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From Hive to Honey jar: Bee workshop for employees Nov. 17

November 3rd, 2021

A hands-on, sticky, and sweet celebration of the beekeeping season coming to an end! Our local beekeeper from Alvéole arrives with two bursting honey frames and all the equipment necessary to extract it. Participants actively participate in uncapping honey frames, turning the manual extractor, bottling the honey and—most importantly—tasting the fruits of the bees’ labour!  Due to health restrictions, we can only welcome 30 participants. We will contact you to confirm your participation.

Wednesday Nov. 17
12 -1 p.m.
Conrod's 2F.4 near the stage

To express your interest, please email sustainability@dawsoncollege.qc.ca

Photo: Several employees, including Jenn de Vera, watched a beekeeper wrap up the bee hives (home to 100,000 ÆßÐDzʿª½± honey bees) for winter on ÆßÐDzʿª½±'s 4H rooftop on Oct. 20. 


Thank you Team Open House 2021

November 3rd, 2021

ÆßÐDzʿª½±â€™s Open House 2021 was reimagined this year to help visitors experience the best version of the College and all it has to offer. We achieved record-breaking attendance by keeping the best elements of the first online Open House in 2020 and introducing new features and in-person tours for the first time since 2019.

Gone were the one-hour waits to have questions answered and navigating a hot, loud and crowded building. This year the maximum wait time for a question was not more than 2-3 minutes during the chat sessions for Open House on Oct. 24. Team ÆßÐDzʿª½± Open House 2021 made sure the event was useful, smooth and pleasant for everyone.

Director General Diane Gauvin and Academic Dean Robert Cassidy would like to thank the more than 150 faculty members, current students and deans as well as managers, professionals and support staff from the Registrar's Office, the Communications Office, the Sustainability Office, Information Systems and Technology, Student Services, the Office of Academic Development and more.

Special thanks to Carey-Ann Pawsey, Jennifer de Vera, Lucy Segal, Ivana Bonaduce, Catherine Fusk, Marien Griffin, Dianne Hawryluck, Irene Kakoulakis, Antonina Nobile, Michele Pallett, Julie Pellegrino, Madalina Radu, Jane Valihora, Diane Wong, Carmela Gumelli, Julie Brosseau, Laura Paterson, Tommy Diamantakos, Maxwell Jones, Mylène Saucier, Dana Dragomir, Donna Varrica, Christina Parsons, Jonathan Perlman, Chris Georgieff, Pat Phutthavong, Virginia Law.

Click Read More for the report about our successful Open House 2021.


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SURVEYS! SURVEYS! SURVEYS!

November 3rd, 2021

Thank you to everyone who participated in this semester’s College-wide surveys!

We had a record number of employees fill out the survey regarding ÆßÐDzʿª½±â€™s Policy on Sexual Violence and a healthy response rate for the Sustainability Office’s Transportation Survey.

Feedback from the community is crucial! For the former, survey data and responses will help develop recommendations to improve the policy. For the latter, seeing how students and employees commute to the College helps us see our common carbon footprint and take steps to decrease it.

Message from the Quality Assurance and Planning Office


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Trees will be planted based on your survey results

October 13th, 2021

How do you get to the campus and a few other questions are part of a short transportation survey in .  All employees and students are asked to complete it before it closes on Sunday, Oct. 17.

Your anonymous survey results will enable the College to figure the approximate distance traveled and the corresponding emissions.

In 2018, the College pledged to be carbon neutral forever. To honour this pledge, each year the College offsets our collective CO2(e) emissions 


Learning at the Living Campus

October 13th, 2021

Last Thursday, first-year Environmental Science students in Brian Mader's General Biology I class were given the task of comparing the biodiversity of bacteria on two different surfaces. Students decided to head to the rooftop to compare the potential bacteria found in our two rooftop ponds. They compared soil samples with others on campus as well as sampled the surface of leaves. Results will be analyzed in a few weeks.

