The report highlights among other things that Canada has failed to act to reduce poverty. Of the 30 richest countries in the world, Canada is ranked 20th in terms of child poverty. Some 639 000 children live below the poverty line, including many natives. Because a young native in four lives in poverty, the government must do more to help, says the Canadian Paediatric Society.

Mental health problems

In its report, the group also stressed that access to psychiatric care is woefully inadequate in the country, while 14% of Canadians under age 20 have a mental health problem. Several studies have however shown that early intervention in these cases is less expensive and more effective than treatment.

The shortage of pediatricians is glaring across the country, particularly in rural areas. This shortage deprives children of an appropriate medical, deplores the Canadian Paediatric Society.

Although many elements need to be improved, Canada is still a good figure in terms of immunization coverage of children, screening for hearing problems in newborns and the fight against smoking.

Compared to other provinces, Quebec, however, must do more to protect young people against tobacco.

Yesterday, Judge François Pelletier, the Quebec Court of Appeal, rejected the arguments of Ocean Hotels on the paternity of a debt which amounted to $ 141 million. EDC and Ocean Hotels disputed his paternity.

However, Ocean Hotels (who voted against the plan of arrangement) now has 60 days to take his case on appeal before the Supreme Court of Canada. “And that’s a possibility”, said yesterday the Sun’s lawyer Ocean Hotels, Jacques Darche.

If Ocean Hotels decided to go to the Supreme Court, won his case and gets ownership of the debt of $ 141 million, the plan of arrangement with creditors then fall into the water and society Davie will have to declare bankruptcy.

In his argument, Ocean Hotels contends that the investment in the shipyard were not used in the construction of two ships ordered in Davie.

The trend was supported by the publication of a strong demand for metals from China and by the rather favorable outlook unveiled Monday by the aluminum giant Alcoa (+0.1%) which are quarterly publications considered a good barometer of global growth.

In addition, the market was somewhat reassured by the statements of an official of Fitch notes that the “AAA” from France should not be lowered in 2012.

The Dow Jones gained 0.56% (69.78 points) to 12,462.47 points. The S & P 500, wider, took 0.89% (11.38 points) to 1,292.08 points while the Nasdaq composite market was up 0.97% (25.94 points) to 2,702.50 .

The S & P has completed over 1285.09 points, the highest closing level since August 1, and important technical threshold that heralds a continued rise.

“The real economy outside the financial markets, seems to be doing well and there is a broad consensus among (investors who specialize in) consumption values ​​that they have nothing to fear,” Judge Sean Darby, head of global policy actions at Jefferies.

The values ​​of industry and raw materials, highly cyclical, are among the best performances of the session. Caterpillar, the main contributor to the rising Dow gained 2.94%. The bank sued the bouncing motion that allowed the KBW index of the sector to earn more than 8% since the beginning of the year. It took 1.85% Tuesday, while the S & P financial sector was up 1.97%. As for the value of raw materials, they showed a gain of 1.78%.

“The materials were one of the most weakened so the valuations are quite extraordinary if you think that the recovery will help to drive up prices,” Judge Robert Lutts, president of Cabot Money Management.

Symbol of an appetite for risk returned, the Vix volatility index, considered the “barometer of fear”, fell 1.8% to 20.69, approaching the psychological barrier of 20 points .

Against the current trend, Tiffany’s has dropped by more than 10%. The jeweler announced a lowering of its annual profit forecast after reporting a fall “significantly” in sales in the U.S. and Europe during the holiday season.

The Dow Jones Industrial 30 closed down 1.34%, yielding 162.87 points to 12,021.39 points.

The S & P-500, wider, lost 18.72 points, or 1.49% to 1236.47 points.

The Nasdaq Composite fell on its side of 34.59 points (-1.31%) to 2612.26 points.

Fitch has heightened concerns in the market believing that economic growth in major advanced economies expected to slow to 1.3% this year and 1.2% in 2012 before accelerating to 1.9% in 2013.

Moody’s announced it would review the notes of the countries of the European Union in the first quarter 2012, the top of last week have not produced a sense of decisive result and leaving the euro area exposed to new shocks.

The chief economist at S & P Europe for its part, should be considered other EU summits to resolve the debt crisis and that time was short, even if the agreement announced last week was an important step towards the resolution of a “crisis of confidence”.

Values​​, the title gives Bank of America Corp. 4.72%, JP Morgan Chase and Citigroup 3.43% 5.38%.

The title Boeing lost 1.43% on the session. The board of directors of the group approved an increase in the quarterly dividend by 5%.

Intel closed down 4.04% after announcing that its quarterly revenue would be lower than initially expected because of supply problems hard disks and their impact on the IT market.

Around 8:15, the future contract on the CAC 40 posted gains greater than 1%.

