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[Éditorial de Louise-Maude Rioux Soucy] C-11 and Quebec, a worm in the fruit
Quebec’s cultural specificity is an endangered species, which deserves to be fought tooth and nail for it. The Minister of Culture and Communications, Mathieu Lacombe, is perfectly right to be…
[Éditorial de Louise-Maude Rioux Soucy] A youth interrupted by their mental health challenges
How are our young people doing? This is the title that caps the most recent survey on the psychological health of 12-25 year olds, which offers complex answers to this…
[Éditorial de Louise-Maude Rioux Soucy] Young people and vaping, the end of recklessness
Ten years ago, vaping among high school kids was marginal. But while tobacco consumption continued to fall thanks to the combined effect of a tight legal framework and targeted awareness…
[Éditorial de Louise-Maude Rioux Soucy] The best is sometimes the enemy of the good with trauma warnings
It is unthinkable to mold the public space to the satisfaction and needs of everyone. This does not prevent us from wanting to make it habitable for as many people…
[Éditorial de Louise-Maude Rioux Soucy] The heritage designation should not be a foil
Find the error. The Ministry of Culture classifies heritage houses. Newly vested with this same power, which they are slow to use, the regional county municipalities (RCM) are making an…
[Éditorial de Louise-Maude Rioux Soucy] Our daycare services fall victim to a great illusion
On paper, the Quebec model shines in early childhood. In practice, our daycare services (SDG) have become Swiss cheese. More than 33,000 families hang around waiting for a place. It’s…
[Éditorial de Louise-Maude Rioux Soucy] playing muscle
the New York Times recently detailed how the oil superpowers are masterfully using their “diplomatic muscle” to obstruct climate action. It is the triumph of this uninhibited approach that is…
[Éditorial de Louise-Maude Rioux Soucy] Death at several speeds
A solid social consensus made Quebec the champion of medical assistance in dying (MAID) last year. With figures that now reach 5.1% of deaths, we are ahead of the Netherlands…
[Éditorial de Louise-Maude Rioux Soucy] No protection without vision
Was the worm already in the apple? The vigorous dusting off of the Cultural Heritage Act carried out in the spring of 2021 by the CAQ government shows signs of…
[Éditorial de Louise-Maude Rioux Soucy] Finally, an inclusive blood donation!
Morality and public health do not mix. This is why we should be happy to see that science will finally prevail over prejudice in the delicate issue of blood donation,…
[Éditorial de Louise-Maude Rioux Soucy] Go to table
In the spring of 2020, driven by a pandemic that took the whole world by surprise, food insecurity jumped to 26% in Quebec, to gradually drop to 16% the following…
[Éditorial de Louise-Maude Rioux Soucy] Social networks, accelerators of juvenile prostitution
Social networks and information technologies do not lead to the prostitution of minors, but they accelerate and multiply all aspects of it, shows a disturbing report published on Tuesday, the…
[Éditorial de Louise-Maude Rioux Soucy] This is their body
There is no worse blind than he who does not want to see. But facts are stubborn. In 2013, Indigenous women in Saskatchewan denounced a practice, that of forced sterilization,…
[Éditorial de Louise-Maude Rioux Soucy] The fair share of Netflix, YouTube and other Spotify
We fought for a long time over Bill C-11 on online streaming and its first version, C-10, which died on the order paper. Hundreds of briefs have been reviewed, more…
[Éditorial de Louise-Maude Rioux Soucy] Failure of the apprentice nurses, or the tree that hides the forest
Blaming the pandemic is very convenient to explain the low success rate of apprentice nurses on the first attempt of the examination of the Order of Nurses of Quebec (OIIQ).…
[Éditorial de Louise-Maude Rioux Soucy] The cockfight
Did we need to see our ministers of health rolling around while our health systems threaten to implode? By inviting himself to a meeting in Vancouver empty-handed, but animated by…
[Éditorial de Louise-Maude Rioux Soucy] Who wants the skin of Quebec cinema?
Does the question seem excessive? If we stick to Radio-Canada’s decision to drop the Gala Québec Cinéma without saying a word to the industry or its partner, it is. Especially…
[Éditorial de Louise-Maude Rioux Soucy] The worst at the end of the wait
Patients are dying every day, and even the best medicine can’t help it. In Quebec, however, it is also possible to suffer from complications or even to die because the…
[Éditorial de Louise-Maude Rioux Soucy] Open books, open society
The Grande Bibliothèque acts like a sun in the metropolis, which shines brightly in the first National Portrait of Quebec Public Libraries. Its light, alas, hardly crosses the borders of…
[Éditorial de Louise-Maude Rioux Soucy] Who owns the good times?
The pandemic has made Quebecers want to take advantage of the largesse of their larger-than-life territory. The pressure for short-term rentals has become so strong and so sudden in several…