Personnal update: After a warmer than normal May, document.write(“”); we now have a cooler than normal June! Go figure! I am still busier than I would like and doesn’t have time to do half the stuff I should do (like the appartment clean up, my digital publishing projects or the dozens articles I would like to write about the latest Valerian, its lame “anime” version, the iPad, my favourites apps, the rapidly expending ebooks market, etc.). In the meantimes, here’s a sample of the news I’ve been reading on my iPad:
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Anime & Manga related, Japan, Popular Culture

• Euro Comics Head to the Big Screen
• U.S., Japanese Publishers Unite Against Manga Scan Sites
• Japanese Publishers Launch Electronic Manga Award
• ANN to Stream 1,000+ Anime Episodes Throughout Summer!

Apple & iPad news

• Apple est-elle encore cool?
• Les annonceurs s’entichent de l’iPad
• iPAP?: Stationnements gratuits avec le iPhone
• Un nouvel iPhone attendu au show d’été d’Apple
• New iPhone is out of the bag, but Apple has more tricks up its sleeve
• Le patron d’Apple dévoile le nouvel iPhone
• iPhone 4: les nouveautés
• iPhone 4 ‘biggest leap’ since original, Jobs says
• Apple unveils new iPhone
• One device to rule them all!
• Télé en direct sur un iPad: coûteux!
• Guides Ulysse sur iPad
• The best iPad media apps
• iPad: les applications québécoises arrivent
• De Marque et Mirego lancent une application gratuite pour iPad qui permet de lire et d’acheter des livres québécois
• L’iPad n’effraie pas Transcontinental outre mesure

Books, Digital Edition & Library

• Étude publique sur la bibliothèque du XXIe siècle
• Among E-Readers, Competition Heats Up

Economy, Environment & International Politics

• Changements climatiques: beaucoup à faire pour s’adapter

Health, home & garden

• The Truth About Cat and Dog Food
• Medical journal raps WHO’s handling of swine flu

Humour

• Real Life Adventures Comic Strip, June 01, 2010
• Real Life Adventures Comic Strip, June 03, 2010

Media, Culture & Society

• The 40-Year Itch: late-life divorce
• Your Brain on Computers – Hooked on Gadgets, and Paying a Mental Price
• Discovery to launch three new channels in Canada
• Mixed marriages hit record high in US: study
• Copyright reform needs ‘made in Canada’ approach

Montreal & Local/National Politics

• Residents protest decision to shut down and move youth and recreational activites from NDG
• Montreal’s blue-collar workers have a point

Real-estate

• À vos boîtes, prêts… déménagez!
• Ventes de garage

Sciences & History

• Premier vol d’essai pour la fusée privée Falcon 9
• “Mars is a world of wonders”: Auto-Tuned Sagan Strike Again With The Case for Mars
• World’s oldest footwear?
• Armenian Cave Yields Oldest Known Leather Shoe
• Studies Show Jews’ Genetic Similarity

Technology, Gadgets & Internet

• Internet kills phone book delivery in Montreal
• Web users choose internet over TV: global poll
• Is the internet ruining our minds?
• Japon: Dentsu s’intéresse de près à la vie numérique des personnes âgées
• Les consommateurs veulent du contenu, pas des gadgets

See also the “Suggested Links (Shared Items)” in the column on the right side

Busy worrying about my work schedule for the summer (the library network is really going to hell and [thanks to our useless moronic union] trying to get work in several boroughs brings total mayhem–hopefully I’ll end up with a stable, document.write(“”); full-time schedule) while working as much as possible on my appartment clean up… Here’s a few note-worthy news:
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Anime & Manga related, Japan, Popular Culture

• Au Japon, on a le caractère dans le sang
• U.S. Video Game Sales Declined in April
• Handmade: Japan resistance to the digital age
• 5 Cooking Manga to Keep in your Kitchen
• Yoshihiro Tatsumi and Manga Memoirs: transcending the printed page
• DC Shuts Down Manga Unit; CMX Ends July 1

Apple iPad news

• L’iPad, planche de salut pour Gutenberg
• Got an Apple iPad? Try these games
• L’iPad, ce sauveur…
• How to Transfer Your Stanza E-Book Library to iBooks for iPad
• Apple ouvre son App Store aux Canadiens
• iPad App Store finally live in Canada

