The historian Laurent Turcot, reprimanded for plagiarism by the University of Quebec at Trois-Rivières (UQTR), participated in the 100th anniversary festivities of the Société des alcools du Québec (SAQ), last year. The state-owned company says it has made the necessary checks and plans to keep its capsules online.
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“The SAQ provided a large part of the documentation that was used to develop the historical vignettes for our 100e anniversary in 2021”, replied to the Journal The direction. “In addition, before the broadcast of these, checks on the content were carried out,” she added.
In 2021, in a four-episode web series, Mr. Turcot spoke about the 100-year history of the Crown corporation and the evolution of alcohol in the province.
Friday morning, The newspaper revealed that the professor at UQTR, who also hosts the YouTube channel History will tell uswas the target of a complaint of plagiarism concerning certain passages of his book Sports and recreation: a history from the origins to the present day.
After an analysis carried out by a committee, the UQTR underlined in a letter sent to Mr. Turcot: “Certain quotations in your book are not presented as such […]which constitutes plagiarism.
Mr. Turcot answered the Journal that his book had, among other things, been prepared with the help of course notes and that some references may have been inadvertently removed. He nevertheless conceded that “some mistakes were made”. He received no sanction.