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Corruption in Quebec (The Economist)
Heads start to roll in a Canadian corruption scandal. More may follow . Quebeckers were outraged in 2010 when Maclean’s, a Canadian magazine, labelled their province the most corrupt in the country. True, a Quebec-based scandal had helped to topple the federal government in 2006, and evidence was mounting of bid-rigging and kickbacks in local administrations….
Documentaire exceptionnel
NBC News En 1962, les perceurs d’un tunnel entre Berlin-Est et Berlin-Ouest ont manqué d’argent. Ils ont eu l’idée de demander l’aide de la NBC. Celle-ci a filmé en direct les préparatifs et l’évasion et diffusé un documentaire en noir et blanc (78.54). Remarque: l’organisateur de l’évasion a par la suite émigré à Montréal. La…
Quand le Canada utilisait la famine pour se débarrasser des Indiens.
James Daschuk, The Globe and Mail Rather than feed the hungry among its wards (even adult “Registered Indians” were not full citizens until 1960), government-employed physicians used pangs of hunger to further their research into malnutrition. (….) Despite guarantees of food aid in times of famine in Treaty No. 6, Canadian officials used food, or rather…
Jean-Sébastien Marsan nous signale
ce communiqué full mougnou-mougnoudu Réseau québécois de Villes et Villages en santé (RQVVS) et Ville de Victoriaville Trois réseaux provinciaux du secteur municipal et la Ville de Victoriaville croient qu’il faut dorénavant imaginer, rêver et bâtir des municipalités capables de prendre le virage 100 % humain, 100 % durable, 100 % inclusif. (…) vont se…
Une petite vite du gouvernement Couillard a attiré l’attention des journalistes toujours curieux de la revue Tyee.
New bill violates long-standing principle: ‘Thou shall not block.’ Quebec’s Online Gambling Law Threatens Canada’s Open Web, by Michael Geist, TheTyee.ca (…) When the measure was first announced in the budget, the government noted that its own site was not meeting revenue targets and that it believed that website blocking would generate millions in additional revenue….