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The Inuit Language Protection Act (ILPA) is a recent Nunavut statute. The only one of its kind in Canada, it is even more ambitious than Quebec's Charter of the French Language. A controversial statute, some question whether the legislator has exceeded its competence in adopting certain of its provisions. Indeed, section 3 of the ILPA aims to require federal departments, agencies, or institutions operating in Nunavut to provide public services and to display signs in the Inuit language, even when these organizations are acting within an area of federal legislative competence. Sections 29, 30, and 34 of the ILPA provide for the mandatory preparation of an Inuit Language Plan, detailing how an organization will comply with the legislation. The languages commissioner, who possesses broad powers of investigation in order to ensure compliance with the legislation, must approve this plan. At first glance, these sections seem to contradict the established rule that a government can legislate with respect to language provided that this legislation is ancillary to its own areas of competence. This rule derives from certain particularities of the Constitution Act, 1867. However, further analysis leads to the conclusion that this conceptual framework does not apply to Nunavut. The latter holds the power to require, on its territory, the use of the Inuit language by federal departments, agencies, and institutions.
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In this retrospective I highlight the main stages in my career as an anthropologist since completing my doctoral studies at Yale University. I first tell how I found in anthropology the profession that would enable me to explore a question that I had as a child: what I might have become had I been born and raised in another environment, among “Others”? I then underscore how from beginning to end my career was enriched from my learning two indigenous languages, first in my fieldwork among the Wayuu of Columbia (September 1975 to December 1976), and then among the Dene Tha' of northwestern Alberta amongst whom I spent six months a year from 1980 to 1984. Learning the language brought me closer to Dene Tha' Elders and made possible my participation in their ceremonies which led me to write ethnographically in a way that contributed to the development of experiential anthropology. My numerous presentations and publications explore major themes in the field of indigenous studies: epistemology, ethics, methodology, ethnogenesis, rituals, shamanism, territorial claims, self-government, gender identities, conceptions of life and death, and reincarnation. In this career, I also describe what I learned from the Dene Tha' that guided me in significant initiatives in my role as Director of the Native Centre at the University of Calgary from 1988 à 1991, and as founding Dean of the Faculty of Human Sciences at Saint Paul University from 1997 to 2005.
Keywords: études autochtones, Wayuu, Dènè Tha', identités, anthropologie expérientielle, Indigenous studies, Wayuu, Dene Tha', identities, experiential anthropology, estudios indígenas, Wayuu, Dènès Tha', identidades, antropología experiencial
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This paper explores the past, present, and future of library marketing in the United States. While its foundations were laid more than a century ago, not every library is up-to-speed in its knowledge or practice. There are “Haves” with plenty of space, staff, and money, and “Have Nots” that lack some necessities. In the midst of this uneven landscape, the author discusses the organizations and publications that support it, details the trends in four categories, and lists national campaigns and awards. Special attention is paid to the continuing challenges and the possible future scenarios.
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On March 31st, 2005 died at the age of 41, Theresa Marie (Terri) Schiavo. She was in coma since February 25th, 1990. The demand of her husband to stop the artificial nutrition and hydration provoked an unprecedented public debate and a long judicial process ; at the end, the court agreed at the request of the husband. The catholic doctrine regarding those end of life questions was subject to virulent discussion. It is in this context that this paper will analyse the American theological discussion and the recent roman interventions regarding artificial nutrition and hydration for patients in permanent vegetative state.
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Numerous articles in psychology show that the sum of the views individuals have of their past, present, and future (their time perspective) influences their cognitions and behaviors. We extend these findings to the field of entrepreneurship and suggest that time perspective can influence entrepreneurs' alertness (TP acting as a potential determinant prior to alertness). We propose a theoretical framework to better understand the role time perspective can play in key aspects of entrepreneurship such as entrepreneurial alertness, i.e., the capacity for an entrepreneur to see opportunities missed by others. The main objective of our research contribution is to build theoretical propositions and a model interrelating time perspective according to Zimbardo and Boyd (1999) and entrepreneurial alertness according to Tang, Kacmar and Busenitz (2012). Linking both concepts constitutes the main contribution. A discussion, implications, limitations and directions for future research are also introduced.
Keywords: Temps, Opportunité, Cognition, Vigilance, Entrepreneuriat, Time, Opportunity, Cognition, Alertness, Entrepreneurship, Tiempo, Oportunidad, Cognición, Vigilancia, Empresariado
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With the slogan “Your digital work space is moving into a new era!”, project 1142, entitled “Individual Repertory Service and Sharing of Files” of the University of Montreal, was launched on April 4, 2017. It was established by the Information Technologies division and undertaken in collaboration with the Records Management and Archives Division (DGDA) of the University, with a double aim: on the one hand, to offer convivial new and efficient digital work spaces to personnel (the DocUM unit and the user space OneDrive Enterprise) and, on the other hand, to structure the DocUM unit space with the objective of facilitating management by means of the Official Classification System. This article discusses the different stages in the realization of the project and the numerous challenges that had to be overcome to discover solutions to the problems related to the management of unstructured University of Montreal data.