Losing Your Sight Overnight (Part I)

05/08/2020 Frédéric Lebeuf 0

Born with congenital glaucoma, Marie-Christine Ricignuolo became blind a few months after delivering her first child. By Frédéric Lebeuf I didn’t know how to handle this new reality,” she said. “How was I going to take care of my little Liam?” She thought it unthinkable […] See more

Is Being a Parent Stressful? (Part II)

02/21/2020 The Social Eyes 0

Stress, depression, burnout… All words we find in articles dealing with parenthood. The subject attracts a lot of comments on social media. From the outside, we can ask if things are truly going that badly on “Planet Parents.” Certainly not, but things could be going […] See more

Sex Ed and Street Kids

10/18/2018 Raymond Viger 0

Finally, sex ed is back in our schools. As of December 2017, La Fédération des comités de parents du Québec (The Quebec Federation of Parents’ Committees) hailed the return of sex ed to Québec classrooms as a good thing. In 2005, the Quebec ministry of […] See more

Community Service: Does it Work?

10/09/2018 Delphine Caubet 0

The Oxford English Dictionary defines community service as: “Unpaid work, intended to be of social use, that an offender is required to do instead of going to prison.” At the Café Graffiti, no less than 50 people per year of all ages and trades come […] See more

How Rimbaud Saved my Life (Part I)

02/16/2018 The Social Eyes 0

For those who couldn’t be there, here is part of the text of a speech I made on September 1st, 2017, during a giant Kiss-In, part of the Fête Arc-en-ciel de Québec (Rainbow Québec festival) in front of the Palais Montcalm concert hall, Place d’Youville […] See more