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Aboriginal participation in environmental decision-making is increasingly recognized as vital to greater sustainability, both globally and locally. This is true in many areas of resource management, including Canada’s forest industry. In Ontario, increased consideration of Aboriginal issues in forest and resource management is long overdue, given the province’s history of excluding Native people from forestry. The Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources (OMNR), along with various industry and First Nations representatives from around the province, is taking a lead role in improving Aboriginal involvement in forest management. Such involvement now constitutes a significant component of Ontario’s forest management planning system. The potential benefits of the new system are great, and include increased cooperation among government, industry and First Nations in moving towards the common goal of sustainable forest management. This paper highlights ways in which gains are being achieved in this area. Examples discussed include the influence of Canada’s National Forest Strategy, particularly its ‘Theme Three: Rights and Participation of Aboriginal People’, on forest management planning in Ontario. Also presented is a summary of OMNR’s evolving Aboriginal involvement component of its Forest Management Planning Manual. Finally, the Anishinabek/Ontario Resource Management Council is highlighted as a case example of collaboration between OMNR and First Nations in Ontario and a potential model for achieving cooperation between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal peoples around resource management.

The objective of this paper is to understand the relationship between proactive environmental strategy (PES) and economic performance. In order to clarify the nature of the relationship between these variables, we mobilize the resource-based theory. We analyze the mediating role of natural competences in the relationship between PES and economic performance, and explore the effect of a simultaneous development of environmental competences on economic performance. We use structural equation modeling. Results confirm the positive impact of PES on profitability. Unlike natural competences taken individually, the simultaneous development of these competencies mediates the relationship between PES and economic performance.

Keywords: Compétences naturelles, Stratégie environnementale proactive, Théorie des ressources et compétences, Performance économique, Rentabilité, Natural competences, Proactive Environmental Strategy, Resource-based Theory, Economic Performance, Profitability, Competencias naturales, estrategia ambiental proactiva, teoría de recursos y competencias, rentabilidad

AbstractBased on a renewed reading of Artistotie's Rhetoric and on recent research in the area of language, the author constructs a systemic model of written argumentative discourse which is seen as preliminary to the development of a didactic process of argumentative reasoning in french class (at secondary and college levels). This article presents a portion of the structural properties of this type of discourse by defining the essential components and then proposes an alternative view to that currently described in the teaching of argumentative discours.

Based on the case of Coopaname, a cooperative in the Ile de France in which two of the co-authors are members, we show that the development of business and employment cooperatives (BEC) primarily involves a political process even though they are set up as businesses. In this way, BECs are confronted with the limited economic sustainability of this business model (access to markets, profitability, income levels), which creates a tension with their ability to produce an internal compromise. It is in this sense that we refer to the idea of a business model, not to show that the BEC is a “model”, but to foster thinking about the way it operates as a production unit. BECs are founded on the rejection of subordination and a near absence of a technical division of labour. Their political model provides individual and collective responses to the evolution of work but raises questions about the stability of the business side of the operation.

This article analyses the motivations for Quebec’s agricultural producers to create and join specialised cooperatives in local food supply chains. While these are well established in France, they remain limited in Quebec and struggle to survive over the long term. Based on a study of several cooperatives, the article shows how membership in the cooperative satisfies several needs, including diversifying farms and sources of income, thanks to the pooling of resources. The authors also identify member profiles according to their commitment to the cooperative and their personal goals, showing that there is a range of motivation and commitment to draw on and question to ensure the sustainability of this cooperative model of short supply chain food production, processing and distribution.

The effective implementation of an information governance strategy requires the collaboration of several areas of expertise, including risk management and knowledge of the law, information technologies and security, performance measurement and accountability, strategic planning and, of course, the management of organizational information. In this complex landscape where the various actors involved envision information from different perspectives, business analysis presents an ensemble of practices, techniques and competencies which have the potential to act as a lingua franca for information governance. This article offers an introduction to the domain of business analysis by examining the concepts which facilitate harmonization of the perspectives related to organizational information. By giving at professionals a common language based on value and risk management, business analysis contributes significantly to their positioning as a strategic leaders in the governance of information.

This article examines the growth of the American nuclear strategy of counterforce, by investigating three factors which contributed to its successful development in the first Reagan administration. These factors are: first, the excessive worst-case forecasting of policy-makers in dealing with Moscow's military intentions and capabilities ; secondly, the technological hard-sell of the idea that "star wars" defenses in the future might protect the U.S. from a Soviet nuclear attack; and finally, the bureaucratic momentum of military demands for more weapons to satisfy organizational interests and the ideology of offense.

Large companies have to deal with societal challenges that threaten their development. To survive, some decide to develop diversified partnerships with non-governmental organizations (NGOs). Drawing on an in-depth case study, we identify different types of contributions of business-NGO partnerships to a multinational's strategy. At the corporate level, they participate in the management of the company's strategic activities, and at the business level, they contribute in a complementary way to the implementation of the various business models. These results open a renewed reflection on the contribution of NGOs to the company's strategy through the concept of business-NGO partnerships portfolio.

Keywords: Stratégie, modèles d'affaires, organisations non-gouvernementales (ONG), partenariats, portefeuille, Strategy, business models, non-governmental organizations (NGOs), partnerships, portfolio, Estrategia modelos de negocio, organizaciones no gubernamentales (ONG), colaboraciones, portafolio

The present article initially focuses on the feminist translation strategies theorized by Susanne de Lotbinière-Harwood in her manifesto Re-belle et infidèle : la traduction comme pratique de réécriture au féminin/The Body Bilingual: Translation as a Rewriting in the Feminine, published in 1991, and by Luise von Flotow during the 1990s. It then discusses the exploration of these translation methods in the new cultural and critical context of third-wave Quebec feminism, which perceives feminist translation as a situated practice. First, the concept of intersectionality—which appeared at the end of the 1980s—has led Canadian feminist translation scholars to recognize and respond to the overlap of different types of oppression: sexism, but also colonialism, racism, homophobia, transphobia, queerphobia, and ableism. Secondly, contemporary Canadian feminist translation aims to promote a multiplicity of feminine voices, situated in diverse linguistic and cultural contexts, such as the Italian-speaking domain. The case study presented here is the trilingual version (German, French and English) of the work Sie wäre der erste Satz meines nächsten Romans/Elle serait la première phrase de mon prochain roman/She Would Be the First Sentence of My Next Novel by Nicole Brossard, published in 2002. Starting with a comparative analysis of the work's two feminist translations from French into English and German, I propose some feminist translation solutions into Italian. My positioning as an ally is based on a feminist intersectional non-heteronormative approach. While feminist translation still entails the transmission of a writing in the feminine episteme (see Fontanella, 2019, pp. 53-54), it is essential to consider the many variations of this translation practice, to allow a multiplicity of women—subjected to many forms of oppression and belonging to different cultural-linguistic domains—to assert themselves in a plurality of languages, literatures, and societies.

Keywords: traduction féministe, féminismes, intersectionnalité, Nicole Brossard, feminist translation, feminist approaches, intersectionality, Nicole Brossard