Ottawa – Statistics Canada, prepares to tell the past 30 years of the economic history of the Canada, an exercise that will also learn about some dark concepts of economics. From Monday morning, the Federal Agency will publish an in-depth study of the economic data of the past 30 years, as well as introduce new [...]

Bécancour – Hundreds of people took part, Sunday, in a great market to save the nuclear plant, Gentilly-2, in Bécancour, in the Centre-du-Québec. Marois announced the closure of the plant which employs more than 800 skilled workers. Opponents of this decision, the Government should have, due to the economic impact of a closure on the [...]

The Bermuda cruise ‘At the end of October, a friend and I must go on a cruise to Bermuda. It will stop three days to visit the archipelago. It is our first visit, and probably the only, then what should we focus to have a good overview? This is our second cruise and at the [...]

The Federation québécoise (FQM) municipalities considering favourably the merger of the Ministry of Municipal Affairs, regions and Occupation of the territory with the Department of transport, said its president, Bernard Généreux, on the margins of annual of the Federation, which concluded Saturday in Quebec City. The Congress also gave rise to a first meeting with [...]

Ottawa – The Canada Revenue Agency discovered millions of dollars in unpaid taxes by performing a simple credit check, a practice employed by the banks for years. The initiative also enabled to trace nearly 3 million intended for the GST which had collected by new businesses without ever be delivered to Ottawa, or that they [...]

New York – The number one association players Donald Fehr and Commissioner Gary Bettman have continued to discuss in private Saturday, as part of efforts to come to a new employment contract in the NHL. While groups of negotiations both parties addressed the definition of revenues coming from hockey, are to share in the heart [...]

There was a time, not so distant, when the mere mention of humanism was enough to disqualify a thought. The essence of man, little to express it, seemed not only unattainable, but she had the figure of an oppressive idealism: why should still seek to determine whether the net effects were bid, sexism and the [...]

The debate that comes to re-emerge around the draft Charter of the secularism that is promised by the Parti Québécois brings together two divergent visions of society: multiculturalism and the defence of a national culture. Critics of the current multiculturalism often see Claude Lévi-Strauss (1908-2009) the father of this social philosophy. But in the review [...]

Washington – The former publishing Director of the New York Times Arthur Ochs Sulzberger, who had led for three decades the American daily, died Saturday at the age of 86 after a long illness, his family announced. Under his leadership, the newspaper won 31 Pulitzer Prize, published the “Pentagon Papers,” documents classified on the Viet [...]

The manufacture and use of dictionaries have fundamentally changed with the arrival of new modes of communication that allows Internet. Not only are no longer uses dictionaries of the same way, but how to even make them has drastically changed. That’s what notes Louis Ménard, retired professor of the Department of accounting sciences of UQAM [...]

Two or three times a month, Le Devoir challenge enthusiasts of philosophy, history and history of ideas to decrypt a topical issue from the theses of a significant thinker. The debate that comes to re-emerge around the draft Charter of the secularism that is promised by the Parti Québécois brings together two divergent visions of [...]

Just a day after the presentation of a budget of austerity for 2013, the Spain estimated Friday that its banks may ask 40 billion euros in the eurozone, a calculation hailed in Brussels and which could pave the way for the rescue of the country. The audit, overseen by the firm Oliver Wyman, American revealed [...]

He had to be there. Up market-by-market the great stairs. Land to the castle of Grignan and contemplate its majestic, cleverly lit facade to highlight old textures. To say that it is very apropos that the staging of the learned ladies by Denis Marleau, born in this lovely setting. It cannot be invented: Philaminte, Christiane [...]

Le Grand Dictionnaire terminologique, sponsored by the Office québécois de la langue française, gets a makeover by offering a brand new interface that optimizes its research in various forms to the user here and elsewhere in recent months. And all this in Internet. “Le Grand Dictionnaire terminologique, it is also called the GDT, is a [...]

That they are The Hunger Games or The Road, Gattaca or Children of Men, Farenheit 451 or A Clockwork Orange, the anticipation films have in common one thing: they imagine a future so black that they reconcile us with the present. Totalitarian regimes or environmental debacles, media empires or nuclear accidents, the future will no [...]