La Presse Les Montréalais ont dépensé 24 millions de dollars dans l’aventure Bixi depuis son lancement. Selon le maire de Montréal, Denis Coderre, ce sont les Montréalais qui doivent sauver Bixi. Qui sont ces grands discrets de Bixi? Conseil d’administration de Bixi M. Éric Bergeron Associé – Raymond Chabot Grand Thornton (On…
Marcus Wohlsen Wired (…) Since the beginning, Google has cultivated the idea that its results are—like good journalism—unbiased, complete, and compelling. Nowhere is that message more clearly telegraphed than in the design of Google’s search interface itself. Google isn’t a person. It’s just this little box. Put your search here and the smartest computers in…
Newberry Digital Exhibitions Starting in the 17th century, French explorers were wandering all over the Midwest looking for navigable rivers, lucrative trading resources, and native people to convert to Christianity. This exhibition from the Newberry Library in Chicago tells the story of French Canadians in the Midwest via maps, prints, and a range of other…
La Croix Sortir quelqu’un de l’emprise d’un gourou en cinq minutes après des mois de travail comprenant même des filatures: c’est la méthode dite de “l’exit counseling”, importée des Etats-Unis et qui arrive discrètement en France.
François Cardinal La Presse (…) Imaginez: on prévoit que les travaux sur le site Glen du CUSM seront terminés l’automne prochain… et on commence à peine à prendre au sérieux le sort du Royal-Victoria qui sera, à même date l’an prochain, complètement vide! Et après ça, sur une période d’à peine deux ans, ce sont…
The Caliphate Returns Superbe analyse, comme toujours, de Gwynne Dyer. C’est limpide, bref, et il n’y a pas un seul mot de trop. (…) So much for the fantasy. What’s the reality? A group of jihadis have seized a big chunk of eastern Syria and western Iraq, erased the border between them, and declared an Islamic State. As…
The Local A majority of Danes think it should be harder to come to Denmark under family reunification rules, according to a new Epinion poll for Danmarks Radio. Fifty-four percent of poll respondents were in favour of tighter family reunification requirements, while only 25 percent were against making the rules harder.
Jed S. Rakoff, The New York Review of Books Five years have passed since the onset of what is sometimes called the Great Recession. While the economy has slowly improved, there are still millions of Americans leading lives of quiet desperation: without jobs, without resources, without hope. Who was to blame? Was it simply a…
Pendant 9 mois, Benjamin Carle a décidé de vivre en made in France. Il résulte de cette expérience un documentaire . Benjamin Carle. – A 26 ans, j’appartiens à une génération qui n’a connu que la mondialisation. Récemment, le Made in France est devenu un élément du langage politique et médiatique récurrent. Pourtant, personne ne…
The Atlantic CSI and Law & Order would have you believe that a crime scene empties out after the glitzy detectives are done with it. In reality, somebody else has to come in and clean it all up. There is blood all over the room. It’s on the walls and it has seeped into the cracks in the…