Greater Sudbury Northern Life 
The Institut franco-ontarien (IFO), in together with Laurentian University, will launch two publications on Friday, Dec. 5, from 4 to 6 p.m., at L'Entre deux, on the second floor of the student centre at Laurentian University.
All are welcome to attend the wine and cheese held in honour of these two new publications.
The first is Fernand Dorais et le Nouvel-Ontario: Réflexions sur l'oeuvre et sur l'influence d'un provocateur franco-ontarien. Sous la direction de Gratien Allaire et Michel Giroux.
According to an IFO press release, Dorais was a professor in the department of French studies at Laurentian University from 1969 to 1993 and was a pivotal figure of the Franco Ontarian intellectual and cultural movement.
During a symposium organized by the IFO in 2004, researchers, and former colleagues and students of Dorais presented various aspects of the outspoken and controversial agitator.
The proceedings of the symposium offer a critical and emotional portrait of the exiled Jesuit in New Ontario, the rigorous and demanding professor, the mentor, the creator, his work and thought.
The second publication, Revue du Nouvel-Ontario, no 33, directed by Yvon Gauthier compiles five articles on French Ontario: a study of French Teachers' School in Sudbury by Pierre Riopel; a reflection on miners' accidents, suspensions and diseases by Guy Gaudreau; an examination of the use of media by francophones in the northwest by Nicole Corbett, Simon Laflamme and Chris Southcott; an analysis of Franco Ontarian resistance to the repatriation of the Constitution by Serge Dupuis; and an evaluation of the know-to-teach by Athanase Simbagoye.
The Institut franco-ontarien was founded in 1976 by a group of Laurentian University professors to unite francophone researchers and produce knowledge on French Ontario. The Revue du Nouvel-Ontario is a vehicle for this knowledge.
For more information, please contact the IFO at 675-1151, ext. 5026.
