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COVID-19 |  When Ontario Acts and Quebec Waits
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COVID-19 | When Ontario Acts and Quebec Waits

Of the 432 million paid by the federal government to ensure a “safe return to class”, Quebec would have used only a tiny part of it to improve ventilation in schools, our colleague Vincent Brousseau-Pouliot recently taught us. Posted at 5:00 a.m. Ontario, for its part, deployed funds from Ottawa in the fall of 2020 to install 70,000 air purifiers in its classrooms. Which province made the best decision? The future may tell us. But this case is not unique and it is part of a trend. Since the start of the pandemic, Ontario has been rapidly adopting new t...
Increase in antisemitic acts worldwide in 2021
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Increase in antisemitic acts worldwide in 2021

(Jerusalem) Acts with anti-Semitic motives reached their highest level in ten years in 2021 with more than ten incidents per day worldwide, according to a report published Monday by the Jewish Agency and the World Zionist Organization. Posted at 10:10 a.m. Nearly 50% of anti-Semitic acts occurred in Europe and nearly 30% in the United States, the annual report says. “This year has seen a record number of anti-Semitic acts around the world,” he worries. “The main acts recorded are vandalism, destruction, tagging and the desecration of tombstones, followed by...