Saint Paul University (French: Université Saint-Paul) is a bilingual Catholic Pontifical university federated with the University of Ottawa since 1965. It is located on Main Street in Canada's capital city, Ottawa, Ontario. Fully bilingual, it offers instruction in both of the country's official languages: French and English. The university has been entrusted for over a century and a half to the Congregation of the Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate. In August 1866, the university was endowed a civil charter that was passed by the government which was then called the Province of Canada. It later received a pontifical declaration promulgated by Pope Leo XIII on 5 February 1889.
This article investigates the role of neighborhood-based Facebook groups as informal infrastructures of support for mothers, with particular emphasis on immigrant mothers whose support networks are often disrupted by migration. Whereas previous research has primarily examined diasporic maternal communities organized around shared origin, this study focuses on locally embedded digital groups in which belonging is defined by motherhood and neighborhood proximity. Utilizing digital ethnography within a local Facebook group for mothers and 20 semi-structured interviews with immigrant mothers, the study analyzes how these spaces provide emotional, cognitive, and material assistance in everyday life. The findings indicate that these groups function as trusted third parties and collective memory systems, assisting mothers in navigating institutions, reducing uncertainty, comparing options, and accessing local resources. Additionally, they promote emotional validation, mutual aid, and the exchange of goods, services, and practical knowledge, while facilitating the formation of hybrid ties that link online interactions to neighborhood-based relationships. The article contends that these groups constitute local digital villages: emotional, relational, and operational communities that reconstruct support networks and promote integration through everyday urban practices of care, coordination, and decision-making.
This article reviews Commonism, a postcapitalist model developed by Stefan Meretz and Simon Sutterlütti (2023, 2025) (Gerdes et al. 2023) based on a decentralized network of commons. As this model puts forward the idea that a postcapitalist economy should avoid using money at all, we focus specifically on how economic coordination can be realized in Commonism. We first present how we understand the functioning of Commonism, to then underline issues generated by the absence of the money form. These issues are about human volition, information, social arbitration, and temporality. We end by suggesting a way to domesticate money that would resolve the problems we have identified without doing much harm, in our view, to the main features of the model.
Diasporic philanthropy, shaped by migration, globalisation and evolving forms of giving, is increasingly attracting scholarly attention. Yet research in this area remains fragmented, often constrained by limited theoretical frameworks and inconsistent definitions of diaspora. This article argues that conceptualisations of diaspora—whether explicit or implicit—profoundly influence how philanthropic practices are interpreted, shaping their scope, motivations and political or cultural significance. We present a conceptual review that maps four key approaches: transnational, political, cultural and identity-related. Together, these perspectives illuminate the diversity and complexity of diasporic philanthropy while clarifying its conceptual foundations and advancing future research.
Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is a commonly diagnosed mental health disorder, yet little is known about the priorities for funding, services, and research held by educators and ADHD coaches, particularly in Canada. This study, as part of a larger project surveying individuals with ADHD and those who support them in Canada, sought to develop a list of priorities held by educators and ADHD coaches (Total N = 122) for ongoing attention using the Delphi method for gaining consensus across multiple survey iterations. Results from the three waves of data collection suggest that our educator and ADHD coach participants working with children, adolescents, and emerging adults have wide ranging concerns. The most critical issues are with access to care, reduction of stigma in professional settings (e.g., healthcare and schools), adequate funding to support the availability of services, and increasing knowledge and awareness about ADHD, as well as the need for dedicated research attention for socio-emotional functioning in the context of ADHD and ADHD in girls and women. From this study, it is clear that although progress has been made in ADHD services and research, there are substantial unmet needs identified by individuals with ADHD and those who support them.