Books, Digital Edition & Library

• At Queens Libraries, a Passion for Japanese Comics Endures
• Perspectives: Le design d’imprimés numériques

Economy, Environment & International Politics

• Giant Plumes of Oil Forming Under the Gulf
• Lumière sur les salaires
• Le mois d’avril 2010 a été le plus chaud jamais enregistré
• Nahanni National Park lives up to its legendary status

Humour

• Foxtrot (2010/05/16)

Media, Culture & Society

• Takeshi Kitano dévoile Outrage à Cannes
• France: congédiés pour avoir critiqué leurs patrons sur Facebook

Montreal & Local/National Politics

• Les chats errants dérangent
• Telus a cherché à s’immiscer dans le travail du vérificateur général
• Louis Roquet divulgue un document confidentiel du Vérificateur général
• Le DG de la Ville accusé de bris de confiance
• Le DG de la Ville essuie de nouvelles salves
• Longueuil: les cols blancs adoptent un mandat de grève
• La carte Opus passera à 6$

Real-estate

• Le marché immobilier se refroidit au pays
• Les hypothèques à taux combiné de plus en plus populaires

Sciences & History

• La naissance d’une étoile massive, une énigme cosmique
• A New Clue to Explain Existence
• Doomsayers Beware, a Bright Future Beckons
• Creatures of Cambrian May Have Lived On
• In an Ancient Mexican Tomb, High Society

Technology, Gadgets & Internet

• Les consommateurs prêts à se laisser séduire par les tablettes informatiques
• Google se lance en télé
• Google announces Internet television platform

See also the “Suggested Links (Shared Items)” in the column on the right side

Quote of the week:
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“Frankly, document.write(“”); my dear, I don’t give a damn” (Rhett Butler [Clark Gable] talking to Scarlett O’Hara [Vivien Leigh] at the end of the 1939 movie Gone with the Wind)

Anime & Manga related, Japan, Popular Culture

• Crunchyroll, Funimation, in Streaming Smackdown
• Major Layoffs at Viz / VIZ Statement on Layoffs
• In Japan, the Children Are Buying Bugs
• 14th Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize winners

Apple news

• Press Release: iPad Available in Nine More Countries on May 28
• iPad release date announced for Canada
• Rogers: des forfaits pour l’iPad de 15 à 35$
• Rogers Announces Data Plans for iPad in Canada [details]
• Rogers takes heat for iPad data plans

Books, Digital Edition & Library

• Bondholders to buy Canwest newspaper chain for $1.1 billion
• E-Reader Applications for Today, and Beyond

Economy, Environment & International Politics

• New U.K. leaders say coalition will rebuild economy

Media, Culture & Society

• In Mobile Age, Sound Quality Steps Back
• Au Canada, la fracture numérique rétrécit
• Avec les iPod, iPad, Xbox, «l’information devient une diversion», juge Obama
• Digital divide leaves people in virtual cold
• Internet raises news issues for court publication bans

Montreal & Local/National Politics

• Gallery: Sinkhole in St. Jude
• Video: Heroes of the North
• Canadiens fans go nuts
• Canadian volunteer left stranded at U.S. border for ‘taking’ American jobs

Real-estate

• Accession à la propriété: à Montréal, des gestes concrets pour la famille
• Plus difficile d’être proprio

Sciences & History

• Off-the-shelf DNA test to be sold in US pharmacies
• Indian holy man amazes scientists as he lives without food or water
• Mapping Ancient Civilization, in a Matter of Days
• Adrift Satellite Threatening Cable TV

Technology, Gadgets & Internet

• Blazing fast wireless speed coming soon
• Canadians without web access disconnected from world
• Le téléphone qui en savait trop
• Vers des connexions Internet sans fil à très haut débit
• New Wi-Fi Development Could Replace Cables
• Cellphones Now Used More for Data Than for Calls

See also the “Suggested Links (Shared Items)” in the column on the right side

The usual routine: busy, document.write(“”); busy, not much news and the ecological disaster of the week: an oil rig sinks in the Golf of Mexico, spilling enough of the black gold to make the Exxon-Valdez blush!
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Anime & Manga related, Japan, Popular Culture

• Have Book Chains Lost Their Manga Mojo?
• Jews in Manga and Anime

Apple news

• 20 applications iPad pour suivre l’actualité
• Popular Science: the magazine of tomorrow

