By Colin McGregor We toss tons of material into recycling bins. But are these materials really recycled? Where do our plastic wrappers go? When I was very young we had recycling. For example, the milkman delivered milk door-to-door each morning. Sometimes his truck was […] See more
By Colin McGregor When she was little, Marie (not her real name) collected police-related objects. “I had a great big box” she recalls, smiling. “Lots of stuff, toy cars, things I cut out of magazines.” She watched police shows on TV, and the reruns too. […] See more
By Raymond Viger Despite the cold and the snow, I head towards a yurt in the middle of a forest in the Lanaudière district of Québec. A yurt is the traditional habitation of Mongolian nomads. It is a tent, decorated in very colorful motifs that […] See more
By Colin McGregor One Quebec adult in seven has a criminal record. That’s 900,000 people 18 years of age or older. This statistic is verified by the Association des services de réhabilitation sociale du Québec (ASRSQ). Given the current manpower shortage you’d think it would […] See more
By Colin McGregor At the Goût du Bled restaurant on Jean-Talon East in St-Léonard, each year a wonderful foodbank pops up just for the Muslim holy month of Ramadan. An army of volunteers gets together in the restaurant’s basement kitchen to prepare 1,200 meals a […] See more
By Raymond Viger In the beginning, the car company started by Henry Ford had as its aim to bring the automobile to the rural population. By 1920 this objective had been realized. Were auto manufacturers content with achieving this? By no means. Expansion is a […] See more
By Sarah Lemay for the Gazette de la Mauricie Androcentrism literally means “male-centered.” It is a concept that reveals the historical, cultural and social domination of men over women in numerous societies around the world. This notion, as complex as it may be, has profound […] See more
By Colin McGregor Xavier Laloux is a contemporary artist born in 1985 in the Montreal suburb of Pointe-Saint-Charles, a working-class district in the south-west of the city. He has overcome many obstacles throughout his life. He is responsible for the image of a dove on […] See more
By Raymond Viger In anticipation of enrolling her child Élijah, Annie Larouche was present at the founding of Le Centre d’Apprentissage Libre en Forêt Arborescence (the Arborescence Free Forest Learning Center, or CALEFA) in Saint-Jean-de-Matha, about an hour and a half north-east of Montreal. The […] See more
By Alain Dumas, Economist, Editor at la Gazette de la Mauricie So-called “green” technologies occupy a growing place in the news. They encompass a multitude of processes that aim to reduce the negative effects of economic activity on the environment, such as CO2 emissions into […] See more
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