Author: Sophie Laurent

The herd’s reaction to turning on itself seems to have grabbed the flag. Long before the seriousness of the Omicron variant of the Sars-Cov-2 virus, which was discovered less than a week ago in South Africa, became official, politicians seemed to succumb to a panic, ignoring the recommendation of the World Health Organization (WHO) (WHO) especially Not closing borders and trusting science. The World Health Organization said in a statement on Friday that the new variant of Covid-19, B.1.1.529, contains a large number of mutations, some of which are of concern. Highlighting the new variant, Dr Angelique Coetzee, president of…

Victim of a spring flood in 2019, the Vachon bakery in Sainte-Marie de Beauce completed a $10 million work to build an 848-meter-long wall that would protect it from any future flooding. This significant investment is synonymous with a commitment to Quebec, according to Marie-Yves Royer, Senior Vice President, Processing at Bimbo Canada, Vachon Bakery. With the completion of this project, the multinational has chosen to retain the original Centenary Site in Saint Marys in order to ensure its sustainability in the community. Work began in February 2021,” said Guy LaRochelle, COO of Fashion Bakery in St. Mary’s. Added to…

Catholic University of Louvain team comparison ‘Water fleas’ populations (And the laurel plant magna), crustaceans less than 5 mm in length, in seven different pools. These ponds were among nature reserves, conventional farms, or certified organic farms. The researchers say they chose water fleas, not insects, because they are not targeted with pesticides. Finally, we read in this paper, published on November 21, that water fleas that live near “organic” farms have become resistant to the insecticides used on these farms (deltamethrin and copper sulfate), just as those who live near “conventional” farms are becoming resistant to pesticides (such as…

Latest articles by François Monger (see everything) The Quebec government gives a $2 million loan to Eska. Funds from Investissement Québec will be used to set up a carbonated water production line at the Saint-Mathieu-d’Harricana plant. Thanks to the implementation of this new product line, Eska will be able to increase its productivity and ensure its growth. This automation project is the perfect example of the type of investment that Quebec companies must invest in to remain competitive. “Says Pierre Fitzgibbon, Minister of Economy and Innovation and Minister in charge of Regional Economic Development The investment will allow the company…

tiringMuhammad Khalil said with a sigh. This father from Mauritius arrived in Canada in 2015 with his wife and four daughters, apparently desperate due to these delays and lack of information from the Canadian Immigration Service. « Becoming Canadian is our dream. It is very important to us. We left our country to settle here. »- Quote from Mohammad Khalil Muhammad Khalil had been a permanent resident for several years, and submitted all the documents needed to obtain Canadian citizenship in March 2019. In November of the same year, the family passed and passed the citizenship test. But since then,…

In a particularly pernicious result, seven experts from Université Laval (UL) have claimed that Legault’s government is offering “lies” to promote its Third Link political project. One signer went so far as to compare CAQ’s methods to Donald Trump’s. • Read also: Quebec Solidere launches an advertising campaign on the third link • Read also: Rousseau calls for a referendum on the tram line and the third link This is what we can read In a letter signed by seven members of the Center for Planning and Development Research (CRAD) at UL. Six of them are experts in mobility, while…

The federal government decided this month to Reopen Roxham Street, in Quebec, borrowed it from immigrants (particularly Haitians) to cross from the United States to Canada and apply for refugee status. Under the 2004 Safe Third Country Agreement (ETPS), such a request will be refused at the official border crossing. Roxham Road is a country road (8 km) from the former village of Perry Mills in Champlain Township, New York, north of the former village of Bogton, in the municipality of Saint-Bernard-de-Lacolle au Quebec. Roxham Road (left), about ten kilometers west of the Canadian border crossing at Blackpool, in Saint…

the sky. It can be considered an additional anomaly. Anomalies like physicists in particular. The sky theory was put forward in the early 1960s by Britain’s Tony Skyrim. Hence its name. What is it about? It is not a classical elementary particle. Rather, it is semi-particular. Understand, an object that helps researchers describe the particle systems of interest to them.The Skyrmion theory was first developed in the early 1960s by Tony Skyrme. Hence its name. Skyrmion corresponds to the excitation of space formed by a vortex spinning on the surface of a material. So it’s often seen as some kind…

No Société de Transportation de Laval bus will pass the city streets today since hundreds of union drivers demonstrated. The demonstrators left Terminus Montmorency at dinnertime and headed to Terminus le Carrefour. However, the renegotiation of the collective agreement created a lot of tension between the drivers’ union and the STL. “It is clear that when we have a strike movement like this, the climate is not very good,” confirms Guy Pickard, Director General of the Special Tribunal for Lebanon. “Right now, the employer tells us we’re taking residents hostage, but for now, we want to negotiate,” explains Patrick Lafleur,…

In May 2021, Animal’s Lab research team (UMR Innovation, CIRAD / INRAE ​​/ Montpellier SupAgro) organized the show “Anim’Art” to highlight, through a collaboration between the arts and sciences, the role of animals in live performance (circus and dance) and, more broadly, in the production of goods and services within our societies. It is about showing and understanding that any work with animals requires intelligence and commitment on their part and cannot be reduced to a simple relationship of exploitation and control. Organized in Art Center 3, where it was streamed and then broadcast as a documentary, the event benefited…