This is an example of learning outside the classroom on our Living Campus. If you would like to share your own experiences or those of your students, please write to cparsons@dawsoncollege.qc.ca

Photo credit: Brian Mader (Coordinator, Environmental Science) 


Please don’t feed ÆßÐDzʿª½±’s wildlife

October 13th, 2021

During the tele-teaching and tele-working period, little human activity at the College meant wildlife reclaimed our landscape.

Foxes, groundhogs, raccoons and a host of birds have been visiting. Now that we have returned, it is great to see staff and students enjoying Nature. Several well-intentioned people, both staff and ÆßÐDzʿª½± neighbours, have been asked to stop feeding the birds because of unintentional consequences we would like to share with you:

  • Feeding bread, muffins or other baked goods fills birds’ stomachs, but has little nutritional value and can lead to health problems for the bird. Young birds especially are affected.
  • Gulls and squirrels eat most foods given by humans and then boldly take food from people sitting at tables outside when they can’t find any elsewhere. Squirrels enter backpacks for food and gulls swoop down and take open food from the tables.
  • Feeding animals diminishes their foraging skills and can lead to larger litters of babies
  • Wild animals can lose their natural fear of humans and become a nuisance or dangerous to humans
  • Rats and mice come to eat leftover food at night. We do not want to attract these animals to the landscape. The squirrel population on campus is also high and they do significant damage to the gardens and they even chew on rubber or plastic on cars in the parking areas! We do not want to attract more!
  • Peanut shells that are left throughout the landscape are a serious hazard to the members of the ÆßÐDzʿª½± Community who live with severe allergies and would like to benefit from our outdoor spaces.
  • Feeding wild animals is illegal in Westmount and offenders can receive a first fine of $50 and subsequent fines of $100

Read more about: New Environment & Sustainability Certificate

New Environment & Sustainability Certificate

September 29th, 2021

As the 21st century unfolds, ÆßÐDzʿª½± students and teachers have a new opportunity to continue channelling their knowledge and abilities into positive action that counters the daunting environmental, economic and social challenges of today. ÆßÐDzʿª½± has been addressing sustainability challenges for years, a fact foregrounded in the 2016-2021 Strategic Plan. Notably, we recognize the significant…

Repotting your plants and plant help

September 29th, 2021

The Sustainability Office has ordered a big delivery of four-by-five inch pots in a variety of colours so employees can repot the baby plants distributed by College managers in August as a welcome back gesture for all employees. It would be good to repot the plants so they have more space to grow. When the pots arrive, Sustainabili-team volunteers can repot your plant for you or show you how to do it yourself in the Sustainability Office in 4B.

Those of you who have plants that are struggling (brown leaves, etc), please don't throw them out before checking if our resident plant doctors can help revive them.

Contact sustainability@dawsoncollege.qc.ca for plant help or for repotting.


600 spring bulbs go home with employees

September 29th, 2021

About 1,200 spring bulbs were ordered by the Sustainability Office to boost everyone's mood by encouraging employees to dream about spring gardening. A rainbow of bulbs were offered for sale to employees on Sept. 20-21: hyacinths, daffodils (which the squirrels don't like) and tulips.

About half were sold at cost to employees and will be brightening up home gardens. The remaining bulbs will be planted on campus: some pink bulbs around Anastasia's tree in the Peace Garden, some in the island garden of the first parking lot and some in the garden of the 3C courtyard.

Sandra Gravel (Student Services), pictured, bought her bulbs from the student Sustainabili-team volunteers. Jennifer de Vera (Sustainability Office) recommends planting the bulbs over the next week before the ground gets too hard.


Fair Trade Handbook book launch is Oct. 1 at ÆßÐDzʿª½±

September 29th, 2021

Framed within the common goal of advancing trade justice and South-North solidarity, The Fair Trade Handbook presents a broad interpretation of fair trade and a wide-ranging dialogue between different viewpoints.

North-South Studies in partnership with the Sustainability Office is hosting the book launch for The Fair Trade Handbook this Friday, Oct. 1 at 11:30 a.m. during the North-South Seminar in 5B.16.

For more about the book:

If you wish to attend, please email GFrias@dawsoncollege.qc.ca


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