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No 1 seed wins 6-3, 7-6 (2), 5-7, 6-2
American’s hopes dashed in tense final
For a passing moment at the end of a rugged third set, hope sprung anew for Ben Shelton. He had been outserved and outplayed for nearly three hours, but at 6-5 in the third set, one game from defeat, the American finally broke through. He burst into the return game finally pounding his forehand freely and he willed himself into an unexpected fourth set.
After he had finished pumping his fist, cupping his ear to the crowd and admirably trying to initiate a drastic momentum shift, the next sequence was most revealing. Shelton opened the fourth set with a shaky game, immediately losing his serve at the start of the set. He worked hard until the end, but he was beaten by Zverev, the top seed, who closed out a 6-3, 7-6 (2), 5-7, 6-2 victory to lift his second grand slam title of the year.
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À Montréal, le prix moyen du diesel à la pompe était de plus de 2,85 $ ces derniers jours.
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Ukraine is working down the short list of ships that shell its cities with cruise missiles. A Neptune reached one of them tied up at its own pier. Drones went in with the missile, and the general staff counts three more vessels and the port's fuel-oil storage hit the same night. |
Russia strikes passenger train near Polish border as drone swarms reach deeper into western Ukraine. Russia's attacks on railways and border crossings are putting civilian travel at growing risk. Poland's Donald Tusk warned days earlier that Moscow could target Ukraine's crossings with Poland.
Watch first naval battle in history fought entirely by drones: Ukrainian uncrewed boat spots, fires on, and sinks Russian one in Black Sea. A gun-armed Sargan-3000 spotted and sank a Russian naval drone in the Black Sea.
Ukraine is closing Russia's skies without hitting single airliner: Russia shut its airports 993 times in August, worst month for civil aviation since war began. The closures are triggered by Russia's own emergency protocol every time a drone nears.
Ukraine retook 240 square km north of Lyman and nobody reported it for three months. The 3rd Army Corps attacked on 22 May and nobody outside the army reported it until late August. Whether it changes the war is the one thing the analysts do not agree on.
Future wars will be won not only by those who have the best technological systems, Ukraine's former top general says in London. Valerii Zaluzhnyi says an expensive Cold War missile has become a cheap weapon fired in bulk.
Russia has fired its Oreshnik with six warheads at Ukraine three times. State Duma defense committee member says "hour is not far" before fourth one. He cast it as revenge for a naval drone strike on Sochi.
Fast kill but also long game: Russia is using AI-generated women and long conversations to lure Ukrainian soldiers to their deaths. The fake profiles are one of three versions of a honey-trap scheme that has killed six soldiers, the SBU says.
Russia is working to modernize its weapons on every front. This month, its drones are expected to carry 20-element anti-jam antennas to outpace Ukraine's jamming. Russia's new drones and cruise weapons navigate rather than fly, so Ukraine has to jam GPS, not the operator link.
A Russian intelligence operative and a Belarusian petty criminal: Germany names the Leipzig bomb-drone suspects. The files show one of them handled preparation and logistics, and the other left a scrap of glove on the equipment that flew the drone.
Second fire in a month hits the Bulgarian plant that ships ammunition to Ukraine, and sabotage is on the table. The country's interior minister has ordered every ammunition depot in the country inspected and says outside interference cannot be excluded.
"Credit to the Russians, they know how to scale," Ukrainian military spokesperson says. Ukraine's jet-drone interceptors show early promise, but harder job ahead. Scaling them up to match Ukraine's success against slower drones is the real test.
Money, not engineering, is what stands between Ukraine and Russia's fastest drones, Zelenskyy says. Dozens of firms are chasing the problem, but nobody has funded production at the scale the nightly waves demand.
Ukraine's fight against Russia reaches Africa as Ukrainian drone specialists support forces battling Moscow. Ukrainian drone specialists are supporting forces fighting Russian troops in Mali, training personnel from other Sahel countries and operating in Sudan as Kyiv expands its military activity far beyond Ukraine.
