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This paper is a case study of a project that runs counter to the belief that urban sprawl is the unique model of growth for Montreal, a belief based on the concept that its burgeoning centre exerts a centrifugal force that must necessarily engulf the outlying region. Jacques Gréber's plans provide a functional alternative by which those very elements of the urban fabric that give rise to a unified and human-centred urban agglomeration can have the opposite effect of creating centripetal forces of attraction, centred inward toward the port of Montreal and its related industrial activities. Accordingly, by creating urban neighbourhoods within a perimeter of the services that supply these nodes, a practice adopted toward the end of the 1970s (LAU), Jacques Gréber has attempted to protect open and agricultural spaces against uncontrolled invasion. Consequently, even if his proposal appears to have arrived too late to prevent the demographic spillover from Montreal region's urban core, it was nonetheless very timely for the Island of Montreal and surrounding area, where urban growth was still very limited. However, in the absence of the explanatory report of this plan, its interpretation is based on the theoretical framework of the Athens Charter, and methodologically, to other Gréber plans for Ottawa (1950) and Quebec (1956). The detailed plan and report for Ottawa, and the accuracy of the report for the missing Quebec plan, which appeared at the same time period as the Montreal plan, justify their use as a basis for this analysis.
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AbstractThe objective of this action- research is to develop and implement a strategy for integrating information and communication technologies at the primary school level. As well, the authors' aim is to analyze the impact of this strategy on teachers' perception of efficacy (quantitative aspect) and on their adoption of this innovation (qualitative aspect). The research sample included 8 primary level teachers who participated in this research over a two year period, and a control group of 9 teachers. The analysis showed no significant difference regarding the perception of efficacy by the participating teachers. The strategy implemented, however, did permit these teachers to progress at least one level in the process of adopting innovation proposals.
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AbstractSweetness, which is a recurrent theme in Jacques Poulin's novels, is in fact very complex when one looks at it, as in this article on Les grandes marées, at the physiological, psychological and moral levels. If the couple gives Teddy Bear the opportunity to find out, with his sweet temper, a form of well-being, symbolized in his relation to food, the re-creation of a small society on the île Madame turns his sweetness into a handicap that isolates and transforms him in a scapegoat. As the population of the island increases, so, too, does aggressiveness, which seems like one of the foundations of any society. A way of life without value, or a moral issue reduced to insignificance, Teddy Bear's stubborn gentleness becomes a form of despair that reveals his inability to live within society.
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Critical discourse states that narrative minimalism is a characteristic of contemporary work in both France and Quebec. As the quintessential embodiment of a return to readability and story, minimalism, in some of its more striking forms, nonetheless reflects a kind of malaise: involving reductions of all kinds, the disappearance of far-reaching issues and the dilution of literature in a fragmented media environment, it is a “lessening”, a more or less nostalgic “withdrawal”. While the historical contexts are different in Quebec and France, criticism in both countries tends to associate minimalist “reduction” with contemporary literature's loss of scope, at the same time as this literature keeps on telling stories “in spite of everything”, using fragmented, intimist or playful forms. Our purpose is to take a second look at this idea and examine critical convergences and divergences between France and Quebec in order to try and identify a certain minimalist narrativity distinct from what is sometimes called the “minor” mode. A reading of Jean-Philippe Toussaint, Larry Tremblay and Elise Turcotte is our basis for questioning the idea of a minimalist reduction and for reconsidering the relation between what is perceptible and meaning, as we emphasize the importance of a factor that has received little attention so far: the narrative tensions and imaginative systems that activate this type of narrative.