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In this essay, the authors give voice to their process of adapting the French translation of Halfbreed by the nationally and internationally respected Métis author, storytelling, activist and Elder, Maria Campbell, for the audio book published by Prise de parole. With respect to the publisher's mandate of increasing the accessibility of French literature across Canada, a local team was assembled by Maria. We, the authors of this essay, were part of the team as creative director and narrator. Our process centered on ethics of storytelling, relational care, oralité, originality and local and cultural context. We demonstrate these considerations as our responsibility to Maria, the author of her story, the readers, and to our respective connections, experience and knowledge of place.

The economy of the Montreal region has been in severe decline for the past three decades, with job losses totaling hundreds of thousands. Cut off from its former commercial hinterland, Montreal has lost its position as Canada's principal economic centre and must now be content with the role of the economic capital of Quebec. Although the dimensions of Montreal's commercial empire are smaller than formerly, they rest upon a much more solid foundation than in the past. Montreal does not have the profile of a metropolis destined to an unending decline. In this paper, we explore the economic decline of Montreal with reference to a series of geographical and historical phenomena. We first analyze the factors that, during different periods, can produce the economic decline of a metropolis like Montreal. Using a series of empirical analyses, we then compare Montreal to a set of other cities.

Mario Bunge has recently retired from academic life at the venerable age of 90 years old. After more than sixty years of teaching physics and philosophy, he leaves a rich and abundant work. His unique style allies quickness and precision. His method draws from the vast realm of sciences, from physics to sociology. He thus follows the Enlightenment's heritage that advocated a faith in reason and a kind of realism and materialism, which Bunge reorganizes from the study of modern sciences. Few philosophers since Leibniz or Russell have shown this kind of scientific erudition. No doubt that he deserves a prominent role in the contemporary debates in philosophy of sciences.

In this article, Mathia Scarpulla looks at the active and historical archives of the milieu of professional dance. The administrative archives in this area take different forms and have different means of transmission, ranging from the creation of choreography to its representation, and its recreation. The archival document that is thus passed down carries the memory of the dance and of the creative potential of the works. The author explains that a basic element of the memory of dance is disappearance, whence the necessity of conserving a new creation. With respect to the historical archives in the domain, they too possess the strong creative potential which is manifest in the communication of archives which become works in themselves.Scarpulla presents three institutions dedicated to the preservation of these archives, each with its own issues and approaches : the Vincent Warren dance library, the Centre national de la danse, and the Musée de la dance in Rennes. With these examples, the author brings out the question of archives in relation to the necessity of producing new memories, new dances, and tackles subjects such as the power of speaking, institutional political issues, and personnel issues within the milieu. These points lead toward consideration of the production of archives, taking account of the human and creative factor that underlies a choice or action.

The objective of the present article is to analyse the examination carried out by Walter Benjamin on the transformation of art and the aesthetic experience in his work The Work of Art in the Age of its Mechanical Reproducibility. The analysis will be conducted departing from Bolivar Echeverría’s reception of Benjamin’s essay -that is informed by Karl Marx’s Theory of Subsumption- with the aim of precising and potentiating Benjamin’s critique to capitalist technology and stimulating the discussion on the post-capitalist technological alternatives. In addition to presenting the essential ideas of Benjamin’s argument on the modern technique of artistic production and the modern technique of production of goods in general, alternating them with Echeverría’s interpretations in which he remarks the critical utopian potential within them, the critical conceptual convergence between Walter Benjamin and Karl Marx around the analysis of the essence of modern technique and its historicity, is presented.

This paper examines manifestations of female mentoring in three fairy tales of the Old Régime: Riquet à la Houppe, L’Adroite Princesse ou les aventures de Finette, and L’Enchanteur. It traces the role mentoring plays between female authors and female readers, as well as its influence on the rejection of domestic and social constraints imposed on women. Female mentoring, which here can be seen in maxims, in a call-to-writing, and in the conclusion of the tale, is used to denounce men, but also to encourage women to write fairy tales and to live a freer life.