From Russian classrooms to Iran's defense industry: how Moscow trains Iranian specialists. Almost 10,000 Iranians studied at Russian universities in 2025, 42% more than two years earlier, by the Russian science ministry's count, with medicine still the most popular field.
The EU just released $7 billion for Ukraine to buy Patriot missiles and drones. The money comes from Europe's existing loan to Kyiv, and the decision finally lets Ukraine place orders for the American interceptors it cannot build itself.
A drone beside a Ukrainian cargo plane is costing Russia its last consulate in Germany. Four others closed in 2023, leaving Moscow with an embassy and, from this month, no consular presence outside it.
Ukraine shows its drones in Canada as Ottawa pledges a third of its future output. The presentation followed a declaration on defense cooperation that Kyiv calls the first step toward a drone deal still to be signed.
"There is real hunger there": Oleshky, occupied town in Ukraine's Kherson Oblast, turned 942 this week. Behind Russian blockade, its people eat roadside grass. The 942-year-old Kherson city has spent months cut off, its aid convoys shelled.
Ukraine's Third Army Corps won't just hold Donetsk fortress cities. It's building mission to pull civilians out of them. A dedicated fund is opening to pay for more trips, more often.
"Sometimes I forget I don't have a leg": how two Ukrainian infantry soldiers returned to war behind screens. Two Ukrainian soldiers who lost limbs to mines have returned to Khartiia, their National Guard unit, working the drone screens, instead of walking into positions on the ground.
EU has never sanctioned Russia's nuclear sector. Activists say that gap just let Rosatom into German plant, and they're suing to close it. BUND says letting Russia's Rosatom help make fuel at the Lingen plant, amid the war and sabotage in Germany, hands Moscow critical infrastructure.
Ukraine's parliament changes how military budget is cleared, and freezes money behind one of war's cleverest supply schemes, defense-industry council says. The program lets Ukrainian units turn confirmed kills into new weapons, but a parliamentary rule change has frozen the payments.
EU sanctions rollover stalls over Russian oligarch Usmanov as Paris backs Bratislava's demand to delist him. Ambassadors broke up with no agreement on renewing the measures, and they have one sitting left before every restriction on the list runs out on its own.
Canada sanctions eight Russians over deported Ukrainian children as only about 2,500 of more than 20,000 have come home. Ottawa's listing bars anyone in Canada from handling the property of the eight, and it took effect a week before Ukraine's leader arrived for talks.
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Le Français Guillaume Ruel a remporté le 22e Marathon de Rimouski, bouclant les 42,2 kilomètres du parcours en 2 heures, 22 minutes et 2 secondes, devançant de plus de six minutes le gagnant de l’an dernier, Marc-Antoine Senneville, et de 11 minutes celui des éditions 2023 et 2024, François Jarry.
Inscrit à l’épreuve depuis seulement trois semaines après avoir couru celle d’Edmonton, le champion 2026 a survolé le parcours entre l’avenue de la Cathédrale et Sainte-Luce, dimanche (13 septembre), réalisant un premier chrono de 1 heure, 9 minutes et 33 secondes après 21,1 kilomètres.
Le vent a ralenti le coureur au retour, mais pas suffisamment pour l’inquiéter et l’empêcher d’inscrire la victoire et de remporter la bourse de 2 000 $.
« Je suis parti seul à partir du 2e kilomètre et j’ai mené ma barque. J’ai rattrapé les concurrents qui sont partis plus tôt ce matin (marathon non compétitif Pace du bonheur) et les demi-marathoniens qui m’ont encouragé. Il y avait aussi des spectateurs le long du parcours. Je n’étais plus tout seul finalement. Le parcours est une vraie autoroute. C’est très plat. Si toutes les conditions sont réunies, un jour, je pense qu’on pourrait avoir ici un très gros chrono », a déclaré Ruel.
