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Monday, April 15th, 2013
Semaine de la citoyenneté
Lundi 15 avril: politique et éducation (Local A4.82)
Mot de bienvenue et présentation
À 10h
Après le printemps érable et le sommet, quel avenir pour l'éducation québécoise?
De 10h15 à 11h45
Conférence de Gabriel Nadeau-Dubois, animation de François Larose
Retour sur la grève étudiante et le sommet sur l'éducation. «Et si, tout le temps du sommet, on avait parlé de tout, sauf d'éducation?»
Traitement médiatique de la grève
De 12h à 13h30
Table ronde avec Stéphane Baillargeon et Marie-Andrée Chouinard, animation de Paul Turcotte
Couverture dans les «vieux» et «nouveaux» médias et ce qu'elle révèle sur les tensions politiques et idéologiques, ainsi que sur les transformations du milieu médiatique.
Justice sociale, solidarité et contestation démocratique
De 13h45 à 15h15
Conférence de Christian Dubois, animé par Martin Godon
«S'intéresser à la formation d'idéaux communs au Québec»
L'éducation et les inégalités sociales d'hier à demain
De 15h30 à 17h
Conférence de Guy Rocher, animation de Yvan Perrier
La modernisation du parcours historique du Québec et le rôle qu'y ont joué les mouvements féministes et communautaires.
Mardi 16 avril: création et créativité (Local A4.82)
Lutter par et pour les mots
De 8h30 à 10h
Table ronde avec Mariève Isabelle et Maxime Langlois, animation de René Gourde
Le pouvoir des mots dans les débats et les événements du printemps dernier
La couleur de l'indignation
De 10h15 à 11h45
Conférence de Thérèse St-Gelais et Marie-Ève Charron, animation de Marlène Boudreault
«Stratégies visuelles utilisées pour faire valoir un point de vue politique»
L'art et les manifestations sociales et politiques
De 12h à 13h30
Table ronde avec Marie-Claude G. Olivier, Véronique Lafleur et Ève Lamoureux, animation de Marlène Boudreault
Réflexion sur les manifestations artistiques
Triple regard, triple sensibilité
De 13h45 à 15h15
Projection d'oeuvres de Mario Jean, Michaël Fortin et Éric Robertson, animation d'Anne Bérubé
(Pst, les deux derniers sont membres de 99% média et l'autre, ben, c'est Mario Jean.)
Le Printemps québécois: quand le peuple s'éveille..., Fin de régime et 7 jours de grève
Slam la grève
De 15h30 à 17h
Lecture de poèmes de Mario Cholette et autres personnes
Mercredi 17 avril: polémique et engagement (Local A4.82, oui oui)
Les humoristes engagés dans le printemps érable
De 8h30 à 10h
Conférence de Robert Aird, animation de Sophie Tremblay
Rôle de l'humour et des humoristes pendant le printemps dernier et en général dans les mouvements de contestation.
L'université en naufrage?
De 10h15 à 11h45
Table ronde avec Éric Martin et Michel Seymour, animation par Xavier Brouillette
«Assiste-on au détournement des finalités institutionnelles universitaires?»
Le devoir de réserve des professeurs en question
De 13h45 à 15h15
Débat entre Jean Laberge et Yvon Rivard, animation par Yanic Viau
À quel point les professeurs peuvent-illes prendre et défendre publiquement leurs opinions?
République: un abécédaire populaire
De 15h30 à 17h
Projection du film de Hugo Latulippe, animation par Simon Lanctôt
Jeudi 18 avril: légalité et légitimité (Local devinez)
Droit de grève et syndicalisme étudiant
De 8h30 à 10h
Conférence de Marc-Antoine Cloutier, animation par Yves de Repentigny
Sur la judiciarisation du conflit étudiant d'un point de vue légal
Judiciarisation, droits individuels et droits collectifs
De 10h15 à 11h45
Conférence d'Anne-Marie Voisard, animation par Anne-Marie Claret
«Les actions de désobéissance du printemps sont le signe d'une profonde crise de légitimité du droit.»
Liberté d'expression et répression politique
De 13h45 à 15h15
Table ronde avec Denis Barrette, Jean Trudelle et Béatrice Vaugrante, animation par Patrice Régimbald
«Quelle est notre responsabilité pour que la diversité des voix et et des opinions arrive à nos oreilles et nourrisse les débats?»
