Now that states have started legalizing recreational marijuana, will the president continue the government’s war on weed? Illustration by Victor Juhasz Tim Dickinson , Rolling Stone When voters in Colorado and Washington state legalized recreational marijuana in November, they thought they were declaring a cease-fire in the War on Drugs. Thanks to ballot initiatives that passed…
National Post Ministre des Finances: Jim Flaherty Photo: Adrian Wyld/The Canadian Press Over the years we’ve grown used to seeing finance ministers shuffle spending forward and back in time, or claim that a spending program is really a tax cut, or re-announce old programs as if they were new. But I don’t think I’ve ever…
Christian Neef, Der Spiegel For decades, some have suspected that Yakov Dzhugashvili, the oldest son of Soviet dictator Josef Stalin, surrendered to invading German forces instead of being captured. Files in a Russian archive now suggest that the suspicions might be warranted.
Critique du Canadian Lawyer . Charlie and the Angels: The Outlaws, the Hells Angels and the Sixty Years War, by Alex Caine, Random House Canada, 2012, pp. 272. Pop quiz: name the world’s largest outlaw motorcycle gang. I suspect most of you answered “Hells Angels,” the notorious California-based organization that more or less invented outlaw…
Slate.fr Seuls 55% de l’eau minérale embouteillée proviendraient d’une source, le reste serait de l’eau du robinet traitée. Mother Jones, qui tire ses informations du site de l’Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), relève que pour obtenir l’appellation «eau de source», un producteur doit collecter l’eau «à un endroit où elle s’écoule naturellement vers la surface de…
This wonderful website provides information about and links to the exhibits curated by the International Museum of Women (IMOW). The goal of the Museum is “to inspire creativity, awareness and action on vital global issues for women.” The Museum exists online only.
This wonderful website provides information about and links to the exhibits curated by the International Museum of Women (IMOW). The goal of the Museum is “to inspire creativity, awareness and action on vital global issues for women.” The Museum exists online only.
Joseph Facal, dans le Journal de Montréal «Dans Le Soleil de mardi dernier (le 19 mars), la journaliste Daphnée Dion-Viens nous rapportait les résultats d’une enquête menée par les chercheurs Jean-François Cardin et Érick Falardeau de l’Université Laval. À lire absolument. Les deux hommes ont demandé à 427 enseignants du primaire et du secondaire leur avis sur la…
Sur Orbis.info (…) en 1968, la branche canadienne, sous la direction du Père Jean-Grégoire de la Trinité (Jean-Gaston Tremblay, 1928-2011), prit son indépendance, son chef devenant le pape (Jean-)Grégoire XVII. Connu sous le nom d’Apôtres de l’Amour Infini, le groupe a essaimé à l’étranger également à partir de son centre québécois, même si son importance…