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CASABLANCA – Saturday September 1st was a sunny day, the afternoon sky was blue and the summer holidays not quite over. A young couple, Mr. and Mrs. Ajouhi wanted to bring their six and three-year-old children to the Tahiti Beach Club on the Corniche Boulevard in Casablanca, Morocco. Established in 1940 and currently owned by […]
MONTREAL – She’d been preparing for this day for 30 years. On September 4, Pauline Marois became Quebec’s first Prime Minister, though her victory wasn’t as clear-cut as she’d hoped. As the leader of the Parti Quebecois (PQ), best known for its call for the independence of the French-speaking province, the 63-year-old told constituents during […]
LE JOURNAL DE MONTRÉAL, LA PRESSE (Canada) Worldcrunch A sushi restaurant in Montreal has been forced to change its name after “Fukyu” was deemed too “risqué” by neighboring residents. La Presse reported the lawyer of the building’s owner, David Gavitian, said that many in the neighborhood saw the restaurant as a nuisance, with many business […]
-Analysis- MOSCOW – The Russia Arctic Coast is one of the dirtiest places on earth. According to the most conservative estimates, the shores of the Arctic Ocean are littered with 4 million tons of industrial and construction waste, part of which is toxic. More than 20,000 pieces of electronics are strewn across the Russian Arctic […]
LA PRESSE, CBC (Canada), BBC NEWS, THE GUARDIAN (UK), CNN (USA) Worldcrunch MONTREAL – A gunman opened fire during a midnight victory rally for Quebec’s first female premier-elect Pauline Marois, killing one person and critically wounding another, reports CNN. The shooting cast a shadow over preliminary results indicating that the separatist Parti Quebecois was set […]
CBC NEWS, THE TORONTO STAR (Canada), Worldcrunch TORONTO – A shooting at a barbecue street party in Toronto’s residential east end left two dead and 19 injured, in what the Canadian police called “the worst incident of gun violence” the city has ever seen. A teenage girl and a man believed to be in his […]
LE MONDE (France), TORONTO STAR, RABBLE (Canada) Worldcrunch According to Canadian expert in copyright, Michael Geist, the European Commission is planning to implement the recently rejected provisions of ACTA with a clever little workaround: by applying the Canada-EU Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA). The Canadian publication Rabble reports that Canada and the European Union […]
WorldcrunchLA PRESSE (Canada) OTTAWA – The Canadian Department Of National Defense spent $50,000 (including tax) on little orange balls. Is this some sort of new stealth weapon developed by the Canadian Army? Guess again. According to documents obtained by La Presse, the Department Of Defense has bought 53,000 anti-stress balls in the past five years. […]
A little lesson in what not to do when a porn star killer posts a photo of himself on Facebook drinking a bottle of your delicious beer.
CTV NEWS, BBC NEWS (Canada) VANCOUVER – Vancouver’s False Creek Elementary School and St George’s school for boys have both received a package containing human body parts in what some suspect may be the latest twist in the case of Canadian porn actor Luka Rocco Magnotta, who was arrested The packages contained a human hand […]
L’ACTUALITÉ.COM (Canada) As talks between the Quebec government and student unions on university tuition hikes continue in Montreal, recent figures on the number of striking students per university show a deep Anglo-French divide. The student bodies in Quebec’s English-speaking universities are much less active in the protests. On his blog for L’Actualité.com, Anglophone writer and […]
LE DEVOIR (Canada) MONTREAL – Student demonstrations in Quebec took a new, loud turn last night in Montreal, as demonstrators crowded city streets and banged on pots and pans in response to a new law limiting protests, Le Devoir reported. Demonstrators started their noisy procession around 8 p.m local time in Montreal and other cities. […]
SORTABLE.COM (Canada) Who hasn’t forwarded an e-petition, retweeted something about a cause, or posted a Kony video on their Facebook page? You might not know it, but if you did any of this kind of civic stuff without getting out of your chair, you were being a Slacktivist. The term, first coined in 1995, means […]
LA PRESSE (Canada) After three straight months of strikes, including several violent clashes, the Quebec student movement can finally claim a tangible victory. Quebec’s Education Minister Line Beauchamp resigned Monday evening, to be replaced by Michelle Courchesne. The province’s new minister is expected to meet leaders of the student associations later Tuesday, to “evaluate the […]
A cross-border controversy is bubbling up over plans by TransCanada, an energy infrastructure firm, to build an oil pipeline across six U.S. states. Environmentalists don’t want it. The Canadian government does. And President Barack Obama is so far sittin
With the price of gold climbing throughout the financial crisis, a Canadian group grows more eager to mine a huge quantity of gold discovered in the Romanian village of Rosia Montana in the region of Transylvania. But local opponents refuse to given up th
Canada is looking for ways to exert its authority in the Great North, as global warming invites competition for the region’s valuable resources. Of particular concern is Russia, which is seeking permission from the UN to extend its Arctic borders.
Canada’s vast northern territories are to be opened up in a plan to exploit its rich natural resources. Some environmentalists are skeptical about the long-term effects.
On the Canadian island of Newfoundland, bees don’t get sick or sting. Researchers want to spread this buzzing paradise, and get some organic honey in the process.
The creator of the mega-successful global circus, Guy Laliberté says he’s still a hippie at heart. He also explains how he nabbed the exclusive to an extravagant new show devoted to the late Michael Jackson.