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To strengthen the right to support for people with gambling problems in Sweden, legislative changes were enacted in 2018. This study aims to critically examine how problems and solutions are represented in 69 appeals concerning gambling treatment within the general administrative court (2014–2022) and to assess how these representations have evolved following the legal amendments. The study employs Bacchi’s WPR approach to scrutinize court judgments. The results reveal that gambling problems are unequivocally recognized as severe issues requiring intervention, with both explicit and implicit notions of the problem rooted in the concept of loss of control. Prior to the legal amendments, rulings primarily focused on identifying the responsible actor for providing care, often framed within a medical discourse. Post-amendment, the focus shifted to how treatment needs should be met, emphasizing an evidence-based discourse. These varying representations produce discursive, subjectifying, and material consequences, significantly affecting access to different welfare interventions. The new legislation has solidified the responsibility of social services to provide treatment for gambling problems. However, as the study demonstrates, responsibilization of gamblers occurs not only in policy and treatment frameworks, but also within the court system.

Keywords: gambling problems, problematization, treatment, law, Bacchi

Gambling harm prevention and reduction consists of a range of upstream and downstream solutions. Responsibilities for implementing and ensuring these tasks falls across a range of actors, including policymakers, regulators, health professionals and industry. Increased harms caused by online gambling necessitate new regulatory measures, and potentially new responsibilities for their implementation. The current study uses key informant interview data (N=10) conducted in four jurisdictions that have recently introduced a license-based online gambling market (Germany, the Netherlands, Sweden, Ontario). Our aim was to identify what kind of responsibilities for harm prevention and reduction emerge in competitive online markets, to whom responsibility for these tasks is assigned, and what kind of barriers to harm prevention exist across responsibilities. Our analysis shows that most universal responsibilities are assigned to policy makers and regulators. Selective measures aiming at those who gamble, are largely implemented in collaboration between regulators and industry. Indicated and treatment-focused measures are the shared responsibility of treatment professionals, regulators and industry. The main barriers to effective harm prevention related to conflicting interests, industry power, lacking harm prevention resources, lacking centralisation and offshore provision. We argue that improved harm prevention would require balancing existing asymmetries that relate to power, responsibilities and prioritisations.

Keywords: gambling, Harm prevention, harm reduction, licensing, responsibility

The rapid evolution of information technologies has driven the exponential growth of big data, creating opportunities to leverage data analytics across sectors. In higher education, Big Data Analytics (BDA) holds promise for improving decision-making, enhancing student outcomes, and driving institutional efficiency. However, its implementation remains limited due to technological, organizational, and environmental challenges. This study examines the readiness and use of BDA within selected Canadian higher education institutions, focusing on Southwest Ontario. Utilizing the Technology-Organization-Environment (TOE) framework, the research adopts a qualitative approach, drawing on semi-structured interviews with 10 academic and administrative staff from selected universities in Southwestern Ontario. The result identifies several barriers to BDA readiness and use, including a fragmented data landscape, integration challenges, and resource constraints. The study emphasizes the need for strategic investments in technological infrastructure, leadership engagement, and updated policies to improve BDA adoption. The study concludes with recommendations addressing barriers within the technological, organizational, and environmental contexts to enhance institutional performance and student outcomes.

Keywords: big data analytics, éducation supérieure, analyse des données massives, higher education, cadre technologie-organisation-environnement (TOE), technology-organization-environment (TOE) framework, institutional readiness

This qualitative study explores the lived experiences of racialized and immigrant youth in public libraries, focusing on a sense of belonging. The research team conducted 18 observations, two focus groups, surveys (n=79), and interviews (n=17). Findings were then explored with a co-design team of seven racialized youths. Data analysis identified four key themes influencing belonging: accessibility, safety, inclusion (subthemes: familiarity, representation, and acceptance), and agency. Findings reveal that youth value safe, familiar, and inclusive environments where they feel represented and accepted. They also highlight challenges such as limited agency and racial discrimination. Ultimately, the findings emphasize the importance of fostering environments where youth are engaged, empowered, and heard so they can help shape public spaces where they feel truly valued. This paper also offers recommendations for ways public libraries can encourage a sense of belonging for immigrant and racialized youth and directions for future research.

