Tout ce que cette journaliste de La Presse n’a pas écrit dans ses nombreux articles vachement positifs sur les croisières est résumé plus bas dans un seul paragraphe d’un livre signalé en 2014 par le Kiosque. Les vachement positifs : “ De nouveaux paquebots sont lancés chaque saison, on assiste à la diversification continuelle des…
1,000,000 Minutes of Newsreel Footage by AP & British Movietone Released on YouTube Sur Open Culture This release of “more than 1 million minutes” of news,writes Variety, includes archival footage of “major world events such as the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, exclusive footage of the bombing of Pearl Harbor in 1941, the fall of the Berlin…
«There’s a lot more to the latest infant-feeding angst than moms judging moms and the most devastating judgment comes from advocacy groups and health-care professionals» Sydney Loney du National Post Most recently, photos of celebrities like Olivia Wilde and Gwen Stefani breastfeeding in public that have helped raise awareness of women’s right to breastfeed “anytime,…
«Chez les enfants de deux ans en Montérégie, seulement 34 % sont vaccinés dans les temps. Une statistique qui doit augmenter selon le Dr Rodrigue, qui croit que pour y parvenir, le réseau devrait améliorer l’accès aux vaccins, notamment en offrant des heures de service plus étendues.» Ariane Lacoursière de La Presse Même si l’efficacité…
80 years of Historical Studies issues now archived and searchable online The Canadian Catholic Historical Association is excited to announce that we have partnered with Google to provide public access to full-length articles to Historical Studies archives from dating back to 1933.
Canada is the most-sued country under international free trade agreements that make it possible for private companies to sue governments for billions of dollars if a law threatens to hurt their profits. Now more legal trouble could be on the way under the Trans Pacific Partnership. Companies Will Be Able to Sue Governments For Breaking…
Réforme de l’éducation : Aveux, confessions, espérances Par Normand Baillargeon dans Le Devoir Depuis plus d’un quart de siècle, je suis professeur en sciences de l’éducation à l’UQAM. […] Je quitterai prématurément ce milieu sous peu, pour des raisons qui ont beaucoup à voir avec la réforme québécoise de l’éducation. […] Faut-il s’étonner, dès lors, que,…
Crash to Paywall : Canadian Newspapers and the Great Disruption Par Brian Gorman, McGill-Queen’s University Press MacEwan University assistant professor of communication Brian Gorman argues that the Internet and the 2008 economic downturn had deleterious effects on mainstream print newspapers, but much of the damage they have suffered predates these seismic shifts, and much of it has…
Magical Thinking about Isis, par Adam Shatz du London Review of Books (…) But IS says very clearly in its communiqué that it’s attacking Paris both for ‘the crusader campaign’ and as ‘the capital of prostitution and vice’ – and it seems obtuse not to take it at its word. To be sure, anger over Western…
For nearly a year, a war has been unfolding in strange corners of the Internet. But can a bunch of hackers really take on the world’s deadliest jihadi group? Anonymous vs. the Islamic State, by E.T. Brooking, Foreign Policy This is something new. Anonymous arose from the primordial, and often profane, underground web forums to…