Déjà détenteur de records européens de vitesse sur les distances de 50 et 100 km, l’athlète âgé dans la vingtaine participera au Marathon de Québec, le 4 octobre prochain. Il compte aussi s’inscrire à une épreuve de longue distance aux États-Unis.
Venu à Rimouski en mode entraînement puisqu’il souhaitait préserver ses forces en vue des Championnats canadiens de marathon prévus le 18 octobre prochain à Toronto, Senneville a tout de même réalisé le deuxième meilleur temps. Il savait que la présence de Guillaume Ruel lui compliquerait la tâche pour l’emporter de nouveau.
« Je suis super heureux de ma performance. Je ne voulais pas m’hypothéquer. C’était plus venteux que l’an dernier. Guillaume a fait le même temps que j’ai fait l’an passé. Je sais que je serai capable de courir avec lui, mais je sais qu’il serait capable d’aller plus vite aussi! Je serai en forme à Toronto pour réussir mon meilleur chrono à vie, qui est de 2 h 17 », a indiqué Marc-Antoine Senneville.
Pour sa part, Jarry ne pouvait que s’incliner devant la puissance de ses adversaires.
« Je savais que la victoire serait difficile avec la présence du Français (Ruel). J’ai couru avec Senneville jusqu’au 15e kilomètre, mais je n’étais plus capable. Au 25e kilomètre, j’ai vu Samuel Saint-Antoine (qui a terminé 4e), qui a cassé vers la fin. Le calibre s’est beaucoup amélioré depuis mes deux victoires », a-t-il constaté.
À son premier marathon à vie, Andrée-Anne Dumont a créé la surprise chez les dames en remportant le Marathon de Rimouski avec un temps de 3 heures, 9 minutes et 3 secondes, soit 10 et 12 minutes de moins qu’Anouk Doiron et Daphnée Landry, qui ont complété le podium.
Âgée de 42 ans, la coureuse de Pohénégamook semblait elle-même étonnée de sa performance. Elle venait à Rimouski seulement pour participer, sans aucune attente quant à son résultat.
« J’ai un passé de triathlète. J’ai fait le tour, alors j’ai trouvé un nouveau défi. Au retour, c’était plus difficile avec le vent. J’ai même dû ralentir le rythme pour m’assurer de me rendre jusqu’au bout. Quand j’ai tourné (au 21,1 km), j’ai senti que je pouvais gagner, mais il a fallu que je gère mes crampes dans les 10 derniers kilomètres. Ça ne sera pas mon seul marathon », promet la médaillée d’or.
Au demi-marathon, Xavier Nicole, de Lévis, a remporté l’épreuve masculine avec un temps de 1 heure, 18 minutes et 49 secondes. Marie-Renée Chouinard, de Matane, a réussi le meilleur chrono chez les femmes avec 1 heure, 27 minutes et 45 secondes.
Au 10 km, Anthony Audet, de Maria, est monté sur la plus haute marche du podium en 33 minutes et 19 secondes. La Rimouskoise Meggie Tardif a fait de même chez les dames avec 39 minutes et 3 secondes.
Issac Sirois, de Rimouski, a de nouveau remporté la course en 15 minutes et 32 secondes. La victoire chez les femmes est revenue à Mia Lepage, de Grande-Rivière, en 19 minutes et 50 secondes.
Près de 3 900 personnes ont pris le départ des différentes épreuves du Marathon de Rimouski en 2026. Il s’agit du deuxième meilleur contingent depuis 2015.
Le Mexicain de 22 ans a remporté la course au sprint devant le Français Paul Seixas.
Ukraine is expanding its military activity beyond the war’s main battlefield, with Ukrainian drone specialists helping forces fighting Russian troops in Mali and operating in other parts of Africa, according to CNN.
The deployments mark a growing effort by Kyiv to challenge Russia in regions where Moscow has expanded its own military presence. Ukrainian forces are using expertise developed during the full-scale invasion, particularly in drone warfare, to support partners operating against Russian troops.
