Bixi is offering 10% off to all °®¶¹´«Ã½students and employees who sign up for monthly or seasonal memberships before May 31. A season is only $89 for members of the °®¶¹´«Ã½community.
If you are not sure about signing up, °®¶¹´«Ã½will give you a free month of Bixi membership.
To get the promotional code for your 10% off Bixi or to receive a free month of Bixi courtesy of Dawson, contact Richard Dugas at rdugas@dawsoncollege.qc.ca
Create a work schedule Get dressed as if you were going to work, don’t stay in PJ’s or sweats all day. Make a space just for your work, it may only be a certain area on the kitchen table. Talk with family and let them know when you are at work and cannot be disturbed….
Monday Meditation with Daniel Goldsmith
Meditation every Monday 12:30 - 1 p.m.
Meeting ID: 989 2097 3208
Wednesday Meditation with Ivan
Meditation every Wednesday 12:30 - 1 p.m.
Meeting ID: 959 9612 3375
Through the seeking understanding discussion participants will learn concrete techniques as allies when supporting those who have experienced or witnessed racism or prejudice, and for engaging in difficult conversations as an activist. Speakers include Annick Maugile Flavien and Audrey Greenberg. Annick is a Black community advocate, a creative scholar, the founding coordinator of the Black…
Students and staff are invited to attend a virtual inter-collegial talk entitled ‘’ Engaging with the SDGs in Higher Education with Prof. Charles Hopkins’’ on April 20 from 5:30-6:45pm. Charles Hopkins’ presentation will be about how we can incorporate the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in our college communities, from a student and staff perspective. According…
This year, we have added an s to Earth Weeks and scheduled two weeks of events.
Here are some highlights:
Sustainability °®¶¹´«Ã½ Open House Wednesday, April 21 at 10 a.m.
Come meet representatives from colleges and universities that offer Sustainability degrees and/or certificates, including Dawson’s Environmental & Sustainability Certificate.
Beehive Opening Wednesday, April 21 at 12 p.m.
Take a peek inside Dawson’s 4H rooftop hive – and experience honey bees remotely!
Zoom link:
Keynote Speaker Dr. Ingrid Waldron Thursday, April 22 at 1 p.m.
Author of There’s Something in the Water: Environmental Racism in Indigenous and Black Communities, which was turned into a 2020 Netflix documentary, Dr. Waldron recently co-founded the Anti-Environmental Racism Coalition. Organizations in the environmental and climate change sector are collaborating on projects and sharing expertise and resources to address environmental racism in Indigenous, Black and other racialized communities across Canada.
For more info, click Read More to go to the full schedule. To get zoom links and reserve your class, contact sustainability@dawsoncollege.qc.ca
Wonderful, inspiring, motivating… these were just a few of the superlatives that the more than 90 students and faculty from the Women’s/Gender Studies Community shared after attending the International Women’s Day event, Reclaiming Spaces, Sex and Other Pleasures. Our talk with artist-activists Jasmeen Patheja and Paromita Vohra was hosted by Cinema | Communications’ Dipti Gupta…
Dawson's Earth Week is fast approaching. We are reaching out to any staff, faculty or student who would like to contribute a piece of art: canvas painting, digital painting prints, photographs, sculptures, etc. to this year's Earth Week fundraiser. The theme for the pieces is anything nature, animals, sustainability, Earth. They will all be put up for sale online between April 19 and April 30. Your name and/or social media accounts will be mentioned, and all the money raised will help fund Dawson's beautiful Peace Garden.
No pieces will be turned away. Thank you in advance for caring for our garden!
Please contact campuslife@dawsoncollege.qc.ca if you would like to be part of this wonderful cause.
Happy Spring Dawson! This year Spring conditions actually arrived on the official calendar date of the Spring Equinox and it was glorious! Take a walk, snap some photos of Spring's arrival in your neighbourhood and send your best photos to cparsons@dawsoncollege.qc.ca . We will share them in the next D News. This photo was taken the morning of March 23 and shows a budding tree by the river in Verdun.
The temperature is becoming milder, and the smell of spring is in the air. Dawson's Physical Education Department encourages everyone to get out and walk.
°®¶¹´«Ã½PE challenges you to call some friends from your department and organize a walk and talk! Remember to practice smart social distancing and follow the guidelines set out by Santé Publique. Take a group selfie and send it in to D News.
This photo was taken by Wayne Acton at Pine Beach in Dorval. °®¶¹´«Ã½colleagues, left to right: Cathy Nickson, Venus Di Genova, Cindy Cantin-Starzenski, Tim Miller, Marcela Donoso.
Walking in its simplest form is one of the most beneficial forms of exercise. In these trying times when most of us are fully teaching online, we need to disconnect and get outside.
Among the vast array of benefits, walking releases dopamine and endorphins in the brain, which make us feel good! Aside from boosting our mood, the physical benefits also include improving our heart health, our sleep, our bone density. Walking also helps us fight off illnesses by building up our immune system.
Walking is underrated, it is a simple and very accessible activity. Remember, exercise is the most under-utilized anti-depressant in the world!
Last Modified: April 7, 2021
