Miriam Group back at Dawson & ready to help you!
March 23rd, 2022
Many people at Dawson know the Miriam Group already, but they were away for a long period due to COVID. Miriam Group’s purpose is to promote the development of work, social and interpersonal skills in an integrated work environment for people with special needs. They are back at Dawson three days a week on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays. There are five members, including a special care counselor who supports the group.
You are invited to get in touch with the Miriam Group if you need help with tasks, such as small amounts of paper shredding, putting up and taking down posters, flattening boxes, and/or assembling the boxes, helping in the kitchen, helping with reception at PARC, bringing things to shipping, mailings and more.
Manon Proteau of Miriam Group hopes they will be able to help people at Dawson and increase the inclusion and integration of Miriam Group members into the Dawson community. Contact Manon to get some help from the Miriam Group at Manon.Proteau.miriam@ssss.gouv.qc.ca
Blood drive was “immense success”
March 23rd, 2022
The Blood Drive at Dawson on Feb. 22-23 was an “immense success considering the current covid context,” according to Héma-Québec.
A total of 108 members of the Dawson community gave blood. Héma-Québec wanted to thank Dawson on behalf of all the patients who will receive blood.
2021 Virtual Field Trip to Cuba video
March 23rd, 2022
During the online learning period of the pandemic, teachers had to be very resourceful and adapt their plans.
Instead of actually going to Cuba in 2021, students in the North-South Studies Profile of Social Science took a virtual field trip to Cuba thanks to an imaginative work-around developed by North-South Studies faculty and partners in Cuba.
You can watch their virtual field trip video by clicking on the link in Read More.
Women’s and Gender Studies celebrated IWD 2022
March 23rd, 2022
To mark International Women’s Day this year, the Women’s/Gender Studies students and faculty, as well as members of the larger college community, engaged in a re-naming/re-claiming activity whereby Montreal metro stations were renamed by participants after women they find inspiring.
The event, which took place on March 8, in Conrod’s from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m., saw participants affix labels sporting the names of their chosen inspirational figures on a large blank metro map. Some inspiring figures were drawn from contemporary cultures, while others were figures from both the distant, and the recent, past, like Betty White. Some women, like Mary Two-Axe Earley, Harriet Tubman and Angela Davis, were social activists, while others are celebrities (e.g. Oprah, Zendaya, Christiane Amanpour). Participants were also invited to complete colourful cards on why they chose their particular figures.
Over $400 was raised to benefit our Financial Aid Food Bank from a bake sale in connection with the activity where faculty and students sold baked goods, fashioned by members of our W/GS community. A button-making activity where engaged students produced their own pins sporting the W/GS logo was also quite popular!
-Submitted by Johanne Rabbat, Coordinator of Women's and Gender Studies
March 23rd, 2022
IONKWATÓNHAHERE is a Kanien’kéha word that means “We are raising our Spirits.” In the wake of the last two years, Indigenous communities have been re-confronted with the realities of colonialism. For this reason, the organizers of Dawson’s Indigenous Peoples’ Week (formally First Peoples’ Week) have decided to focus on celebrating the joy within our cultures,…
Get ready for Earth Week 2022 at Dawson
March 23rd, 2022
The Sustainability Office, in collaboration with the Peace Centre and other departments, is excited to introduce the fast-approaching Earth Week 2022, which will take place Tuesday to Friday, April 19-22. We would like to give you an opportunity to take advantage of some of the many activities we have planned. You will note that we have a mix of in-person and virtual events available.
You can roam the Lower Atrium shopping for eco-friendly products and/or take a Living Campus tour and learn about the many student-driven sustainability initiatives that have changed the campus! While there will be more to come, certain activities are dependent on direct participation. Please review your schedules, and if interested, request a booking to join us and discover our Living Campus while connecting with others from the Dawson community.
Our Earth Week theme this year is “Well-Being for Yourself, Others, and the Environment.” Inspired by the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), we are happy to announce that our week’s activities and events will collectively touch on all 17 SDGs.
To request class bookings for our events, click here for our events form. If you have any questions, feel free to email sustainability@dawsoncollege.qc.ca
Five more days to show support for Dawson students
March 9th, 2022
The impact of the cancellation of Dawson’s pavilion project does not only affect Dawson students, but the whole Montreal community and all English-language institutions in Quebec. We need your help to gather as much support for Dawson as possible in the next five days!
Please share this message with your friends, family and network of contacts.
The Dawson community has rallied around Dawson following Premier François Legault's decision to cancel the pavilion project, take away space from our students and future students and shelve a downtown community clinic.
It is thanks to you that our petition is #1 on the National Assembly petition platform. In one week, an impressive 10,000 signatures of support for Dawson were collected. However, we need your help to get as many Quebecers as possible to sign before our MNA Jennifer Maccarone presents the petition with the Dawson Student Union to the National Assembly on March 17.
The deadline to sign the petition is March 15. Here's how you can help:
- Ask your friends, family, neighbours and contacts to sign it. Explain that they need to fill out the form and then confirm their signature by clicking a link in their email. A direct request one-on-one is probably more effective than sharing on social media.
- Send a request by email with the petition link to your friends and ask them to sign it.
- Ask your colleagues and neighbours if they have signed it yet.
- Write to your Member of the National Assembly, template letters and resources are here: https://www.dawsoncollege.qc.ca/support-dawson/
- If you are a teacher, take two minutes of class time to explain the situation and invite your students to take a moment to sign it. It is for their future!
Daily meditation drop-in’s at 12 p.m.
March 9th, 2022
Every day from Monday to Friday, the Dawson Peace Certificate team is offering daily meditation from 12 p.m. to 12:30 p.m. in 3E.8. All are welcome. No registration required.
Petition to add Social Service to Bourses Perspective program
March 9th, 2022
The Quebec Government has launched a new program called Bourses Perspective, which are incentive scholarships for Québec students who are enrolled full-time in various programs at Québec CEGEPs, private colleges and universities. It is intended to increase the number of qualified individuals in the fields prioritized by the government due to a labour shortage in essential public services as well as in strategic economic sectors.
You have three more days to add your name to a petition calling on the government to add the Social Service Program.
Please sign the petition before it closes on March 12.
Women’s Day at Dawson
March 9th, 2022
The Dawson Support Staff Union, the Association of Dawson Professionals and the Dawson Teachers Union co-hosted a Women's Day event in the Rose Lounge on March 8 featuring a book sale with proceeds to benefit Chez Doris. About 100 people dropped in and $450 was raised. Faculty, staff and students involved in Women's and Gender Studies also put on an event in Conrod's with a bake sale to benefit the Financial Aid Food Bank and activities, such as inviting the community to rename stops in Montreal's metro system. Colleagues enjoyed being together again and celebrating women.
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