Search Results

In this article, we will sketch a historical portrait of the video game sector in Quebec, both on the geographical plane (from Montreal to Quebec City through Trois-Rivières and other off-centred studios) and for different firm types (from the large studios to independent developers and amateurs). This historical overview will shed light on the challenges and characteristics of this sector which straddles both the technology and cultural industries in three stages : 1) the explorations of amateur entrepreneurs and enthusiasts; 2) the colonisation by large foreign firms and the injection of foreign capital which stimulated industry growth; 3) the structuration of independent developers (notably with La Guilde du jeu video du Québec) and the post-fission transition to a sustainable development of the sector. Our overview will cover the factual aspects of the industry, issues of contents and creative processes, and the challenges of achieving cultural sovereignty in a business sector based on liberalized markets, the free flow of capital, and a dematerialized digital economy.

Keywords: Jeu vidéo, Industrie, Histoire, Économie, Video game, Industry, History, Economy

The question of the tourist as a pilgrim reflects the demand for authenticity on the part of tourists aspiring to transcend each of their tourist experience into an original and experiential discovery of being. Moreover, we can assert that every tourist is ultimately a pilgrim to varying degrees, for it is in the way he travels that he joins this apostle of inspired displacement. The pilgrim is the mythical figure of the desire for interiority in the elsewhere. Indeed, the quest for identity through the intimate experience of the local and the human allows him to experience the encounter with the other in the mode of mysticism, to reconnect with a certain authenticity of his being in an attempt to return to the essential, in a surge of self-conquest, whose discovery takes place through the world, in the world and through its immersion in the world. Now, isn’t this exactly what the tourist aspires to?

Keywords: autenticidad, authenticity, authenticité, experiencia, experience, expérience, touriste, tourist, turista, mysticism, mysticisme, misticismo, pèlerinage, peregrinación, pilgrimage

This article identifies the reasons why Quebec readers of paper books do not read e-books. After analysing data collected from eleven interviews with people over 15 years of age who ex-clusively read paper books, the results indicate that they give a profound meaning to the paper book as a material object. The usage constraints associated with digital books also tend to put them off. The experience of read-ing on a digital medium seems to them both less comfortable and less rich in meaning. Their reluc-tance may stem from a sense of ambivalence towards the grow-ing place of digital interfaces in society and from a malaise in the face of increasingly blurred boundaries between reading and digital. Clearly, certain psycho-social factors influence, such as concern for the environment, the vision of technology and the re-lationship with the actors of the book industry.

Keywords: percepción, perception, perception, lectores, readers, lecteurs, livre papier, paper book, libro papel, digital book, livre numérique, libro digital, Québec, Quebec, Quebec

Elitism has been an issue in Canadian French immersion since its inception. This study examines how two racially diverse Ontarian school boards and Ontario French immersion policy, curricula, and other related documents construct and support an elite student within the immersion program. The elite student who emerged from immersion documents is a White, middle-class, English, established resident, mirroring the current demographics of the program. A middle-class bias emerged within the documents due to an assumed wealth, and lack of financial assistance, transportation and promotional materials. The program locations themselves favoured the middle-class. The curricula demonstrated a Eurocentric focus and colonial lens. In the documents of this study, it was assumed that parents had functional knowledge of English and French. Program entry-points favoured established residents over newcomers. Given its evident elitism, there has been a shift toward inclusion, particularly for students with special education needs and English language learners. However, this inclusion has yet to be critically enacted.

Keywords: French immersion, critical policy analysis, French as a second language, race, special education, English language learners, socioeconomic status

Since several years, the Saint-Roch neighbourhood, in the lower town of Quebec City, has been facing numerous food and nutrition insecurity issues that vary according to the often difficult life histories of its population. Indeed, for historical and sociological reasons, this neighborhood has more people with mental health, physical health and homelessness problems, and now also include immigrants who are not sufficiently adapted to their new living environment. This diversity brings significant challenges in understanding the specific causes of food and nutrition insecurity in this neighborhood, the physical and psychological consequences of this insecurity on its inhabitants, and the actions that need to be taken to sustainably reduce it. Various initiatives have been taken to improve food and nutrition security in the neighborhood. Among them is the creation of the Croque St-Roch solidarity market, to facilitate access to local market garden products. However, several observers note a lack of interest in these products by the population of the Saint-Roch district, and in particular the most vulnerable people. This study focuses on the causes of food and nutrition insecurity in this neighbourhood, including the reasons for the low inclusion of fresh and healthy produce in the diet of these people. Among these reasons, the study found a lack of knowledge about much of the food offered by the Croque St-Roch solidarity market. Information sheets and samplings were therefore proposed to educate the market’s clientele.

