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  • Graffitis à Rimouski : la Ville intensifie ses interventions
    La Ville de Rimouski constate également une hausse des graffitis et des actes de vandalisme dans plusieurs parcs et installations municipales depuis début de l’année. Le vandalisme inclut des bris d’arbres, de bancs de parcs et d’équipements publics en plus des graffitis. Le conseiller aux affaires publiques et relations médias de la Ville de Rimouski, Frédéric Savard, soutient que les parcs et certaines stations de pompage figurent parmi les installations les plus touchées. Il précise qu
     

Graffitis à Rimouski : la Ville intensifie ses interventions

16 juillet 2026 à 18:00

La Ville de Rimouski constate également une hausse des graffitis et des actes de vandalisme dans plusieurs parcs et installations municipales depuis début de l’année.

Le vandalisme inclut des bris d’arbres, de bancs de parcs et d’équipements publics en plus des graffitis.

Le conseiller aux affaires publiques et relations médias de la Ville de Rimouski, Frédéric Savard, soutient que les parcs et certaines stations de pompage figurent parmi les installations les plus touchées. Il précise que les interventions des services municipaux se font dès qu’un graffiti est signalé ou repéré.

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« Notre équipe d’entretien des parcs et des espaces verts ainsi que nos journaliers planifient rapidement le nettoyage. Le délai varie selon la dimension du graffiti et la nature de la signature. Le nettoyage peut varier de une heure à quelques jours. La Ville ne dispose pas d’une équipe dédiée exclusivement à cette tâche qui vient s’ajouter aux responsabilités régulières des employés », dit-il.

La Ville souligne que la diversité des surfaces touchées complique parfois le travail pour effacer les graffitis. Les employés doivent adapter leurs interventions.

Ils utilisent généralement des décapants chimiques, du nettoyage à haute pression ou des traitements plus spécialisés lorsque les matériaux sont poreux ou fragiles, comme le béton ou la brique. Cette réalité explique les variations de délais d’un cas à l’autre, selon monsieur Savard. 

Sensibilisation

Rimouski mise sur la sensibilisation pour la préservation des biens matériels. Frédéric Savard indique que la très grande majorité des citoyens sont d’excellents ambassadeurs de la civilité.

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« Des systèmes de surveillance peuvent aussi être installés dans certains secteurs jugés plus problématiques. Cette organisation flexible permet de répondre rapidement aux signalements tout en maintenant les autres travaux essentiels dans les parcs et installations municipales. »

Du côté de la Sûreté du Québec, aucune plainte n’a été déposée et aucune enquête n’est en cours pour le moment concernant les graffitis observés dans plusieurs secteurs de Rimouski.

Wildfire Smoke Shrouds Cities and Smothers Residents

16 juillet 2026 à 17:56
The air was hazardous, and skylines at times seemed nearly erased. The smoke will linger before finally letting up.

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The Manhattan skyline on a hazy Thursday on the Brooklyn Bridge.

Gay-Themed Mediterranean Cruise Turned Away From Turkey and Then Egypt

16 juillet 2026 à 17:49
In both Muslim-majority countries, official hostility to gay people has increased in recent years. But the same cruise had visited before without problems.

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The Scarlet Lady in Dover, Britain, in 2020.

Ken Paxton and James Talarico Agree to Debate in U.S. Senate Race

16 juillet 2026 à 17:45
Ken Paxton, a Republican, has not debated in more than a decade. A showdown with James Talarico, a Democrat, could be a key moment in the hard-fought race.

Chinese Human Rights Lawyer Seeking Asylum Is Arrested by ICE

Par :Amy Qin
16 juillet 2026 à 17:25
Shaoping Wu was working as a contract delivery driver for Amazon when he was pulled over in Pennsylvania. He had championed personal and religious freedom for Chinese citizens.

Supporters and relatives are worried that Shaoping Wu could be deported.
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  • US Soccer coy on Mauricio Pochettino and future of sporting director position
    Batson says US federation will ‘take a break’Pochettino’s future remains unresolvedSporting director role unfilled after Crocker exitThe US men’s national team leaves the World Cup with some considerable gaps in their organizational chart. Mauricio Pochettino’s future is undetermined as his contract – funded in part by billionaire donors – ends with the conclusion of this tournament. In April, Matt Crocker resigned from his role as sporting director to take a similar position with Saudi Arabia.D
     

US Soccer coy on Mauricio Pochettino and future of sporting director position

  • Batson says US federation will ‘take a break’

  • Pochettino’s future remains unresolved

  • Sporting director role unfilled after Crocker exit

The US men’s national team leaves the World Cup with some considerable gaps in their organizational chart. Mauricio Pochettino’s future is undetermined as his contract – funded in part by billionaire donors – ends with the conclusion of this tournament. In April, Matt Crocker resigned from his role as sporting director to take a similar position with Saudi Arabia.

