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Five more days to show support for ýstudents

March 9th, 2022

The impact of the cancellation of Dawson’s pavilion project does not only affect ýstudents, but the whole Montreal community and all English-language institutions in Quebec. We need your help to gather as much support for ýas possible in the next five days!

Please share this message with your friends, family and network of contacts.

The ýcommunity has rallied around ýfollowing 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 ýwere 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 ýStudent Union to the National Assembly on March 17.

The deadline tois 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 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:/ܱǰ-岹ɲDz/
  • 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!

Petition to add Social Service to Bourses Perspective program

March 9th, 2022

The Quebec Government has launched a new program called 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.


Black History Month continues at Dawson

February 16th, 2022

Black History Month continues at ýwith several events and a poster exhibit in the 5C hallway on 26 remarkable Black Canadians.

All the events for students can be found on the events page of the CLL website:

/campus-life-leadership/black-history-events/


Andrew Katz contributed to new series of Blue Met audio stories

February 16th, 2022

just released a series of original audio stories for kids, in English and French, that they commissioned around the theme of ecology, the environment and sustainability. Andrew Katz (Faculty, English) is the author of one of the stories. “It was a great pleasure to have gotten the chance to write and record one of them, alongside two terrific creators for young people, and . Special thanks as well to for her invaluable voice coaching,” Andrew wrote.

You can give "Jackie's Window" and the other two stories a listen .


Statements on Dawson’s space deficit

February 16th, 2022

Here are statements that have been issued about the ýspace deficit, which has been in the news for the last few weeks:


ýin the news

February 16th, 2022

ýhas been in the news over the last two weeks ever since the Minister of Higher Education said that Dawson's pavilion project was uncertain.

The current students of ýare owed about 30 per cent more space according to the norms set by the Ministry itself. This about-face by the Quebec government, which had previously supported the project, was a major topic of discussion across Quebec.

Here are some select media reports and opinions:

 


ýcontinuing to advocate for student space

February 16th, 2022

In the coming days and weeks, ýwill be rallying our students, employees, graduates, supporters and community to put pressure on the Quebec government to reconsider its decision to cancel the infrastructure project that it agreed to in December 2020. The project was meant to alleviate the overcrowding in the main building and to provide a dedicated space for Dawson’s healthcare programs and other units.

The College is collaborating with CEGEP partners, the ýStudent Union, friends of ýand community organizations, as well as with Jennifer Maccarone, our local Member of the National Assembly.

Your support as ýcolleagues will be called upon through an All ýemail from the Communications Office. Students will be contacted via Omnivox and the community in general will be informed through traditional and social media.

These messages will provide suggestions on how you can help as individuals and by sharing with your networks as we actively seek support for ýthrough various channels. Stay tuned!


Once a Blue, always a Blue!

February 16th, 2022

ýBlues Women's Hockey fans cheered for her first! Marie-Philip Poulin, who played for the Blues during the 2008-2009 academic year, was one of Canada's flag bearers at the opening of the Winter Olympic Games in Beijing on Feb. 4. Tonight, Feb. 16, she plays in the gold medal game! Go Marie-Philip! Go Canada!


Ex-prisoner, yoga entrepreneur & ýgrad is Quebec Black Changemaker

February 16th, 2022

Before he served time in prison, Brandon Dawson-Jarvis graduated from ýCollege and from the University of Ottawa.

Recently, Brandon was interviewed by Dawson's Communications Office. Click Read More for his incredible story and to find out why he was named a Quebec Black Changemaker.


Read more about: ýgraduate Gift Tshuma named Quebec Black Changemaker

ýgraduate Gift Tshuma named Quebec Black Changemaker

February 16th, 2022

By the time he graduated from ýin Social Science (Law, Society and Justice) in Summer 2011, Gift Tshuma had made his mark. He was an active participant in student life and a strong and proud voice for people living with disabilities. His voice also contributes to the United Tribulation Choir, an R&B gospel group…

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