Big things in the works for 2023

A great year According to the big boss of NASA, 2022 marks the history of the American space agency. The program for the next year also promises to be loaded. NASA will continue its quest to explore the universe with ever greater ambition. Of course, the Artemis mission commands attention, as do several major unveilings … Read more

Belgium and several European Union countries “advise against” non-essential travel to China

“We currently advise against non-essential travel to China. The reason is the spike in Covid infections and the overburdened health system” in this country, the rapid response center of the German Foreign Ministry said on Twitter. “Luxembourg aligns itself with the German travel advisory and currently advises against non-essential travel to China”, announced the Ministry … Read more

The Weather Network – Winter on Mars

Thanks to their latest images, NASA space probes are showing us the chilling beauty of Martian winters. If for many, winter is a difficult season in Quebec, these images allow us to take a little height. We found worse than the Quebec winter: a winter on Mars. At (only) 91,000 km from Earth, Mars is … Read more

Three space missions to follow in 2023

In April 2023, the European Space Agency will launch the Juice program, which will explore Europa, Ganymede and Callisto, three of Jupiter’s moons, in 2031. These moons are believed to hide oceans under a layer of ice, and would have the best conditions in the solar system to support life. Juice will be the first … Read more

Last snow of the year: two more spoiled regions

Flakes for the form A few centimeters of snow fell on southern Quebec on Wednesday, and it will be the turn of the Saguenay-Lac-Saint-Jean and Bas-Saint-Laurent regions to receive it late Thursday afternoon. In fact, Environment Canada has issued a snowfall warning for the Saguenay and Lac-Saint-Jean regions. A small broadside for some Some areas … Read more

Travel: here are the main risks this weekend

No doubt: there will be snow at Christmas. However, these elements are to be taken into consideration when driving. Caution will be required on the roads for the next two days. Several roads are already closed to traffic. The Côte-Nord is particularly concerned, since Route 138 is not passable at the present time. 1. Icy … Read more

The storm reaches Gaspésie: 20-30 cm forecast

The systems follow each other… Two systems combined to deposit nearly 40 cm of snow in southern Quebec, and one of these systems continues its very slow course towards the east of the province as well as in the Maritimes. It will therefore be the turn of Chaleur Bay and the regions between Nova Scotia … Read more

the luxury trips of the clerk Frédéric Janssens and Jean-Claude Marcourt, without control of the parliament, “the rules have been respected”

The clerk of the Walloon parliament Frédéric Janssens, sidelined since September for his unusual management methods, was leading the way. “The choice of means of transport, also that of accommodation, the sometimes surprising title of the symposiums and conferences give the image of a registry which operated without control, the sole holder of the keys … Read more