Etiket: Chronicle
Chronicle – The sponge city, better protection against floods
Not so long ago, when a deluge fell on our heads, we immediately remembered the dates of July 14, 1987 (in Montreal) and July 20, 1996 (in Saguenay). These milestones…
Chronicle – The posthumous triumph of the Social Creditists
We found his house and his farm at the top of the croche coast, on the dirt road leading to the chalets. Her face had been sculpted by decades of…
Chronicle – Loves female dogs, zoom on the bond that unites the human to the dog
I know that the world is burning, that a certain apathy is drying up our impulses, that empathy is melting like the ice cap, that our news will no longer…
Chronicle – Text Phishing is out of control
Even UPS is full of it truck… Text messaging phishing is the scourge of the computer world. Everyone has a smart phone in their pocket, so it’s very tempting for…
Chronicle – Demons in New France
If you want to take a truly puzzling journey, see and experience another world, read the latest issue of the Journal of the history of New France, whose file is…
Chronicle – Hot TV while waiting for the heat wave to pass
My first instinct was to offer you my viewing suggestions “for the rainy days” of the summer season. But after experiencing a few days of intense heat and consulting the…
Chronicle – Going up in smoke, zooming in on the failings of “Prime Day”
It was against a backdrop of floods, unstoppable blazes and chain-killing heat waves that the giant Amazon held its biggest sale of the year this week. As if the retail…
Chronicle – French Solitude | The duty
Today, July 14, is the time for parades, fireworks and popular balls. And yet, the French do not have the heart to celebrate. How could they when the country appears…
Chronicle – When society cultivates eco-insensitivity
We have been oscillating in Quebec between ice storms, floods, forest fires and smog since the spring. The reports of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change on the impacts of…
Techno Chronicle | A tree that shines brightly
Electric charging stations are now an integral part of our daily lives. Aesthetically, you may find that they are not very pretty and that they sometimes swear in our environment,…
Chronicle – Geography of silence | The duty
When the death of Louis Gauthier was announced, it seemed to me that all the credit due to him had not been emphasized strongly enough. After all, this discreet writer,…
Chronicle – The astonishing place of Quebec in the quantum domain
We will talk more and more about qubits in the next few years. It is the basic unit of quantum computing. And if this technology, which also promises to completely…
Chronicle – Animals and us
Louis-André Richard is a college philosophy professor. Out of modesty, he refuses the title of philosopher, “a coat much too large for [lui] “, which he reserves for the big…
Chronicle – Between fishermen | The duty
In the United States, bass fishing has become a veritable industry whose factories are the many tournaments where the catch is calculated in total number of pounds rather than in…
Chronicle – On the just solution of contradictions
If I told you everything I read during my Maoist period in the late 1970s, you wouldn’t believe me. See all the same. I typed the three volumes of the…
Chronicle – For the rest of the world
This summer, I will not make a garden, no, we are leaving this morning to meet La Petite-Gaspésie, in the absence of the big one. – Maria, you can’t get…
Chronicle – When will the civil war come?
To my former colleague from Duty Denise Bombardier, who loved France so much. It is a village in the Val-de-Marne in appearance all that is most peaceful. Near Paris, on…
Chronicle – Class Solidarity
Access to property is one of the most important symbols of North American societies. The single-family home is always much more than a house, and certainly more than a “wool…
Chronicle – Letting our children beat themselves up (2/2)
Physical exercise has been shown to have positive effects on the ability to concentrate in young and old. While children attend school, it is all the more important for learning…
between sporting failure and controversial remarks, chronicle of a ruined season
After a long period of uncertainty, the coach has reached an agreement with his management to leave the club, which will announce the name of his successor on Wednesday. Christophe…