Etiket: Normand
Great well-cooked ComediHa! | Normand Brathwaite knows how to laugh at himself
Normand Brathwaite will lend himself to the well-cooked game (roast) on August 22 as part of the ComediHa! Anyone who has never hesitated to laugh at others will be the…
[Chronique de Normand Baillargeon] Readings for the summer
The school year is coming to an end and this time I want to offer you two readings that I think are very enriching and that anyone working in education…
[Chronique de Normand Baillargeon] A conversation with Yves Gingras
It is done. The long-awaited Law on academic freedom in the university environment was adopted by the National Assembly on June 3rd. This law, which follows the report of the…
At 63, Normand Brathwaite is not thinking of retirement at all
At 63 and about to celebrate the 20e year of issue Belle and Bum, Normand Brathwaite is far from thinking about retirement. The one who will be back on the…
Christophe Normand, the Alouettes’ best-kept secret
Quebecer Christophe Normand is about to begin a third season with the Montreal Alouettes and despite his efficiency on the field as a fullback, his role remains unobtrusive. • Read…
Normand Benoît Cosnefroy (Ag2r Citroën) ready to take on the role of favorite
Benoît Cosnefroy (Ag2r Citroën Team) has just completed a 15-day training course at altitude in Sierra Nevada (Spain). And it’s been 32 days since the Norman runner has pinned a…
[Chronique de Normand Baillargeon] A word from Paul Valéry
Surely you have already heard this (in my opinion) rather apt formula describing our school system. This one, she says, now operates at three speeds. On the one hand, we…
[Chronique de Normand Baillargeon] Everyone talks to me about it
I don’t like to go on TV. But this time at Everybody talks about it, the subject: education, required me to be there to discuss with Gregory Charles, whose remarks,…
[Chronique de Normand Baillargeon] Talking about heroes in class
Like everyone else, I learned with great sadness of the death of Guy Lafleur, a player who gave us great joy. Lafleur was an inspiration, a man easy to love…
[Chronique de Normand Baillargeon] The columnist goes to the cinema
COVID-19 obliges, and given the online cinema offer, it had been a long time since I had set foot in a cinema. But I couldn’t resist the urge to go…
[Critique] “Ends of the world”: The small apocalypses of Normand Baillargeon
“Normand Baillargeon, the novelist, offers us some answers to the questions that we ask ourselves too little. Through the imaginary, he shakes up the real. Through fiction, he reminds us…
[Chronique de Normand Baillargeon] Practice dual coding in class
It’s been a while since I’ve taken you on a tour of educational research. This week, I am offering you an interesting teaching strategy that deserves to be better known…
[Chronique de Normand Baillargeon] For digital citizenship
I often observe, as you I am sure, and sometimes with horror, disturbing behavior on social networks, where trolls are rampant, where we practice without embarrassment often anonymous attacks against…
Grandpa Normand will still have to change clubs
Quebec hockey player Maude Poulin-Labelle, considered among the best players playing on the blue line in the NCAA, will leave Vermont to join Northeastern University in Boston next season. Thus,…
[Chronique de Normand Baillargeon] A Curriculum for Peace
The tragic moment we are going through is particularly propitious for broaching the beautiful subject of pacifism in class. Here are some ways to do this, we hope they will…
[La chronique de Normand Baillargeon] AI at school, a famous dilemma
This week, two important announcements were made in the vast dossier of technology in schools. To begin with, we learned that all fifth and sixth year students at the First…
Normand Baillargeon’s column: Is it the end of the world, sir?
By watching this short and heartbreaking video showing high school students in Ukraine preparing for a bombardment (bit.ly/3HHPNB6), I thought of Michael Shermer, the eminent skeptic. Indeed, this one recently…
Alouettes: Christophe Normand and the desire to give back to youth
During this spring break in the MRC de La Haute-Yamaska, Montreal Alouettes centre-back Christophe Normand leads training sessions to develop the sports skills of young people aged 11 to 20.…
Normand Baillargeon’s chronicle: Sensitive reading and school
A subject has caused a lot of talk this week: the appearance in our country of what is called “sensitive reading”. It consists in asking people specialized in this task…
Normand Baillargeon’s chronicle: Thinking secularism with Guy Rocher
The long-awaited second and last volume of the magnificent biography of Guy Rocher by Pierre Duchesne was published a few months ago. People working in education or interested in it—which…