The holidays are a time to renew our energy and to come together with friends and family. They also offer us a chance to reflect on the work we have…
A Civic Incubator Cohort highlighting Montreal’s remarkable capacity for innovation in the social transition
12 April 2022
12 April 2022
The Maison de l’innovation sociale team recently welcomed nearly 60 participants for a social-innovation training short program.
18 October 2021
7 October 2021
“Plants dismissed as “just a weed” have yet an ecosystemic role to play, they might also have ancestral applications that have been or are being lost due to a lack…
31 August 2021
“Education and vocational training leading to a diploma are possibly the most powerful levers for developing autonomy, social inclusion and access to civic life.”
24 February 2021
2 February 2021
16 December 2020
“My neighbourhood has the soul of a village,” city dwellers often say. Because neighbourhoods weave social ties, give roots to local culture, and form part of their residents’ history, they…
28 September 2020
An estimated 35,000 young people in Canada experience homelessness each year¹. It’s a troubling figure. Studies indicate, however, that the real number may be substantially higher. A full picture of…
22 April 2020
10 March 2020
17 February 2020
The MIS recruits a strategic advisory team to increase its capacity to respond to demand.
9 October 2019
1 October 2019
Having gradually disappeared from dictionaries, even though it has been in use since the Middle Ages, the term “matrimoine” is regaining its proper place in the French language.
Within fewer than 10 years, an estimated 25% of the Quebec population will be 65 years of age or older. What housing options are available to aging people with different…
20 November 2018
The Maison de l’innovation sociale’s place of work is in Tiohtiá:ke (Montreal), an unceded traditional Indigenous territory. Many Indigenous peoples converged here long before the arrival of European settlers, and still do today. This includes the Kanien'kehá:ka (Mohawk) Nation, a member of the Haudenosauni Confederacy and the custodian of the water and lands of Tiohtiá:ke. This is a gesture of solidarity with Indigenous Peoples.
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