Despite these crucial positions being open, there may not be resolutions for some time.

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© Photograph: Howard Smith/ISI Photos/USSF/Getty Images for USSF

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  • Bryson DeChambeau takes subtle swipe at Nick Faldo as Jackson Suber sets Open pace
    American responds to six-time major winner’s jibeSurprise name at top of leaderboardFrom no clue and no strategy to no explanation. Who or what is eating Bryson DeChambeau? Maybe the coming days will reveal all. Then again …A fine and widely unexpected start to the 154th Open Championship was not sufficient to alter DeChambeau’s uncommunicative approach towards anybody who may not be inclined to tickle his tummy. Following a fifth major round in a row, DeChambeau declined the opportunity to spea
     

Bryson DeChambeau takes subtle swipe at Nick Faldo as Jackson Suber sets Open pace

16 juillet 2026 à 17:15
  • American responds to six-time major winner’s jibe

  • Surprise name at top of leaderboard

From no clue and no strategy to no explanation. Who or what is eating Bryson DeChambeau? Maybe the coming days will reveal all. Then again …

A fine and widely unexpected start to the 154th Open Championship was not sufficient to alter DeChambeau’s uncommunicative approach towards anybody who may not be inclined to tickle his tummy. Following a fifth major round in a row, DeChambeau declined the opportunity to speak to eagerly assembled media. One once so garrulous has lost his tongue.

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© Photograph: Kate McShane/R&A/Getty Images

© Photograph: Kate McShane/R&A/Getty Images

"Nous n'en pouvons plus !" : comment la canicule menace l'un des joyaux de la gastronomie italienne

16 juillet 2026 à 17:14
L'Italie suffoque : la péninsule est en alerte rouge, avec plus de 40 degrés par endroits, et les conséquences sont dévastatrices pour les fleuves, dont le fameux fleuve Pô, au sud de Venise qui s'assèche le plus fortement. Ce qui n'est pas sans conséquences sur l'un des plats les plus réputés de la cuisine italienne.

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  • Russo-Ukrainian war, day 1604: Protests fill Ukraine’s streets over Fedorov’s firing
    Exclusives Russia’s port strikes leave Ukraine’s grain with almost nowhere else to go. Russia’s strikes have halted Ukraine’s deepwater grain exports—and there’s no way around the damage: one rail line carries almost all of it. Ukraine is turning Crimea into an island. It just fired the minister who armed the effort. The same pattern that cost Zaluzhnyi his job in 2024—success, popularity, a Syrskyi clash, a possible rival. The Syrskyi feud was not it: why Ukrain
     

Russo-Ukrainian war, day 1604: Protests fill Ukraine’s streets over Fedorov’s firing

16 juillet 2026 à 17:07

Russo-Ukrainian War 16 July 2026

Exclusives

Russia’s port strikes leave Ukraine’s grain with almost nowhere else to go. Russia’s strikes have halted Ukraine’s deepwater grain exports—and there’s no way around the damage: one rail line carries almost all of it.
Ukraine is turning Crimea into an island. It just fired the minister who armed the effort. The same pattern that cost Zaluzhnyi his job in 2024—success, popularity, a Syrskyi clash, a possible rival.
The Syrskyi feud was not it: why Ukraine really dropped its drone-war minister. As crowds fill the streets in cities across Ukraine to support the forced-out minister, a deputy air force commander says he joined in 2022 to win the war, not to watch reforms stall.
Russia bet 50 vehicles that the drones would miss. The drones did not miss.. Russian commanders had banned their own vehicles from these roads, knowing what the drones do to them. Then they lined up 50 and sent them anyway.

Military

Ukraine is deliberately building the fragmented fighter fleet every air force is trained to avoid. Militaries standardize to survive the logistics. Ukraine is doing the opposite, and there's a reason.