Around 15 Ukrainian drone specialists are reportedly deployed in northern Mali, where they are supporting the Tuareg-led Azawad Liberation Front in its fight against Russian forces and Mali’s military government. Several Ukrainian specialists are also reportedly operating in Sudan and Libya, according to a Ukrainian intelligence source cited by CNN.
The Ukrainian personnel in northern Mali are not directly fighting on the front line, CNN reported. Instead, they are helping train local forces and supporting their drone operations against Russian and Malian government forces.
The cooperation centers on the Tuareg-led Azawad Liberation Front, which has been fighting Mali's military government and Russian forces operating alongside it.
Ukraine's involvement with the Tuareg rebels dates back to at least 2024. After a July 2024 ambush near Tinzaouaten killed dozens of Wagner and Malian troops, Ukrainian military intelligence spokesperson Andriy Yusov said the rebels had received “necessary information.” Kyiv later denied that it had provided substantial assistance.
The relationship has since developed further. CNN reported that Ukrainian specialists assisted the rebels during fighting earlier this year, when Tuareg and al-Qaeda-linked militants attacked Russian forces and forced them to withdraw from the area around Kidal.
The cooperation does not reflect a broader political or ideological alignment between Kyiv and the Tuareg. Ukrainian personnel told CNN that the two sides are working together because they face a common enemy: Russian forces.
“Culture and religion are different, but when you are being attacked by the same idiots, ideological differences fade into the background,” a Ukrainian Defense Intelligence source told CNN.
The source said that operations against Russian forces abroad can also serve Kyiv’s war effort at home by putting additional pressure on Moscow.
“It puts pressure on them. This whole story has both psychological and real results,” he said.
The Ukrainian presence in Mali also appears to have a training role extending beyond the Tuareg. A Ukrainian Defense Intelligence source familiar with the operations told CNN that troops from Chad, Niger and Burkina Faso had previously traveled to Mali to receive drone training from Ukrainian soldiers.
Russia has significantly expanded its military presence in Africa since the withdrawal of French and other Western forces from the Sahel.
The Africa Corps, which grew out of Wagner after the death of Wagner chief Yevgeny Prigozhin, has become an important instrument of Moscow's influence in the region. Russian forces provide military support to authoritarian governments including Mali's while helping protect regimes that have pushed out Western forces.
For Ukraine, supporting forces fighting Russia in Africa provides another way to put pressure on Moscow outside Ukraine.
A Ukrainian intelligence source told CNN that overseas deployments also allow Kyiv to use the military expertise it has accumulated during the war as a tool of foreign policy and build security relationships with other countries.
Mali and Sudan are part of a wider Ukrainian effort to deploy military expertise abroad.
Ukraine has also developed a military presence in Libya. An RFI investigation published in March reported that more than 200 Ukrainian officers and technical specialists were based at three locations in western Libya with the approval of the Tripoli-based government.
CNN has now confirmed, citing Ukrainian sources, that Ukrainian naval-drone specialists have used a military base in Misrata to launch attacks against Russian shadow-fleet vessels while training Libyan forces.
Ukrainian teams have also traveled to several Middle Eastern countries to train local forces in countering Shahed-type drone attacks from Iran, which intensified its drone campaign after the start of the US-Iran war earlier this year. Such deployments build on Ukraine's extensive experience defending against Russia's large-scale drone campaigns.
The activities point to a broader shift in how Ukraine is using its wartime capabilities. Drone warfare developed to defend Ukrainian territory is increasingly being used to build partnerships, support forces fighting Russia and pursue Russian military and economic interests far beyond the front line.
For Moscow, that creates a new challenge as it tries to expand its own military footprint abroad.
Europe beat USA 15-13 after 7-5 win in singles matches
Lottie Woad seals victory with putt against Auston Kim
Eyebrows were raised when Anna Nordqvist somewhat abruptly announced her retirement from competitive golf last month at the age of just 39. Heads were turned when Nordqvist kept Solheim Cup faith with the pairing of Charley Hull and Lottie Woad despite a miserable points return in the Netherlands. Nordqvist sounded unsure about elements of the Solheim Cup’s captains’ agreement before a ball was whacked in anger. The last laugh belongs to the Swede herself, who can sail off into the sunset having added a triumphant Solheim Cup captaincy to a career that had already returned three major wins.
