By Oumou Diakité At the Café-Jeunesse Multiculturel (Multicultural Youth Café), so-called “problem” youths are first and foremost youths who are listened to. For almost 50 years, this Montréal-Nord (Montreal North) community organization has worked with marginalized young people who often fall through the cracks of […] See more
By Jean-Marc Beausoleil Jo-Anne Couillard has worked at the Adolescent Clinic at Sainte-Justine Hospital for over twenty years, and she intends to stay there for the rest of her career. Nearly 50% of the young people she sees are victims of sexual assault, which is […] See more
By Oumou Diakité “Surviving poverty is a full-time job.” This statement by Serge Petitclerc, a member of the Collectif pour un Québec sans pauvreté (the Collective for a Poverty-Free Quebec), bitterly summarizes the paradox faced by thousands of people: juggling employment and social assistance without […] See more
By Oumou Diakité When a child who has been sexually assaulted speaks out and their testimony is minimized, discredited, or silenced, it is not simply a matter of individual lack of recognition. It is a collective failure. Silencing victims’ voices amounts to denying the seriousness […] See more
By Oumou Diakité First off, there was her mother’s pregnancy, which heralded the tumult of little Jeanette’s existence. Complications inside the uterus, then a knot in the small intestines, then a blue baby: this little Coderre was born laboriously. Many years later, when her childhood […] See more
By Annie Dion-Clément An ex-addict tells us about his tumultuous life path from adolescence, when he started consuming, to life on the street, to today, now on the cusp of age 30. Adorned with several tattoos, with his lively eyes and great big smile, Victor […] See more
By Colin McGregor We’re at the entrance of a cellblock, my young friend and I. The recreation period has just begun. People jostle us as they pass by to head out to the prison yard. B* is 22 years of age. He is big and […] 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 Colin McGregor “There are currently 347 reservations for this book at the library.” When I saw that email on my computer screen, I asked myself: “What sort of book would stir up that much interest in Quebec?” The reply: Ordures! Journal d’un vidangeur (Garbage! […] See more
By François Bellemare Nestled in the heart of the Lesser Antilles, with only 75,000 inhabitants, Dominica (not to be confused with the Dominican Republic) is one of the smallest countries in the Americas. In the southern part of this island nation, the village of Soufrière […] See more
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