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AbstractsThis article contributes to our knowledge about the rise of the social and human sciences through an examination of military uses of psychology in Canada and this field sensibility to external demand. The national crisis caused by World War II and the Cold War were perceived by psychologists as sizeable opportunities to promote psychological expertise outside academe and to strengthen the social authority of their discipline and profession. By the way of military patronage and psychological contribution to National defense, psychological expertise then gained new symbolic and material resources. Does it mean that this field exogeneity undermine its disciplinary practices or knowledge production? It is said that this is an empirical question that bears no univocal answers.
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Widely known for its award winning movies, Igloolik ISUMA Productions has established a virtual network, which today distributes worldwide, images and interviews on Aboriginal issues. However, the Inuit firm has more fundamental objectives, such as those of being a spokesman for many contemporary claims, not only in the cultural domain (preservation of heritage, etc.), but also in the economic and political spheres where indigenous rights are threatened, as by mineral exploitation This paper attempts to show how, in Northern Canada, an electronic media such as IsumaTV plays a decisive role in the establishment of effective indigenous connections. Through a content analysis of IsumaTV, the authors examine to what extent these cultural products can nurture and transform images in cyberspace, while at another level, and for many reasons, local effects are much more limited. In this process, the religious domain seems to be at the center of these streams as it gives more strength to Aboriginal claims.
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AbstractOn 9 November 2006, the National Assembly of Québec introduced Bill 48, An Act to amend the Consumer Protection Act and the Act respecting the collection of certain debts, in order to modernize certain legislative provisions relating to consumer law. The resulting law, which received Royal Sanction on 14 December 2006 and completed its progressive entry into force on 15 December 2007, established a consumer protection regime for distance contracts.The legislator specifically targets online consumer contracts, and establishes an obligatory formalism that regulates the pre-contractual, contractual, and post-contractual steps of the relationship between the online merchant and the consumer. This article provides a detailed analysis of the practical scope of the duty to disclose during the pre-contractual step. It evaluates the potential of this duty to resolve uncertainty and guarantee adequate technological and legal security in the contractual relations of the parties to an online consumer contract, in light of the medium used in the disclosure of information.Drawing on a comparative study of French law and the legislative regimes in place elsewhere in Canada, the authors conclude that Quebec's reform imposes a duty to inform on the online merchant that is quantitatively too heavy, and that is ill-suited to the technological reality of the internet. In their view, the consumer would be better protected if the law insisted on the efficient transmission of information considered essential to the formation of the contract.
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