Quebec is too nono to promote its snow

Your news from Jan. 13, 2025, hand-picked by Olivier Niquet. Quotes are at the end (if there are any).

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It always tires me to see the good things being done elsewhere in the world. Sometimes I find us a little nonos.

“In 2015, a thesis presented at the University of British Columbia estimated that a snow deposit the size of a playground was enough to cool between 200 and 300 Canadian homes during the summer. The idea, which has the potential to melt away the costs associated with mechanical air conditioning, has never caught on on a large scale. “It is very surprising that in Quebec, we are not exploring this solution further,” said Patrick Evans. This is perhaps not unrelated to the fact that we have the cheapest electricity on the continent and that we consider this electricity to be clean. » → Access the original

We used to keep ice cubes in the summer, we should be able to use our snow today.

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Prediction 2025: towards a three-way race | News

“Let’s see if the “old liberal hands” – according to Jean Lapierre’s expression to describe the party’s hidden establishment – ​​will manage to convince federal minister François-Philippe Champagne to also enter the race. Otherwise, like Paul St-Pierre Plamondon in the PQ in 2020, Milliard could create a surprise (the PQ leader had however already tried his luck in 2016 and had been a candidate in the 2018 elections, while Charles Milliard is in his first steps in politics). His victory would revive interest in a party in decline, offering the opportunity to seduce part of the protest electorate currently in the PQ. In my crystal ball, Charles Milliard stands out as the political revelation of 2025. » → Access the original

???? This former political advisor sees Milliard leader of the PLQ. Not impossible. He also thinks GND will leave QS. Not impossible either.

The race is on for the Quebec Liberal Party | Duty

“Mr. Rodriguez is currently the favorite in the race. “But he would never have come if the polls in Ottawa had been good,” laughs a former Liberal elected official, who did not like that the candidate arrived at the congress of PLQ members in November, surrounded by activists who chanted his first name, beige scarf around the neck. “I was insulted by his “gang” of Montrealers who arrived in Lévis,” adds this person, for whom there is no doubt as to the fact that those who support Mr. Rodriguez mainly come from the metropolis. » → Access the original

???? Billionaire is perhaps doing well to emphasize the regions.

TC Transcontinental | Illegal use of facial recognition | The Press

“The decision of the supervisory committee is consistent with the positions of principle of the CAI, according to lawyer Antoine Guilmain, who carefully follows biometrics files. “We have a scenario where we want to use biometrics in a printing context, for all employees and in all premises. It’s quite special,” he says. » → Access the original

???? One day, probably tomorrow, big tech companies will have access to our biometric information, our personal data, and will use artificial intelligence to make decisions about us.

In South Korea, a gap has widened between young people since Yoon Suk Yeol tried to impose martial law by surprise | Duty

“The anti-Yoon camp is largely represented by a motley group of young left-wing sympathizers during the demonstrations, where pro-Palestinian symbols rub shoulders with eccentric flags reading “introverts” and even “orchid society” → Access to the original

???? Introverts in the street.

Annexation to the kings of old | Duty

“In 1849, the newspaper L’Avenir explained to its Canadian readers that everything was going well with our American neighbor. For what ? Because there “the people elect the man they please, and until now we have no example of them choosing a fool or a villain.” Given the way things have turned out since then, even Papineau would probably lose his mind. » → Access the original

???? Jean-François Nadeau remembers when Louis-Joseph Papineau wanted Quebec to join the United States.

Danielle Smith met Donald Trump at Mar-a-Lago | -

“In some photos from the meeting, Danielle Smith appears alongside Canadian entrepreneur Kevin O’Leary, known for having appeared on the shows Dragon’s Den and Shark Tank. Another photo, posted to Instagram by an associate of Kevin O’Leary, shows the Alberta premier alongside Jordan Peterson, a controversial Canadian psychologist and influential right-wing media personality. » → Access the original

???? A beautiful skewer. I hope she asked him about chemtrails.

(en) A time for truth and reconciliation

« The future demands fresh and strange ideas. New ideas might have saved the old regime, which barely acknowledged, let alone answered, our deepest questions — the causes of the 50-year slowdown in scientific and technological progress in the US, the racket of crescendoing real estate prices, and the explosion of public debt. » → Accéder à l’original

???? Less known than Musk, Peter Thiel is an influential thinker behind what is happening in the United States. His open letter in the Financial Time.

Poilievre wants to give Rio Tinto a tax holiday

“In 2023, for example, Rio Tinto generated nearly a billion dollars in Quebec, but only paid $18 million in provincial taxes. Ottawa, that same year, for its part, received a much more considerable sum, around 280 million. Government investments in recent years number in the hundreds of millions. » → Access the original

???? Rather than giving them money, he wants to take less away from them.

Jean Chrétien advises young people to get married | JDM

“Jean Chrétien attributes all the credit for meeting Aline, his first girlfriend, to his mother. “My mother realized that Aline had a calming influence on me, so she did everything to get me to meet her. She decided she was the woman for me, and she was right,” he said. » → Access the original

???? Marriage advice from Jean Chrétien. Just missing that.

Trump in search of a health threat – La Presse+

“Yet his advisers have spent the last few months trying to find the right disease to build their case, according to four people familiar with the discussions. They considered tuberculosis and other respiratory illnesses as options and asked their Border Patrol allies for examples of illnesses detected in migrants. They also considered trying to rationalize Title 42 by arguing that migrants at the border come from different countries and may carry unknown diseases — a claim that echoes a racist notion with a long history in the United States. and that minorities transmit infections. Mr. Trump’s team did not respond to a request for comment. » → Access the original

???? Our conspiracy theorists who are fond of Trump are going to be faced with a dilemma.

Why is non-alcoholic beer so expensive? | The Press

“A non-alcoholic beer displayed at the same price as a beer with alcohol – despite the absence of around 35% alcohol tax – allows the seller to pocket around 50% more. Beer with alcohol – Displayed price: $10 – Taxes on alcohol (35%): 3.50% – Price excluding taxes: $6.50 Non-alcoholic beer – Displayed price and excluding taxes: $10, or 50% of more than the $6.50 for beer with alcohol » → Access the original

???? Brewers say yeast costs more and there are more steps, but oh well.

(en) The US military debates a possible deployment on American soil under Trump – POLITICO

« But some in the U.S. military fear next time could be different. According to nearly a dozen retired officers and current military lawyers, as well as scholars who teach at West Point and Annapolis, an intense if quiet debate is underway inside the U.S. military community about what orders it would be obliged to obey if President-elect Donald Trump decides to follow through on his previous warnings that he might deploy troops against what he deems domestic threats, including political enemies, dissenters and immigrants. » → Accéder à l’original

???? Will the military blindly obey Trump?

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???? Docile.