What a rousing afternoon this soon became for women’s golf in Europe. The understated Nordqvist was on the podium once more.
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Sporting KC end a long winless run v LAFC
Charlotte and Cincy play a six-goal thriller
Griezmann on target in Orlando City win
Sam Surridge scored an equalizer in the first minute of second-half stoppage time for visiting Nashville SC, who played Inter Miami to a 2-2 draw on Saturday evening.
Surridge’s goal, his second of the evening and 15th of the season, came after Shak Mohammed’s shot was saved by Dayne St Clair. Surridge was in position to put home the rebound to help Eastern Conference-leading Nashville steal a point on the road against second-place Inter Miami.
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Russia struck a passenger train just two kilometers from Ukraine’s border with Poland on 13 September, as Moscow continued a second day of attacks on Ukraine’s railway network and expanded strikes against transport and logistics infrastructure far from the front line.
Russia is increasingly using its expanding drone fleet to reach transport, logistics, industrial and civilian infrastructure deep inside Ukraine. Western regions, long considered safer because of their distance from the front, are now seeing strikes on railways and border crossings, making even civilian travel and routes out of the country increasingly dangerous.
The latest attack took place in Ukraine’s north-western Volyn Oblast, near the Yahodyn border crossing with Poland. According to Ukraine’s state railway operator Ukrzaliznytsia, a Russian drone struck the locomotive of a passenger train.
A monitoring team detected the threat in advance and warned the train crew, preventing casualties. The railway operator said trains to Warsaw and back were already running again after the strike, although with significant delays.
A gas station was also struck in a Russian drone strike near the Yahodyn crossing, causing a large fire, according to UNN, adding to the danger around a key transport route between Ukraine and Poland.
Poland also issued an air-raid alert for areas near the Ukrainian border, including Włodawa, Łęczyński and Świdnik counties and the cities of Chełm and Krasnystaw.
The attacks came alongside Russian strikes on railway infrastructure in several other parts of Ukraine.
A Russian drone struck a Kyiv–Warsaw passenger train just two kilometers from Ukraine’s border with Poland on 13 September, as Russia continued a second day of attacks on Ukraine’s railway network.
— Euromaidan Press (@EuromaidanPress) September 13, 2026
The strike hit the train’s locomotive in Volyn Oblast near the Yahodyn border… pic.twitter.com/vb9FuOJTQ5
Update 19:00: Ukrzaliznytsia later said a diplomatic train carrying security advisers from several EU member states and former European leaders, including former UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson, had been at Yahodyn shortly before the strike. Another train at the station during the attack carried former CIA Director David Petraeus.
Ukrzaliznytsia said the Russian drone may have been targeting the diplomatic train, which departed earlier than scheduled as railway staff adjusted train movements in real time because of the ongoing threat of Russian strikes. The operator said it continues to change routes and schedules as tracks are damaged or blocked by attacks.
Ukrzaliznytsia said this was the second consecutive day of Russian attacks on the railway network.
On 12 September, Russian drones struck railway facilities in Lutsk, Volyn Oblast, including a passenger train, as well as Fastiv, Kyiv Oblast. Passengers were evacuated after the threat was detected.
Ukrzaliznytsia said its monitoring center and railway personnel remain on heightened alert as Russia continues targeting the network. Evacuations and diversions have caused delays on several routes, including services toward Dnipro, Zaporizhzhia and Kryvyi Rih.
Russia also attacked a railway infrastructure site in Vinnytsia Oblast on 13 September, according to Ukraine’s State Emergency Service.
Russian attacks are increasingly reaching critical infrastructure and civilian areas across Ukraine. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Russia struck energy facilities, railway sites, businesses and residential buildings during the latest wave of attacks, including missile and drone strikes on Odesa.
