Author: Maria Gill

Top Aces, a company that specializes in aerial combat training and is established on the ground at Saguenay Airport, is on the rise thanks to a four-year contract won in Germany. Top Aces actually won a ten-year contract in 2017 to serve as a training partner for the Canadian Armed Forces (CAF), valued at nearly $ 500 million. We just got the same type of contract, on a smaller scale, in Germany. Saguenay base director, Francois Laroche, explained that we are targeting other partnerships in Europe with the British. “We also have projects with the United States,” added James Manning,…

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“SMEs in our region are making a strong appeal to the Quebec government: they want them to be present and, above all, to prioritize their concerns in decisions that will lead to economic recovery,” said Francois Vincent, Vice President. Quebec to CFIB. (Image courtesy) Small and medium businesses in remote regions appear to be more dissatisfied with regional economic development policies in Quebec than those in large centers and their vicinity, according to a report by the Canadian Federation of Independent Business (CFIB) on Monday. The further one is from the central regions, the more entrepreneurs perceive the country as…

A friend sent me a hilarious skit that they saw on YouTube this week. A young boy who fails a math exam goes to his school. This explains to him why he did not get a good mark. The dictatorship of mathematics You see, Danny, on the first question, what is 2 + 2, I answered: 22. Now, the correct answer is 4. – No, it’s 22, said the boy. – No, it’s 4, the teacher answers. We add the two shapes, but don’t put them next to each other. Look … if I take two pencils in my hand…

Compagnie Électrique Lion has an order for 260 electric school buses, which, according to Saint-Jérôme, represent the largest contract ever obtained from a single customer. Posted May 17, 2021 at 7:37 am Julian ArsenaultJournalism The electric truck and bus manufacturer made the announcement on Monday along with its first-quarter results ending March 31, which ended with a net loss of $ 16 million, or 15 cents per share. It was First Student who ordered 260 buses, which will be used by its subsidiary Transco, located in Quebec. First Student is expected to become the largest zero-emission school bus operator in…

It was paid for due to a denial of ownership by a contribution to Reworld, the editorial team at Science & Life Returns to the scientific press from another door. This one is called EpsilonA new monthly newsletter was unveiled last week, and the first issue will go on newsstands at the end of June. About fifteen former journalists from Science & Life Part of the project, eight of them will be permanent employees. On top of them is their former editor-in-chief, Herve Borier, who left Reworld in September 2020 after 21 years at the title. To allow birthEpsilonA newspaper…

The rivalry between the Canadians and Maple Leaves may not have peaked in the past three decades, but there is a traditional enmity between the two sides that persists for historical, social and political reasons. The matches between CH and the Leafs in the regular season are always lively. Not to mention what is said in the stands … when the crowd is there, of course. This has never prevented a large number of Quebecers from wearing the club’s colors over the decades. Here are five of them who have, at one point or another in their careers, wore the…

UN remind. One of the strangest assertions of the past 16 months has spread in recent weeks in conspiracy circles: It is said that the vaccine should be avoided, because it can “kick” the vaccine.A small handful of companies and even a school have announced that they will refuse entry to those who have been vaccinated for this reason. Aside from the fact that this “theory” is meaningless, what is supposed to be “expelled” is not explained anyway.But the fact of believing in it suffices to confuse anti-vaccines with a conviction that the pandemic was never dangerous – or never…

A former Huawei Canada CEO claims to have been an informant for the Canadian Secret Service. Also read: He turns his back on a $ 4 million research chair partly funded by Huawei Also read: Canada was going to steal 5G Pierre Bisonetti, who was the general manager of Huawei Canada from 2010 to 2018, revealed, “The Canadian intelligence services, I had a close relationship with them, we met regularly.” He said his meetings with the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) would have started “around 2013-2015”. This indicates that CSIS, whose role is to investigate what threatens national security, was…

A researcher at Montreal Polytechnic turns his back on a $ 4 million research chair partially funded by Huawei, amid a controversy over the Chinese giant. Polytechnique and Huawei quietly completed the “Industrial Research Chair in Artificial Intelligence for Multimedia and Assistive Technologies” in April 2019, documents obtained Newspaper After accessing the information request. However, the cooperation agreement was signed a year ago. “The researchers were uncomfortable with the background media noise surrounding Huawei,” said Annie Tochet, the university’s public relations officer. Accordingly, and at the request of the Principal Investigator, Polytechnic and Huawei decided by mutual agreement not to…