Kategori: Culture
After the first private spacewalk in history, the four amateur astronauts returned to Earth
During this trip to an altitude of 1,400 km, two amateur astronauts briefly ventured outside their ship, carrying out the first private spacewalk in history. Published 09/15/2024 10:23 Updated 09/15/2024…
Samara Joy, DJ Mehdi and Franz Ferdinand
This week, in the franceinfo Playlist: the extraordinary voice of jazz singer Samara Joy, the eternal genius of DJ Mehdi, and the first single from a highly anticipated new album…
The Ghosts of Brooklyn | The Idea of Community
In recent years, American literature has seen the emergence of a large number of Afro-descendant authors who explore the racial question through very different genres and styles. We think among…
The anxiety of happiness | La Presse
In the fall of 1995, the greatest source of uncertainty about my future was not the referendum on Quebec independence. I was studying at the École du Barreau and working…
Kristina Joksimovic, a former Miss Switzerland finalist, strangled and dismembered, her partner admits to the murder
A Swiss court document provides terrifying details about the circumstances in which the victim was killed. Her husband, Thomas L., confessed to the crime. Published 09/15/2024 11:50 Updated 09/15/2024 11:50…
In Photos | Spooky Festivities
Nearly 800 personalities from the arts and business worlds attended the MAC Ball – this time under the theme Fantasmagorie –, held this year at the Royalmount shopping centre. Actors…
Women’s bodies
It’s not a new thing, but it’s still a real trend this fall: autobiographical stories written by women also tell their stories in comics. Published 09/15/2024 10:04 Reading time: 2…
Literary rentrée | Ten novels from elsewhere to read this fall
Year in, year out, every fall brings us a few hundred new releases in bookstores among French novels and translations. Here are ten new releases that we can count on…
“At child’s height”: spotlight on childhood
After making the highly publicized documentary Wandering without return (2020), about Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh, filmmakers Olivier Higgins and Mélanie Carrier “needed light.” They turned to their own children, seeking…
A Quebecer finds a meteorite crater by chance!
A Quebecer may have accidentally found a meteorite crater on the Côte-Nord! But how can we know if a huge rock from space really did crash into our country about……
What to do about educational violence?
This week, Amélia Matar looks back at the violence that took place in a school in the 15th arrondissement of Paris (a video in which we see a teacher hitting…
Léa Clermont-Dion | We need to talk about sexual violence
It’s called Hi, how are you?, But Léa Clermont-Dion’s latest essay could just as well have been called: “Ça va pas”. However, because she believes in prevention, and in the…
Keeping your dog on a leash brings joy, but also dangers
(New York) The cuddles. The loyalty. The adoring glances. There is much joy in owning a dog, including the joy of going for a quick walk. And therein lies a…
Gatherings in support of Gisèle Pelicot are being held to say “thank you for your courage”, explains a feminist activist
Amy Bah, from the NousToutes collective, thanks Gisèle Pelicot for refusing to hold the Mazan rape trial in camera. “This will encourage women to go and speak out,” she said…
The timeless swing of Thomas Dutronc
It’s never too late is Thomas Dutronc’s first album of original songs in nine years.. When told that after such a wait, the album could have been called “Il n’est…
After first private spacewalk, SpaceX mission prepares to return to Earth
The crew of SpaceX’s Polaris Dawn mission is preparing to return to Earth on Sunday, after completing the first private spacewalk in history this week. The Dragon ship is scheduled…
TIFF lacking “major” world premieres
The 2024 edition of the Toronto International Film Festival was neither unforgettable nor relaxing. An opening night interrupted by pro-Palestinian protesters, screenings of the documentary Russians at War reporting the…
when Sardou’s song resurrected the abandoned liner on the quay of oblivion
Published 09/14/2024 11:03 Video length: 4 min “Never call me France again”: when Sardou’s song resurrected the abandoned liner on the quay of oblivion “Never call me France again”: when…
a device too costly according to the Court of Auditors
Published 09/14/2024 10:45 Video length: 1 min SNU: a system that is too costly according to the Court of Auditors Five years after the creation of the SNU, the universal…
No two… and sometimes three
The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts has just opened an exhibition that highlights works acquired over the last five years. Published at 1:28 a.m. Updated at 1:00 p.m. We could…