Why Teach Sex Ed in Schools?

12/21/2018 The Social Eyes 0

Education and sexuality in our schools is a hot potato topic. By Elizabeth Cazelais and Florence Valiquette-Savoie, sex therapists – The teachers should be responsible for it. – No, no, it should be up to each school principal to choose how the next generation should […] See more

Community Service: Does it Work?

10/09/2018 Delphine Caubet 0

The Oxford English Dictionary defines community service as: “Unpaid work, intended to be of social use, that an offender is required to do instead of going to prison.” At the Café Graffiti, no less than 50 people per year of all ages and trades come […] See more

Suicide and Society

02/04/2018 Raymond Viger 5

In the face of this distress, we couldn’t continue our intervention efforts without trying to discuss the matter with the proper authorities. Band-aid solutions wouldn’t do. My colleague met with the Casino’s management. We offered to work on the premises to help compulsive gamblers directly, […] See more

The 100th Issue

12/18/2017 Raymond Viger 0

The winter 2017 issue (Vol. 25, no. 1) of our sister magazine Reflet de Société is its 100th issue! By Raymond Viger  In 1992, we were the first Francophone street newspaper in the world. In 1993, Macadam was launched in France; in 1994, Montreal saw […] See more

How We’ve Gone Backwards

08/23/2017 Colin McGregor 0

Jules Hetzel, publisher, brought the world the works of the father of science fiction, French writer Jules Verne (1828-1905). Colin McGregor  File: Homelesness. Hetzel encouraged Verne to blend fast-paced adventure tales with futuristic scientific gadgetry. Together they launched beloved best­sellers like Around the World in Eighty […] See more