The Economist looks tersely at the tuition protest and its political fallout.
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As if mould weren’t enough, a high school has been closed because of asbestos. Didn’t they get the memo that inhaling asbestos is an important patriotic duty?
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Quebec is making tanning salons illegal for under-18s. I find this so bizarre – I’ve always pictured them as the desperate resort of the unattractively aging. Are there really teenagers lining up to use them?
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Faiz Imam
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MB
Oh man, Kate, remind yourself never to watch “Toddlers & Tiaras.”
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Brad
I haven’t seen statistics, but I bet that teenage girls are the primary users of tanning salons here. When my 22-year-old slave-to-fashion stepdaughter was a teenager, she and her friends considered tanning salons mandatory, like having a cellphone, going to the hairdresser, or buying jeans from Parasuco.
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Brad
Whoops, I didn’t read the Presse article far enough to see the stats at the bottom, which seem low to me, but maybe my view is distorted by my stepdaughter’s social circle, where literally all her friends went to the tanning salon at least once a month except during summer.
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Kate
How on earth do they afford cellphones, Parasuco jeans and trips to the tanning salon??
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Brad
They get after-school jobs, if they want to make money legitimately. Unfortunately not all of them want to make money legitimately and they pursue other options (selling drugs, prostitution, stealing, etc.).
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Mathieu
When you don’t have any rent or bills to pay and get minimum wage for a part-time job, you’re pretty rich!
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qatzelok
Maybe it’s a good idea to force students to take undignified jobs that destroy their idealism and mental/physical health. This will prepare them for the cynical cubicle-slavery that awaits them in the “real” economy after they graduate. Forget the Plan Nord – the Plan Cubicle is just as destructive to those who work in them.
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Kevin
@qatzelok
Are you actually advocating theft and prostitution? take your meds! -
Spock
qatzelok, sometimes I wonder if you are joking when you write certain things. You make me chuckle.
Heavens knows I am stressed enough to know I need it!
Thanks!!!! :)
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The Juste pour rire/Just For Laughs fest launched its lineup Wednesday. Poster put up by Midnight Poutine.
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The 16th evening demo has gone off peacefully.
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NASA’s James Hansen says Canada’s exploitation of the tar sands means game over for the climate: the release of vast amounts of sequestered carbon and its consequences.
It’s short. Read it.
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qatzelok
I remember reading someone describing Michelle Bachman as “an unfortunate by-product of the Minneapolis suburban dummy-scape.” I think this applies to all of Alberta, and a lot of Southern Ontario and Montreal as well. These suburban dummies are the ones who are destroying the earth – not Al Qaeda or the students. And they have been programmed by commercial sponsors on TV.
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Kevin
So, do you think the people who shut down the metro today were concerned about the impact that tens of thousands of idling cars will have on the environment?
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qatzelok
Do you think the drivers of all those toxic cars ever stop to think about how much harm they’re doing? Or do they need something dramatic to wake them up?
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Spock
qatzelok, I am a suburbanite.
Are you calling me a dummy?
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The mask ban is not a law yet, so this protester isn’t really flouting anything but the repose of some bicycle cops.
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Radio-Canada has a seven-minute interview with Phyllis Lambert talking about the breakneck development of parts of Montreal.
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The city’s biggest school commission is pouring millions into eradicating mould in roughly 20 school buildings.
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Police busted a debit card fraud ring in Montreal Wednesday, rounding up 45 people with contacts all over the world.
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Formula One czar Bernie Ecclestone is demanding major renovations to the Gilles-Villeneuve circuit by 2014, or he won’t discuss renewing his contract with Montreal. The mayor issued a press release talking about how important Grand Prix weekend is to the city.
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William
Good riddance to bad rubbish, I would rather the mayor invest my tax dollars in education.
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Susana Machado
Oddly, the F1 brings much more money to Montreal than the Tennis, the Jazz and the Just for Laughs combined. Not saying it is the best thing to spend money on but t is one of the events that brings the most money to. Starting with some weirdos that make do things like “I want an hotel reservation, book me one floor of the Reine Elizabeth and 10 rooms on the floor bellow it” Sometimes I miss working for the very rich…
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Quebec announced two June byelections Wednesday, which is being considered a big hint there won’t be a general election this spring.
It’s the poor mans tropical vacation and the rich man’s spray on tan.
Funny enough, when I think of artificial tans, my thought go to something like this:
http://runninglatemolls.files.wordpress.com/2011/12/spray_tan_disasters-18.jpg