Keywords: belonging, Appartenance, Jeunes, youth, Inclusion, inclusion, acceptance, Bibliothèques publiques, Adolescents, public library

Although research shows that information sources play an important role in career choice, few studies investigate the career information seeking behaviour of young adults with a multivariate approach of factors associated with the choice of information sources. This study is aimed at identifying the factors associated with young adults’ career information seeking behaviour in a sample of 1,400 young adults in the province of Quebec, and the information sources they used when collecting information on jobs, career possibilities, further education or training. Results show that more than half of respondents consulted two sources or more and that the most used information sources are personal relationships and educational institutions. The discussion highlights that young adults actively seek information regardless of their school attendance status. It underscores the importance of close relationships—such as family and friends—as key sources of information, and calls for tailored strategies to disseminate information that reflect the diverse needs and characteristics of different groups of young adults.

Keywords: career choice, Choix de carrière, sources d'information, information sources, pratiques informationnelles, information seeking, jeunes adultes, young adults

This article examines the mobile and participatory aspects of rot hae รถ แห่, a musical performance on a moving vehicle, such as a truck or a cart. Despite its popularity, rot hae is criticized for instigating alcohol consumption and sexually provocative dance moves in public, particularly during Buddhist ordination parades. I argue that the mobility and participatory nature of rot hae performances allows it to challenge the established social order and their participants to seek otherwise prohibited sensual pleasures. Such encounters reveal the vernacular practices of Buddhism that cannot be easily mapped onto the sacred-secular dichotomy.

In teacher training programs, internship supervision can be done online, while promoting a remote presence thanks to digital devices, which are now essential. However, how do university supervisors (US) adjust their practices to ensure a cognitive presence that supports trainees supervised via digital technology? A few answers emerge from interviews conducted with US in Quebec. The thematic analysis of their remarks, based on indicators of cognitive presence, indicate that the mediatization of supervision can promote collaboration between peers, accentuate the mediating role of US (towards higher levels of cognition), and open up parallel avenues of socio-emotional support.

Keywords: practical training, formation pratique, internship, stage, supervision, supervision, teaching, enseignement, distance, distance, présence cognitive, cognitive presence, digital, numérique

Despite a high attrition rate in the profession, many teachers remain committed to their roles, raising questions about the reasons that explain their work engagement. Among the documented antecedents of work engagement, resilience and psychological well-being at work (PWBW) stand out. Thus, this study aimed to explore the mediating role of PWBW in the relationship between resilience and work engagement. Drawing on the broaden-and-build theory, a cross-sectional study was conducted with 204 primary and secondary school teachers in Quebec. The findings show that the relationship between resilience and work engagement is fully mediated by PWBW, highlighting possible interventions to foster and sustain teachers' engagement in their work.

Keywords: Enseignants, Teachers, Engagement au travail, Work engagement, Résilience, Resilience, Psychological well-being at work, Bien-être psychologique au travail, Théorie broaden-and-build, Broaden-and-build theory

Beginning in 2021 after two devastating climate events in British Columbia, The Imagine Kin Project sought to take the temperature of young people living in Metro Vancouver who were concerned about climate futures and economic insecurity as they imagined their future relations in this context. This pilot research involved a series of three focus groups and an arts-based workshop. Presenting original data from the focus groups, I argue for the use of radical imagination as a methodological tool to understand people’s experiences of intersecting precarity, invite reflection on and validation of related anxieties, and foster the conditions for radical hope among participants. Further, I suggest that questions of kinship and critical caring relations are useful prompts for radical imagination as these personal subjects allow insights into intersectional precarity to be collectively politicized in perhaps less intimidating ways than would more direct questions about social movements. Findings from this research show that imagining the future through collective daydreaming can be painfully revealing of one’s fears while simultaneously stirring life-giving visions for relationality and solidarity amid apocalyptic thinking and individualist responses to global crises.

Keywords: radical imagination, imagination radicale, climate anxiety, anxiété climatique, rêverie, daydreaming, résistance, resistance, crises sociales, social crises, collective struggle, lutte collective, méthodes qualitatives, qualitative methods, groupes de discussion, focus groups, birthstrike, grève des naissances

Argumentation, as a specific type of speech act, involves an exchange of meaning among its participants, yielding illocutionary effects consisting in the production of changes in participants’ dialectical entitlements and obligations. The production of these illocutionary effects hinges on the joint construction by the speaker and the interlocutor of the meaning of the speaker’s utterance. However, the speaker’s meaning does not always coincide with the interlocutor’s interpretation. This paper argues that this gap has crucial implications for the evaluation of argumentation. Specifically, it explores the consequences of this gap in cases involving commitment attributions, taking the straw man fallacy as a case of study.

Keywords: commitment attribution, joint meaning, normative effects, speech act of arguing, straw man fallacy