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 Raymond Viger Why are schools no longer located in neighborhoods? Why were they replaced by schools with 2,500 students? With local schools, children walk to school. Less school bus transportation. Less obesity among young people. Students arrive at school in a better frame of […] See more
By François Bellemare Like many visitors, I was filled with admiration while walking around the Tarsakallak School, which serves the Nunavik village of Aupaluk in the far reaches of northern Quebec. A new building; welcoming staff; smiling students. And in the interview she granted me, […] See more
By Normand Charest In his book The Wolf at Twilight, American author Kent Nerburn accompanies a Lakota “Indian Elder” on his “journey through a land of ghosts and shadows.” In these pages, the elder transmits his reflections and knowledge to the white author, who writes them […] See more
By Flora Lassalle Interview with Alice Jerome Alice Jerome is Algonquin. She spent eight years at the Saint-Marc-de-Figuery Indian Residential School (in Abitibi), an episode that deeply impacted her life. While many try to forget, Alice speaks out, sublimating her suffering through art and mutual […] See more
By François Bellemare There are lots of jobs in Inuit communities. And Inuit leaders deplore the small percentage of their own who occupy these jobs. They understand that they must intensify their efforts to reverse the trend. Mary Simon, Canada’s Governor General, argues that “Nunavik […] 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 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 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 Colin McGregor A School in the Woods An alternative school in the tiny village of Saint-Mathieu-du-Parc, 15 kilometres west of Shawinigan, in the miiddle of the forest, is a provincial leader. In 2004, in the tiny village of Saint-Mathieu-du-Parc, the local school closed its […] See more
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