Archive for October, 2012

Denis Coderre is headed for the Town Hall in April 2013…

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Ottawa – The long stripping of Denis Coderre to the City Hall of Montreal began Wednesday, while the MP for Bourassa has confirmed that it is would have no candidate for the leadership of the liberal party of the Canada. It has raised suddenly federal amount of issues by refusing to promise that he would [...]

Quebec City – Accused of harassment, Régis Labeaume persists

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The Mayor of Quebec Régis Labeaume maintains that he said on blue-collar workers and the absence of two employees of arenas because they were sick. Furious, the blue-collar Union accuses him of making “psychological harassment” against its members. The Mayor was taken Tuesday because two blue-collar were reported sick which had forced the closure of [...]

The headliners of the Salon du livre de Montréal

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There were other major book fairs in the history of the metropolis, but it’s the 35th continuously this year, from 14 to 19 November, at Place Bonaventure, the team of the Salon du livre de Montréal, on the theme “the authors headlining. In the program? More than 950 booths and hundreds of authors. Tuesday morning, [...]

Will Ferguson WINS Giller Prize

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Toronto – The author Will Ferguson, of Calgary, won Tuesday night literary award Giller – and the $50,000 scholarship that accompanies it – for his novel 419. The award-winning book, which focuses on a virtual scam, marked a turning point for the comic writer, who has written 10 books ranging from travel guides for small [...]

Sandy – millions of Americans to rescue storm

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Millions of people were deprived of electricity or were the feet in water Tuesday in the northeast of the United States, as a result of the passage of the Sandy megatempete. The disaster has caused at least 48 dead, and there is more doubt to the authorities that he is one of the worst storms [...]

Foreign investment – a flexibility, says an expert

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Ottawa – The Canada must make proof of flexibility in considering the offers of foreign acquisitions, in order to avoid that the system becoming algorithm “Yes/No”, which could then be foiled by determined companies to circumvent the system, warned a former Ambassador of the Canada in China. Howard Balloch, who is now the president of [...]

NPD-Québec – no effect on workforce Mulcair

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The election of Thomas Mulcair as head of the new Democratic Party had no significant effect on the strength of the training in Quebec – the number of members has only slightly increased. A relative stagnation deemed normal in the context by the president of the NDP Quebec section. Last March, 12 200 Quebecers were [...]

Free opinion – for recognition of the Innu nation

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Last year, the population of Uashat mak Mani-utenam (Innu community near Sept-Iles) underwent two referenda to determine the position of the members of the community next to a proposal filed by Hydro-Québec for the Romaine project. Members of the community have rejected two proposals for Hydro-Québec. Despite the rejection of our population, Hydro-Québec continues to [...]

Theatre – The first emotions

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Excitations, hesitations, caresses, kisses, blunders, discovered. It is especially when he tells his awakening to sexuality, in the solo play Isabelle, that actor Fabien Dupuis reveals a writing skin-deep and attentive to details. Otherwise, the piece delights in psychological considerations insufficiently developed on the impossibility of become a man before a castrating mother insisting spectrum. [...]

Study Canada – health care spending grew moderately

Society News | 123 views

Health care spending continues to grow at the Canada, but they do so at a moderate pace, reveals a study made public Tuesday by the Canadian Institute for the health information (CIHI). Although Quebec is the province where health care spending are the least high per capita, the phenomenon of the ageing of the population [...]

Conference – Three student leaders, three visions of the University culture

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Hundreds of students from the University of Montreal attended a brief return of spring yesterday afternoon, while the three stars of the student movement leaders were brought together as part of a conference organized by the Professor of the Department of sociology, Jacques Hamel. On the “Academic culture, what culture?” theme, Gabriel Nadeau-Dubois, spokesman of [...]

General elections – the Ukraine dilemma “Lance Armstrong”

International News | 159 views

Unsurprisingly, the OSCE as well as some NGOs identified several issues in the poll on Sunday last in Ukraine. They have denounced a decline of democracy in the country. But what think average Ukrainian? Why he re-elects a party at the head of which is the “cheater” against which they have fought during the orange [...]

Commission Charbonneau – Tremblay more isolated

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Gérald Tremblay is increasingly alone in believing that he can keep his duties as Mayor of Montreal. While Charbonneau commission heard Tuesday, an ex-organisateur say that he knew the underside of the occult financing of his party Union Montréal, on Parliament Hill, in Quebec City, the votes amounted to demand his departure. “The status quo [...]

Highway 167 – State Bill climbs 140 million

Economy News | 142 views

The extension of Highway 167 to the first Quebec diamond mine cost much more than expected. According to the most recent assessment of the Ministry of finance, the Bill announced by Jean Charest’s Liberals could increase more $ 140 million. However the agreement signed with the Stornoway Diamond mining provides that any additional expenses will [...]

The Greece of the sacrifices

Economy News | 118 views

The Greek Prime Minister announced Tuesday an agreement with the creditors of the country [EU, ECB and IMF] on the package of savings that the Greece must make to ensure its future in the euro, playing his hopes at the risk of weakening the Government coalition. “We concluded negotiations on measures [to discipline] and on [...]