Il y a 75 ans, le 7 décembre 1941, l’attaque de Pearl Harbor par les Japonais.


Holly Baxter and Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett The most curmudgeonly old feminist has got to be glad that in February 2012 two young women set up a blog raging about the insidious nastiness of the women’s press and got seven million hits in its first year of operation.
‘In my view there is no media outlet in Canada brave enough to allow a full and proper discussion of Islam’ Barbara Amiel Maclean’s (…) The West has been ready to give up on itself for some time now. We have no idea of what we stand for and seem to have no faith…
Selon Henry de Puyjalon, des goélettes se chargent tous les printemps des œufs enlevés sur le littoral nord du golfe Saint-Laurent. Il estime à 2 500 000 les œufs d’oiseaux de mer ainsi enlevés chaque année et vendus sur les marchés de New-York et de Boston. Pour en savoir plus : La page Wikipédia de Henry…
Annals of public relations: the food industry vs. obesity Yesterday was a blitz day for food industry public relations. PR #1. Coca-Cola placed a full-page ad in the New York Times: “Beating obesity will take all of us.” Coke’s promises [with my comments]: Offer low- or no-calorie drinks in every market [but focus advertising on the…
Par Rex Murphy “Remember the scene. The Liberals, post-Ignatieff, post-electoral drubbing, were toxic. Ignatieff himself wasted no time in scurrying away from the scene of the carnage. His disappearance from the public stage was so swift and so total it will be a model for future witness-protection programs.”
L’actualité Les portes cochères, le Château Frontenac, la gare du Palais, les portes Kent et Saint-Louis : côté architecture, le Vieux-Québec a plus hérité du Régime britannique que de la Nouvelle-France! Un secret bien gardé qui commence à s’ébruiter… — Les anglos d’aujourd’hui : le boulot et l’amour Les anglophones de toutes origines ne sont…