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In urban or regional studies, small and medium-sized cities (SMC) are a specific urban category. In the periphery, these hybrid territories include signs of the urban, but also certain activities associated with rurality (agriculture and conservation, for example). Tourism is often referred to as a solution to agricultural decline and deindustrialization. However, in coastal areas, the tourism sector in the SMCs depends on a fragile environment that is subject to various natural hazards amplified by climate change. In Quebec, the coasts of the St. Lawrence Estuary face several pressures linked to climate change: accelerated coastal erosion, reduced ice-foot, uncertainties with storms, submersion, etc. This is particularly the case in Rivière-du-Loup, a small city in the Bas-Saint-Laurent region. Using the theory of production of space (Lefebvre, 1974/2000), we try to highlight the main issues to adapt the Rivière-du-Loup tourist region. Our research is based on some preliminary results of an action-research in living lab mode that we conducted between 2016 and 2019.

Founded in 2015, NousRire is a small, profit-making Quebec company whose mission is to "make accessible excellent quality non-perishable organic food, while saving money and creating a positive impact on the Earth and its inhabitants". The company gives customers the opportunity to order online and pick up their items at specific locations on "packing days." The food is available in bulk to minimize waste generation. Over 500 volunteers work on these days to distribute food in the containers of customers who pack their orders themselves. NousRire consists of 18 self-managed "cells" established in various regions of Quebec, including Estrie, Abitibi, the Laurentians and Montreal. The business operates with the participation of 2000 volunteers and approximately 20 employees.

This article investigates the accessibility of Ontario public libraries’ social media feeds. Social media plays an important role in how public libraries engage with their communities. This patron engagement outside of library-maintained websites raises questions around accessibility for persons with disabilities. Given the increasing usage of social media as a communication mechanism, how accessible are Ontario public libraries’ social media feeds? Of specific interest here is the use of alternative (alt) text to describe images in Ontario public libraries’ social media posts. Findings indicate a dearth of alt text in social media feeds. The authors make suggestions for creating good alt text in order to create a more equitable environment.

Keywords: Bibliothèques publiques, public libraries, médias sociaux, social media, accessibilité, accessibility, lecteur d’écran, screen reader, handicap, disability

Our goal is to analyze the distinction between factual statements and opinions from a philosophical—specifically an epistemological—perspective. Section 1 reviews the most common criteria for drawing the distinction, which while inadequate, as explained in Section 2, still plays an important cultural and political role. In Section 3, we argue that the difference between factual statements and opinions does not involve a single criterion. Instead, the conceptual structure of the terms ‘fact’ and ‘opinion’ is analogous to that of natural kinds—terms with multiple dimensions. We expect that improved theory will lead to improvements in pedagogy, decision-making, and public discourse. But these consequences are not our chief focus.

Keywords: fact, opinion, Pew Research Organization, natural kinds

This paper clarifies some of the longstanding difficulties in negotiating Do Not Resuscitate Orders by reframing the source of the dilemmas as not residing with either the patient or the physician but with their relationship. The recommendations are low cost and low-tech ways of making major improvements to the care and quality of life of the most ill patients in hospital. With impending physician-assisted death legislation there is an urgency to find more efficient and beneficial ways for clinicians and patients to address resuscitation issues at the bedside. Paradigmatic shifts in the nature of the patient-physician relationship will need to be encouraged by the larger community. These encouraged shifts address the concepts of passive/inferior patient – active/superior physician, patient ownership of and access to all their health care information, and treating the patient as a major participant in the delivery of health care. These recommended changes will not in themselves make any patient, physician or other healthcare provider more humane and open in the patient's final days. The goal, instead, is to have changes to the context of the discussion provide an encouraging environment for more open communication and a balanced relationship among participants with the patient being the most important.

Keywords: resuscitation, end of life care, physician-patient relationship, physician assisted death, medical records, palliative care, réanimation, soins de fin de vie, relation médecin-patient, mort assistée par un médecin, dossiers médicaux, soins palliatifs

This article proposes to review the methodology of Vauban in America? which—among other things—uses photogrammetry and geographic information system (GIS) to improve the study of the Vauban heritage as well as forts and fortresses of North America before the conquest. More precisely, Fort de Chambly served as a “sandbox” for our experimentation. Thus, the Vauban project is an initiative from a group of digital history master students at Université de Sherbrooke. Under the banner Historiamatica, a web platform that brings together the various digital humanities initiatives among history students, members of the Vauban project have created a web application to visualize the different types of defensive structures.

The cultural dynamics of algorithmic governmentality extends the control over artworks and clashes with emerging aesthetic and political practices such as digital piracy, forms of digital poetry, facial recognition obfuscation, technological disobedience, and technological rewriting. This article analyses these tensions using our concept of unaddressability and proposes a “poetics of un4dr3$$x” that encompasses an array of practices of aesthetic and political resistance and invention.

Emoticons are usually associated with the digital age, but they have numerous precursors in both manuscript and print. This article examines the circulation of emotional icons in nineteenth-century typographical journals as a springboard to understanding the relationship between emotion, materiality, and anthropomorphism as well the pre-digital networks of the “typographical press system.” It draws on literature from textual and typographical analysis, including the history of punctuation. It also demonstrates the ubiquity of emoticons in contemporary society and culture outside the world of computers, text messaging, and chat rooms.

In Seuls, Wajdi Mouawad experiments with a new kind of transposition of scenic writing, which he calls “polyphonic writing.” This text is the product of a polymorphic theatrical practice that engages a dialogue between various arts and/or medias on the space of the page. This article examines the multiple facets of this scriptural practice in transcultural and post-orientalist contexts, and the way in which Mouawad challenges the Artaudian and Lepagian models he recycles.