Books, Digital Edition & Library

• Random House Cedes Some Digital Rights to Styron Heirs
• Où manger le monde à Montréal (critique du Guide du Montréal Multiple) / [autres critiques] / [Blogue des auteurs]
• Le dernier Valérian! [reportage France3] [Renaud-Bray]
• Grande Bibliothèque writes the book on success

Economy, Environment & International Politics

• L’énergie manquante du climat
• Le dugong, paisible mammifère marin, enrôlé par des Japonais contre une base américaine
• Les allergies au rendez-vous depuis mars
• La marée noire déclarée «catastrophe nationale»

Humour

• Dilbert: That Lost 4G Phone

Media, Culture & Society

• Pardon My French: French now bigger outside France
• Jouez un tour à votre cerveau: Pensez positivement

Montreal & Local/National Politics

• La ligne éthique de Montréal plus achalandée que prévu
• La coupe est pleine pour les cols blancs
• Snow blamed on sneaky weather blip

Sciences & History

• De l’orbite de Mercure aux sondes Pioneer
• Einstein-Besso, duo pour un eurêka !
• Stephen Hawking: Contact with aliens could lead to disaster
• Hawking: une boutade extraterrestre?
• Alzheimer: un candidat vaccin est testé dans six pays

Technology, Gadgets & Internet

• Pay for parking with your cellphone

See also the “Suggested Links (Shared Items)” in the column on the right side

Another busy week (union-related meetings, document.write(“”); disappointment over a project I invested lots of time in, stress over strained work environment, etc.) with little news. The only noticeable events were the Oscars and Apple finally announcing the iPad release date. Here’s a few more interesting news bits that caught me eyes:
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Anime & Manga related

• ANN: Media Blasters Reduces Staff with Layoffs, Furloughs

Books, Digital Edition & Library

• ‘Black Thursday’ at Borders (Again)
• Des libraires s’opposent à la venue d’Amazon au Canada

Economy, Environment & International Politics

• Importante fuite de méthane de l’océan Arctique dans l’atmosphère
• Scientist say ozone-destroying methane escaping Arctic Ocean
• Japan mayor protests dolphin hunt documentary Oscar
• Scientists Taking Steps to Defend Work on Climate
• The O.J. tactic: Climate change skeptics sound like Simpson’s lawyers

Media, Culture & Society

• Les Oscars du téléchargement
• U.S. advertisers to spend more on digital than print: study
• Le nombre d’internautes québécoises a explosé depuis 2000

Montreal & local politics

• Negotiations resume for Montreal’s blue-collar workers
• STM et iPhone : les développeurs devront attendre
• Prochain arrêt : la mobilité
• STM stands firm on métro cars

Science & Technology

• Arctic crater microbes point to origins of life here
• Y a-t-il plus de séismes que d’habitude?
• Une pub du iPad pendant les Oscars
• Canada’s aging Internet infrastructure: expensive and slow
• No connection to spate of quakes: experts
• Apple announces iPad launch schedule

See also the “Suggested Links (Shared Items)” in the column on the right side

This week it’s all about the Vancouver Olympics. Well, document.write(“”); maybe not…
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Books, Digital Edition & Library

• Livre numérique : éditeurs et libraires se battent pour tenter de sauver leur place
• Avenir incertain pour la bibliothèque numérique d’Apple en France
• Les livres québécois bientôt accessibles avec iPad
• Google staunchly defends pact to digitize books

Economy, Environment & International Politics

• Le Japon cherche à éviter un moratoire sur le commerce du thon rouge

Humour

• Non Sequitur: 2010-2-10
• Unshelved: 2010-2-9

Media, Culture & Society

• Le Monde.fr a 100 000 abonnés
• How Christian Were the Founders?

