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...spectacular fall for Black, who built up a global empire from two small Quebec newspapers he acquired while still a student. Now the vultures are circling to pick over his holdings, with potential bidders ranging from private equity firms to rival newspaper giants like Gannett. In his Roosevelt biography, Black writes that the President's "considerable vanity could never allow that he had been defeated or outsmarted." It's an insight that could well apply to Black himself...
There is also concern about the safety of the protesters. Police actions have injured hundreds at past trade protests, including dozens with rubber bullets outside the last regional FTAA summit in Quebec City...
...Spanish is an everyday language for me,” he says. A network of Italian e-mail penpals has helped his Italian improve “dramatically.” His eyes glisten as he describes his Canadian experiences: “If I go to Quebec, French is ever so much a part of me, ever so much more a part of me,” he says fervently. “It’s—it’s in my ears, on the street, on the radio, the TV. It’s everywhere...
...Koala lays random and weird vocal samples over his instrumental samples in such a witty way that hearing about the territorialism of the koala and “the French-Canadian province, Quebec” is probably more entertaining than anything Quebec itself has to offer. Similarly, “Robochacha” opens with—ostensibly—a high school cheerleader from the 1950s trying to get a robot to show her what he’s working with on the dance floor...
...other foreigners hostage on Sept. 12. Scott,19, who evaded his captors by leaping down a ravine, was found by Indian tribespeople. The government has blamed one of the rebel groups operating in the area for the kidnapping. The Big Thaw CANADA Scientists from the University of Alaska and Quebec's Laval University announced that the Ward Hunt Ice Shelf - the largest in the Arctic - has broken up. The researchers said this was proof the process of climate change is accelerating in the Arctic. The ice shelf used to dam the mouth of the Disraeli Fjord, creating a large freshwater...