Trump disqualified in Colorado
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Former United States President Donald Trump at a rally in Reno, Nevada on December 17
The Colorado Supreme Court has ruled and dismissed Donald Trump’s candidacy for the 2024 presidential election due to his participation in the insurrection of January 6, 2021. But what does this disqualification mean, exactly? Colleagues Nicolas Bérubé and André Duchesne discussed it with a professor of United States history and a professor of international and constitutional law. Enlightening discussions on this historic decision… and on the volatility of the political climate on the other side of the border.
Becoming a Quebecer…
PHOTO JOSIE DESMARAIS, LA PRESSE ARCHIVES
Migrants attempt to cross the Canadian border at Roxham Road last March.
Quebec is welcoming more and more newcomers. And the closure of Roxham Road last year did not change the trend. After a migratory journey strewn with pitfalls, how do these citizens from the four corners of the world come to feel like they are Quebecers? In their own eyes, on the one hand, and in the eyes of others, too? Suzanne Colpron asked the question to a small group of Quebecers with immigrant backgrounds. Their comments are enlightening and offer a different perspective on what promotes integration or harms it.
Vigorous virus
PHOTO FRANÇOIS ROY, LA PRESSE ARCHIVES
Respiratory viruses are circulating extensively these days in Quebec. The Dr Gilbert Boucher, the Minister of Health, Christian Dubé, and the national director of public health, Dr Luc Boileau, took stock this week during a press conference.
Do you feel like almost everyone around you is sick? It’s perhaps not just an impression… The national director of public health, Dr Luc Boileau revealed this week that 1 million Quebecers have contracted a respiratory infection in the last two weeks. COVID-19, influenza and respiratory syncytial virus spread quickly, so Public Health is reminding Quebecers, as the holidays approach, to stay home and wear a mask if they experience symptoms. As for COVID-19, it is a new variant, JN.1 (not more dangerous, but very contagious), which explains the increase in infections.
A “burst of wisdom” for the new year?
PHOTO ALAIN ROBERGE, LA PRESSE ARCHIVES
For the essayist Amin Maalouf, humanity “really needs a burst of wisdom”.
After a not always happy year, many of you need a little light. The writer Amin Maalouf, famous for his seminal essays on questions of identity in particular, recognizes that humanity is today going through one of “the most perilous periods in its history”. However, the Lebanese of origin who lives in Paris refuses to be defeated by wars, the climate crisis and the wavering of democracies. He believes humanity is capable of a “surge of wisdom” that would save it from shipwreck. “We have a duty to find solutions,” he told Alexandre Sirois, who met him at his home. And good news: according to the essayist, humanity has the capacity to implement the solutions it finds.
Behind the scenes of Bye
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Simon Olivier Fecteau on the film set of Bye bye 2023
On TV, it’s the event of the year. In 2021 and 2022, the Bye each time attracted nearly 5 million viewers. What does the December 31 edition have in store for us, filming of which recently ended? The content producer and director Simon Olivier Fecteau is careful not to reveal all his secrets, but he has already announced that no sketch will focus on the war in the Middle East. “It’s just not funny,” he told journalist Marc-André Lemieux. On the other hand, strikes in the public sector are likely to be mentioned. Find out how the team Bye prepares… for the unpredictable, thanks to a detailed interview behind the scenes of the most watched show in history.