Round Table on Mental Health

07/29/2022 Colin McGregor 0

By Colin McGregor For our 6th Round Table, broadcast live online July 6th, we decided to team up Reflet de Société with The Social Eyes and hold our event in English. The theme was mental health, and our two panelists made it an educational and […] See more

Full Parole

07/27/2022 Colin McGregor 1

By Colin McGregor The Parole Board of Canada recently gave me my full parole. A Zoom hearing, two commissioners asking pointed questions for an hour, an adjournment of ten minutes, and then, the verdict, in my favor. Decades of work to redeem myself boiled down […] See more

Sylvain Turner: Portrait of a Writer

07/21/2022 Raymond Viger 0

By Raymond Viger Sylvain Turner was 14 months old when his father died in a car accident. His mother, who survived, fell into a depression. Because of this, he was raised by his grandparents in Saint-Alexis-des-Monts, in the Mauricie, the land of Jacques Ferron, author […] See more

Learning the Hard Way

07/15/2022 Raymond Viger 0

By Raymond Viger I can remember an unorthodox intervention carried out while I was working with marginalized street kids. I helped a teenager become an adult. Let’s give him the fictional name Eric. He turned his life around. His criminal record dealt with, Eric no […] See more

Suicides in Wemotaci: Collective Grief

07/11/2022 The Social Eyes 0

By Alexandra Grenier Michel Tousignant is a retired associate professor in the psychology department at UQAM. He is a specialist in suicides in different communities around the world, but particularly in indigenous communities. The Social Eyes interviewed him to get his observations on the way […] See more

Video of the Round Table on Mental Health held on July 6th

07/08/2022 Colin McGregor 0

We are back with a 5th roundtable. For the month of July, we havechosen the theme of mental health. For the first time, this roundtablewas in English in collaboration with The Social Eyes and Reflet de Société.  For the host, Colin McGregor, mental health is a subject close to his heart.Last fall he wrote about the mental health of the Anglophones of theEastern Townships. This roundtable was held on Wednesday the 6th ofJuly at 2 pm on Zoom. For this roundtable, Colin invited two guestpsychologists to contribute to our understanding of mental health. Click here to watch the Round Table on Youtube Panelists for the Round Table on Mental Health of July 6th: Tim Wisdom Tim immigrated to Quebec from Great Britain as a child. He completed his bachelor’s degree in […] See more

Babysitting Belugas in the Saint Lawrence River

07/07/2022 The Social Eyes 0

By Isabelle Burgun – Agence Science-Presse Young beluga whales benefit from the sort of care normally associated with babysitting, just like little humans. These caring techniques are “allomaternal,” which means non-maternal infant care when it is performed by any group member other than the mother. So this […] See more