-
-
Social Media Update 2013 (Pew Research Center’s Internet Project.)
PewInternet.org Some 73% of online adults now use a social networking site of some kind. Facebook is the dominant social networking platform in the number of users, but a striking number of users are now diversifying onto other platforms. Some 42% of online adults now use multiple social networking sites. In addition, Instagram users are…
-
-
La Colombie-Britannique est la capitale de l’alcool frelaté au Canada.
Hanging Out with the Moonshine Outlaws of British Columbia By Jesse Donaldson, revue Vice
-
Épidémie d’alcool frelaté en Afrique. Le pire endroit: l’Ouganda. (Documentaire, 35.11)
Vice Ugandans are the hardest drinking Africans in the motherland, both in terms of per capita consumption and the hooch they choose to chug. Waragi, or “war gin,” is what they call the local moonshine, and it makes the harshest Appalachian rotgut taste like freaking Bailey’s.
-
Un dossier de l’hebdo The Economist
The recorded world Every step you take As cameras become ubiquitous and able to identify people, more safeguards on privacy will be needed (…) Glass may fail, but a wider revolution is under way. In Russia, where insurance fraud is rife, at least 1m cars already have cameras on their dashboards that film the road…
-
Incidemment, ils sont au Québec
École Gülen en France : “On n’est ni une secte, ni des intégristes” Charlotte Oberti/FRANCE 24 Le mouvement musulman turc Gülen a implanté une de ses écoles privées en banlieue parisienne. Prônant un enseignement laïc, le mouvement espère s’installer durablement en France et lever les suspicions qui pèsent sur lui. Reportage.
-
L’enfer des centres d’appels
Gabrielle Duchaine, La Presse
-
“The Fall of France”, l’article du Newsweek qui scandalise la France
Newsweek I did not mind, initially, paying higher taxes than in Britain in exchange for excellent health care, and for masterful state-subsidized schools like the one my son attends (L’Ecole Alsacienne – founded by some of the few remaining Huguenots at the end of the 19th century). As a new mother, I was surprised at…
-
Les universités et les multinationales de l’édition
Pierre Trudel Journal de Montréal Lorsqu’on apprend que l’Université de Montréal est poussée à se désabonner d’un ensemble de 1 142 périodiques de la collection Wiley Online Library, il faut s’interroger sur les pratiques de plus en plus contestées des multinationales qui contrôlent une large part de l’édition scientifique internationale. Sur cette page du Kiosque, on…