The CIUSSS West-Central Montreal mobile clinic will be stopping in our Dawson neighbourhood:
Location: The Refugee Centre (2107 Ste-Catherine St. W., #100)
Date: Tuesday, December 16, 2025
Hours: 9:30 AM – 4:30 PM
Free walk-in vaccines will be available for influenza, COVID-19, shingles, and pneumococcal infection.
Eligibility remains subject to government criteria. See this link for details.
A new initiative called Cooking for Justice is connecting Dawson College students with their community—and with each other—one pot of soup at a time. Led by Diana Rice of the Office of Sustainability, the project blends hands-on cooking with lessons in social justice, sustainability, and mutual aid, transforming classroom time into meaningful action.
“It started last year during Indigenous Awareness Week,” explains Diana Rice. “The students of the Decolonization and Indigenization Studies certificate and the Office of Sustainability teamed up to make Three Sisters Soup to donate to Resilience Montreal as our contribution to the week. The students enjoyed the work so much that I decided it would be a great repeat activity, but this time with the intention of working directly with teachers and their classes.”
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Support staff, professionals and teachers have the amazing opportunity to actively participate in Dawson’s Sustainable Happiness non-credit community certificate group. This is a gift from Dawson that you can do within your working hours at the College! The Sustainable Happiness training will guide people to reflect on positive psychology and sustainability. It contributes to Dawson’s…
The Dawson community is invited to wear purple on Tuesday, Nov. 25. This gesture is a way to show support for ending gender-based violence. The colour purple stands for courage, dignity, and solidarity with survivors. By wearing it, you help raise awareness and spark conversations about creating safer communities for everyone.
Nov. 25 is International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women. This day marks the start of the 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-based Violence campaign, which raises awareness and promotes actions to end violence against women and girls worldwide.
Seeking male colleagues and students to give an hour of service to staff the White Ribbon campaign table Monday through Thursday, Dec. 1-4, from 10 AM to 3 PM. For support staff, professionals and managers, you can you use your well-being hours with the approval of your supervisor.
The White Ribbon Campaign is a global movement of men and boys working to end male violence against women and girls. It was formed by a group of pro-feminist men in Toronto in 1991 as a response to the École Polytechnique massacre of female students in 1989.
The campaign’s mission is to raise awareness about the prevalence of male violence against women, with the ribbon symbolizing the idea of men giving up their arms. Active in over 60 countries, the movement seeks to promote healthy relationships, gender equity, and a compassionate vision of masculinity.
If you are interested in volunteering, please email your availabilities to Rhea Gurnagul at rgurnagul@dawsoncollege.qc.ca.
It’s that time of year again when you can get your hands dirty, or should we say your fingers sticky, and help extract honey from our bee frames located in the hives on the 4H rooftop. Our bees have been busy producing a lot of honey thanks to our many pollinating flower gardens on campus, which are all maintained by our very own Sustainabili-team student and employee volunteers.
The fun-filled hour will include uncapping honeycomb cells, hand-spinning honeycombs in the centrifugal extractor, and filtering the raw honey before jarring and labelling it. All participants will leave with a little sample jar of Dawson's honey. It will BEE fun and you can use your weekly well-being hour to participate.
Spaces are limited. RSVP IS A MUST, please fill out this MS form for the employee event on Nov. 13 from 11 AM to 12 PM. The Office of Sustainability will send you a confirmation email.
The cold is coming and the locker room at Chez Doris downtown women’s shelter is empty!
From now through Nov. 20, we call on the kindness of the Dawson community and invite you to bring gently used and new winter clothing items to a drop box outside of 4B.1-4. Volunteers from Dawson will make a delivery.
Urgent need of the following items in all sizes:
Diana Rice of the Office of Sustainability was interviewed by CTV News. about Food Justice programs.
You can see the Oct. 23 report by visiting the link.
The second edition of Dawson’s Mental Health Fair will take place on Wednesday, Nov. 12, from 11 AM to 2 PM in Conrod’s (2F.4). This event brings together a diverse range of community-based organizations to support Dawson students’ well-being and mental health. Attendees will have the opportunity to connect with groups offering resources in areas…
Have you completed your sexual violence prevention training yet?
Take a little over 15 minutes this week during a workday to do this mandatory training. Faculty members, why don’t you carve out some time on Ped Day this Friday, Nov. 7 to do it?
All employees must take sexual violence prevention training each year as part of the College’s legal commitment to preventing sexual violence and as laid out in the Policy on Sexual Violence.
To access the training:
We appreciate your cooperation, active participation and dedication to making our workplace a safe and supportive space for everyone.
Last Modified: November 20, 2025
