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With extremely different federal, national and local situations, it is interesting to note that some public institutions - universities, museums, research centres, associations - are doing their best to integrate staff and members of the public who are excluded from their activities. Transnational practices and knowledge are tending to emerge from the perspective of Agenda 21 for culture, cultural rights and the UNESCO Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions.

Keywords: Politiques culturelles participatives, Participative cultural policies, inclusion, inclusion, renforcement de la jeunesse, youth enforcement, Agenda 21 pour la culture, Agenda 21 for culture

In recent years, there has been a growing trend towards the integration of artificial intelligence features into records and archives management practices in order to improve the quality of recorded information and multiply the opportunities of its use by users according to their needs. This raises the question of whether we can speak about a fifth archival paradigm, that is, automation, which calls for a revision of the processes by which recorded information is created, processed, disseminated and preserved over the long term. Based on Cook's archival paradigms, this article aims to explore the way automation can be part of the continuity of these paradigms and how archivists and records managers should reinvent their roles in this context.

Keywords: archival paradigm, paradigme archivistique, artificial intelligence, archivistes, automation, transformation numérique, digital transformation, intelligence artificielle, automatisation, archivists, records managers

This article examines the wage gap in Canada, particularly in the province of Quebec, between native-born workers and immigrant workers, and specifically economic immigrants, the so-called skilled worker category. It sets out to explain this ever-increasing wage gap. We note an evolution in the proportion of immigrants over the last two decades, but also an increasing deterioration of their economic situation, compared to that of native-born workers. After examining the statistical portrait of immigrant participation in the labour market, we highlight the impact of discrimination in explaining the wage gap between immigrant workers and native-born workers, without forgetting the other causes of this gap. The level of education of economic immigrants, which is acknowledged to be higher than that of the general population, does not explain the lower economic performance on the labour market. This work therefore reveals the factors that explain the wage gap between immigrant and native-born workers. It also shows that the notion of immigrants is a heterogeneous block within which certain groups experience particular realities, notably visible minorities and women.

Keywords: Wage gap, Écart salarial, immigrants économiques, economic immigrants, natifs, native-born workers, intersectionality, intersectionnalité

A U–Pb LA-ICP-MS zircon study was conducted on 22 rock samples from offshore southeastern Nova Scotia, Canada, to investigate the nature of the pre-Mesozoic basement and the provenance of the overlying syn-rift Late Triassic Eurydice Formation of the Scotian Basin. Detrital zircon signatures from five offshore basement metasedimentary samples were consistent with those of the Meguma terrane. Three granitoid samples yielded ca. 381–358 Ma crystallization ages, consistent with felsic plutons of the onshore Meguma terrane. These results confirm that the Meguma terrane underlies the Scotian Basin. An isotopically evolved granodiorite yielded a ca. 576 Ma crystallization age and is interpreted as basement to the Meguma terrane. Its temporal, isotopic, and geochemical similarities with igneous rocks of the Ouarzazate Group in the Anti-Atlas of Morocco suggest that the Meguma terrane likely initiated in a Cadomian back-arc basin of northwest Africa. Detrital zircon signatures from the Eurydice Formation suggest that the late Ediacaran–Ordovician Meguma Supergroup was its primary sediment source, and absence of Silurian to Devonian zircon ages suggests that the rift-related Rockville Notch Group of the northwestern part of the Meguma terrane was not a source and likely absent below the Scotian Basin. The Rockville Notch Group was previously interpreted to represent rifting between Gondwana and the Meguma terrane. We interpret the ca. 576 Ma granodiorite as representing rifting between Gondwana and the Meguma terrane, and the Rockville Notch Group as Silurian rifting of an outboard Cadomian arc from the Meguma terrane.

Keywords: Socle du terrane de Meguma, Meguma terrane basement, U-Pb zircon, zircon U-Pb, zircon Lu-Hf, Lu-Hf zircon, Eurydice Formation, formation d'Eurydice, Ediacaran and Devonian plutons, plutons édiacariens et dévoniens

We use new and existing nannofossil, palynological, and microfossil biostratigraphic data in conjunction with lithologic and geophysical logs from four wells to establish a series of sequence-stratigraphic events in the Mesozoic–Cenozoic of the Laurentian Subbasin of offshore Newfoundland, eastern Canada. Well biostratigraphic events are integrated with reflection seismic in the area to correlate regional seismic stratigraphic surfaces. The four wells are: Bandol-1, Emerillon C-56, East Wolverine G-37, and Heron H-73. We extend the event stratigraphic scheme previously developed for the Scotian Margin, offshore Nova Scotia, into new areas to the east along the southern Grand Banks, where we recognize four new well-log sequence stratigraphic events, and we modify the definition of a previously recognized regional surface. The new and modified regional surfaces are the Early Albian Unconformity, the Late Bathonian Maximum Flooding Surface (MFS), the Late Bajocian MFS (renamed from Bathonian/Bajocian MFS), the ?Bajocian/Toarcian Unconformity, and the Late Pliensbachian MFS. We recognize the "Avalon Unconformity" and "Base-Tertiary Unconformity" of previous studies as amalgamations of multiple smaller-scale unconformities and refine their age in the studied wells. A major improvement over our earlier Scotian Margin event schemes is the extension of the event stratigraphy into the Early Jurassic using a suite of marine biostratigraphic markers. We compare the Early Jurassic event scheme to Deep Sea Drilling Project Site 547B on the conjugate Moroccan Margin to better constrain potential source rock intervals and the early history of the central Atlantic Ocean.