Fans are excited about the arrival of Lionel Messi to play at Saputo stadium Saturday evening for Inter Miami against CF Montreal.
No surprise who won.
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Kate
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Kate
We have a heat warning for Sunday.
Mozai
I can’t tell if my vulnerability to heatstroke is something I’ve always had, or something I’m gaining as I get older, or something about the clownshoes weather we’re having. 14C on Friday, then 36C on Sunday? Whiskey Tango Foxtrot,
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Kate
Le Devoir profiles the women squaring off in a contest for the mayoralty of Verdun this November. The current mayor is Projet’s Marie‑Andrée Mauger, but she has announced she won’t be running again.
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Kate
A new library to be built in Villeray will honour author Caroline Dawson, dead before her time in 2024 at the age of 44.
Dawson, who wrote in French, was originally from Chile and came here as a child with her family as a refugee.
The library’s architect hasn’t been chosen yet, and the building won’t open before 2030. It’s planned to rise beside the Patro Le Prévost building on Christophe‑Colomb, which we can hope will be renamed by then.
vasi
That’s weird, there’s already a library at Patro! Is it going to close when this new one opens?
Kate
Going to move the books into the new building, I imagine, and use the Patro space for something else.
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Kate
Isabelle Hachey does a masterful dissection of the report on tensions at Dawson and Vanier, demonstrating that the claim that prayer rooms cause a problem is simply not based on fact or any recent observations.
Tim S.
Really good examination of the sources quoted in the report, which had nothing to do with the situation at hand. She didn’t mention this, but it’s also notable that 80% of the report is basically that the two administrations handled things correctly. The other 20% being CAQ talking points.
jeather
I have been told that one major distinction between the French and English system for first language literature classes (102/103) is that in the English system, the topics can be whatever — Shakespeare, or modern lit, or gothic lit, or as is currently relevant, Palestinian — as long as they cover the same overall goals, while in the French system, the classes all share essentially the same topics (an overview of French literature and Quebec literature, for 102/103 respectively), which explains a bit of the complaints about the English lit classes at Vanier or Dawson. (Basic googling at a few local cegeps seems to bear this out.)
Nicholas
I remember people at Dawson really enjoying the variety of English courses. You could do the classics, sure, but also Sci Fi or Queer or journalism (write for the paper). Lots of people who struggled through high school English, required to read and write some things for class and then the stuff they actually wanted to on their own time, could find something they liked, often taught by a teacher who was passionate for the subject, as they designed the curriculum themself. As an author and professor I know used to say, sure, you should read Austen, the Brontë sisters, Shakespeare, etc., but better to read something you like than hate reading and then read nothing at all.
Ian
I think it’s actually lkind of great that there are so many ways to teach the same comprehensive assessment. It allows for whole ranges of genre studies, gender studies, etc. So many choices. I’m sure our benevolent leaders would like us all to read nothing but Québecois authors in French, and ideally all white ones with proper French last names, too. Maybe an exception for Gabrielle Roy despite being from Manitoba.
jeather
I also think the English setup is preferable, but as someone who went to Vanier, with friends who also went to English cegeps, I was unaware that this was a difference between the systems and I thought perhaps other people might not have known.
Nicholas
I was unaware of this because in my Dawson French class we read Dai Sijie, a Chinese writer and filmmaker who moved to Paris. The book, his first, was originally written in French, but takes place on China. (We also watched La Grande Séduction.) Other friends had different material, it was all by teacher. So the idea that CEGEP French language courses were any different from English ones in how diverse they could be surprised me too.
Ian
More specifically, language courses at French CEGEPs.
This difference is now especially pronounced specifically with Law 14 in place, where extra French instruction is necessary for those who are “ayant droit” for English language education in Quebec, and ALL disciplines need to have some courses taught in French. The French departments are working with all the other departments figuring out the new courses, it’s no small task.
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