Author: Maria Gill

The Wiptec Center was commissioned to prepare applications last fall in Longueuil, and has received financial assistance from the federal and provincial governments. The announcement was made Friday morning at the Longueuil facilities, where 630 people are expected to be employed by the end of the year. Wiptec services are in demand for both consumers and stores and supermarkets. The project will be divided into three phases; The first, which has already been completed, represents an investment of nearly $100 million. The federal government awarded $3 million from a regional economic growth program through the Innovation Program. With…

primary Vincent Costus, Director of the Study and Information Group on Unknown Space Phenomena (Geipan), spoke about the hit series UFO(s) broadcast on Canal+, which was inspired by the work of these strange “hunters”. The series UFO(s) on Canal + revolves in the heart of Geipan, how did you meet? The TV project goes back several years, I wasn’t a director of Geipan yet, but there was a very constructive approach on both sides. The series directors were curious to come and see how we worked, and for our part we welcomed their novel proposal with great interest. The series…

HALIFAX – A second Canadian warship left the port of Halifax on Saturday for a six-month deployment in North Atlantic and Northern European waters in support of NATO. The day before, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau convened an Incident Response Group to discuss Russia’s ongoing invasion of Ukraine. HMCS Halifax will be a member of NATO’s Permanent Maritime Group 1 (SNMG1) in the reinsurance process, “to support NATO’s deterrence measures in Central and Eastern Europe”. According to National Defense Minister Anita Anand, Halifax’s contribution to NATO’s deterrence measures will help Europe maintain its “power and sovereignty”. “It is very important for…

What technologies are used to artificially modify the climate?Most popular: cloud seedingAccording to the World Meteorological Organization … the most used method is cloud seeding. This method can change the amount or type of rain generated by clouds. How it works ? This method involves injecting substances such as silver iodide into the clouds. These facilitate the formation of ice crystals in the cloud … These crystals then turn into hailstones, and when they are very heavy they fall from the cloud and when they pass through milder air they turn into rain.There are two ways of throwing particles into…

I can’t wait to see if Finance Minister Eric Girard, in his budget next Tuesday, will correct the tax injustice suffered by 38,000 Quebec small and medium businesses. These are small companies in the construction and service sectors with paid employees working less than 5,000 hours per year, which equates to less than three full-time employees. Not only does François Legault’s government prevent them from taking advantage of tax breaks intended to help small and medium-sized businesses struggling with a labor shortage, but it also prevents these 38,000 small businesses from taking advantage of the reduced tax relief offered to…

Two billion genetically modified mosquitoes will be released in parts of Florida and California in the USA. The mosquito is responsible for about 750,000 deaths annually, and is the most deadly species to humans. It is the release of mosquitoes on an unprecedented scale, led by the American company Oxitec, and aims to reduce the population of these insects, and thus reduce their spread. The spread of certain diseases. Specimens sent to the wild will be male Aedes aegypti, carefully selected because after breeding they give birth to non-viable larvae. Genetically modified mosquitoes Mosquitoes are very harmful Causing serious diseases…

Canada opens its mind to MNBC. – while the United State It appears that he is groping his way to create a potential Central Bank (MNBC) digital currency, and its neighbor is looking for concrete answers. In fact, the Bank of Canada has just announced its partnership with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) on the topic of the feasibility of setting up MNBC in Canada. The Bank of Canada and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology collaborated on the MNBC project in one Press release From 16 March 2022, Bank of Canada announced that it has concluded a cooperation agreement…

In 2020, more than 60,000 people contracted Lyme disease. numbers, an increase compared to 2019, which calls into question patient care. Haute Autorité de Santé (HAS) recently published a pathway of care guide that was adapted to cases of suspected Lyme disease. Intended for patients and healthcare professionals, it aims to improve patient care. explanations.Symptoms to watch out forThe Lyme diseaseIt infected more than 50,000 people in France in 2019. It mainly affects children aged 5 to 9 and adults aged 70 to 79. This disease is characterized by a A bacterial infection transmitted to humans when an infected tick…

(Washington) A US central bank official said Friday that the conflict in Ukraine had him pushing for a rate hike of only a quarter point on Wednesday, but he is defending a half-percentage point increase or more this year. . Posted yesterday at 12:26 PM. The Federal Reserve raised interest rates on Wednesday for the first time since 2018 in the face of inflation. The institution opted for a cautious increase, raising it by a normal quarter of a percentage point, rather than by half a point directly. The rates, which since March 2020 have been in the range of…

Want to go fishing without harming the fish? This is the citizen science program you need. Principle: Annotate the images taken by cameras on the ocean floor, to indicate the types of animals that can be seen in the images. “Deep Sea Spy” is a “serious game” that can be accessed for free on the InternetIt can be played on a mobile phone. Its creator and director, Marjolaine Matabos, is a researcher at the Ifremer Brittany Center, specializing in marine ecology in the deep environment. In 2017, I launched this “Spy…” which consists of looking at images recorded by underwater…