Ann Lambert’s second book published
November 3rd, 2020
The new book of Ann Lambert, who taught English at Dawson for almost three decades, has just been published.聽The Dogs of Winter is a compelling story full of hot button Canadian topics pulled from the headlines.
A murderer with a twisted mission targets the most vulnerable on the frigid streets of Montreal while scenes unfold revealing how the #MeToo movement has changed the conversation, but not nearly enough.
It is Ann's second novel in the Russell and Leduc mystery series.
Click on Read More to read the first chapter.
Virtual Open House was a success
November 3rd, 2020
The numbers show that Dawson's first ever Virtual Open House was a success.
Click Read More for the homepage news story with all the numbers and feedback from a cross-section of the more than 200 teachers, employees and students who contributed to this event.
It’s today! Virtual Open House runs Oct. 20-25
October 20th, 2020
You can help us spread the word to students in Sec.聽 IV and V and their parents:
- By texting/messaging/emailing link to Dawson鈥檚 49-second video:
- By sharing it on Instagram:
- By sharing it on Facebook:
- By sharing it on Twitter:
Click Read More to go to the English homepage news story and a French version is available here.
October 20th, 2020
Dear colleagues, Traditionally, I recognize outstanding teachers with the Director General鈥檚 Teaching Excellence Awards at the conclusion of our annual professional development event, Ped Days. This year, this challenging and unprecedented year, I decided that I cannot give this award to only a few teachers. Teachers as well as the support staff, professionals and managers…
Dawson’s own “incredible chemistry teacher” featured in Le Devoir
October 20th, 2020
Le Devoir featured an article about Yann Brouillette, a chemistry teacher at Dawson they called "incredible." Click Read More to go to the article.
October 20th, 2020
About 325 teachers, professionals and managers attended the first-ever online Ped Days event last week. Usha James of The Critical Thinking Consortium returned to Ped Days for the opening keynote Oct. 13 and Michelle Miller, author of聽Minds Online: Teaching Effectively with Technology gave the closing keynote address Oct. 16. Many firsts at this year鈥檚 Ped…
Lizanne Murphy returns to Dawson!
October 7th, 2020
Lizanne Murphy is back at Dawson as an assistant coach for the Division 1 Women's Basketball Team.
"Dawson felt like home," she said. "It's such a great feeling to be back."
Lizanne was part of the first team recruited by Head Coach Trevor Williams and graduated from Health Science in 2003. She went on to play professionally, represented Canada at the Olympics and won a gold medal at the 2015 Pan Am Games.
Lizanne believes there are many young players on Dawson's team who could follow in her footsteps and she looks forward to sharing her knowledge with them.
The team is currently meeting online and training at home while they look forward to practicing and playing games again in January.
Digital Maclean’s articles featuring Dawson now available
October 7th, 2020
成人黑料 is featured in the Maclean's 2021 Canadian Colleges Guidebook, which came out across Canada in September. You can now access the two features digitally:
Dawson's extraordinary vernissage season for the graduating students in six programs in Creative and Applied Arts was featured:聽
Dawson's environmental profiles in Science and Social Science as well as our Sustainability Office were featured:
Refugee Boulevard wins another major prize
October 7th, 2020
Refugee Boulevard: Making Montreal Home After the Holocaust (refugeeboulevard.ca) has won聽the U.S. Oral History Association Mason Multi-Media Award. The SSHRC-funded project is the work of Dawson faculty members Nancy Rebelo and Stacey Zembrycki along with Anna Sheftel from St. Paul University and Eszter Andor from the Montreal Holocaust Museum.
The project was created in close collaboration with Holocaust survivors who settled in Montreal in the post-WWII period.
Over the summer, the team created a virtual component to accompany the audio for those who can鈥檛 experience the tour in the neighborhood. Here are the links to the virtual tour:
English version: 聽
French version:聽
"It is our hope that listening to survivors share their stories in the tour will open up conversations that help validate the roles immigrants play in our past and current communities," Nancy said.
To access the project, go to:
46 new videos to be launched at Open House!
October 7th, 2020
It was lights, camera, action all last week as the Communications Office shot 46 videos for Dawson's first ever Virtual Open House, taking place Oct. 20-25.
Special thanks go to the program and profile coordinators and all others who acted as spokespersons as well as the team of people involved in script writing and preparing. You are all part of our Open House Miracle!
Everyone did a great job. We are happy to report that every program and profile will be represented by a video. For more information about the Open House experience, click Read More to go to the homepage news article.
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