Reject war by adding your name to global petition
Ivan Freud of the Peace Studies Certificate invites the Dawson community to sign a petition to reject war and nuclear weapons.
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Earth Week 2022 events at Dawson!
The Sustainability Office, in collaboration with the Peace Centre and other departments, is excited to introduce the fast-approaching Earth Week 2022, which will take place Tuesday to Friday, April 19-22. We would like to give you an opportunity to take advantage of some of the many activities we have planned. You will note that we…
Artists in Bloom happening April 21-28
We are back! After a couple of years that the event could not take place due to the pandemic, Artists in Bloom is back for its 24th annual edition! We are excited to welcome you to the event and to show you what our talented student artists will produce. Artists in Bloom is an annual…
Learning about the Indigeneity of maple syrup
In an effort to Indigenize curriculum and re-Indigenize a small piece of occupied Tiohtià:ke (Montreal), students, staff, and faculty from the First Peoples Centre and the Decolonization and Indigenization Studies Certificate launched the Wáhta Óshes (maple syrup) project last March to share the Indigenous roots of making maple syrup. Ryder Cote-Nottaway, an Algonquin student,…
First-year student wins research bursary for work with Adaptech Research Network
First-year Dawson Social Science student Abigaëlle Vasseur is one of seven CEGEP students in Quebec to win a bursary for research work this winter semester. Abigaëlle joined Dawson’s Adaptech Research Network and it was through this work that she won a Bourse pour stage d’initiation à la recherche pour la relève au collegial, valued at $3,000, from the Fonds de recherche du Québec – Société et culture.
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Physical Education Department addresses climate action
The ecological footprint of each Physical Education course at Dawson is being tracked in a pilot project of the department with support from Anna Likht and Rafael Scapin of Information Systems and Technology and the Sustainability Office.
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Honour the life of Joe Rose with AR
Joe Rose was a Dawson nursing student and AIDS activist who wanted to start a Montreal edition of ACT UP (AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power), an international grassroots political group that is working to end the AIDS pandemic. While attending Dawson in 1985, he founded the Etcetera Club, a safe space for LGBT students. On…
Miriam Group back at Dawson & ready to help you!
Many people at Dawson know the Miriam Group already, but they were away for a long period due to COVID. Miriam Group’s purpose is to promote the development of work, social and interpersonal skills in an integrated work environment for people with special needs. They are back at Dawson three days a week on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays. There are five members, including a special care counselor who supports the group.
You are invited to get in touch with the Miriam Group if you need help with tasks, such as small amounts of paper shredding, putting up and taking down posters, flattening boxes, and/or assembling the boxes, helping in the kitchen, helping with reception at PARC, bringing things to shipping, mailings and more.
Manon Proteau of Miriam Group hopes they will be able to help people at Dawson and increase the inclusion and integration of Miriam Group members into the Dawson community. Contact Manon to get some help from the Miriam Group at Manon.Proteau.miriam@ssss.gouv.qc.ca
Blood drive was “immense success”
The Blood Drive at Dawson on Feb. 22-23 was an “immense success considering the current covid context,” according to Héma-Québec.
A total of 108 members of the Dawson community gave blood. Héma-Québec wanted to thank Dawson on behalf of all the patients who will receive blood.
2021 Virtual Field Trip to Cuba video
During the online learning period of the pandemic, teachers had to be very resourceful and adapt their plans.
Instead of actually going to Cuba in 2021, students in the North-South Studies Profile of Social Science took a virtual field trip to Cuba thanks to an imaginative work-around developed by North-South Studies faculty and partners in Cuba.
You can watch their virtual field trip video by clicking on the link in Read More.
Last Modified: April 6, 2022