‘Expected number of indicators in Europe today, whose last digit growth in the third quarter in Germany and the United Kingdom and the Ifo index and could breathe a spirit of market Day, at least short term to E ‘, promises Terry Pratt, institutional trader at IG Markets.

Meanwhile, the euro continues to be affected by the crisis of sovereign debt in euro area and traded around 1.3385 dollar.

Yesterday, Wall Street closed down 2% and completed a series of six consecutive sessions of decline, never seen before the ‘great mass’ of consumerist weekend of Thanksgiving.

‘One thing you can be sure is that Iran will have nuclear weapons if we listen to Barack Obama. And if you elect Mitt Romney, if you elect me as the next president, he will not get nuclear weapons’, did not hesitate to launch the former governor of Massachusetts and a favorite in the polls the debate held in South Carolina.

The candidates also accused Obama of being an unreliable ally of Israel, hoping to satisfy their base among conservative Christians and pocket points in Jewish voters, some stakes in key states like Florida.

Texas Governor Rick Perry, whose campaign is in trouble and tries to recover from his embarrassing memory lapse during a previous debate, promised that ‘not one penny of taxpayers’ would be spent under his chairmanship foreign aid without consideration.

Herman Cain, favorite polls mired in several scandals of sexual harassment, said he was’ reassessing ‘relations with Pakistan, which it is not clear’ if a friend or an enemy of the United States.

Kirsten Dunst and Orlando Bloom will be reunited on the big screen soon. After playing in Elizabethtown in 2005, both artists will be found in Roger Donaldson Cities, according to Deadline. The film will focus on the lives of three couples in different cities facing the financial crisis. Thus, Kirsten Dunst and Orlando Bloom will represent London and interpret a young couple who must deal with the problems of bank loans to buy their first apartment. They will not be alone in the casting.

Clive Owen will be part of the couple in New York. It will be a young trader who is no longer satisfied of his luxurious life and prosperous. As for Anil Kapoor will play a detective who leads a fight against corruption in Mumbai but also in the police. Filming is expected to begin soon in three cities, London, New York and Mumbai. Kirsten Dunst and Orlando Bloom will be found so all the movies to play lovers. A couple should make sparks.

Arnold Schwarzenegger has completed his term as governor of California and intends to appear again before the cameras and the film set. The actor of Terminator, Conan the Barbarian or Total Recall has run well for a long time and the new film projects are increasing. Schwarzenegger, in fact, turn in The Expendables 2, Simon West, The Last Stand of Kim Jee-woon and then to Black Sands Scott Waugh and Mike McCoy. There will be action!

Action certainly, but not that … The Expendables 2 will certainly the opportunity for Arnold Schwarzenegger to make the audience laugh. In The Last Stand Schwarzenegger return to its darkest vein … Black Sands is likely to be a pure action film, starring a “vigilante who declares war against a ruthless arms manufacturer,” according to the official pitch of the film, released in the U.S. media. The movie site Deadline is also this future project between The High Plains Drifter and Man on Fire.

The book’s title must Assassins of the Turquoise Palace [the murderers of the palace turquoise] and its author is an Iranian exile, Roya Hakakian (which I am proud to say, is one of my friends). The book carefully returned a murder that took place in Berlin, September 17, 1992. That day, a group of Iranian Kurdish exiles was in this town to get to the Congress of the Socialist International, the umbrella body bringing together the parties of social democracy. The leader of this delegation was Sharefkandi Sadegh, a man highly respected by the Kurdish diaspora. When sitting at the table of Mykonos, a crowded restaurant where the exiles and emigrants * It was, like his comrades, coolly shot with automatic weapons. The killers slipped away in no time.

Controversy about the motivations, the method and timing of such an act soon, all inevitably mired in paranoia and fratricidal quarrels of political factionalism. While, initially, Tehran was clearly singled out, it argued the good relations between the regime and Germany, and argued it would have been absurd for the mullahs to try to incur the wrath of this country.

If Justin Bieber singing the praises of recently Selena Gomez and revealed how much he loves her (see article), all is not as rosy as we might imagine between the lovebirds … If one believes in fact the site ShowbizSpy, Selena would become increasingly difficult to support the very immature behavior of Justin. The young woman has only two years older than her lover – she has 19 years, he has 17 – but the age difference is enough to keep them away from each other.

“Selena is becoming increasingly frustrated with Justin” told a source close to the young singer and actress. “Justin is still like a child. All he wants is to watch movies and play video games. But Selena is a young woman. She would go out, share a romantic dinner, but it is not the case, “says the source. And explain that they live most of the time away from each other, because of their schedules conflict, the reunion between the lovers are not so rosy they could be …

Interviewed there a few days New! Magazine, Justin Bieber was delighted to have with him a girlfriend who “supports (his) jokes.” But the young man should pay more attention to the expectations of Selena … before it’s too late.