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A Canada-wide deposit could be envisaged

Source : La Presse February 21, 2025

Tariff tensions with the United States are opening the door to greater free trade between Canadian provinces. What if this were an opportunity to standardize a number of practices, including container deposits? By standardizing deposits on dozens, if not hundreds, of containers, many of them would be returned rather than sent for recycling or disposal.

Québec-Toronto TGV project to go ahead

 Source : Le Devoir February 19, 2025

With just a few weeks to go before his departure, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced on Wednesday the start of the high-speed train (TGV) project between Quebec City and Toronto. A contract will soon be signed with the Cadence consortium, whose mandate will be to bring this rail service, dubbed Alto, to fruition. If completed, the network will be almost 1,000 km long, and electric trains will be able to travel at speeds of up to 300 km/h on dedicated tracks, with stops in Toronto, Peterborough, Ottawa, Montreal, Laval, Trois-Rivières and Quebec City.

The number of foreign students in Quebec universities plummets

Source : Radio-Canada February 17, 2025

Even before Quebec releases its caps on international student enrolment, applications from outside the country are plummeting at some universities. This is what emerges from the responses obtained by The Canadian Press, which asked the universities with the highest proportions of international students whether the mere threat of imposing ceilings is already having an impact before they are announced.

Mentoring, a tried and tested method for breaking down corporate silos

Source : Les Affaires February 17, 2025

Are you looking for a way to stimulate innovation, solve problems and break down silos within your organization? Build a mentoring program, advises Patrick Maldonado, Director of Learning Strategy and Competency Development at Desjardins Group. Beyond the personal benefits derived by the employees who have been part of the 1,200 pairs created since 2018, the organization has “created bridges between people who would not otherwise have crossed paths”, he believes.

The complicated struggle for black civil rights

Source : Le Journal de Montréal February 22, 2025

There has never been a law against black people voting in Canada or Quebec. In fact, Blacks have been voting here since the 1820s. However, few of them exercised their right to vote, because you had to be a property owner to do so, and there weren't many black property owners in Montreal at the time.