Ukraine reportedly strikes Russian airbase used to attack its cities, using a drone similar to the Russian Shahed. A reported overnight drone strike sparked a fire at Russia's Engels-2 airbase, home to the strategic bombers that regularly launch cruise missile attacks on Ukraine.

UK fast-tracks new ballistic missile for Ukraine with "pared-down" design. The UK's Project Nightfall will reportedly trade range and warhead size for faster development, as London seeks to arm Ukraine while expanding Europe's defense industry.

Ukraine's spy service and navy team up to strike two Russian crude tankers in the Black Sea. The "Mamai" naval drones destroyed vessels the SBU calls legitimate targets and working parts of Russia's war machine.

Ukraine hit 147 Russian shadow-fleet ships in 10 days. Now Moscow is pulling its best drone unit off the front to guard the tankers, partisans say. Rubicon built its reputation hunting Ukrainian logistics near Pokrovsk in eastern Ukraine. A partisan network says it's being sent to sea instead.

Ukraine's 412th Nemesis brigade destroyed rare Russian Zemledeliye system with FPV drones. Russia can scatter a minefield from 15 kilometers out. Ukraine takes out one of the machines that does it.

Intelligence and technology

You can't jam what you can't identify: Ukraine just fielded its first portable drone detector. Ukraine has gone the whole war without a portable, mass-produced drone-signature detector, while nearly every Russian soldier carries a Chinese "Bulat".

Brussels let Ukraine spend EU defense funds on Chinese drone components. The bloc does not turn out these parts in the volumes a front-line drone war burns through, so Kyiv looked east.

20,000 confirmed hits make General Cherry Ukraine's top FPV drone maker. Ukraine's combat-driven drone market crowned General Cherry its top FPV manufacturer in June after more than 20,000 verified target hits.

International

1,500 British and French troops are heading to Poland in September—the first physical test of Europe's plan to guarantee Ukraine's security. The Coalition of the Willing will hold its first joint military exercise in Poland this September, moving the European-led initiative for Ukraine's security from political pledges toward operational planning.

One Greek company keeps Russia's Arctic gas moving—and Athens won't let the EU touch it. Dynagas has carried more than 10 million tons of Russian LNG since 2025 across 144 voyages.

A nationwide bomb-shelter overhaul is underway in Belarus as Moscow pushes Minsk toward its war against Ukraine. Belpol documented shelter modernization at government offices, telecom sites, factories, utilities, and the National Bank, framing it as another stage of Minsk's war readiness.

A month's worth of Russia's oil exports is stuck at sea—135 million barrels loaded but not delivered. Bloomberg's vessel-tracking and price data put the four-week value of Russia's seaborne crude exports back near $1.7 billion, down from a weekly spike near $2.5 billion on the chart earlier this year.

Humanitarian and social impact

Ukraine repatriates 501 bodies Russia says are Ukrainian service members. The latest humanitarian operation returned 501 bodies from Russia to Ukraine, where forensic specialists will work to establish their identities and prepare them for return to their families.

"Cardboard" protests against Zelenskyy's firing of Fedorov erupt across Ukraine. The rallies were timed to the parliament session set to seal a wider government reshuffle.

From Russia's contract to death in about a month: Cameroon student and 23-year-old were found dead in Ukraine. Ukrainian intelligence identified two Cameroonians killed on the front weeks after signing Russian army contracts. HUR puts Cameroon's war dead at 106.

Political and legal developments

Zelenskyy defends the right to protest and hands defense to his strike-war chief. He passed over the expected frontrunner and gave the job to his special operations chief, the man behind Ukraine's long-range strikes.

Fedorov breaks his silence: Ukraine's army chief Syrskyi gave him an ultimatum—then blocked his reforms. He confirmed the feud with Oleksandr Syrskyi drove the dismissal, at a briefing hours before the vote.

Ukraine's deputy Air Force commander resigns the moment Fedorov loses the ministry. Pavlo Yelizarov, the No. 2 in the Air Force since January, made the departing minister's removal the sole reason for handing in his report.

"Symbolically," says Ukraine's departing defense minister: New ballistic missile was tested on day government resigned. On his way out, Fedorov said Ukraine ran a successful ballistic missile test on 14 July, developed in the Defense Ministry's zone of responsibility.