Vendredi 19 avril: action et mobilisation (même local)
Mouvements sociaux et printemps étudiant
De 8h30 à 10h
Table ronde avec Alexa Conradi, Carol Gélinas et Fanny Theurillat-Cloutier, animation par Stéphane Thellen
Comment le printemps dernier a bouleversé les habitudes en matière d'implication sociale.
Les mouvements sociaux comme lieu politique
De 10h15 à 11h45
Table ronde avec Raphaël Canet et Diane Lamoureux, animation par Pierre Paiement
Les mouvements sociaux permettent la prise de pouvoir par le peuple. Aussi un bilan de la mondialisation de la résistance.
Désobéissance civile, de la dissidence à l'obscruction
De 12h à 13h30
Débat entre Normand Beaudet et Marcos Ancelovici, animation par Aline Baillargeon
Qu'est-ce que la désobéissance civile?
Coquetel de clôture
De 14h30 à 16 au local...A379!
«Coquetel»?
Autres trucs
Exposition «Je me souviendrai
Du 8 au 19 avril à l'Agora. Du lundi au jeudi de 11h à 19h et le vendredi de 11h à 16h.
Prêter l'oreille II
Mercredi 17 et jeudi 18 avril à 12h, dans le hall d'entrée du cégep. Chorale avec Sophie Castonguay.
Déploiement en règle
Vendredi 19 avril à 13h45, rue Ontario, en face du cégep.
Noémi McComber «procède à la déclaration solennelle du protocole d'utilisation du drapeau du Québec dans l'espace public».
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Wednesday, June 4th, 2008
I don't like posting twice on the same day, but something has been bugging me all day and I need to write it down before I forget.
I love playing video games. If you picture me sitting down, covered in glitter, playing Nintendogs on my pink DS while chatting with my "girl friends"* on my cell phone, that picture of me exists only in your mind.
But that is not quite the topic here. I was reading video-game related lists today when I found one titled something like "Top 10 games not to play with your boyfriend". Many of the games were shooters or other "gAmEz FoR bOiZ!1!1!1!!!"
There is one major problem with the list, that hurts the anti-sexist in me.
It is the problem that girls should in every way please their boyfriend. Your boyfriend wants to win? Let him win! Flatter his ego, girls! After all, you're just a silly pretty thing: we all know that he is far more intelligent and skilled than you
When I read the list, I have the feeling that, while I can be good at video games, I must not make my boyfriend feel inferior, that would be terribly bad. I should feel guilty to be winning and purposefully play less well than my skills allow, for his very own pleasure. After all, what am I beside a machine made to please him? "Beer!" Sure, honey, here it comes! "I am the best!" Of course, honey, you are the best!
If your get into arguments because your boyfriend (or girlfriend) doesn't like that you are winning over video games, s/he has anger management issues. When I see someone I love succeeding in something, I'm happy, even if that person just so happens to have beaten me to something. And there are games I'm good at. Woo, big deal. Come on, boys, be angry at me. Girls must not be good at video games, after all.
* I'm attracted to girls among others, and the term "girl friends" is something I never use to refer to my female friends.
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Tuesday, June 3rd, 2008
Perhaps you have read (and seen) about Jem's Mr. Scruffy (except she writes it without a period after the "Mr". Stoopid British).
Well, trust me, that cat looks like a king compared to my Scruffy. No Mr., because he certainly doesn't look like a gentleman (or a lady). I don't know his gender, he doesn't seem very keen on being taken.
Scruffy first showed up a few weeks ago, I'd say sometime in May. He has short/mid-length gray hair and generally just looks like a cat. But not just about any cat. The first time I saw him, I thought he had just gotten into a fight. His fur feels odd, kind of dirty, and towards the end of his back (near his tail), it's all...how to say...Well, it's scruffy. The scruffiest fur I've ever seen, except on some obese cats that are unable to wash themselves everywhere.
He might very well have fleas and ceiling cat knows what else. I don't let him in, although I suspect he did come in once, running away when I moved. I saw a flash of grayness running out.
My cat doesn't do much. When I pet him, she stares at him with her big eyes. "Mommy, just what are you doing?" She doesn't hiss at him, but she practically never hisses anyway. I think I've seen her do it a grand total of one time since I got her, and it was aimed at my roommate. The bastard had dared approaching her highness. Although, you never know, it might be because he was only wearing a towel around his waist and she was afraid of what might happen.
I feed Scruffy sometimes. I put a bowl with some dry food when I see him, and he eats it happily. He looks very thin. When I pet him (he loves being petted, above all around his head), I can feel his bones.