Keywords: Food and nutrition security, Sécurité alimentaire et nutritionnelle, solidarity market, marché solidaire, inégalités socioéconomiques, socioeconomic inequalities, food knowledge, connaissances alimentaires, vulnerability, vulnérabilité

The purpose of this study is to provide an overview of key findings from systematic reviews and meta-analyses on the effect of leadership on mental health and well-being in the workplace, and to provide a critical analysis of their application to expatriated workers. The Medline, EMBASE, EBM and Web of Knowledge databases were accessed with keywords specific to leadership, mental health and well-being. The results show that despite the increase in studies to examine the effects of leadership on mental health in an organizational context, the issue remains understudied in international human resources management. To this end, recommendations are made to ensure that supervisors are better equipped to respond to situations where subordinates are deployed abroad.

Keywords: Métacritique, leadership, santé et mieux-être au travail, travailleurs expatriés

Reflections on human resources (HR) have always been the subject of interest and are constantly being reinvented. There have been successive innovations in HR management and they have diversified numerous times. Each time the innovations required new concepts, tools and methods and new roles for HRM (human resources management). The concept of innovation itself has undergone changes due both to the work and currents and to the practice. The transformations require innovation actors to change status, roles and motivation and to impose organizational innovations in the HRM management methods. The digital transformation of the overall organization and the fourth revolution will also assign other roles and functions to innovation actors. The COVID-19 pandemic emerges in this context, imposing other HR management methods that must be invented, dared and imagined. Innovation actors must once again develop new views. This work aims to analyse these disturbances. It is not mainly a theoretical view. The concern to stick to reality on a relatively new subject does not allow us to have an essentially theoretical subject. The illustrations taken from real situations and choosing teleworking as an example, make it exploratory research work. The analysis leads to two major results. Firstly, we are witnessing an unprecedented extension of the views of innovation actors due to the pandemic that requires new innovative HRM methods. At least four views have been identified. Secondly, with the pandemic, teleworking, which becomes a necessity required by the situation, defines a new landscape of forms of innovation action with levels of HRM function disturbance varying in intensity according to the type of view that innovation actors adopt. Organizational innovations in HRM will have to include this combination of different views, thereby expanding the field of HRM in an exceptional and unprecedented way, and this must be done in record time.

Keywords: Inno'acteurs, GRH, innovation organisationnelle, COVID-19, télétravail

The emergence of digital or online platforms has fundamentally changed the nature of work, the ways by which businesses operate, and the organization of productive activities. This shift has given rise to the “sharing economy.” Over the last years, we have witnessed the emergence of large online platforms including Uber, Airbnb, and Foodora. These examples are the most well known, although other digital service platforms, such as Adèle sur demande, are emerging and operating in Quebec. What do we know about the number of these platforms and their contributors? Do these online services all create the same type of work? Are the positive or negative aspects of this work shared by all workers operating within a given platform? From these questions, this paper proposes a reflective description and a discussion of the challenges related to work in the context of the emerging “sharing economy.” First, we examine the object of our research, the online platforms, as a new actor in the modern economy. Second, we expose the difficulties in appraising these new forms of work and the difficulties in establishing limits of analysis for evaluating work performed within these online platforms. Third, based on the current state of knowledge related to this subject, we propose some lines of thought to underscore the need for interdisciplinary research on this emerging phenomenon.

Keywords: économie collaborative, plateformes numériques, transformation du travail, statuts d’emploi, flexibilité, microentrepreneuriat

Keywords: conciliation emploi-famille, restaurants, conditions de travail, horaires de travail, stress