Zelenskyy said Russia had launched around 2,100 drones against Ukraine in the past week, alongside nearly 1,700 guided aerial bombs and 78 missiles.
He said Russia is using jet-powered Geran drones to “destroy the economy and destroy people’s lives.”
Russia has sharply increased its use of upgraded Geran attack drones in recent months, which are faster than earlier versions and can cover the long distances needed to strike targets deep inside Ukraine. Their growing speed and scale are putting additional pressure on Ukraine’s air-defense system, which has to detect and intercept large numbers of drones across the country.
“Russia’s terrorism is a common threat for many,” Zelenskyy said, arguing that the threat must be defeated in Ukraine rather than allowed to spread further into Europe.
The strike near Yahodyn comes after Russia began targeting Ukrainian border crossings farther from the front line.
Since late August, Russian forces have struck at least five Ukrainian crossings with Moldova and NATO member Romania. The crossings handle civilian traffic, trade and logistics that are increasingly important to Ukraine as the war continues.
On 9 September, Russian drones struck the Starokozache crossing with Moldova, killing two civilians and injuring three others. One Russian drone entered Moldovan airspace and flew toward Romania, prompting NATO aircraft conducting air-policing duties to scramble.
Russia also struck the Orlivka ferry crossing on the Romanian border twice in early September.
The attacks prompted growing concern in Poland. On 10 September, Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk said Poland expected Russia could target Ukrainian border crossings with Poland as Moscow expands its strikes against transport and logistics routes.
Tusk said Poland had received intelligence indicating that similar attacks could occur against crossings involving other countries. He also warned that Poland and Europe needed to prepare for different scenarios along Europe’s eastern flank.
The strike near Yahodyn came only three days after that warning.
Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha said Russia was deliberately expanding the geography of its attacks.
“Moscow tries to expand the geography of its terror,” Sybiha said, arguing that Russia is trying to turn the entire territory of Ukraine into a battlefield as it fails to achieve its objectives on the front.
He said Moscow was targeting “civilians, trains, and the infrastructure that keeps the country moving.”
Sybiha called for stronger air defenses, interceptors and counter-drone capabilities, as well as measures targeting Russia’s drone production and supply chains.
In a separate statement after the Yahodyn attack, Sybiha said Russia’s strikes near the Polish border were “not just a continuation of its attacks on our state borders.”
“This is Putin’s terror ‘knocking’ directly on the doors of the EU and NATO. Russian barbarians are at your gate, dear partners,” he said, urging European countries to respond with stronger sanctions.
Moscow tries to expand the geography of its terror. Unable to achieve its goals on the battlefield, Russia attempts to make the entire territory of Ukraine a battlefield and turns to systematic attacks against civilians, trains, and the infrastructure that keeps the country… pic.twitter.com/Kw85G0DEHM
— Andrii Sybiha(@andrii_sybiha) September 12, 2026
Estonian Foreign Minister Margus Tsahkna said members of his ministry had been stuck at the same Ukrainian-Polish border crossing only hours before the latest images emerged because of the Russian drone threat.
“Russia’s attacks are becoming more intense and moving ever closer to NATO and the EU,” Tsahkna said.
Rimouski est aujourd’hui citée en exemple de la lutte québécoise contre la pénurie de logements. Notre taux de 23,24 mises en chantier par 1 000 habitants en 2024 et 2025 nous place 7e à ce chapitre parmi les 50 plus grandes villes au Québec, et au premier rang hors des régions métropolitaines de Montréal et de la Capitale-Nationale.
Texte par Guy Caron, maire de Rimouski
Mieux encore, Rimouski s’est classée 3e à ce chapitre pour l’année 2025 seulement, derrière Saint-Bruno-de-Montarville et Salaberry-de-Valleyfield.
Ce n’est pas ce à quoi l’on pouvait s’attendre à la sortie de la pandémie en 2021, alors que les villes comme Rimouski ont été confrontées à une cascade de défis : la hausse importante de l’inflation (incluant les coûts de la construction) a entraîné celle des taux d’intérêt visant à la juguler.
