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September was the Suicide Prevention Awareness Month. Suicide is a subject that needs to be tackled with great care as it is a mental health-related issue. It is the second leading cause of death among youth and young adults between 15 and 34 years old (Government of Canada).  Each year, the cegep trains fellow students to become gatekeepers who are there to help their struggling peers. Here follows an interview between the Lions’ Log and Aurélie Veilleux, one of the 8 gatekeepers in our school, to learn more about the cause and the role of a gatekeeper. Here are the…

At the end of Parlour Street stood a lone house. The neglected walls barely held up to time, the windows were long gone, nature had taken over the property and darkness had crept between the many cracks of the house to rule as empress forever. Yet, the house seemed majestic, as if the spirit which reigned between its walls did not care about its crumbling environment. Legend has it that if you went in there on a full moon, your soul would be consumed by the spirits of the house’s first and only inhabitants. It was the kind of legend…

Hurricane Fiona did more damage than one would think, especially in Canada. Fiona went on from the 14th of September to the 15th of September. Its trajectory was Guadalope, Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, Turks and Caicos, Bermuda then Canada.  Hurricane Fiona touched the Atlantic region (Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island), Newfoundland and Labrador, and the East of Quebec (in Magdalen Islands). It was registered as the most powerful storm to hit Canada in a long time.  In Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island, more than 500 000 people are still left without electricity because the power grid was…

The Truth and Reconciliation day is celebrated on the 30th of September. But why is it celebrated? What is the link to orange t-shirts?  The Truth and Reconciliation Day was adopted in 2021 as a legal statutory holiday. But, some provinces still do not recognize this day to be a holiday, for example the province of Quebec.  Truth and Reconciliation Day is celebrated to honor the memory of the survivors  of residential schools and their families. It is also promoted to help the reconciliation between the government and the Indigenous peoples.  Residential schools were a system created by the Canadian…

Election Day is arriving soon and, for some of us, it will be the first election we participate in, so here are some tricks and tips on how to vote. You may not know who to vote for yet, and this is very understandable. To help you in your decision, CBC News has created a tool called the Vote Compass. It is a series of questions aimed to help you decide which political party is more closely aligned with your values.   A good place to get all your information is Election Quebec.We encourage you to go through this website to…