"Singer David Bowie, one of the most influential musicians of his era, has died of cancer at the age of 69." (Source: )
鈥淔or too much of its history, rock music has been about masculinity. Bowie kept it about masculinity (his contributions with women seem to be few), but he upset dominant ideas about masculinity more than anyone else in rock.鈥�
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In December 2015, the federal government has asked the Supreme Court for a six-month extension to draft new laws on doctor-assisted dying. The Supreme Court听will hear oral arguments on this request starting听January 11, 2016.
"Hours after North Korea trumpeted the apparent "perfect success" of its first hydrogen bomb test, the United Nations Security Council fired back with a promise of new sanctions." (Site: )
As 2016 approaches, the ongoing El Nino shows no sign of relaxing its grip on the global climate. (Source: )
"The current El Nino, the strongest since 1997-98, is associated with recent unusually warm conditions in Ontario and Quebec."鈥擩ohn Gyakum
Professor or large scale and dynamic meteorology.
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The U.S. central bank began raising interest rates Dec. 16 from record lows, as it hiked its benchmark rate by a quarter of a percentage point. (Source: )
鈥淚ncreases in the policy interest rate in the United States will reflect the data showing that the U.S.
Economy is really strengthening, after years of a sluggish recovery.
"Nearly 2,400 Montreal blue collar workers including union leadership听will face sanctions for leaving work to attend a union meeting last week after they were ordered to remain on the job. " (Source: )
Just in time for the holidays, and egged听on by colleagues on the other side of the mountain at , McGill鈥檚 Executive chef Oliver De Volpi shares the recipe for our exclusive Holiday Fair Trade听Crownie.听听鈥�50% cookie - 50% brownie - 100% delicious.
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"The borough of Outremont听has overwhelmingly听adopted a controversial bylaw听banning new places of worship on Bernard and Laurier avenues." (Source: )
The federal government could announce some of the details of a much-anticipated national public inquiry into missing and murdered indigenous women. (Source: )
Annual gathering of experts and employees working in the public health sector, the Journ茅es annuelles de sant茅 publique will be held December 8-9 in Montreal. ()
Syrup extract found to make antibiotics more effective against bacteria. A concentrated extract of maple syrup makes disease-causing bacteria more susceptible to antibiotics, according to laboratory experiments by researchers at 香蕉视频.
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The 2015 United Nations Climate Change Conference, COP 21, will be held in Paris from November 30 to December 11.
"The City of Montreal's 2016 budget includes another increase in residential property taxes, a smaller increase in non-residential property taxes and an increase in overall expenditures of 2.4 per cent." (Source: )
December 1 is World AIDS Day, reminding us that the fight against the AIDS pandemic is far from over. More than 36 million people have died since it emerged in the early 1980s. Today, 35.3 million people around the world are living with the virus. 73,000 Canadians are currently HIV positive up from 49,000 in 2001, according to statistics from the Canadian Foundation for AIDS Research (CanFAR).
