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As several governments today seek to control the risks associated with excessive alcohol consumption, policies to eliminate sources of ultra-low-priced alcohol are emerging. Minimum price policies establishing a floor price below which the sale of alcohol is prohibited are controversial, particularly in Scotland, for the trade-restrictive effects they can cause. When adopting a policy that potentially restricts trade in a certain product, it is necessary to assess its compatibility in the same way as international economic law. This article examines the issues surrounding implementing a minimum price policy per standard glass of alcohol in Quebec in light of applicable international trade commitments. After analyzing the World Trade Organization (WTO) agreements and the case law resulting from them, we maintain that a minimum pricing policy is likely to be compatible with the commitments made under the WTO system and binding on Quebec. More specifically, we assess the consistency of the measure with the national treatment and quantitative restrictions obligations included in the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), as well as with the Agreement on the Application of Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures (SPS) and the Agreement on Technical Barriers to Trade (TBT). However, the minimum pricing policy as proposed demonstrates its compatibility with WTO law under the exception provided in paragraph XX(b) of the GATT relating to the protection of the life of individuals.

The purpose of this article is to study the coconstruction of a classroom microculture in situations of assessment in support of learning as an object of study in higher education. The aim is to investigate processes and phenomena in an attempt to define and clarify what might be involved today, in the context of current issues at French universities, in supporting students in assessment and learning processes. The data are drawn from classroom observations and interviews with teachers and learners. The results show what this conception of student learning assessment means and implies in terms of a resource for regulating learning.

Keywords: culture évaluative partagée, enseignement supérieur, évaluation-soutien d'apprentissage, microculture de classe, classroom microculture, higher education, learning assessment-support situations, shared evaluative culture, avaliação-suporte à aprendizagem, cultura avaliativa partilhada, ensino superior, microcultura de sala de aula

Keywords: anglicisation, internationalisation, universités, politique linguistique, sociolinguistique

Keywords: éducation à la sexualité, diversité culturelle et religieuse, éducation inclusive, éducation critique, Québec

Urban linguistic landscapes offer an unsuspected richness in the way communication is made towards the users of the city. The innumerable inscriptions that take place along the streets often call for a wealth of inventiveness, combining words and images, the linguistic landscapes blending with the cultural landscapes of which they are inseparable. We thought it would be interesting to look at the linguistic landscapes of a small town that is part of a large agglomeration, Montpellier (France). We investigated a neighbouring town, Castelnau-le-Lez, by focusing on purely graphic elements of stable signage and official communication for information purposes, and by questioning the use, visibility and intentionality of the languages present in this space.

Keywords: Castelnau-le-Lez, éléments graphiques, communication officielle, dynamique interculturelle, métissage intraculturel, Castelnau-le-Lez, graphic elements, official communication, intercultural dynamics, intracultural mixing

The use of culture and creativity keeps increasing in the cities’ tourism strategies. In this context, data art—a recent artistic practice which consists in creating works from data produced by society or the environment—represents a potential as a cultural tourist attraction. This exploratory article aims to identify the characteristics that convert it into a potential tourist attraction through an interpretative and thematic analysis of fifty international works. On the one hand, this innovative art is firmly anchored in current issues, notably urban, environmental, and societal. On the other hand, even though the exhibition places are mainly central or iconic, the transit places have become new meaningful scenarios for data art. Finally, the connections of data art to different times and spaces, from data collection to their exhibition, allow the visitor to live new experiences trough renewing the representations of places, thus contributing to differentiate tourist destinations.

Keywords: cultural tourism, data art, datavisualization, public art, tourist attraction, urban space, espace urbain, art public, attrait touristique, data art, datavisualisation, tourisme culturel

This article discusses how the Hantu duo (Weber+Delsaux) came to create mises-en-scène and performances centered on moving about with full vegetated containers. Such arrangements allow us to examine the act of carrying. We carry what we share: a heritage, claims, hopes for change… This act also testifies to the emotional bonds and new social relationships we could develop with plants. But carrying may also reinforce the notion that we have the power to manipulate plants, to move them about and arrange them as we please, referring to a passive view of plant life. As a counterpoint to carrying, the article develops the principle of plant adoption, one that allows us to see the plant as a living subject, recognize its agency and assume a shared relationship, given that adoption implies mutual commitment. Using the example of experiments, performances and workshops conducted by Weber and Delsaux, this text aims to understand the extent to which the principle of adoption can be transferred to the plant world and what it means to respect, consider and assume responsibility for a plant, and vice versa.

Alors que l’on enregistre une hausse des actions industrielles à caractère inter-catégoriel, provisoire, décentralisé et remontant, qui s’apparentent ainsi de plus en plus à des mouvements sociaux, la littérature industrielle et gestionnaire continue à les présenter sous les seuls angles institutionnel et bureaucratique en omettant la nature évolutive et multi-scalaire de la conflictualité au travail. En outre, les chercheurs prennent insuffisamment en compte les changements du travail même, en particulier l’expansion du travail intellectuel et la multiplication corrélative des domaines d’expertise et des communautés de pratiques ; d’où un manque de théorie quant au processus de mobilisation, de maintenance et de dénouement des actions industrielles au sein d’une force de travail hétérogène. Je me suis efforcé de remédier à ces lacunes en répondant à la …

Pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale, l’Armée impériale japonaise forçait de nombreuses filles et femmes originaires de Taïwan, de Corée, de Chine et d’autres pays d’Asie, à servir d’esclaves sexuelles aux soldats. Bien que ce système de « femmes de réconfort » ait été largement répandu, ses conséquences sur les identités des survivantes tout au long de leurs vies ainsi que ses conséquences intergénérationnelles restent insuffisamment étudiées dans la littérature actuelle. Cette thèse de doctorat vise à combler cette lacune en analysant comment un traumatisme sexuel survenu en début de vie, ainsi que certains facteurs structurels, ont pu influencer les multiples facettes identitaires d’anciennes « femmes de réconforts » originaires de Taïwan et plus âgées que les autres (c.-à-d., en tant que femmes, survivantes de violences …