By Juliette Straet, student at the Université de Montréal Despite political and legal progress aimed at guaranteeing equal access to university degrees, gender parity in engineering is still far from being achieved. In 2021, women represented only 20% of engineering enrolments in Quebec. This gender […] See more
By Anne Reitzer “I’m telling my story because I want to explain to Canadians what we’re going through, and also because I want to give some hope back to all those refugees who have lost faith in life.” It was with these words that Ahmed […] See more
By Colin McGregor Creating an LGBTQ2S+ movement in rural areas doesn’t seem like an easy task. However, there may be less homophobia in the countryside than one might think. In the Bas Saint-Laurent (Lower St. Lawrence) region, social worker and activist Marie-Claude Joannis, who has […] See more
By Marie-Claude Simard With four young children and a full-time job at a hospital, 35-year-old Marceline (not her real name) is always on the go. A life full of plans unfolds before her and her family. Like most parents, her children’s well-being comes first. Her […] See more
By The Social Eyes Team Before ever entering a dance studio, Redo had to dance under the gaze of others’ critical looks. Looks that were a bit too heavy, too insistent, sometimes mocking, often unjust. Born in the Netherlands with several physical differences – his […] See more
By The Social Eyes Team From the cover of a youth magazine to writing novels, Marianne Marion embodies what La grande journée des petits entrepreneurs (The Big Day of Small Entrepreneurs) celebrates: the strength of a dream born early, and the audacity to follow one’s […] See more
By Simon Van Vliet “To reduce the murder rate, sexual and conjugal violence as well as violence done to children, we have to first of all attack toxic masculinity,” argues Irwin Waller, criminology professor at the University of Ottawa and the founding Executive Director of […] See more
By Oumou Diakité Fati will soon be thirty, and she’s already spent half her life bleaching her skin. When we made this observation together, she lowered her head. She fidgeted with her fingers, shifted her right leg, which was bouncing on the legs of her […] See more
By The Social Eyes Team In Kinshasa, capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo, a three-year-old child catches polio. An invisible virus strikes his legs. A bleak future seems certain. But that’s when Junior chose to go the opposite way, and move forward. “My medicine […] See more
By the Social Eyes Team “They were 10 to 12 years old on average. Some presented their first home-made candles, others cookies baked at home, and some even came with recycled educational games. To accommodate them, a parking lot was transformed into a market burgeoning […] See more
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