Montreal & local politics

• Loi 101: les infractions s’accumulent sur le web
• Montrealers’ borrowed lingo

Science & Technology

• Will You Be E-Mailing This Column? It’s Awesome
• Is It Time for Apple to Retire the Cats?
• Disney séduit par les possibilités de l’iPad
• Des stalactites redessinent la courbe du niveau de la mer
• Un laboratoire orbital, pour quoi faire ?
• Ancient Man in Greenland Has Genome Decoded
• IPTV: television with all the trimmings
• Ancient Inuit a speedy bunch
• Le dernier secret de Toutankhamon
• On Crete, New Evidence of Very Ancient Mariners
• Un homme vivant il y a 4000 ans livre ses secrets
• Révélations sur Toutankhamon

See also the “Suggested Links (Shared Items)” in the column on the right side

Apparently, document.write(“”); it was a rather slow week for the news—or I was too busy to really notice. Anyway, the coming weeks will belong to sports, starting this week with the Super Bowl and going on with the Vancouver Olympics. Therefore, most news outlet will probably stop talking about Haiti…
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Books, Digital Edition & Library

• Borders Bankruptcy ‘Very Low Probability’; Merger with B&N Possible
• E-book Smackdown
• Writers Join in E-Book Smackdown
• Books, Readers and Teachers: A Wrap-Up
• Publishers smile again as Kindle rivals emerge

Health & Influenza A(H1N1)

• More Quebec teens are taking up smoking
• Global swine flu death toll falls in past week- WHO

Humour

• Unshelved: 2010-2-4
• FoxTrot by Bill Amend (2010/02/07): Nerdy Chess!

Japan

• Des bains thermaux japonais en pleine ville

Media, Culture & Society

• Some News Outlets Ready to Try Charging Online Readers
• Who will publish the new news?
• The 10 best Super Bowl commercials Canada missed
• YouTube – Super Bowl XLIV ads

Montreal & local politics

• City, blue collars to meet with mediator
• Zhuzhou Electric Locomotive secures land to build métro cars if it wins contract

Science & Technology

• Asian man’s bones found in Italy requires scholars to rethink history
• Archéologie : à l’aube de la chirurgie
• Le Macworld s’ouvre…sans Apple
• Gmail deviendra social
• Le Nook arrive en magasins
• HTML/Flash: une guerre évitable?

More on the iPad

• To Deliver, iPad Needs Media Deals
• It’s Here! Comics Publishers Respond to Apple’s iPad

See also the “Suggested Links (Shared Items)” in the column on the right side

This was a very busy week for the news junkies. In my usual bilingual mix, document.write(“”); here are the stories that caught my interest amongst the outpouring of reports on the Haiti earthquake…
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Books, Digital Edition & Library

• 2009 Readers Poll: Best Manga Book
• Don’t throw out those alphabet books just yet
• Goodman Reacquires Stone Bridge Press
• La Fnac, Virgin, les libraires… tous pour un marché du livre numérique
• 10,000 Copies Stolen by Pirates for Every Book
• Chick lit pour ados : poulettes, qui êtes-vous? / Portraits de filles
• Lectorat adolescent : un lectorat convoité
• Romans inspirés de jeu vidéo: quand la fiction dépasse le virtuel
• Littérature haïtienne : la nature peinte en noir
• Kindle s’adapte à la langue de Molière
• Do you READ me?
• 20% of Digital Book Buyers Drop Print
• ALA Awards
• Borders, Barnes & Noble Report Weak Holiday Sales

Economy, Environment & International Politics

• Meet Mikey, 8: U.S. Has Him on Watch List
• Google Takes a Stand
• Haïti: avant et après le séisme
• Doomsday Clock moved back one minute
• À un moment donné, la politesse, ça suffit… (Youtube: MSNBC’s Olbermann slams Limbaugh about Haiti comments!)

Health & Influenza A(H1N1)

• Fin de l’épidémie de grippe H1N1 en France métropolitaine
• H1N1 takes its toll on Canadians’ workplace productivity

Humour

• Hagar the Horrible: 2010-01-06
• Unshelved: 2010-01-14
• Non Sequitur: 2010-01-17
• Between Friends by Sandra Bell-Lundy (2010/01/18):

Media, Culture & Society

• Français, vous avez dû prouver à l’administration votre nationalité. Témoignez.
• Les dix films français qui ont fait le plus d’entrées dans le monde depuis dix ans
• The Madness of Crowds and an Internet Delusion
• Movie Review: Largo Winch
• Dossier Golden Globes 2010 / Golden Globes Winners
• Anime Culture Mentioned on 4 U.S. TV Shows This Week
• Pleins feux sur l’animation
• Cinéma américain: les 20 films qui marqueront l’année

Montreal & local politics

• Montrealers hit with city tax hikes
• Les commerçants montréalais craignent une hausse des taxes
• Les cols bleus en grève le 25 janvier