"Our state became further from victory": Ukraine's top volunteer, whose fund bought 286,000 FPV Drones, just lost his defense post. Serhii Sternenko, whose foundation delivered 118,000 FPV drones to the front, is out as defense adviser after Fedorov's exit.

Ukraine's reformist defense minister is out after six months. Earlier, his audit exposed $7.2 billion in defense overspending. Mykhailo Fedorov, the drone-warfare architect who became Ukraine's youngest defense minister, is leaving after six months, having opened his tenure with an audit that found $7.2 billion in overspending.

Russia built Crimea's power grid on sanctioned Siemens turbines. Ukraine has struck cooling system of one in Balaklava. Ukraine's Special Operations Forces struck Sevastopol's Balaklava power plant, damaging the cooling system of a Siemens turbine that sanctions leave unrepairable.

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  • White House teleprompter operator put on leave over alleged bets on Trump speeches
    Karoline Leavitt calls apparent bets on Kalshi prediction platform ‘deeply unfortunate and frankly a disgrace’Donald Trump’s longtime teleprompter operator has been placed on administrative leave, the White House said on Thursday, after reports that he used his position to win $100,000 by placing bets on the president’s speeches using the online prediction market Kalshi.The White House press secretary, Karoline Leavitt, said the president had been informed about the situation, which she describe
     

White House teleprompter operator put on leave over alleged bets on Trump speeches

16 juillet 2026 à 17:04

Karoline Leavitt calls apparent bets on Kalshi prediction platform ‘deeply unfortunate and frankly a disgrace’

Donald Trump’s longtime teleprompter operator has been placed on administrative leave, the White House said on Thursday, after reports that he used his position to win $100,000 by placing bets on the president’s speeches using the online prediction market Kalshi.

The White House press secretary, Karoline Leavitt, said the president had been informed about the situation, which she described as “deeply unfortunate and frankly a disgrace”.

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© Photograph: Pablo Martínez Monsiváis/AP

© Photograph: Pablo Martínez Monsiváis/AP

Tourist Helicopter Struck Geese Before Crashing in Hudson River, Documents Show

16 juillet 2026 à 17:04
Officials discovered remains from at least two birds on the helicopter’s rotor blades, according to documents released by the National Transportation Safety Board.

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City police divers searching for helicopter wreckage in the Hudson River in April 2025.

Visée par une demande d’action collective | Une commission scolaire dans l’eau chaude après une fuite de données

16 juillet 2026 à 17:02
La Commission scolaire Sir-Wilfrid-Laurier (CSSWL) a envoyé par erreur des informations confidentielles « de milliers » de personnes, dont des numéros d’assurance sociale, à la liste complète des parents de l’École secondaire de Rosemère. L’établissement est aujourd’hui visé par une demande d’action collective.

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  • Traversier Hilaire-Journault : le service est retardé
    Le Hilaire-Journault, le futur traversier qui assurera la liaison maritime entre Rimouski et Forestville, ne sera pas en fonction au début du mois d’août comme c’était prévu. Le bateau est toujours en Grèce afin de subir des travaux pour le mettre à jour. Le propriétaire, Louis-Olivier Carré, a confirmé en entrevue à Radio-Canada que le navire devrait être mis à l’eau samedi en vue de la traversée de l’Atlantique qui devrait prendre environ trois semaines avant d’atteindre le port de Rimouski
     

Traversier Hilaire-Journault : le service est retardé

16 juillet 2026 à 17:00

Le Hilaire-Journault, le futur traversier qui assurera la liaison maritime entre Rimouski et Forestville, ne sera pas en fonction au début du mois d’août comme c’était prévu. Le bateau est toujours en Grèce afin de subir des travaux pour le mettre à jour.

Le propriétaire, Louis-Olivier Carré, a confirmé en entrevue à Radio-Canada que le navire devrait être mis à l’eau samedi en vue de la traversée de l’Atlantique qui devrait prendre environ trois semaines avant d’atteindre le port de Rimouski. Il rappelle que l’objectif était de mettre le Hilaire-Journault en fonction avant la fin de l’année 2026.

Monsieur Carré est en Grèce depuis un mois pour s’assurer du bon déroulement des opérations. Il a conclu le contrat d’achat du navire qui assurera la liaison maritime en avril dernier et la transaction a été effectuée en juin.

