Month: April 2020

OTTAWA — The federal government is planning to offer full-time employment to all reservists in the Canadian Armed Forces until the end of the summer as it seeks to bolster the military’s ranks and help offset some of the economic damage from COVID-19. Reservists across the country are being contacted to see if they are…

Our world runs on supply chains. The flour you bake with, the clothes you’re wearing, heck, this very information you’re receiving through the Internet, passes through many countries from start to finish.  With the global nature of the COVID-19 pandemic however, those supply chains have been thrust into the spotlight as more and more Canadians…

OTTAWA — Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland shared a moving message to Canada’s seniors at a daily press conference with public health officials on the coronavirus pandemic Friday.   “I’ve been thinking about you a lot,” Freeland said in a sparsely populated room in Parliament’s West Block. “You raised us. You built our amazing country. Now…

OTTAWA — Canada’s parliamentary budget officer says Ottawa will have to pay up to $2.9 billion in compensation to First Nations children and families torn apart by an underfunded child-welfare system _ half the amount estimated by the federal government. Yves Giroux says his office estimates between 19,000 and 65,100 people would be eligible for compensation…

NEW YORK — The NYPD has dispatched extra cops to synagogues for Yom Kippur amid a continued spike in attacks on Jewish people, police officials said. The police department planned to send about 130 counterterrorism officers and up to 25 extra patrol cars to synagogues across the city during the high Jewish holiday starting Tuesday…

TUSCALOOSA, AL — Protesters have raised enough money to bring ‘Baby Trump,’ a blimp portraying President Donald Trump as a baby in a foul mood and a common symbol seen at protests around the world, to the Alabama-LSU game in Tuscaloosa on Saturday. The president’s visit has further raised the profile of the high stakes…

L’hommage au roi de la pop va être retransmis en mondo-vision. À partir de 18h50, les grandes chaînes retransmettront les images de l’événement, en direct du Staples Center de Los Angeles. Les fans, partagés entre l’impatience et le désespoir, comptent les minutes qui les séparent de 17 heures, moment où le King of Pop va…

Devant un hôpital de Caracas s’empilent des civières inutilisables, à l’intérieur c’est la désolation. Le matériel et les médicaments manquent, sans compter les coupures d’eau et d’électricité. La crise économique qui touche le Venezuela est une catastrophe pour le secteur de la santé.Crise “historique”Les habitants ont faim. Avec l’hyperinflation, l’argent ne vaut plus rien. À…

La Cour pénale internationale a acquitté Laurent Gbagbo, l’ancien président ivoirien, accusé de crimes contre l’humanité dans le cadre de la crise post-électorale qui a fait au moins 3000 morts en 2011. “On lui rend justice en proclamant son acquittement et sa libération immédiate, moi je suis dans la joie, c’est horrible qu’il ait passé sept…

Découvrez la bande-annonce de “Laurence Anyways”, le prochain film du jeune cinéaste prodige Xavier Dolan … Des amours perturbées, une bande-son branchée, un style pop toujours très marqué, la bande-annonce du troisième long-métrage de Xavier Dolan est fidèle à ce qu’on en attendait ! Dévoilées par le site Cyberpresse, les premières images de Laurence Anyways…