Proches aidants au rabais, valides jusqu’à épuisement des stocks

Par : Isabelle Perrin · L’autrice signe ce texte à titre de mère de Thomas · 23 ans. En pleine Semaine nationale des personnes proches aidantes · elle remet en question cette reconnaissance alors que des milliers de personnes continuent d’assumer seules les coûts humains · sociaux et financiers de la proche aidance · au prix de leur santé · de leur bien-être et de leurs revenus.

6 novembre 2026 à 00:00

Et lorsque les proches aidants s’effondrent, les conséquences deviennent collectives et financières.

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What the downfall of near three-decade senator Susan Collins says about Republican unpopularity

Par : Robert Tait in Portland · Maine

4 novembre 2026 à 15:00

Troy Jackson, in just 101 days, bested the Republican, preventing her sixth Senate term: ‘You can’t eat road salt’

The political demise of Susan Collins – a fixture of Maine and Washington politics for three decades – recalls the famous line in Ernest Hemingway’s The Sun Also Rises about how one of the novel’s characters experienced bankruptcy: gradually, then suddenly.

In the run-up to Tuesday’s stunning Democrat “blue wave” election triumph, it seemed obvious that Collins’s 30-year tenure as Maine’s Republican senator was vulnerable to the challenge of Troy Jackson, the Democrats’ explicitly working-class candidate as voters prepared to unleash pent-up anger with Donald Trump’s presidency.

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Democrat Troy Jackson defeats Susan Collins to win Maine US Senate seat in blow to Republicans

Par : Shrai Popat and Robert Tait in Portland · Maine

4 novembre 2026 à 01:15

Democratic nominee toppled the five-term GOP incumbent in one of the most hard-fought midterm contests

The Democrat Troy Jackson has won Maine’s US Senate race, toppling five-term Republican incumbent Susan Collins in one of the biggest upsets of the 2026 midterms.

Jackson, 58, unseated Collins – who has been in the Senate since 1997 – in a closely fought, and often rancorous, race characterized by mutual accusations of corruption and clashes over living costs in the predominantly rural state.

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US voters share why they cast their ballots – from frustration with Trump to affordability concerns

Par : Robert Tait in Portland · Maine · Joseph Gedeon in Dearborn · Michigan · Ed Pilkington in Anchorage · Alaska · George Chidi in Atlanta · Georgia · Rachel Leingang in Des Moines · Iowa · and Lex McMenamin in Rochester · New Hampshire

3 novembre 2026 à 17:30

‘It’s the disregard for the rule of law. It just seems like they’re thumbing their nose at it’

In the battleground state of Maine, Todd Cox, 63, has supported the state’s incumbent Republican senator Susan Collins not once, but twice, in previous elections. Not this time.

On Tuesday, Cox, a technology professional, cast his vote for Collins’s Democratic challenger, Troy Jackson – driven not by pressing local issues, but broader concern “for the direction the country is going in”, he said.

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Americans head to polls in midterm elections seen as referendum on Trump

Par : Robert Tait in Yarmouth · Maine · Joseph Gedeon in Detroit · Michigan · Rachel Leingang in Waverly · Iowa · and Chris Stein

3 novembre 2026 à 16:48

Control of the Senate and House of Representatives, both currently held by the Republicans, is at stake

Americans are heading to the polls today in US midterm elections widely seen as a referendum on Donald Trump’s second presidency and a chance for opponents to rein in his untrammeled power.

At stake is control of the US Senate and House of Representatives, both currently held by Republicans, and in recent days, the two parties have scrambled to deliver their final pitches to voters. Additionally, there are elections for governor in 36 states, as well for state legislatures, sheriff’s offices, and on the approval of ballot initiatives nationwide.

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‘The status quo sucks’: affordability and Trump loom over final stretch of Maine’s tight Senate race

Par : Shrai Popat in Portland · Maine

30 octobre 2026 à 07:00

Key contest between incumbent Republican Susan Collins and Democrat Troy Jackson will gauge how voters feel about Trump 2.0 and rising costs

Christian LaMontagne has started slowing his lobster boat down.

The 27-year-old fisher spends longer on the water when out hauling traps in Casco Bay, but the trade-off helps him save fuel at a time when costs have surged. Before the US war with Iran began in late February, filling his tank cost about $350 a week. Now it’s doubled to nearly $700.

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