
Social & Economic Impacts of Gambling in Alberta (SEIGA).
Williams, R.J., Belanger, Y.D., Arthur, J.N. Co-investigator on $685,000 funding from the Alberta Gaming Research Institute (1 April 2008-4 March 2011).
In The Media
• "'Our own grey areas': First Nations navigate hazy cannabis retain jurisdiction, taxes, testing, sovereignty." Regina Leader-Post 23 April 2021.
• "After the raid: White Bear's gambling opened a path to First Nations sovereignty." Regina Leader-Post 23 March 2021.
• "L'impact de la chute des revenus d'OLG sur les communautés autochtones." CBC ICI Premiere. 26 November 2020.
• "First Nations lobby Ottawa for bigger cut of the multibillion-dollar gambling business." CBC News. 18 January 2019.
• "Chilling public protest." Briarpatch Magazine April 20, 2018.
• 770 A.M. (Calgary). The Morning News with Gord Gillies. 19 February 2018 (discussion about reconciliation in Alberta: 8 minutes).
• "Name recognition goes a long way." Lethbridge Herald 17 October 2017.
• "U of L scholars named to Royal Society of Canada." Lethbridge Herald 17 September 2017.
• "Essays on Indigenous struggles offer both insight and oversight." Canadian Dimension March 13, 2017. t
• "The remarkable life of Levi 'Deskaheh' General: Friends and foes." Two Row Times 12 April 2017.
• "Sand Hills posts deficit, looks to rebound." Brandon Sun December 3, 2016.
• "First Nations and Community Engagement for Large Scale Projects." Municipal Monitor, Q4 (2016): 12-14.
• 88.7 CFUR, Prince George News. 2 September 2016 (discussion about Aboriginal homelessness: 2 minutes).
• "Indigenous Calgarians struggle to find their cultural identity." CBCNews Calgary July 10, 2016.
• "Study explores homelessness in Fort Macleod." The Macleod Gazette January 27, 2016.
• CTV News (CFCN). "Small towns, big need for affordable housing." January 6, 2016.
• "First Nations casinos in Alberta see the most profit." Alberta Sweetgrass December 2015.
• "Carberry casino a loser." Winnipeg Free Press December 15, 2015.
• "Aboriginal casino policy need overhaul." Brandon Sun December 15, 2015.
• "$1.3M loss for Sand Hills Casino." Brandon Sun December 12, 2015.
• "Social relationships key to economy." Lethbridge Herald December 8, 2015.
• 770 Calgary, Alberta Morning News. 5 December 2015 (discussion about recently released CD Howe report on social partnerships: 5 minutes).
• "Moving from NIMBY to Yes: Stronger Social Partnerships Needed to get Resource Projects off the Ground." Canadian Press December 1, 2015.
• "Moving from NIMBY to Yes: Stronger Social Partnerships Needed to get Resource Projects off the Ground." NorthumberlandView December 1, 2015.
• "First Nations Casinos." Gaming Post November 2, 2015.
• "'The action need to take place,' says residential school survivor on commission findings." Calgary Herald June 2, 2015.
• Global News Lethbridge June 2, 2015 (interview about the recently released TRC report: 1 minute).
• "Council, committee will talk affordable housing." Fort Macleod Gazette May 20, 2015: A12.
• "What's in a name? School divisions have decision to make." Saskatoon Star Phoenix May 15, 2015.
• "Substandard facilities challenge First Nations officers." Calgary Herald May 14, 2015.
• "Homeless youth a unique group." Lethbridge Herald March 4, 2015.
• "Funding cut for First Nations groups." Fast Forward Weekly January 29, 2015.