To look smart at Saturday night dinner

There will undoubtedly be talk of the setbacks at the Montreal-Trudeau airport at the table this weekend, but other subjects will also liven up the conversations. Here is a selection of articles to give you an idea of ​​five of them.

Diplomatic tensions

Tension is growing between Canada and India. How could relations have deteriorated to the point where India is warning its citizens to exercise caution if they visit our country and suspending the processing of visa applications in Canada? It was a murder that occurred in British Columbia, which we would normally never have heard of in Quebec, which is at the origin of the diplomatic crisis of recent days. Justin Trudeau said this week that New Delhi would have sponsored the assassination of Hardeep Singh Nijjar, a Canadian Sikh independence activist. Allegations that India has called absurd. The texts of our colleagues Isabelle Hachey and Jean-Christophe Laurence will enlighten you on this unprecedented crisis.

Inflation, snacks and us

The price of the grocery basket concerns us all. So much so that inflation is changing the way we eat, Stéphanie Bérubé taught us this week. We buy less food… but we snack more! Normal: Stress makes us want to snack more frequently. The rising price of food also seems to push us to limit waste, which partly explains the reduction in purchases at the grocery store. Because the subject fuels many discussions, this text helps us understand how inflation influences our diet… and how to thwart it.

Doctors wanted

When we discuss a health problem with friends or family, the question of accessibility to primary care very often comes up in the conversation. On this subject, our colleague Émilie Bilodeau told us this week that Sainte-Agathe-des-Monts will lose 14 family doctors in 24 months, or a third of the staff at the municipality’s two clinics. The retirement of doctors and departures to the private sector particularly affect this region, but this issue allows us to better understand the challenges of many regions in Quebec.

Anything new for your old phone?

Is your iPhone from 2018? You don’t have the means (or the desire) to get the new iPhone 15? No problem, you can still enjoy some amazing and fun new features of the new iOS 17 operating system. Discover the sleep mode which allows you to display 2 “widgets” among 23 offered, including the weather, tame the “Next Generation” function Portrait” which can “deblur” a person’s face in a photo and choose your visual identity for calls between iPhones. The new system also facilitates the exchange of contacts, in particular, which can be done by taping two phones. To try before dessert?

Let’s talk hockey… women’s

Even before the start of the season, the Canadian does not hope to make the playoffs, we learned last week. Will we have to count on the players of the new professional women’s hockey team to be able to applaud a winning team in Montreal? The formation of the metropolis has assembled a “formidable offensive machine”, wrote Simon-Olivier Lorange after the inaugural draft of the new circuit. The Montreal team now has 18 players, including several Quebecers, to which 5 others will be added by the start of training camp in November.