What Putin wants, what Joly can

23Jan

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What Putin wants, what Joly can

While tens of thousands of Russian soldiers are massed around Ukraine, where Mélanie Joly was recently on mission, we have to admit that Vladimir Putin is the real master of the game. Posted at 5:00 a.m. Since the beginning of this crisis, it is he who has the best cards. He is also the most threatening. Thus, to know how this dramatic crisis will end, one would have to know its true intentions. To what extent, for example, does he yearn to carve up Ukrainian territory a little more? Does he really want, at all costs, to "destroy Ukraine" and "restore ...

23Jan

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Splendors and Miseries of Public Health

François Legault is exasperated. The Minister of Education is besieged. His colleague in charge of sports is handcuffed. Like a beacon in the night, she has become the sole arbiter of all these debates. The only truth. But there you have it, the pandemic has taught us one thing. Public Health is not infallible. This is how the Legault government, like all the others, is forced to face the storm on quicksand. Open the windows! The perennial debate on ventilation in schools is the perfect example. Minister Jean-François Roberge has been criticized and shouted down for months for his refusal to install air purifiers in schools. Here he is condemned to plead that there is nothing like opening the windows, even when it is freezing cold outside. Let...

23Jan

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Breathless nurses | The Press

Exhausted and overworked, nurses lift the veil on the “unlivable” and “inhuman” context in which they work. Some have slammed the door, others are anticipating their retirement or going on sick leave. And those who remain are at their wit's end. Posted at 5:00 a.m. Florence Morin Martel The Press Gabrielle Duchaine The Press “It had become unlivable. » After 11 years a...

State of play less than 100 days before the 2022 Presidential

23Jan

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State of play less than 100 days before the 2022 Presidential

Our columnist Mathieu Bock-Côté is currently staying in France, from where he observes French news from a Quebec perspective. Less than a hundred days before the presidential election, France is heating up. The debates are multiplying and the polls are often contradictory. Emmanuel Macron dominates the race. He is a brilliant political strategist. However, the twists and turns of the health crisis are beginning to weaken it. But if Emmanuel Macron clearly dominates the race, it is not clear who he will face in the second round. There is a good chance that it will be Marine Le Pen, as in 2017. The populist candidate, from the National Rally, whom many believed to be buried for good, has shown real resilience. She is in her third preside...

22Jan

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Allergic to the cold… for real

A teenager has to be extra vigilant when going out since she developed a rare allergy... to the cold. A headache as much during polar temperatures, in winter, as for swimming, in summer. • Read also: Avalanche of cold across the province "The first time it happened to me, I found myself with a very intense skin reaction, I did not understand what was happening to me because the only thing I had done was go to the cold explains Eryn Margolese, a 15-year-old girl who lives in Hampstead, on the island of Montreal. It was after this outing in March 2020 that the young girl noticed that her legs and arms were covered with red patches. Accompanied by her parents, she goes to the Montreal Children's Hospital. Not a soap At first, the doctors thought it was wash...

22Jan

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Four options to counter inflation

OTTAWA | Food, petrol, housing, transport... the prices of all products and services rose in December, reigniting the debate on the role of government in the fight against inflation. The Conservatives continue to blame Justin Trudeau and demand a plan to help families, while the Liberals push the problem into the court of the Bank, which controls interest, the main weapon to counter inflation. They are focusing on child care spaces and affordable housing to help families. But other options exist. Overview. strategic oil In November, the United States and other countries, including China, India and Japan, agreed to release some of their strategic oil reserves in an effort to drive down the price of black gold. , one of the key drivers of global inflation. Ca...

“CPEs have been a real revolution” for Quebec

22Jan

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“CPEs have been a real revolution” for Quebec

The establishment of the network of Early Childhood Centers (CPE) has completely upset family dynamics in Quebec, says former Prime Minister Pauline Marois, even if she considers it an unfinished dream. On January 23, 1997, the new family policy, including the creation of $5 day care centers – the CPEs – was launched under the leadership of Pauline Marois. Then Minister of Education, Mr.me Marois indicates that this project will improve the development of children, but above all facilitate the work-family balance of women. Twenty-five years later, the instigator of this policy believes that the results have exceeded all expectations. The impacts are numerous: significant reduction in poverty, support for the education of young people and creation of collecti...

22Jan

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The gyms are without news from Quebec

Without news from the government, fitness centers in Quebec plead for their reopening to be prioritized because of their role in the health of the population. • Read also: It's time to give a reopening date As the government considers a resumption of civilian and extracurricular sport on January 31, gyms have no idea if they are included, laments Gabriel Hardy, owner of Le Chalet gym in Quebec City and provincial spokesperson for the Canadian Council. of the packaging industry. Pho...

“We must distinguish the desire of the left and what the left gives to see” – Liberation

22Jan

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“We must distinguish the desire of the left and what the left gives to see” – Liberation

InterviewArticle reserved for subscribersPresidential Election 2022dossierEleven weeks before the first round of the presidential election, "Liberation" met the former Keeper of the Seals, who intends to validate his candidacy by the popular Primary. She claims the environmentalist label and highlights her thirty years of political life.Thursday morning: Eric Plumer walks into a café in the 7th arrondissement of Paris. In the middle, he is nicknamed "Jaurès". He walks slowly, glancing sideways. For many years, it was he who managed the security of the Socialist Party. The strong man knows all the heads (François Hollande, Martine Aubry, Benoît Hamon…) and the secrets. A sort of archive. He was fired by the roses at the start of the five-year term after a social plan. A trauma. ...

22Jan

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Avalanche of cold across the province

January temperatures continue to chill the province and set records as the month lines up to become the coldest in 18 years in the Montreal area. • Read also: Extreme cold: broken water pipes in Montreal and Laval • Read also: Hydro-Québec: consumption records caused by freezing weather • Read also: Allergic to the cold... for real “We really have an arctic cold that has set in and hasn't let up since the second week of January. It's a winter that started late, but should end early too,” explains Patrick Duplessis, meteorologist at Météomédia. It hadn't been so cold for a long time. The South Shore of Montreal had not experienced such a morning since 1994 and smashed a mark for January 22. But it is really Quebec that holds the most impressive record...