Boys are being outclassed by girls at both school and university, and the gap is widening The Economist The OECD deems literacy to be the most important skill that it assesses, since further learning depends on it. Sure enough, teenage boys are 50% more likely than girls to fail to achieve basic proficiency in any…
Sophie Durocher, Journal de Montréal On est en septembre 2016. Le gouvernement libéral fait adopter sa LCCQRDR (Loi contre ceux qui rient des religions). Interdiction de rire d’un prophète, de ridiculiser un pape, de se gausser d’un rabbin, de railler un évêque, de caricaturer un imam. Le gouvernement met en place sa PRR (Police de…
The company is conducting an experiment in how far it can push white-collar workers to get them to achieve its ever-expanding ambitions. By Jodi Kantor and David Streitfeld, New York Times — What kind of monster is Amazon? Margaret Wente, The Globe and Mail Could you work at Amazon? Probably not. You’re too soft. Amazon is…
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Committed: Stories About Stays in Psychiatric Facilities LongReads The experiences of those committed—voluntarily or not—to a psychiatric facility. From One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest to Nellie Bly’s 19th century expose to American Horror Story: Asylum, the “madhouse” occupies a weird space in America’s psyche, equal parts fascinating and feared. But the experiences of the patients and their caretakers are, obviously,…
Device use increasingly intrudes on rehearsals, auditions and backstage culture Wall Street Journal
Radio-Canada Les députés libéraux Gilles Ouimet et Marguerite Blais, qui viennent d’annoncer leur départ de la politique, toucheront leur allocation de transition.
Concord Monitor A “bias-free language guide” written by University of New Hampshire faculty has come under criticism from the school’s president and state officials. The guide, published in 2013, was meant to educate students and faculty about using “inclusive language” that does not stereotype individuals “or demean people based on personal characteristics” including gender, race,…
Mathieu Bock-Côté, Journal de Montréal L’imam Salam Elmenyawi a été la grande vedette de la semaine à la commission parlementaire examinant le projet de loi 59 sur les «discours haineux». Devant les députés, il a expliqué doctement qu’il ne devrait plus être permis de rire des religions, de les moquer, de les tourner en ridicule….