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Unless you are in Quebec.

... because most hospital staff are bilingual, as are most patients ...

Can't say that for large swaths of the RoC (Rest of Canada).

And now that the Quebec government has mandated that french-speaking students devote half their time in grade 6 to a one-year intensive english training class, it will only get better. This is over and above the teaching of english as a second language starting in grade 1 that has been in place for years.

http://www.cyberpresse.ca/le-soleil/actualites/education/201102/24/01-4373781-anglais-intensif-en-sixieme-annee-profs-ontariens-en-renfort.php
http://www.cyberpresse.ca/le-soleil/actualites/education/201102/25/01-4374210-commission-scolaire-du-lac-saint-jean-langlais-intensif-for-all.php

Unless you are in Quebec.

... because most hospital staff are bilingual, as are most patients ...

Can't say that for large swaths of the RoC (Rest of Canada).

And now that the Quebec government has mandated that french-speaking students devote half their time in grade 6 to a one-year intensive english training class, it will only get better. This is over and above the teaching of english as a second language starting in grade 1 that has been in place for years.

http://www.cyberpresse.ca/le-soleil/actualites/education/201102/24/01-4373781-anglais-intensif-en-sixieme-annee-profs-ontariens-en-renfort.php
http://www.cyberpresse.ca/le-soleil/actualites/education/201102/25/01-4374210-commission-scolaire-du-lac-saint-jean-langlais-intensif-for-all.php

They might not have the chance to go that far. Poll results published by La Presse today says that people are ready to go for a NDP-Liberal coalition as long as NDP leader, Jack Layton is prime minister. I am not sure if the Conservatives could form a majority government given an election. They have been a minority government for quite a while.

Canadian political system works pretty much like the one in U.K. and Canadians might have been inspired by the recent outcome in U.K.

La Presse is a French newspaper published in Montreal:
http://www.cyberpresse.ca/actualites/quebec-canada/politique-canadienne/201005/30/01-4285263-une-coalition-plc-npd-dirigee-par-layton-deferait-harper.php?utm_categorieinterne=trafficdrivers&utm_contenuinterne=cyberpresse_B42_acc-manchettes-dimanche_369233_accueil_POS1

Hell no, many bricks are unstable. Depends on the footing.

Impressive, so in 1989 they were able to image atoms, and only 2 decades later they already went on to molecules?

Just imagine what we'll see another twenty years from now! At Moore's law speed, we might even see cameras able to take images of macroscopic objects in our lifetime!

This was my first thought : http://blogues.cyberpresse.ca/technaute/dumais/wp-content/uploads/2007/07/illustration2007071204.jpg

Between my lousy French and the Babelfish translation, this article seems to suggest that the city is open to replacing "double terminals" with "simple" ones. Perhaps the simple terminals he's referring to are the new ones you're talking about and the Apple store happens to have old ones. Or vice-versa, I'm not sure I understand the quote.

http://www.cyberpresse.ca/article/20070907/CPACTUALITES/709070499/5155/CPACTUALITES

Borough spokesman:

"Nous sommes ouverts à certains accommodements, comme transformer une borne de stationnement double en borne simple, mais de là à les enlever complètement il y a une marge qu'on ne peut pas franchir," explique Jacques-Alain Lavallée, chargé de communication de Ville-Marie

"We're open to certain accommodations, like changing a double meter for a single, but removing them completely is across a line we can't cross."

From a spokesman for the city's parking authority:

"Je pense que l'arrondissement n'a pas eu à étudier longtemps la demande d'Apple avant de refuser de retirer les bornes, dit M. Phillibert. Ces espaces appartiennent au domaine public, et ne peuvent pas devenir à usage exclusif. Ça ne se fait tout simplement pas."

Trans: "I doubt the borough had to spend much time studying Apple's request before refusing to remove the meters," said Mr. Phillibert. "Those spaces belong to the public, and cannot be transferred to exclusive use. It just isn't done."

