La raison: Le rapport de la Vérificatrice générale du Québec a été si accablant envers la direction de l’Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières que la rectrice a démissionné. Le campus de l’UQTR à Drummondville est abordé dès les premières pages du rapport de plus de 200 pages. « Des lacunes ont été relevées quant à…
Revue Les Libraires Dans Histoire de l’édition littéraire au Québec au XXe siècle (Fides), Jacques Michon dresse le portrait du livre de poche dans la province. Ainsi, il explique qu’influencé par le pocketbook américain et le roman en fascicules (découlant du pulp magazine et du dime novel), le livre de poche fait son apparition au Québec dans les années 40. Pour la plupart,…
Un article de la BBC Many of us use earphones throughout the day to drown out noise in our commutes and at work. But is it prematurely damaging our hearing? Molly Crain investigates.
Globe and Mail The companies listed here are the 1,000 largest publicly traded Canadian corporations, measured by assets. They are ranked according to their after-tax profits in their most recent fiscal year, excluding extraordinary gains or losses. When companies state their results in U.S. dollars, we do the same, but rankings are based on the…
TED Talks Decades ago, few pediatricians had heard of autism. In 1975, 1 in 5,000 kids was estimated to have it. Today, 1 in 68 is on the autism spectrum. What caused this steep rise? Steve Silberman points to “a perfect storm of autism awareness” — a pair of psychologists with an accepting view, an…
300 enseignants par année victimes de voies de fait Journal de Montréal Ils sont intimidés sur les réseaux sociaux, victimes de voies de fait, mordus ou percutés par un objet lancé du fond de la classe. La violence envers les enseignants est bien présente dans les écoles du Québec. Chaque année, plus de 300 employés…
New York Times Nearly 60 million people are displaced around the world because of conflict and persecution, the largest number ever recorded by the United Nations. About 14 million of those fled in 2014, according to a report released this week.
With all the droughts happening across the world, water management has clearly become one of the most urgent challenges for governments and citizens to tackle. According to a recent study by NASA, twenty-one of the world’s 37 largest aquifers have passed their sustainability tipping points, meaning more water was removed than replaced during the decade-long…