By Skylar Schaefer (a pen name) Dorianne and I are school friends. We’ve shared some wonderful memories together. For example, I have memories of playing for hours in the schoolyard, our hands frozen by the snow; or walking outside after bedtime on Halloween night. Recently, […] See more
By Colin McGregor For our 6th Round Table, broadcast live online July 6th, we decided to team up Reflet de Société with The Social Eyes and hold our event in English. The theme was mental health, and our two panelists made it an educational and […] See more
By Raymond Viger I can remember an unorthodox intervention carried out while I was working with marginalized street kids. I helped a teenager become an adult. Let’s give him the fictional name Eric. He turned his life around. His criminal record dealt with, Eric no […] See more
We are back with a 5th roundtable. For the month of July, we havechosen the theme of mental health. For the first time, this roundtablewas in English in collaboration with The Social Eyes and Reflet de Société. For the host, Colin McGregor, mental health is a subject close to his heart.Last fall he wrote about the mental health of the Anglophones of theEastern Townships. This roundtable was held on Wednesday the 6th ofJuly at 2 pm on Zoom. For this roundtable, Colin invited two guestpsychologists to contribute to our understanding of mental health. Click here to watch the Round Table on Youtube Panelists for the Round Table on Mental Health of July 6th: Tim Wisdom Tim immigrated to Quebec from Great Britain as a child. He completed his bachelor’s degree in […] See more
By Camille Cusset Mourning someone’s passing is a process that varies from one person to the next. In the case of caregivers or naturally helpful people, this process is made more complex, since several sorts of grief arise after the death of someone they took […] See more
By Raymond Viger For five years, I traveled in Quebec’s Far North, to Nunavik, at the turn of the millennium, from 1995 to 2000. An intense cold creates dry air that cuts through your body up there. The winds blow the snow to and fro […] See more
By Camille Cusset You won’t find a trace of sadness, fear or self-pity in Gabriel’s eyes. This 24 year old’s eyes sparkle with an inner flame. His hands are covered with red splotches. Who knows if these red marks are just burns from his job […] See more
The image many have of Anglophones living in the Eastern Townships of Quebec is that of fat cats living in mansions, controlling the Quebec economy. And that is frustrating, according to those actively trying to improve the lot of what has become a population far […] See more
On July 25th, 2018, Riley Fairholm, 17, who had a history of depression, told his loved ones he didn’t want to live anymore. He then went outside in the middle of the night, waving an air gun, waving it around, shouting and screaming along a […] 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
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