Fascinating weekend edition of the influential daily Le Devoir: nearly all the news and features are about environmental topics. Sure. there's the latest about the Stanley Cup--no Montreal newspaper could afford not to mention that the Habs lead the Sens 2-0--but even the culture and travel pages are loaded with stories that have an environmental twist.
Editor in chief Josée Boileau explained this morning on Radio Can that the aim was, for once, not to concentrate on the dreadful consequences of climate change and our headlong rush to pollute everything. Rather, the idea was to provide background that shows where we're headed in the right direction. Lack of hope can lead to inaction, she said, when what is needed is action. Tellingly, the title of the issue is Vers l'espoir, Toward Hope.
There are many articles worth reading, even if your French is rusty.
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