In recent years the right to die has emerged from the fringes as a global movement - locally tailored - advocating for patient access to medically assisted-death. Although proposed and actualized models of assisted-death vary in method and level of accessibility, a majority of right to die advocates are motivated by a belief that suffering can at times be “unnecessary”. Based on an overview of the anthropology of suffering and fieldwork in Quebec, Ontario, and Belgium, my research focuses on right to die advocates’ conceptualization of suffering in relation to assisted-death and on how their understanding suffering shapes their views on when assisteddeath should be permitted. I argue that those supporting assisted-death are brought in a form of solidarity through the belief that at times suffering is meaningless and devoid of deeper significance.

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The Quebec of the Quiet Revolution invites a fascinating sociocultural study, and this analysis provides an overview of major changes there during the 1960s and 1970s. The author analyzes how artistic, literary, and musical contributions of the era reflected the public's sentiments toward this metamorphosis. References to political cartoons, plays, poetry, songs, and non-fiction works such as essays and manifestos illustrate attitudes toward the shifting role of the Catholic Church, the arrival of a Liberal government following an ultra-conservative administration, the feminist movement, economic and education reform, and the transformation of Quebec's identity through fierce debates over the status of French and English in the province. Policies enacted by Quebec Prime Ministers, especially Maurice Duplessis, Jean Lesage, and René Lévesque were pivotal to the emerging society. Events such as Vatican II, the publication of the Encyclical letter Humanae Vitae, and the efforts of Catholic Action revealed two concurrent strains of Catholicism present in Quebec and the extent to which the Church had become disconnected from society. This study examines major feminist aims within the historical and literary context and considers how collective efforts were critical to advancing their agenda. Ambitious economic measures enabled Quebec's francophone population to catch up to their anglophone counterparts and promoted the long-term prosperity of the entire province. The study features perspectives informed by recent interviews conducted with Quebecois people who witnessed, participated in, and reflected on these dramatic events.

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<p> 49 beds of ripple-drift cross-lamination were measured in the Ordovician Cloridorme Formation of Gaspe, Quebec. Most of the beds are Bouma C (cross-laminated), some are BC (parallel lamination pas sing up into cross-lamination) and a few are AC and ABC types (graded bedding passing up into parallel and cross-lamination). </p> <p> Six climbing patterns have been recognised in the ripple-drift beds, namely: concave -upward, straight, sigmoidal, convex-upward, sinuous, and disconnected-irregular. Angles of climb range from 1 to 44 degrees. Commonly the angle of climb steepens up through the coset to about 1/2 or 3/4 of the coset thickness and then gradually flattens out until the bed is plane. </p> <p> Measurements of wave length, amplitude, stoss -angle, lee-angle, angle of climb and ratio of lee- to stoss-lamina thicknesses show that the wave length continues to increase upward, and the lee/stoss thickness ratio decreases upward through the coset. The amplitude, and stoss- and lee-angles increase upward through that portion of the coset in which the angle of climb increases upward. Simultaneously with the increase in amplitude and angle of climb, the shape of the foreset laminae becomes progressively more and more sigmoidal. </p> <p> Down-current changes in lamination types were recorded in several beds. The most interesting change is from parallel lamination down-current into ripple-drift, continuing downcurrent back into parallel lamination. </p> / Thesis / Master of Science (MSc)

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The Rouyn-Noranda area in the center of the Abitibi subprovince is composed of comparatively unmetamorphosed Archean volcanics of Blake River Group (ERG). Rouyn-Nornada is one of the lozenge shaped structural blocks in the area bounded by the Porcupine Destor Fault (PDF) zone and the Larder Lake Caddilac Fault (LCF) zone. 160 samples were collected from 29 different sites selected to lie in the center of the block, at or near the PDF zone and accross the PDF zone in the neighboring lozenge. Stable magnetizations have been obtained from the central relatively unstrained parts of the lozenges. These magnetizations show some improvement in precision statistics after structural corrections implying that they are pre-folding and probably Archean in age. Sites along the PDF zone show scattered magnetizations, which do not agree at sample or site level. The Zone I (Sites in the center of the Rouyn-Noranda block) structurally corrected mean direction (D=154.0, I=-95.0, k=19.0, a95 =19.0, N=6 sites) differ from the Zone III (Sites from the center of the adjacent block) mean direction (D=214.0, I=-49.0, k=16.0, a95 =92.0) by 60+/-37° implying that the Rouyn-Norand block have rotated anti-clockwise by 60+/-37° about a vertical axis relative to the adjacent structural block. / Thesis / Master of Science (MS)

