If your week has gone by in a flash, listen to or read reports that made the news this week in a few minutes.
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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has called on Hockey Canada executives to leave. The organization lost a fifth major sponsor for its criticized handling of sexual assault allegations involving junior players.
Joe Biden warns against the risk of a nuclear “apocalypse”. The US president believes that Russian threats to use nuclear weapons in the conflict in Ukraine pose this risk for the first time since the Cuban missile crisis in the middle of the Cold War.
More and more Quebecers are making the leap into the world of electric vehicles. A revolution that requires greater political courage in Quebec, say experts, to end the shortage of vehicles and accelerate the establishment of charging stations. Long seen as a niche product, electric vehicles are at the heart of Quebecers’ interests. This year, a survey by Maru Canada showed that 61% of Quebecers want to turn to zero-emission vehicles for their next purchase.
Prime Minister François Legault won a second majority mandate in the National Assembly. Its dominance is even stronger against the opposition parties. The discrepancy between the percentage of votes and the percentage of seats obtained by the parties has revived the debate on a reform of the voting system.
PHOTO EDOUARD PLANTE-FRÉCHETTE, THE PRESS
Premier François Legault at the Coalition avenir Québec rally on the night of his re-election.
North Korea on Thursday launched two new ballistic missiles and flew fighter jets. These weapons tests are described as “just measures of retaliation” against Washington and Seoul and their military exercises in the region.
French writer Annie Ernaux received the Nobel Prize for Literature on Thursday. The 82-year-old author has extracted her own biography to explore life in France since the 1940s. Her works shed light on dark corners of memory, family and society.
Elon Musk wrote to Twitter on Monday offering to buy the company as originally planned, for $44 billion. The judge in charge of litigation between Twitter and Elon Musk has given until October 28 for the boss of Tesla to buy the social network, failing which the trial initially planned will take place.
Conservative Party leader Pierre Poilievre has been singled out for cultivating ties with misogynistic groups in a bid to win his party’s leadership race. Many videos on Mr. Poilievre’s YouTube channel included the #MGTOW hashtag taken from an internet movement associated with misogyny for SEO purposes.
Éric Asselin, ex-right-hand man of Vincent Lacroix at the time of the Norbourg scandal, finds himself once again in the crosshairs of the police. The Autorité des marchés financiers suspects him of acting illegally as a mortgage broker. Since the Norbourg scandal broke in 2005, he has been convicted of fraudulent bankruptcy and the fabrication of false financial documents. He even received a prison sentence.
A drug trafficker and former federal employee from Gatineau has just been sentenced to 20 years in prison in Florida for ransomware attacks that earned him at least 21.5 million US dollars. Sébastien Vachon-Desjardins was arrested in January 2021. By pleading guilty, this former employee of the Ministry of Public Services and Supply admits to being one of the most active pirates behind netwalker.