Isabelle Maher, Journal de Montréal Le premier hôpital public, une banque, une première voie ferrée et même un stade: la contribution de la famille Molson au développement économique et au patrimoine architectural de Montréal est loin de se limiter à la bière. Retour sur plus de deux siècles d’histoire. «Peu de familles peuvent dire qu’elles ont…
A Day at China’s Toughest Internet Addiction Rehab Jamie Fulletron, Motherboard […] The average patient age is 17, which makes the boisterous atmosphere here akin to that of a school rather than a prison camp. The exit staircase is blocked by an enormous padlocked metal door, however, and serves as an indicator of the controversy…
Birmingham Trojan Horse letter ‘no hoax’ BBC News A letter outlining a plot by some Muslims to take over schools in Birmingham was “no hoax”, according to the city’s education commissioner Sir Mike Tomlinson. The anonymous Trojan Horse letter, discovered in 2013, included advice on installing school governors. It has been the subject of four…
The dominican Time Bomb New York Times Like so many visitors to the Dominican Republic before and since, I saw a deep vein of racism and xenophobia that a world more interested in the country’s beaches and ballplayers generally prefers to ignore. That changed last month, when news spread of the Caribbean nation’s plan toexpel…
Little Beth Thomas‘s soft, sweet demeanour as she calmly reveals to her therapist Dr. Ken Magid, how she tortured animals and sexually molested her brother Jonathan are about the most bone-chilling imaginable. Beth was a victim of childhood sexual abuse until she was approximately 19 months old. Her mother died when she was one year old and she…
Des chercheurs ont localisé dans l’épaisse forêt du Cameroun le lieu de la première contamination, autour de 1900. Paris Match (…) « On estime qu’entre 1884 et 1920 plusieurs hommes, en contact avec des chimpanzés, ont été infectés près de Mambélé par le virus VIH-1 M, raconte, la voix grave, le charismatique colonel. Ils dépérissaient, contaminaient…
Un Abitibien témoin des effets dévastateurs de cette drogue cherche à sensibiliser les jeunes Journal de Montréal
Médiamosaïque “Noir de monde”, telle est l’expression qui rend justice à l’image qui s’imposait à l’Oratoire St-Joseph du Mont-Royal à l’occasion du passage en terre canadienne du premier cardinal haïtien, Chibly Langlois.
— Scientology’s enturbulating lingo By Britt Peterson Boston Globe In January 2008, America saw one of its most familiar movie stars talking in a most unfamiliar way. “The thing is, I just go through that tech,” says Tom Cruise in a YouTube video introduced as “Tom Cruise on Tom Cruise, Scientologist,”the star wearing a black…
BBC News The current popularity of long-form television is at odds with modern society’s notoriously short attention span. Is there a limit to viewers’ patience, asks Adam Gopnik. The business of choosing a long-form television series to become addicted to is eerily like the act of marriage itself. One or two episodes are, so to…