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L’idée d’un tribunal unifié de la famille (TUF) plane depuis longtemps. Toutefois, les contraintes constitutionnelles de la fédération canadienne en matière d’administration de la justice familiale en rendent la réalisation très difficile. En effet, l’établissement de TUF pose problème au Canada en ce que la Loi constitutionnelle de 1867 prévoit que le mariage et le divorce sont de compétence fédérale, alors que la célébration du mariage, l’administration de la justice et la procédure en matière civile, de même que toutes les matières de nature purement locale ou privée, sont de compétence provinciale. Au Québec, à l’heure actuelle, la Cour supérieure a compétence en matière de divorce, de même que sur les demandes qui y sont accessoires, comme la garde de l’enfant et les droits d’accès et les pensions alimentaires. La Cour du Québec, quant à elle, a compétence en matière d’adoption, de délinquance juvénile et de protection de la jeunesse. Cela dit, depuis le 1er janvier 2016, la loi reconnaît à la Cour du Québec une compétence élargie lorsque saisie d’un dossier d’adoption ou de protection de la jeunesse pour se prononcer sur les demandes accessoires qui y sont liées. L’existence de ces deux instances compétentes en matière de droit familial, issues du morcellement des compétences constitutionnelles, crée des difficultés réelles pour l’accès à la justice familiale au Québec. Il en résulte de la confusion pour les justiciables, un manque d’harmonisation dans la gestion des dossiers et une division des ressources judiciaires. Malgré les limites constitutionnelles ci-dessus exposées, plusieurs provinces canadiennes sont parvenues à créer des TUF dès 1977. Qui plus est, le gouvernement fédéral procède actuellement à une expansion des TUF dans plusieurs provinces. En revanche, en dépit des intentions maintes fois formulées par les gouvernements fédéral et provincial, un tel projet est resté lettre morte au Québec. Il n’existe pas de recensement des travaux effectués sur le sujet ni d’analyse historique en reflétant l’évolution. Ce mémoire vise à pallier cette dernière carence en fournissant une étude approfondie de la problématique. La première partie dresse l’historique du système judiciaire québécois au regard du droit de la famille et des revendications constitutionnelles afférentes. La seconde partie expose la place qu’a occupée l’idée du TUF lors la dernière réforme du droit de la famille au Québec, au tournant des années 1980. La troisième partie brosse un portrait du projet, dont l’avènement paraît toujours plus lointain. Enfin, la quatrième et dernière partie expose les voies de solutions qui ont été envisagées pour en permettre la création dans le contexte constitutionnel actuel. / The Project of a Unified Family Court in Quebec or the Roadblock to an Improved Access to Justice. The idea of a unified family court (UFC) has been embedded in the federal provincial joint policy for decades. However, the establishment of UFCs is challenging in Canada, the reason being that the Constitution Act, 1867, provides that marriage and divorce fall under federal jurisdiction, whereas the celebration of marriage, the administration of justice and the procedure for and all matters of a purely local or private nature fall within provincial jurisdiction. Currently in the province of Quebec, the Superior Court has jurisdiction over divorce, as well as ancillary claims such as custody, access rights and alimony. The Quebec Court has jurisdiction over adoption, youth delinquency and youth protection issues. Since January 1, 2016, the law has given the Court of Quebec extended jurisdiction when it hears an adoption or youth protection file in order to rule on ancillary claims. The existence of these two competent institutions on family matters, resulting from the fragmentation of constitutional powers, creates concrete difficulties for access to family justice in Quebec. The issues identified include confusion for litigants, a lack of harmonization in case management and a division of judicial resources. Despite these divided areas of jurisdiction, several Canadian provinces established UFCs as early as 1977. In addition, the federal government is currently expanding UFCs in several provinces. In Quebec, however, the creation of a UFC has remained an empty rhetoric. To date, there is no thorough review of the work and discussions held to create an UFC in Quebec, nor an analysis of the evolution of the idea. This thesis aims to overcome this void by providing a thorough and comprehensive study on the development of the idea of implementing a UFC in Quebec. The first part provides a historical overview of Quebec’s justice system with respect to family law, as well as related constitutional claims. The second part describes the place of the idea of a unified family court in the last reform of family law in Quebec, at the turn of the 1980s. The third part gives a portrait of the idea, ever distant, of such a court in Quebec since then. The fourth and last part presents the solutions that have been considered to allow the creation of such an institution in Quebec.