Lorsqu’il sera en ordre, le navire devra obtenir les certifications nécessaires. Des exigences supplémentaires demandées expliquent notamment le retard du départ de la Grèce. Transports Canada devra effectuer une inspection lors de son arrivée à Rimouski.

Ensuite, le Hilaire-Journault devrait entreprendre des traversées de rodage à la mi-septembre jusqu’à la fin octobre.

De l’avant sans Québec

Louis-Olivier Carré a confirmé avoir investi 2 M$, jusqu’à maintenant, dans le projet et se chargera de l’achat du navire d’une valeur de 15 M$.

Il souhaite toujours obtenir 9 M$ de Québec pour la mise aux normes des infrastructures portuaires, à Rimouski et à Forestville, ce qui permettra aux camions de monter à bord du traversier.

Le président-directeur général des Industries Rilec, Louis-Olivier Carré. (Photo courtoisie)

Le promoteur soutient toutefois que le projet ira de l’avant, même sans le soutien financier du provincial.

« Tout serait fonctionnel. Les rampes sont là, mais le seul problème serait qu’on pourrait seulement accueillir les automobiles. Ça ne nous empêcherait pas de commencer. Nous restons positifs. Il ne reste pas grand-chose à faire pour dénouer l’impasse. L’appui du gouvernement est le dernier élément qui manque », a expliqué monsieur Carré dans les derniers mois.

Le plan demeure de prioriser un service fiable, sécuritaire et durable dès son entrée en fonction, même si cela implique de prendre davantage de temps avant le lancement officiel.

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  • Remains of LA millionaire missing since 1981 identified after more than 40 years
    After Thelma Gaston disappeared, her companion was convicted of second-degree murderAuthorities in southern California announced this week that, after more than 40 years, they had identified the remains of a Los Angeles millionaire missing since 1981.The Riverside county sheriff confirmed in a statement that investigators, using genetic genealogy and dental records, had determined the remains found in a rugged area near Sugarloaf Mountain were those of Thelma Gaston. Continue reading...
     

Remains of LA millionaire missing since 1981 identified after more than 40 years

16 juillet 2026 à 16:59

After Thelma Gaston disappeared, her companion was convicted of second-degree murder

Authorities in southern California announced this week that, after more than 40 years, they had identified the remains of a Los Angeles millionaire missing since 1981.

The Riverside county sheriff confirmed in a statement that investigators, using genetic genealogy and dental records, had determined the remains found in a rugged area near Sugarloaf Mountain were those of Thelma Gaston.

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© Photograph: Myung J Chun/Los Angeles Times/Getty Images

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  • Arsène Wenger: US soccer development will depend on ‘consistency’ and ‘education’
    Former Arsenal boss calls out US pay-to-play modelWenger says academy setups are vital for growthArsène Wenger, Fifa’s head of global football development, has said that while the US faced numerous structural obstacles to becoming a real soccer power, many of those obstacles are being addressed by leadership at the US Soccer Federation and Major League Soccer.Speaking Thursday in a roundtable with US Soccer chief executive JT Batson and chief operating officer Dan Helfrich, Wenger heaped praise
     

Arsène Wenger: US soccer development will depend on ‘consistency’ and ‘education’

  • Former Arsenal boss calls out US pay-to-play model

  • Wenger says academy setups are vital for growth

Arsène Wenger, Fifa’s head of global football development, has said that while the US faced numerous structural obstacles to becoming a real soccer power, many of those obstacles are being addressed by leadership at the US Soccer Federation and Major League Soccer.

Speaking Thursday in a roundtable with US Soccer chief executive JT Batson and chief operating officer Dan Helfrich, Wenger heaped praise on the federation for its new $250m headquarters in Fayetteville, Georgia, saying “I feel it’s important for every footballer, somewhere, to feel you’re at home.”

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© Photograph: Eva Marie Uzcategui/FIFA/Getty Images

© Photograph: Eva Marie Uzcategui/FIFA/Getty Images

Delightful World Cup Stories

16 juillet 2026 à 16:53
Not all the best moments from the tournament were on the pitch. We revisit some of our favorites ahead of Sunday’s final.

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On the War Against Iran, the Pentagon Has Said Little

16 juillet 2026 à 16:33
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has spoken about a range of issues in recent days — from testosterone to leak investigations — but he has said little about the war.

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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth met with the D.C. Safe and Beautiful Task Force and the National Guard earlier this month.
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