Ces deux hausses ont eu pour effet de ralentir la construction résidentielle privée, et donc l’offre.
Avec la demande accrue pour des logements locatifs et privés causée par de multiples facteurs (recherche des grands espaces en temps de pandémie, facilitation du télétravail, hausse du taux de séparation des ménages, etc.), la pénurie s’est rapidement concrétisée, le taux d’inoccupation passant de 2,7 % en 2019 à 0,2 % en 2021.
Il fallait agir, et vite, sans l’appui d’un secteur privé paralysé de façon compréhensible par la conjoncture économique défavorable.
Notre Plan de lutte contre la pénurie de logements, dévoilé en janvier 2023, a marqué le départ d’importants investissements pour le développement résidentiel, avec diverses révisions réglementaires, fiscales et budgétaires.
L’objectif principal de ce plan était de pallier le ralentissement des investissements privés en misant sur logements subventionnés comme levier pour accroître l’offre de logements rapidement pour ralentir la hausse des loyers et la flambée du coût d’acquisition des unifamiliales.
aL’ouverture prochaine à la location du Quartier maritime Angus au centre-ville marquera le dernier grand projet de cette phase rapide d’investissements, qui a permis à Rimouski de devenir la première ville au Québec dotée d’un parc locatif dont plus de 20 % des loyers sont subventionnés.
Cette distinction et l’importance capitale des logements sociaux et abordables sera d’ailleurs l’objet de mon prochain texte.
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Iran war and turbulent global bond markets add to pressure as rate decisions loom this week in major western economies
Central bankers in economies including the US, Japan and the UK will face a moment of truth this week, as surging inflation raises the prospect of higher interest rates.
Policymakers in all three countries will set rates in the next seven days against the backdrop of turbulent global bond markets.
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Policies enacted by RFK Jr have not delivered the expected results, but have instead hindered people’s ability to eat healthy
Cyclospora in leafy greens, E coli in frozen blueberries, salmonella in jalapeños – multiple food-borne illness outbreaks in the US, alongside massive cuts to food assistance programs and to the federal agencies charged with food safety, are showing the limitations of the Make America Healthy Again (Maha) movement, experts say.
“The policies that we’re enacting are the exact opposite policies one might look to to help people eat healthier,” said Jessica Knurick, a science communicator and registered dietitian with a PhD in nutrition science.
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President has hyped growth of federal investment accounts to help US children – for his own political gain
Since returning to the White House, Donald Trump has scrapped rules that made childcare more affordable and pushed to cut funding for the nation’s public schools. But with midterm elections fast approaching and his approval ratings very low, the US president has repeatedly trumpeted a two-month-old program designed to help the nation’s children. That program, unhumbly named “Trump accounts”, calls for the federal government to give a one-time $1,000 seed deposit to every newborn whose family applies.
In campaign speeches this summer, Trump has sought to milk these accounts for maximum political advantage, making big promises about how much these accounts will help the nation’s children. In a speech in Las Vegas last month, Trump hailed the program, saying: “It’s really giving [children] a head start on the American dream… They start off with $1,000 … and they can end up with $100,000, $200,000, $300,000” and if the stock market booms, “you’d end up with $1m”.
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This type of training is needed now more than ever, as the American workplace gets more and more diverse
As a certified public accountant, I’m required to earn at least 80 hours every two years of continuing professional education credits. Many other professions and trades, including lawyers, healthcare professionals, engineers, electricians, plumbers and certain contractors, have similar requirements. It’s a good idea.
These professional requirements often also include ethics training. That’s a good idea too. But just getting a refresher on ethics isn’t enough. Something else is needed – something that’s even more important: etiquette.
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Pendant que le bouffon mafieux fricote un beau gros chaos pour l’ensemble des pays occidentaux « amis », les dictateurs de la planète s’associent avec entrain pour faire avaler leur gueuleton au monde entier.
