Year: 2016

Paris should have been taken by storm on Friday, November 13th, by an exciting soccer game between France and the current world champions, Germany. Instead of being flooded by cheering fans, the streets of Paris were flooded with traumatized, panicked citizens and tourists after three bomb explosions at the Stade de France, along with no less than six shootings having occurred all over the city, notably at the stadium and at the Bataclan concert hall. Gunmen are said to have entered the crowded buildings and to have shot at random,…

On Tuesday, November 3rd, more than seventy schools across Quebec were targeted with bomb threats, having received an upsetting e-mail that morning. The message, sent by a mysterious group called Le Sceptre Rouge, was meant as a pressure tactic to put an end to the rotating teacher strikes that have been in process since the end of October. Le Sceptre Rouge’s campaign, “Four Days of Death”, was launched in the name of denouncing the so-called terrible conditions imposed upon students by the strike, which removes from schools both “proper learning”…

By his own admission, Kenneth Hilliam is not a scientist, but he’s hoping to get the attention of someone who is. While browsing the internet this past summer, he came across an article about Japanese Knotweed, an invasive plant native to the Far East that has made its way to the island of Montreal. What’s more, he knows exactly where it’s growing. “I found it […] along a bike path between Ville St. Pierre and Lachine. And I said, ‘wasn’t all this stuff cut down last summer?’” “I went in…