If I was very rich, I'd take him to the vet, but that would probably require me to get him inside first. I can't really tell the vet that I'll just show up whenever the cat comes here. Except for emergencies, like when my cat fell off the roof, there's about one month of wait between the time you take your appointment and the time of the actual appointment. For example, I had to call about one month ago for an appointment this week.
But the difficulty of getting an appointment is not the main put off. The biggest problem I have is the price. As I said, he could very well have some diseases. I also have no idea of whether he has been sterilized and vaccinated. I just don't have the money to pay for all that. If you do however, you can leave me a note and I'll see to contacting you. 
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Saturday, May 31st, 2008
I just changed the theme (again, yes, but I hadn't changed it for some time).
As I can't fiddle around with the code as I want, I have to use widgets. However, there is no widget to display only top-level pages. You have to display all of them, and you can exclude those you don't want displayed. I would love if there was some way to do the opposite: enter the pages I want instead of those I don't want. It's not necessarily visible, but what with things like my joined fanlistings, I have tons of pages.
Anyway, apart from that things should be fine. The only annoyance is the list of monthly archives that goes on forever, but that's what you get for blogging for such a long period of time.
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Thursday, May 29th, 2008
Fear not, it's not going to be an emo post about how terrible life is.
Today was the last day of my group therapy. I have mixed feelings about that. On one hand, I know I have done some progress. Going there has helped me and they gave me tons of useful documents. On the other hand, the emotional side kicks in. I enjoyed going there, it was a good moment of the week. I liked the other people who attended, as well as the two therapists.
In life, pretty much everything comes down to money. There were now only three of us attending the group on a regular basis, with a fourth one who was practically never showing up. The group was put to an end because it's not enough. They aim for about 8 to 10 people per group.
I could always go into another group but I spoke with my therapist about the group ending and we agreed that I wouldn't need to continue. That's mostly because I'm starting a therapy to cure my phobias. And, trust me, this is going to be very hard work. I currently have trouble sleeping at night and usually fall asleep after the sun has started to rise because I get scared.
I had to do a list of my phobias for that therapy and just doing the list made me feel terrible. I also refused to take the list into my bedroom and I hate carrying it around, like it's going to contaminate my hands.
The thought of starting that therapy scares me, but I know it's for the best. I cannot always rely on roommates to change the bag in monster cans trash cans.
My job is going well. I missed a lot of days in the past few weeks, but I'm catching up this week and my work is getting done at a pretty good speed.
I must go shopping next weekend. I am in serious need of underwear, above all of the bra kind. A huge need of bras, you see.
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Tuesday, May 20th, 2008
Remember when I talked about compost? Well, here's a brief note for readers from Quebec, or anyone who can access the Protégez-vous magazine. In their May 2008 edition (not sure this is the right word, but you get what I mean), they talk about compost at home: different types of containers, what can and cannot be composted, etc.
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Wednesday, May 14th, 2008
I went to the cegep—that's college for you—today (Tuesday).
I had the stupid idea of walking from the metro station to my destination. As I said: stupid idea. The walk was much longer than anticipated and, because I have no familiarity with the place, I ended up going the long way. Long path + feet rather than bus led to my being very much in late, by about 45 minutes. As if it weren't enough, I was only 5 minutes before closure. Fortunately for me, though, the woman I had to meet did not actually finish in 5 minutes, so I could meet her...Much to my disappointment, I had been "summoned" merely to sign something. Great. Marvelous. About 1 hour and 30 minutes of subway and walk just to sign a bloody paper.
At least, it allowed me to see the area for the first time. Not only is there a bus going right from the metro station to the college, but it passes along a beautiful park. Trees, ladies and gentlemen, trees! I love trees.
The building itself is quite ordinary. Just a building, with windows, doors and that kind of stuff. The park, however, is very beautiful. There are also lots of trees on the actual lot of the college, which is awesome. Even the parking doesn't look too much like the classic ugly wide parking for well frequented buildings.
Yes, it was my first time going. Actually, up to about 10 minutes before sending in my admission request, I don't think I had ever heard about it. There are quite a few colleges in Montreal, and most of them offer the program I'm going in—it has some fancy and rather odd name for what it is, but is it basically computer programming.
I will admit it to you, whole world: I chose this particular college because it was the first one on the list whose site I could access. I won't go studying computer programming in a college that can't even make a Firefox-compatible website.
Don't worry too much about the state of accessibility in the province though, it was something like the second on the list.
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