Science & Technology

• Internet-enabled television sets are all the rage at consumer electronics show
• Neanderthal Decorative Shells Found in Southeastern Spain
• Google Lets Users Store More Files Online
• From Print to Phone to Web. And a Sale?
• La science dans Avatar
• Un PC sans écran ni clavier

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Books, document.write(“”); Digital Edition & Library
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• Sherlock Holmes, Amorphous Sleuth for Any Era
• Les livres électroniques en vedette à Las Vegas
• Giants step toward tablet revolution
• Buying books online far cheaper than driving to the store
• Les journaux conservent le monopole de l’information, malgré internet

Economy, Environment & Politics

• Pourquoi l’hémisphère Nord subit des vagues de froid
• Quebec can’t afford to meet union demands
• Climate change bigger threat than terrorism: Poll

Health & Influenza A(H1N1)

• Grippe A : à quelles conditions l’Etat a-t-il pu résilier ses commandes de vaccins ?
• “Le principe de précaution oblige à exagérer la menace”

Humour

• Non Sequitur: 2010-01-07
• Non Sequitur: 2010-01-09
• Ben by Daniel Shelton (2010/01/11):

Media, Culture & Society

• La courte vie du double tiret, signe distinctif des noms accolés
• Redevances télévision: Fox fait des envieux au Canada
• Accepter l’avatar
• Avatar: The Messiah Complex
• Gumby creator Art Clokey dead at 88
• Filmmaker Eric Rohmer dies, age 89
• Le film Les sept jours du Talion vendu aux États-Unis
• Regarder trop la télé peut tuer
• Ruefrontenac.com cherche des amis

Science & Technology

• Mobile Phones Eliminate Single-Serving Devices
• Cheap Mobile Calls, Even Overseas
• La radio FM pour améliorer la consommation d’électricité
• Jordan wants the Dead Sea Scrolls back from Israel
• Viral phenomenon: Ancient microbe invaded human DNA
• La bataille des tablettes tactiles s’annonce pour 2010

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Digital Edition & Library
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• There’s More to Publishing Than Meets the Screen
• 25 Manga Milestones: 2000 – 2009
• Amazon lance le Kindle DX à l’international
• Décès de l’écrivain Bruno Roy

Economy, document.write(“”); Environment & Politics

• Plusieurs hausses de tarifs prévues en 2010
• Le Premier ministre japonais sur Twitter
• Bataille navale en Antarctique

Health & Influenza A(H1N1)

• Ces pays qui commencent à revendre leurs vaccins anti-grippe A
• Les cas d’Alzheimer pourraient doubler au Canada d’ici 2030
• Was Quebec’s H1N1 vaccination campaign worth it? (and also read my comment)

Media & Culture

• “Avatar” bien parti pour battre le record de recettes pour un film
• BD : mort de Tibet, créateur de Ric Hochet et de Chick Bill
• Next Up on Cable TV, Higher Bill for Consumers
• The Ten Best DVDs of 2009: The Blu-ray Era in Full Swing
• ‘Avatar’ Posts Trifecta: Passes the $1 Billion Mark
• France: les ados regardent la télé en surfant sur le net
• RÉTROSPECTIVE DE LA DÉCENNIE
• Police use ‘witches,’ ‘warlocks’ to track U.S. fugitive to Ottawa

Science & Technology

• Impact of ‘iSlate’ Could Rival iPhone
• Mars rover Spirit’s 6-year stint may be ending: NASA
• Qui est responsable des actes du robot?
• NASA’s Kepler telescope finds five new planets

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Digital Edition & Library
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• Unbound: The year in manga
• Amazon Christmas day e-book sales beat print sales
• Le livre électronique à la sauce Apple

Environment & Politics

• 2009, document.write(“”); une des cinq années les plus chaudes
• Quebec brings it strict fuel efficiency standards

Humour

• Unshelved: 2009-12-28
• Unshelved: 2009-12-30
• Unshelved: 2009-12-31
• Unshelved: 2010-1-1

Influenza A(H1N1)

• Grippe A (H1N1): une forme «rapidement fatale» à l’origine des décès
• Trop tôt pour crier victoire contre la pandémie
• May take a year to conquer H1N1 flu pandemic: WHO

