2012 Quebec Student Protests

Information literacy practices and student protests: mapping community information landscapes

Introduction. This paper provides a contribution to understandings of information literacy regarding context and transferability of information practices. Specifically, the paper analyses the subset of information practices in situations of student protests and addresses issues of transfer of information literacy practice from a highly formal landscape to a highly non-formal and unstructured la...

An Educational Response to Student Protests. Learning from Hannah Arendt

Shigella spp. with Reduced Azithromycin Susceptibility, Quebec, Canada, 2012–2013

During 2012-2013 in Montreal, Canada, 4 locally acquired Shigella spp. pulse types with the mph(A) gene and reduced susceptibility to azithromycin were identified from 9 men who have sex with men, 7 of whom were HIV infected. Counseling about prevention of enteric sexually transmitted infections might help slow transmission of these organisms.

Protests and Reputation Warwick Economic Research Papers Protests and Reputation *

Protests take place for a variety of reasons. In this paper we focus on protests that have a well defined objective, that is in conflict with the objectives of the government. Hence the success or failure of a protest movement depends crucially on how the government responds. We assume that government types are private information so that governments have an interest in building a reputation to...

Colleges react to student protests ; sell off interests in South Africa

As a result o f the increased enro ll­ m ent of disabled students, Assistant Provost Sister John Miriam Jones was appointed last July as co o r­ dinator o f disabled students by Provost T im othy O'Meara. "It was tim e to do som ething dif­ ferent," Jones explained, “We realized w e needed one person to oversee efforts to serve disabled stu ­ dents." Previously, the University C om ­ m ittee fo...