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The coral reef was discovered in the Finlayson Channel area, northwest of Vancouver.
A Canadian coral reef
” You light Up [les projecteurs] and you realize you’re the first person to see it all: beautiful pinks and purples and yellows, crevices, mounds. […] Everywhere you look, there is life. » This is how Cherisse Du Preez, ecologist at Fisheries and Oceans Canada, describes the discovery of the “only known living coral reef in Canada”. Discovered off the coast of British Columbia thanks to information from First Nations, the reef was named Lophelia and is the northernmost in the entire Pacific Ocean. A magnificent find that we must now hasten to protect.
Philippe Mercury, The Press
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Surrounded by 62 dancers, 4 other Kens and Slash on guitar, Ryan Gosling performed I’m Just Kensong from the film barbie during the Oscars ceremony.
Big pink glasses
Since Sunday, I’ve watched Ryan Gosling’s performance at the Oscars dozens of times. Everything was perfect in his interpretation of I’m Just Kensong from the film barbie : the tribute to Marilyn Monroe and the song Diamonds Are a Girl’s Best Friendthe surprise appearance of Slash on guitar, Greta Gerwig, Margot Robbie and America Ferrera singing a verse, the nod to actress Emma Stone with whom he starred in the film La La Land… In total, 62 dancers and 4 other Kens participated in the number which had been planned for months. A moment of pure candy pink happiness that really felt good.
Nathalie Collard, The Press
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PHOTO DOMINICK GRAVEL, LA PRESSE ARCHIVES
Montreal’s first home game, at the Verdun Auditorium, on January 13
Montrealers at the Bell Center
Montrealers are having an exceptional season at the gates (and on the ice) in the new Professional Women’s Hockey League. These are the most popular tickets in town: the team always sells out the Verdun Auditorium, sometimes also at Place Bell in Laval like last Saturday. And it has just been announced that the Montrealers will play a match at the Bell Center on Saturday, April 20. Tickets will go on sale next Wednesday. Prediction: it will be a full house (21,301 seats). If so, we will set a new attendance record for a professional women’s hockey game. Filling the Bell Center in its first season is beyond expectations for this league which has the wind in its sails.
Vincent Brousseau-Pouliot, The Press
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For the first time in 2022, fewer than 5 million children died before reaching the age of 5.
Infant mortality: clear progress
Child mortality worldwide has just fallen to its lowest level in history. For the first time, less than 5 million children died before reaching the age of 5 on our planet (figures are from 2022). The fall is spectacular: in the year 2000, there were 9.9 million deaths. This didn’t happen by chance. Behind this result “hide” among other things “the stories of midwives and skilled health workers who help mothers give birth safely, the stories of health workers who vaccinate and protect children against deadly diseases” , underlined UNICEF. We rejoice at this progress while being saddened by an overwhelming observation: the number of preventable child deaths is still far too high.
Alexandre Sirois, The Press
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