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Inquiry on the Consequences of Election Results in Quebec

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For the first time in Quebec's history, four different parties were rivaling to form the next government.  Reaching the majority was at arm's lenght for one of them : the Coalition Avenir Québec. CAQ has won the bid with a self-evident majority. CAQ along with Québec Solidaire came out as the two victorious parties of this general election.  Whereas the Liberal Party and the Parti Québecois are both at low ebb. A breakdown of the results will follow. The Coalition Avenir Québec obtained better-than-expected results, finishing far ahead of the Liberal Party.  After a decade navigating through troubled waters, it has finally reached terra firm. The map of the province, is for all practical purpose, painted in light blue from Gaspesia to Saguenay. The new party took power for its first time with impressive results : 37,4% and 74 seats. The scenario has not been forseen by any polls and such a margin came as a total surprise for all, including François Legault himself. As
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Essay on the Future of Education

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The new era of education shall reconnect with the fundamental conception of education, the one of the Age of Enlightenment, Education :  a term that has suffered from a deep change in its meaning since the Age of Enlightenment to become a concept inflected and denatured. There remains only the shadow of this ideal of the Age of Enlightenment that Normand Baillargeon defines as « [..] a bet made on the reason and the knowledge, as privileged instruments of individual emancipation and collective progress, of a bet on the virtues of equal opportunities, a bet on the freedom and value of individuals. These multiple bets seemed reasonable and it was soon considered that they went hand in hand with a certain ideal of participatory democracy, which in turn involved a very particular ethical model, the one of discussion and deliberation involving individuals capable of a certain intellectual and moral attitude towards social, political and economic issues, problems and debates that affect
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The DNA of this Blog

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This blog vows to be a window on the world, a place dedicated to the comprehension of the world.  Somehow a blog is a reflexion organ, a nerve center for collective thinking, a place accessible for anyone who has the urge to learn and understand other perspectives. On a blog, reflexion should has more altitude than mainstream medias which are addicted to slogans and sensationnal news leading to poor quality articles offering no in-depth research at all. This blog will concentrate on politics and society.  Il will tacke the most important issues that humankind is currently facing and try to dissect problems in order to get to their very roots.  In short, it will try to decipher the world around us.
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