To look smart at holiday meals

News moves quickly. A look back at the significant events of 2023, just to give you a head start in time for your family reunions.

The year of Taylor Swift

She is a singer-songwriter and businesswoman, her tour Eras is enjoying enormous success, she has recently become a billionaire (according to Bloomberg) and she is all the rage in the world of the NFL when she encourages her new boyfriend Travis Kelce: the name of Taylor Swift has been on everyone’s lips in 2023. So good that the magazine Time named her personality of the year. The chances are therefore high that you will come across “Swifties” at your holiday dinners. To impress them, here is the Taylor Swift 101 course given by our colleague Alexandre Sirois, himself a “Swiftie”.

How are our children?

It’s been a month since public primary and secondary schools have been closed due to the teachers’ strike in a large part of Quebec, including Montreal. This strike will have an impact on children, particularly those who were already experiencing learning difficulties. In Quebec, approximately one child in four has learning difficulties, and it continues to increase. For what ? Our colleague Marie-Eve Fournier wondered what was wrong with our children in a long file published in the spring.

How is Quebec’s carbon footprint?

With forest fires, floods and episodes of poor air quality last summer, we may be talking about the environment at the table between the turkey and the Yule log. Is Quebec reducing its greenhouse gas emissions? We have just had the latest data for the year 2021. Our colleague Philippe Mercure explains all this to you.

“Bring TA game to the game »

You don’t really follow hockey, but you want to impress your relatives who are crazy about the Montreal Canadiens? You have four things to know: 1) the team is rebuilding; 2) it would be surprising if she made the series; 3) forward Cole Caufield doesn’t score often enough; 4) head coach Martin St-Louis has become a star with his entertaining quotes. He even became the spokesperson for Hydro-Québec to convince us to save our energy! Our colleague Nathalie Collard explains the deeper meaning of several of her statements, including the famous “Bring TA game to the game “.

Donald Trump in the presidential election?

Rule number one of parties family: avoid controversial subjects, politics, for example. Former US President Donald Trump’s name could, however, surface because 1) he is facing four criminal trials in the United States; 2) he is favored to be the Republican candidate for the presidential election in November 2024; 3) he has just been banned from being on the Republican primary ballot in Colorado, due to his participation in an “insurrection” in January 2021. This latest decision from the Colorado Supreme Court goes directly to the Supreme Court of the United States. Our colleague Yves Boisvert summarizes this latest debate for you.