By Colin McGregor The Turkish dancer and artist Eylül Bozok visited Quebec for the first time in 2019. She fell madly in love with the city, so much so that she decided to leave her career as an urbanist in Istanbul to move to Montreal. […] See more
A poem from Colin McGregor from the anthology It’s Always Darkest Before the Dawn – available from the publishers Editions TNT.com Cruel Tube Oh toothpaste, why won’t you go back? I hope and hope and hope and hope And hope again I’ll squeeze you in […] See more
By Colin McGregor When François Saillant was a young boy, he lived in a slum apartment with his father, a janitor, in the working class Quebec City district of Saint-Sauveur. Decent housing was on his mind from a very early age. “We had […] See more
By Colin McGregor “Asking for social assistance is embarrassing. No one chooses to go on social assistance.” Lise (pictured) remembers the first time she had to qualify for social assistance after 23 years of work. “I got sick,” she remembers, grimacing. “You aren’t winning a […] See more
By Colin McGregor J. went to Services Canada to apply for unemployment insurance. But he couldn’t follow through until the end. “There were complicated words on the forms,” he complains. “Written in a complex fashion. It was really far more complicate than I thought it […] See more
By Célie Dugand and Colin McGregor Do you believe the statistics that say that 20% of Canada’s homeless are between the ages of 13 and 25, even if you don’t see so many on the streets every day? That’s the percentage reported by Without a […] See more
By Colin McGregor The reflections of Raymond Viger, who has devoted 35 years of his life to counselling amrginalized youth, are now finally available in English. “Marginal and Proud Of It,” translated by Colin McGregor, is currently up on the editionstnt.com website. Editionstnt.com is the […] See more
On this Thursday at 1:15 p.m., as happens every Thursday afternoon, an odd group meets in the offices of a charity just across the street from the new CHUM mega-hospital. By Colin McGregor They are priests and nuns, former homeless persons and ex-cons, Buddhists and […] See more
By Alexandra Grenier and Colin McGregor On April 7th, Reflet de Société organized a round table on homelessness. Here are a few highlights from this event: The panelists included: Benoît Leblanc, founder and director of Itinérance Zéro Gatineau. He launched this community organization in 2013 […] See more
A former addict talks to us about his tumultuous journey, starting when he was a pre-teenager and began using drugs, to his time homeless on the streets, to the present, on the eve of his 30th birthday. A look at drugs by a graffiti artist […] See more
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