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The language barrier of abortion in French Ontario
Access to abortion in French is difficult, if not impossible, for some women in Ontario. The only French-speaking university health establishment in the province – the Montfort Hospital in Ottawa…
Firefighter misses call after fall
A large rescue operation was still underway to save a firefighter who allegedly sank in the waters of the Lachine Canal on Sunday in Montreal. According to our information, the…
Quebec | Régis Labeaume’s strong sporting heritage
Since its opening in September 2015, the Videotron Center has aroused a lot of sarcasm: what a mistake to invest 370 million public money in an amphitheater without the assurance…
Fewer home-schooled children this year
After a notable increase last year, the number of homeschooling children is down this year. Some students whose parents had turned into teachers due to the pandemic have returned to…
Non-subsidized private daycare | Quebec wants to reduce parents’ bills
(Quebec) Quebec plans to reduce the bill for thousands of parents whose children attend an unsubsidized private daycare, has learned Press. Work is underway to improve the tax credit for…
Afghanistan | Kabul drug addicts forcibly weaned
(Kabul) They have shaved heads, oversized tunics and stalked looks. For drug addicts rounded up by the Taliban under a bridge in Kabul or entrusted by their families to a…
Municipal elections: Denis Coderre wants funds “dedicated” to the boroughs
If elected, Denis Coderre will inject $ 30 million per year into “dedicated funds” to the boroughs. “No more borough will be left behind for reasons of partisanship,” he says.…
Municipal elections: Plante commits to making it easier for Montrealers to buy housing
Montreal families will be able to reimburse real estate transfer taxes (commonly known as “welcome tax”) more easily if Projet Montreal is renewed as mayor. Valérie Plante’s party promises to…
Our choice tonight | The duty
100 years of struggle The Confederation of National Trade Unions is celebrating its first century of existence this year. This documentary by Hélène Choquette, who also directed the very recent…
Economic support: towards a tourist tax in small municipalities?
For small municipalities of a few hundred inhabitants, managing tourism is a headache. The thousands of weekly visitors, especially in the summer, contribute to the economic vitality of the community,…
French spelling, false diagnosis and false debate
Professor of literature in Montreal, editor-in-chief of the journal Argument and essayist, he has notably published These words that think for us (Liber, 2017) and The prose of Alain Grandbois,…
Aim for zero spread | The duty
Could it be that the world before is soon behind us? I am not talking about the pandemic, but outdated practices in urban development in Quebec. Next spring, the government…
Post-pandemic: towards a return to normal for public libraries
Public libraries are slowly, but surely, recovering from the pandemic, after difficult months, which would have been even more so had it not been for the immense success of the…
France remembers Quebec: the French tour of the “king of the North”
In partnership with RetroNews, the press site of the National Library of France, The duty offers a series that goes back to the media sources of the France-Quebec relationship, from…
Classical music: Montreal pianist Xiaoyu Liu in the final of the Chopin Competition
24-year-old Montreal pianist Xiaoyu Liu, trained at the Conservatory by Richard Raymond and at the University of Montreal by Dang Thai Son, gleaned his place on Saturday evening among the…
Cinema: Benedict Cumberbatch and Claire Foy, electric couple in “The Electrical Life of Louis Wain”
Have you ever spent too long minutes watching cat videos online? If he had lived today, Louis Wain would undoubtedly have devoted whole hours to this activity. Unless one has…
Foray into Montreal barber shops | Hair therapy
These are intriguing, intimidating places, classic barber shops that draw almost exclusively members of a defined cultural community. On the sidewalk, customers are waiting and passers-by can sense that there…
Sensation on TikTok | Cakes that are out of the ordinary
Sorry, your browser does not support videos SpongeBob SquarePants, Harry Potter, Ed Sheeran, Céline Dion … Briton Lara Mason creates breathtaking life-size cakes. Posted on October 17, 2021 at 11:00…
Your questions, our answers | How to travel to the United States from November 8
The news has finally fallen: the land border to the United States will reopen on November 8 for non-essential travel, at the same time as the new vaccine requirements will…
The aperitif | Fix past mistakes
In the 1950s or 1960s, an extension on the courtyard side disfigured the interior of a century-old house in the Notre-Dame-de-Grâce borough. Wishing to fix the mistakes of the past,…