Environnement Canada maintains its warning against heat and humidity
for most areas of southwestern and central province of Québec.
While young people make their return to school, a heat wave has settled
over southern Quebec and the oppressive heat should remain until today
and even tomorrow.
The southern and central regions of Quebec are still affected by high
temperatures which are unusual for this time of [>>>]
According to a study by researchers at the University Health Centre,
McGill University, smoking marijuana reduces pain, improves mood and
helps to sleep individuals with chronic pain.
Oral absorption of cannabinoid, an extract of hemp has proven useful in
treating certain types of pain, but can pose risks and effects that
differ from the inhalation of cannabis smoke.
The patients on whom tests have [>>>]
The new Minister of Education of Quebec, Line Beauchamp, announced
earlier today she was delaying by one year the implementation of a
single school report in the primary and secondary schools.
The arrival of a single school report, based on the assessment of
knowledge, will be implemented for school year 2011-2012. All schools
in the province will adopt it without exception. [>>>]
A North American bat regarded as one of the most voracious
insect-eaters in the world faces extinction in parts of the continent
within the next 16 years, scientists say.
The little brown myotis bat is one of the most abundant in the US and
in Canada’s Outaouais, but the population is threatened by a fungus
that causes a lethal disease known as white-nose syndrome.
The fungus [>>>]
Pembroke/Renfrew County Crime Stoppers and the Ministry of Natural
Resources are asking for the publics’ assistance in preventing fishing
violations.
According to Crime Stoppers, most anglers understand and follow
Ontario’s Fishing Regulations, but every year Conservation Officers see
some common violations committed by anglers that can be easily avoided.
Anglers cannot be in possession of fish cut or packed so that species,
numbers, or size limits cannot [>>>]
The Montreal Journal is mounting fresh attacks concerning embezzlement
case that involves the Executive Director of Cégep de l'Outaouais,
Marielle Poirier. The newspaper has alleged that the Cégep maintains a
kind of mystery around the recommendations that were made by auditors
in a bid to shed light on the expenses of the CEO.
The recommendations are comprised in the report from external auditors
that were appointed [>>>]
An Italian mother of two boys aged 12 and 14 reported a topless bather
to police because the way she applied suntan lotion was "troubling" her
sons.
The 26-year-old sunbather, identified only as Luisa under Italian
privacy laws, was questioned by officers, who have opened an obscenity
investigation.
The mother said she had initially asked the woman, an assistant in a
fashion store, to cover herself up [>>>]
The National Post is reporting that the human race will become extinct
if it doesn’t discover ways to live in outer space within the next
century as warned by renowned British astrophysicist Stephen Hawking.
Mr. Hawking, who is now in Canada at the Perimeter Institute for
Theoretical Physics in Waterloo, Ont., working alongside Canadian
researchers, has long been an advocate of colonizing space, but says
because [>>>]
The Rwandsais will go to the polls next Monday to elect the President
of the Republic. These elections are felt to be won by the current
President general Paul Kagame.
The presidential campaign in Rwanda was characterized by the exclusion
of the opposition and killings that have targeted politicians and
independent journalists.
Several opponents are in jail today while others took the path of
exile, which led [>>>]
At least 19 people, mostly aged 65 and over, have died as a result of
burns from bath water since 2000. A coroner has raised alert
in her report concerning these horrible deaths.
The coroner Catherine Rudel-Tessier said that, that was too many deaths
among aged people victims of burns from bath water. She noted that this
winter she made a report on four [>>>]