Le livre Le pacte des autocrates n’offre rien de très réjouissant pour l’avenir, si ce n’est de nous mettre en garde face aux tyrans. Les auteurs sont Isabelle Mandraud, journaliste internationale au journal Le Monde, et Julien Théron, professeur en sciences politiques dans des universités à Paris.
Ils nous apprennent que 70% de la population mondiale vit maintenant sous des gouvernements autoritaires, soit plus de cinq milliards de personnes.
La Russie et la Chine sont bien sûr les deux plus puissants de ces pays, mais on peut nommer aussi la Turquie, l’Égypte, l’Iran, la Corée du Nord, le Venezuela et l’Inde.
Et s’ajoutent, surtout dans les dernières années, une enfilade de pays qui ont tendance à créer des collaborations politiques et économiques avec d’autres pays autocratiques. Tous semblent s’en accommoder mieux qu’avec les pays occidentaux.
Ces pays se trouvent notamment en Europe (Hongrie, Serbie), en Afrique (Guinée, Soudan, République centrafricaine, Mali), dans les Amériques (Argentine, Cuba, Nicaragua), en Asie (Birmanie, Pakistan) ou ailleurs au monde : Arabie saoudite, Qatar, Bahreïn, Kazakhstan, Tadjikistan, Biélorussie, etc.
Même les peu respectables Talibans, qui ont pris le pouvoir en Afghanistan depuis le départ des Américains, sont invités dans ces cercles fermés.
Ces pays autocratiques ont des intérêts et des comportements très variés (certains sont même en conflit), mais ils réussissent à créer des opportunités et des stratégies communes.
En février 2022, les présidents Poutine de la Russie et Xi de la Chine ont consolidé une alliance amicale, à l’occasion des Jeux olympiques d’hiver à Pékin.
C’était quelques jours à peine avant que la Russie envahisse l’Ukraine, sans que la Chine ne s’y oppose vraiment. C’était, selon les auteurs du livre, un moment clé de ce pacte qui pourrait transformer le monde.
Avant tout, les dirigeants de ces pays font valoir leurs relations commerciales. Ils signent des accords entre eux, sans consulter leur population. Ils se réunissent en congrès.
Ils s’échangent des céréales, des minéraux ou du matériel militaire. Ils votent ensemble aux Nations-Unies, s’engagent à se défendre mutuellement. Ils accusent l’Occident de tous les maux.
Et en général, ils sont très tolérants sur les pratiques de corruption ou sur les accrocs que les uns et les autres font subir aux citoyens qui s’opposent à leurs politiques.
La Chine, par exemple, s’est implantée ailleurs en promettant de nouvelles routes, des ports, des stades sportifs ou bien du matériel de surveillance et des drones.
La Russie appuie les régimes autoritaires en fournissant des soldats et des armes qui font régner l’ordre dans les cités, créant un semblant de paix. En échange, les ressources souterraines (bauxite, or, diamants) sont exploitées généreusement et les populations locales ont intérêt à réprimer toute contestation.
Entre les années 2000 et 2019, le commerce entre la Chine et l’Amérique latine est passé de 12 milliards $ à 330 milliards $. 44 % des armes qui circulent en Afrique sont importées de la Russie.
Le livre contient une vingtaine de pages de références, ce qui indique le sérieux de cette enquête. Nous vivons dans un monde inquiétant pour la démocratie.
Le pacte des autocrates, par Isabelle Mandraud et Julien Théron, Éditions Robert Laffont, 2023, 216 pages.
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Les élus souhaitent que l’urgence de Mont-Joli soit reconnue comme un service essentiel de proximité, que la disponibilité des services de laboratoire et de radiologie soit assurée en cohérence avec les heures de couverture médicale et qu’un service de consultation d’urgence soit maintenu à l’année, pendant au moins 12 heures par jour, sept jours sur sept.
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L'attaquant de 35 ans signe une entente d'une saison avec l'équipe montréalaise.
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