By Flora Lassalle The Indian Act became law in Canada in 1967. Its official goal was to protect the First Nations’ ancestral lands from the colonists. Sadly, this law allowed above all for the assimilation and control of the Indigenous people. The South African government […] See more
By Normand Charest In his book The Wolf at Twilight, American author Kent Nerburn accompanies a Lakota “Indian Elder” on his “journey through a land of ghosts and shadows.” In these pages, the elder transmits his reflections and knowledge to the white author, who writes them […] See more
By Flora Lassalle Interview with Alice Jerome Alice Jerome is Algonquin. She spent eight years at the Saint-Marc-de-Figuery Indian Residential School (in Abitibi), an episode that deeply impacted her life. While many try to forget, Alice speaks out, sublimating her suffering through art and mutual […] See more
By Colin McGregor « I’m happy, » says Mélanie, smoking a cigarette. « But I’d be happier with a place to live. » She’s sitting on the grass under a leaky umbrella on a hot, humid summer day. She’s among those camped on the long, narrow green space along […] See more
A review by Colin McGregor In 1910, in his epic poem « If, » the British poet Rudyard Kipling wrote: If you can face Triumph and Disaster And treat both these impostors alike… Yours is the Earth and everything in it. That’s essentially the theme of a […] See more
By Colin McGregor For an adopted child, their integration into their new family has a lot to do with the narrative they hear from their new parents. Where is the biological family? How did they end up in this new family? Professor Geneviève Pagé of […] See more
By Raymond Viger To better understand the political world we currently find ourselves in, Reflet de Société met with Louise Harel, a political woman who has dedicated her life to provincial and municipal politics: elected for 27 years as a representative in Hochelaga-Maisonneuve, Minister of […] See more
By Raymond Viger Are Quebec and Canada really places where democracy can be exercised while citizens’ rights are respected? When a majority government is elected, can it do whatever it wants for four years while we pay the price? Does the duty of elected representatives […] See more
By Justine Boudreau “Women have gone from being objects of research to subjects of research.” – Francine Descarries Members of our Quebec society may think that equality between men and women exists here. They would not be completely wrong, but there is lots of work […] See more
By Chloé Rousseau – La Gazette de la Mauricie Let us recall those wise words of the Epicureans: “Accustom yourself to the belief that death is of no concern to us, since all good and evil lie in sensation and sensation ends with death.” This extract […] See more
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