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Despite its significant demographic importance, the Saguenay region is a rather small census metropolitan area (CMA) among the 33 Canadian CMAs. Like Sudbury or Thunder Bay, Saguenay is located at the periphery of major urban-industrial corridors and its population stagnates or declines from one census to another. In this context, what is the future of the midsized cities located at the edge of the ecumene, such as the Saguenay region? How do you take in immigrants in a generally homogeneous social environment? Will there be a gradual divide between the midsized cities of the hinterland and the large metropolitan areas? We will attempt to address these important issues.
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Through the analysis of the motivations for participation in collaborative platforms as an obtainer or as a provider, the paper provides new evidence on the collaborative economy in Europe. For that purpose, we analyze a pan-European sample of 14,050 citizens from 28 countries. The study, which applies an empirical prediction methodology through a structural equation modelling (SEM), provides two main contributions to the literature. Firstly, economic and usefulness motivations predict the obtaining and provision of goods and services through collaborative platforms in Europe. Secondly, non-monetary exchanges also predict the provision of collaborative platforms. Our results also have implications for territorial development. Understanding the motivations between obtainers and providers can foster collaborative exchanges of essential resources, especially at a small-scale and at local levels.
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Since the late 60's, planning in Cuba has been conceived as possible only once the collectivization of the means of production has been achieved at a national scale. The dispersal of rural settlements and the rapid growth of the major cities, particularly La Habana, have however remained major concerns for the state planning institutions. Since 1975, a centralisation/decentralisation dialectic has been at work. It combines a desire to balance most accurately territorial distributions as well as to make up for the wrongdoings of the prerevolutionary past, geographical constraints and even some mistakes in recent planning and management.
Keywords: Cuba, aménagement du territoire, centralisation, décentralisation, Cuba, land use planning, centralisation, decentralisation
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This article aims to assess (1) the relationship between sociodemographic characteristics (age, gender, citizenship, parental education, language, and province) to collaborative research and the cowriting of publications between Canadian and international colleagues, and (2) the relationship between the collaboration with international colleagues and the cowriting of publications. Statistical analysis of questionnaire responses (N = 2738) suggests that sociodemographic characteristics have a low, although statistically significant, magnitude effect on the level of collaboration and coauthorship of publications with international colleagues, and that there is some interaction between these two variables. We will discuss the impact of professional characteristics on collaboration and coauthorship between Canadian and international colleagues later.
Keywords: collaboration de recherche avec des collègues internationaux·ales, coécriture internationale de publication, internationalisation, profession universitaire, Canada, international research collaboration, international copublications, internationalisation, academic profession, Canada
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The organizations that offer library and research services to legislative assemblies in the 21st century will have to be more in tune with their environments than before and will have to adapt rapidly. Change comes more rapidly and is more profound. Change also influences the legislative process such as the internal workings of the assemblies and, simultaneously, the societies to which they are essential. The rational is as follows: knowledge and information play an important role in the power of assemblies and will be increasingly so in the future; trends that affect modern society will influence their processes and information systems. Therefore, given the current state of affairs, new paths to be taken by parliamentary information services in the 21st century can be identified.
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AbstractLouis-Frédéric Rouquette was a much-read author at the beginning of the twentieth century. His adventure stories influenced generations of readers, whom Rouquette's tales exposed to a variety of new experiences. Some of his novels have never been out of print. Canada, and particularly the far North, are at the centre of at least three of his novels: Le grand silence blanc, La bête errante and L'épopée blanche. A French Jack London who traveled throughout Canada, his L'épopée blanche describes the beginning of colonization of the West and the missionary work of the Oblate Fathers. This article presents a rereading of the work within the framework of the adventure story genre, and also an analysis of the ideology that underlies it.