The Rio Earth Summit, held in Rio de Janeiro in 1992, certainly stands out as an unprecedented turnabout in planetary awareness of environmental concerns and the need for reconciliating the three axes of sustainable development, namely economic, social and environmental issues. The Rio...

Considering both trade globalization and the growing media coverage of the deterioration of natural resources and the ozone layer, the average citizen has become more demanding as a consumer when it comes to the environmental quality of the products he purchases. In this context, the...

This paper presents standardised test scores results in literacy from 19 provincial and international surveys in education conducted over years 2000 to 2018. The analysis draws on students in provinces, mainly Québec and Ontario, at three stages of education, grade 4 in primary school, grade 8...

L'étude utilise les données provenant de 14 des vagues de l'Enquête sociale générale (ESG), réalisée par Statistique Canada auprès des ménages canadiens. Les enquêtes retenues contiennent pour des années de 1986 à 2011 des informations sur le plus haut niveau d'éducation des...

Dans le monde d’aujourd’hui, la mondialisation, l’innovation technologique et les migrations humaines ont rendu presque inévitables les interactions entre personnes de différents pays et cultures. Dans ce contexte, la capacité à communiquer dans plus d’une langue est devenu une...

The study is based on 14 waves of Statistics Canada's General Social Survey. The selected surveys conducted between 1986 and 2011 have information on the highest education level of respondents and their parents (father, mother). The analysis estimate the probability that a respondent, from many...

This paper presents standardised test scores results in literacy from 19 provincial and international surveys in education conducted over years 2000 to 2018. The analysis draws on students in provinces, mainly Québec and Ontario, at three stages of education, grade 4 in primary school, grade 8...

La génération montante d’aujourd’hui est la première dont la majorité passe une grande partie de la petite enfance dans un type de structure de garde extérieure au foyer. Parallèlement, la recherche neuroscientifique démontre l’importance capitale, pour tous les aspects du...