Kategori: Culture
“Holidays by the sea” by Michel Jonasz, an essential summer song
Published 07/19/2024 4:36 PM Video length: 3 min Music: “Les vacances au bord de la mer” by Michel Jonasz, an essential summer song Music: “Les vacances au bord de la…
Firefighters call for “absolute necessity” to train families in protective actions
While seven people from the same family died in a probably arson attack in Nice, French firefighters are reminding people of the “good behavior” that can protect them. Published 07/19/2024…
Joe Biden remains in the presidential race despite doubts about his physical and mental capacity, assures his team
US President Joe Biden remains “absolutely” in the race for the White House, his campaign manager said on Friday, despite growing doubts about his physical and mental capacity to serve…
International Court of Justice declares Israel’s occupation of Palestinian territories “illegal”
The UN’s highest court ruled Friday that Israel’s occupation of Palestinian territory since 1967 was “illegal,” adding that it must end “as quickly as possible.” Some fifty states testified in…
The Grenoble Resistance at the heart of the 10th album in the series “The Companions of the Liberation”
After the island of Sein and Vassieux-en-Vercors, historian and screenwriter Jean-Yves Le Naour devotes this new volume to Grenoble and the heroism of some of its inhabitants involved in the…
Desiring Violence | Popular (Rape) Culture
From the so-called Prince Charming who “steals” a kiss from his princess to the manipulative and even downright rapist “bad boy”, popular culture is full of characters as dubious as…
Let’s free two theater women imprisoned in Russia
It is with the support of my colleagues at Women for Equity in Theatre that I am writing to you. With this letter, we choose to speak out today to…
“Debussy, Images”, Saskia Giorgini | The duty
Sometimes we select a record first for the suave, deep and total sonic pleasure it provides. Of course, we have versions ofImages (Books I And II), ofPrintsof For the piano…
It’s a song that resembles us. “The Deserter”, a pro-civil anthem
“Le Déserteur”, written by Boris Vian during the Indochina War in 1954, became a major reference for pacifism around the world ten years later, after the American trio Peter, Paul…
What we know about the Microsoft-CrowdStrike bug that crippled businesses around the world
Planes grounded, London Stock Exchange disrupted, hospitals hit: hundreds of businesses are reporting outages or disruptions. Published 07/19/2024 12:41 Update 07/19/2024 1:07 PM Reading time: 3 min Thousands of businesses…
ComédiHa! Salutes Montreal | Pascal Cameron, the man you can trust
Pascal Cameron is everywhere under the ComediHa! banner this summer. In addition to warming up the atmosphere on the Vidéotron stage, six nights outdoors, at the new Montreal comedy festival…
“There is a duty to set an example”… The recruitment of Mason Greenwood to OM causes tension in Marseille
Accused of domestic violence and attempted rape before the charges were dropped in 2023, the English striker was made official by the Marseille club on Thursday. France Télévisions – Sports…
In one month, nearly 2,500 adopted Quebecers have started searching for their sociobiological origins
A month after the entry into force of new provisions allowing adopted Quebecers to know their sociobiological origins, approximately 2,500 people have taken steps, according to data collected by The…
Fantasia Festival Honors Horror Filmmaker Mike Flanagan for Lifetime Achievement
In his 50-year career, Stephen King has published around sixty novels. Carrie (Brian De Palma, 1976) to It (Andrés Muschietti, 2017), the most famous of them have been adapted for…
Seven questions for a policeman before leaving on vacation
Published 07/15/2022 08:05 Update 07/19/2024 07:32 Reading time: 5 min Cars on the A7 motorway, south of Lyon, on June 4, 2022. (MAXPPP) The time for the summer holidays has…
Release of “X’s”, the new studio album by Americans Cigarettes After Sex
“X’s” is the third album from a group that has managed to establish itself gently. Published 07/17/2024 12:06 Reading time: 3 min Greg Gonzalez of Cigarettes After Sex, in concert…
Environmental indulgences | Le Devoir
It’s not easy to remain faithful to the polluter-pays principle and its spirit. Adopted by the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development more than five decades ago, enshrined in law…
“Normal”: Finding humanity in a somewhat “zombie” environment
French filmmaker Olivier Babinet fondly remembers his time at the Abitibi-Témiscamingue International Film Festival last fall. “I really liked the atmosphere, the small town under the snow, the cafés, the…
How is the criminal irresponsibility of a suspect determined?
Will the man suspected of stabbing a Sentinelle force soldier on Monday, July 15 in Paris be declared criminally irresponsible? In 2018, in another case concerning him, the courts answered…
Permanent exhibition of the Montreal Memory Center | Who is Montreal? What is Montreal?
These are the two questions that the permanent exhibition attempts to answer. MONTREAL inaugurated by the Centre des mémoires montréalaises (MEM) on July 17. In an interactive tour, the museum…