Media & Culture

• Adding Fees and Fences on Media Sites
• Carpe Diem? Maybe Tomorrow
• Le pouvoir des potins
• L’internet culturel s’arrête aux frontières
• Kindle, Eee PC, Twilight, Wii: le best-of 2009 sur Amazon
• 5000 ans d’art japonais exposés au Met de New York

Science & Technology

• What Would a 10-Inch Apple ‘iSlate’ Look Like?
• 2009 in review: The biggest discoveries in science
• Voyager 2 on a ‘magic mission’ into Milky Way
• Numériser chaque instant de sa vie avec une caméra
• Curtain falling on ‘Digital Decade’
• Le réseautage social sur internet est devenu plus populaire en 2009
• Un poisson rouge translucide pour éviter la dissection

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Digital Edition & Library
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• Kobo e-reader to heat up Kindle competition
• Trois millions de visiteurs pour la Grande Bibliothèque en 2009
• ‘Soul of the library’ closes a chapter
• Les livres de 2009

Environment & Politics

• Le bilan décevant du sommet de Copenhague
• U.N. Climate Talks ‘Take Note’ of Accord Backed by U.S.
• Retrait des forces iraniennes d’un puits de pétrole irakien
• Deux mille ans de climat

Humour

• Bizarro: Mayan calendar (again)
• Unshelved: The tissue budget (2009-12-17)
• Unshelved: Find the smell (2009-12-22)
• Unshelved: The best (and only) librarian (2009-05-13)
• Dilbert: Gift exchange (2009-12-25)

Influenza A(H1N1)

• Plus de 10 000 morts de la grippe A (H1N1) dans le monde
• Assessment and Thanks as Flu Wave Ebbs in U.S.
• Attention turns to seasonal flu inoculation
• Quebec shifts focus from H1N1 to seasonal flu
• L’inquiétude concernant le H1N1 diminue
• Le Québec pourrait échapper à une troisième vague

Media & Culture

• Les câblos refilent une facture de 100 millions aux consommateurs
• La robotique au service de l’information
• Best of 2009: Movies

Montreal

• Mayor Tremblay assailed over STM fare increase

Science & Technology

• Géocroiseurs, document.write(“”); enjeu géostratégique
• Rock Art Redefines ‘Ancient’
• Apple reveals top iPhone apps of 2009
• Scientists say hominid is greatest hit of 2009
• L’Internet mobile dépassera l’Internet fixe dans cinq ans
• Le Musée canadien des civilisations lance une application pour iPhone
• Le LHC mis en veille jusqu’en février
• Apple dévoilerait sa tablette le 26 janvier

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Grippe A(H1N1)
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• No lines for H1N1 vaccine in Montreal
• More inoculations mean safer public: MDs
• Le tiers de la population est vacciné
• La FIQ critique la gestion du gouvernement
• Les cliniques de grippe continuent de fermer

Histoire

• Un trésor qui rapporte gros

Media & Culture

• Let’s listen to Péladeau on TV fees
• Bilbo le Hobbit: tournage reporté à l’été 2010

Montréal

• Première chute de neige sans douleur
• A Montreal November to remember

Science & Technologie

• Les robots prennent d’assaut Tokyo?
• «Cooking Mama» compte sept millions d’adeptes
• Mininova entre dans la légalité
• Une fenêtre s’ouvre sur le passé de la Voie Lactée
• «Bombe climatique»: les risques se multiplient
• La prochaine génération d’iPhone serait en période de test
• Antarctique: trois degrés de plus d’ici la fin du siècle

Société

• Suisse: les minarets interdits
• It’s official: Canada’s recession is over

Digital Edition & Library
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• Group of Magazine Publishers Is Said to Be Building an Online Newsstand
• Borders Sales Continue to Fall

Influenza A(H1N1)

• CDC warns holiday could spread swine flu
• Mobile apps help people track H1N1, document.write(“”); prevent flu
• China: 8 Cases of Swine Flu Mutation
• La vaccination s’étend, l’activité grippale plafonne
• Bolduc calls the shots; Says vaccinations available to all starting today
• Pandemic’s second wave peak not yet reached

Media & Culture

• Asterix at 50: The Comic Hero Conquers the World

Science & Techology

• Wikipédia a-t-elle fini sa croissance ?
• Near Geneva, Particles Finally Come Together With a Bang
• East Antarctica, Long Stable, Is Now Losing Ice

Society

• Atheist student groups flower on college campuses