My take: Apple's request is unusual and would be a bad precedent because it would worsen a chaotic, confusing parking situation by encouraging other companies to get in on the same act. Result: a horrible patchwork. On the other hand, for the right price maybe they could make them "free parking - 1 hour" without too much disruption.

TFA is an editorial, not an article. It is the opinion of the Montreal Gazette. No bureaucrat ever said "We've never done if before, so we can't." The quote was made up to make a point in the editorial. It's not real.

If you want to read the real article, go to the source (sorry, it is en francais. Run it through the Babelfish if you are desperate.)

I don't disagree that the city is being a bit obstinate, but I can see why they wouldn't want to change streetfronts on Apple's request. If they do it for them, they'll have to do it for every other downtown storefront. Besides, and I am not exaggerating, the $35,000 Apple is promising probably wouldn't even cover the cost of tasking a union city crew to remove the meters, rebuild the sidewalk and put the meters someplace else.

Just to say that Ontario isn't the first province that will match US DST time. Québec will to, announced last week.
http://www.cyberpresse.ca/actualites/article/artic le_complet.php?path=/actualites/article/16/1,63,0, 102005,1193040.php

http://www.cyberpresse.ca/actualites/article/artic le_complet.php?path=/actualites/article/16/1,63,0, 102005,1193040.php

The sources are in french my native language but any translation tool should do the job for you.

Last estimate were at 7000 and still counting, a village in Sri Lanka is totally destroyed, hotel and houses were seen floating atop waves crashing in the land repetitively. This is one of the worst catasrtophy we have seen in several decades.

Cyberpresse, a leading quebecquers media outlet

Our public television network take on it

Earth is getting even, everymonth the amount of such catastrophy happens more and more, earth will win, it always has, we fucked it up, its not happy, if needed it will wipe all of us off of its face, sry for what seems like a religious belief it is not, it is mere observation.

I read a very interresting article a few days ago. (sorry, it's only in french, read it here) It talked about a recent trend in Hollywood movies and TV shows. It seems that the good guys uses Apple while the bad guys uses a PC with Windows. Recent example are obviously 24 where in the first season CTU used Macs while Ira Gaines, the bad guy for the first half of the season used a PC with Windows. In Legally Blonde, every boring lawyer has a PC, while Reese has a Mac. In MI-5, the secret agent agency uses MacOSX while bad guys often use PCs.

It's not a rule of thumb, but it seems some show writers have decided to give the evil roles to PCs and the good and righteous roles to Macs.

Mafiaboy obviously did this just for the attention. What he really needs is a little love & compassion, hopefully at home.

Ses parents, présents dans la salle, ont été écorchés dans le jugement, le juge déclarant qu'ils ne sont pas en mesure d'assurer un encadrement adéquat pour le jeune homme. Ils sont séparés et Mafiaboy vivait chez son père au moment de ses méfaits. Bien qu'ils le savaient recherché par les polices du Canada et des États-Unis, les parents n'ont pas dénoncé l'adolescent, ni sévi sérieusement contre lui, a souligné le juge Ouellet.

His parents, present in the courtroom, were [skinned alive] by the judgment, the judge declared that they are not able to give a suitable living environment for the young man. They are separated and Mafiaboy was at his father's when he did his mischief. Even though they knew he was wanted by canadian and american police, the parents did not turn in the teenager, nor punish him seriously, said judge Ouellet (pronounced "well-let").

And many things on this page (it's in french though, but you can find some pictures). http://www.cyberpresse.ca/reseau/actualites/0109/a ct_101090013238.html

I live in Canada and we all see this on almost every TV channel and every radio station since this morning. The images we can see are simply horrific and unthinkable. What scares me most is that it could lead to a WWIII. And I don't want to.

I and my friends express our sincerest sympathy to the family's victims and all the USA.

The article is in French, the title could be translated as "Piracy, wireless and cabriolet version". In short, the reporter and a security expert drove downtown Montreal with a 802.11b equipped laptop running NetStumbler and were able to sniff out packets from four office towers.