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Les augmentations des boss de la STM? Comme sur des roulettes
By Andy Riga, GAZETTE TRANSPORTATION REPORTER July 24, 2013 . MONTREAL – As Montrealers fumed about fare hikes and repeated métro breakdowns, several of the Société de transport de Montréal’s top managers were enjoying big pay raises last year. The salaries of 12 top STM managers jumped by more than 10 per cent in 2012 compared with…
À mourir de rire
Écharpe, barbe, dessert, toilette, pelure d’orange: attention, danger. Les 30 décès les plus étranges de l’histoire racontés par le site Neatorama (en anglais) “Homer and Langley Collyer were compulsive hoarders. The two brothers had a fear of throwing anything away and obsessively collected newspapers and other junk in their house. They even set up booby-traps in…
Werner Herzog s’attaque au texto au volant dans un documentaire dévastateur (35 min.)
Les trente-cinq minutes du film D’une seconde à l’autre (From one second to the next) promettent d’effrayer instantanément les conducteurs. Le nouveau documentaire du réalisateur allemand Werner Herzog vous garantit que vous ne toucherez plus jamais à ce téléphone au volant. D’une seconde à l’autre examine les situations mortelles, selon la perspective des victimes et des responsables, pour montrer combien…
Une série de trois articles de la Gazette
Corruption, chantage et l’Hôtel de ville de Montréal «Ils voulaient me corrompre», Jean Fortier ancien numéro 2 de la ville de Montréal Former executive committee chairman Jean Fortier recounts his experience at city hall and warns the Charbonneau Commission’s scope and mandate are too narrow to truly fight corruption …. Jean Fortier details weaknesses that can…
Army: The Inflatable Tanks That Fooled Hitler
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Future of News Audiences: what’s next as young fail to become strong news consumers
Poynter. Pew Research Center: researchers in 2012 asked consumers how many minutes they devoted to taking in the news the day before. While the Silent Generation spent 84 minutes with the news, Boomers devoted 77 minutes and Gen Xers reported 66 minutes, Millennials said they spent just 46 minutes consuming news — a figure that…