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The purpose of this study is to investigate how an inter-organizational community of practice (IOCoP) manages the paradoxical effect between collaboration and competition. The literature highlights the potential of their logic for the development of collaborative innovation but do not explore the competition dynamic within theirs members. The analysis of an IOCoP composed by innovative startups in Brazil shows the reinforcement of internal regulations when new competing members integrate the community. Indirect and external modes of regulation are also expressed. Due to the complementarity of these regulatory modes, the IOCoP is seen as a facilitator for coopetition relationships.

Keywords: communauté de pratique inter-organisationnelle, innovation, coopétition, régulation, inter-organizational community of practice, innovation, coopetition, comunidad de práctica interorganizacionale, innovacion, coopetition

Qualitative research with young female Francophone students in northern Ontario has led to the identification of situations where psychological distress is amplified by problems communicating in French at a bilingual university. Is this a case of linguistic and/or cultural insecurity? The students interviewed showed that bilingual assimilation pressures are part of a double minority situation where, on the one hand, linguistic norms are reflected by the use of Quebec French as the standard language and, on the other, anglomajority values represent the only cultural norm. This reality, caused by the linguistic and cultural isolation of these students, impacts their mental health and academic achievement.

Keywords: université, étudiantes, Franco-Ontariennes, double minorisation, bilinguisme instrumental, university, female students, Franco-Ontarians, double minority, instrumental bilingualism

Our digital society contributes to social participation of many citizens. However, people with intellectual disability (ID) or autism spectrum disorder (ASD) must interact with a common digital environment unsuited to their needs. This fact refers to the digital exclusion. Unfortunately, in the field of ID and ASD few models are available to guide practitioners and researchers in the implementation of these technologies. Our team has developed a model presenting and integrating the challenges associated with their use. The pyramid of digital accessibility clearly identifies the dimensions that promote digital inclusion of these populations.

The idea of raising the statutory retirement age in Canada is part of a wider policy debate around the challenges posed by population ageing. Some political leaders, concerned to keep costs under control and to mitigate the effects of slower growth in the labour force, argue in favour of raising the retirement age to maintain the viability of the Canadian pension system. In this context, our analysis provides a new method of estimating the number of potential working years lost before the age of 65 between 1977 and 2014 in Canada, taking account of voluntary and involuntary retirement and mortality. While mortality among men and involuntary retirement among women were the main causes of working years lost before the age of 65 in the earlier years of the period studied, the fall in the effective retirement age observed until the mid-1990s was mainly due to voluntary early retirement. Voluntary retirement has also been responsible for the postponement of the retirement age seen in the last 20 years. The findings of our study show that when public policy makers come to deliberate on changes to the public pensions system, it is important to take into account the relative weight of these different factors influencing men and women to leave the labour market at the end of their working lives.

Based on a qualitative and quantitative research conducted in partnership with COSMOSS La Mitis among young people (16 to 35 years old) living in the MRC of La Mitis, in the Lower St Laurent region, as well as with practitioners and social workers working with this target, our article proposes to explore the individual and collective trajectories of exclusion experienced by rural youth from the perspective of these professionals. In this article, we will have an overlook on the mechanisms and difficulties of young people access to services in rural areas. We make the hypothesis that several rural phenomena such as the strength of social links and social control, mobility and lack of a good public transport infrastructure, as well as other various obstacles to the work of intervention in terms of available resources and client vulnerability are all factors becoming potential barriers to the access to and consumption of services. In addition, the fear of stigmatization, the lack of anonymity, the low presence of alternative resources, as well as the “making do” culture complicate the access to services, especially the most vulnerable subjects and put at risk, as a consequence, their socio-economic integration. Highlighting the challenges and strategies of these professionals intervening with young people, the article also concludes with some possible solutions for practitioners and policy makers.

Keywords: jeunes, ruralité, vulnérabilité, intervention, accès aux services, young people, rurality, vulnerability, intervention, access to services

This participatory action research is part of the project of action and research against structural violence (PARVIS) conducted with seven street-involved young women in the area of Quebec City. The topic of runaways in youth centres led the group to discuss their own experience in the child protective services and to develop an awareness project around this topic. The PARVIS project has created a safe space of solidarity and opportunities to be seen and heard. This paper aims to discuss how the PARVIS project was conducted as a methodological and political tool for a praxis of intersectionality.

Keywords: intersectionnalité, itinérance, jeunes de la rue, femmes, recherche-action participative, intersectionality, homelessness, street-involved youth, women, participatory action research

In the fall of 2020, a series of videos created for the exploratory shared experience called Massive Micro Sensemaking were presented at the Virtual International Arts (VIA) Festival for Social Change in New York. In this article, Luka considers these works as caring, reflective and expressive practices of resilience during a global crisis, while questioning who benefits from promoting ideas about social resilience in such circumstances.

This paper presents an analysis of 88 criminal convictions that have since been quashed on the basis of error of fact (wrongful convictions) that have occurred in England and Wales since 2007, in the context of wider set of 389 wrongful convictions that have occurred in England and Wales since 1970. Based on this analysis, three key contributors of concern are identified as having been influential in leading to wrongful convictions recently - digital evidence, guilty pleas, and misleading testimony. Cases involving each of these factors are discussed, including cases from the Post Office Scandal, which make up many of the identified wrongful convictions during this period. In considering each factor, failings in the criminal justice system that leave defendants vulnerable to wrongful conviction are discussed. The paper concludes with brief initial suggestions for reform to provide greater protection against highlighted vulnerabilities.

Keywords: Wrongful conviction, Guilty pleas, Testimony, Appeals, Digital Evidence, Criminal Evidence, Criminal Procedure

This study explores how diverse high school English students designed open-ended, multimodal projects across digital platforms (Weebly, blogs, and Instagram). Framed by metafunctions, emergent and axial coding of each student’s website homepage shows a broad range of how they designed in digital spaces and to what rhetorical effects. Additional coding of two focal students’ designs across each of the digital platforms highlights how students created complex, multimodal compositions that would have otherwise not been possible with the typical more formal, rigid forms of discourse. By designing multimodally, students showcased interests, humor, emotions, and culture not often seen in this classroom.

Keywords: Metafunctions, multiliteracies, digital literacies, multimodal design, portfolios

This study uses folk theories of the Spotify music recommender system to inform the principles of human-centered explainable AI (HCXAI). The results show that folk theories can reinforce, challenge, and augment these principles facilitating the development of more transparent and explainable recommender systems for the non-expert, lay public.

Keywords: Théories populaires, Folk theories, intelligence artificielle explicable centrée sur l'humain (HCXAI), human-centered explainable artificial intelligence (HCXAI), systèmes de recommandation, recommender systems, explications, explanations