Music: Justice

Being one of my favorite electronic duos, Justice first arrive onto the music scene in 2003. Doing small-time remixes of songs they eventually found themselves rising to fame and mainstream success with their first studio album † in 2007. They have been recently featured in the new Adidas commercial “Adidas is All In” with their…

History lesson: Samuel de Champlain the Investor

Samuel de Champlain was a wonderful draughtsman, cartographer, ethnologist, soldier, diplomat, geographer, chronicler, explorer, and French navigator. He was nicknamed the Father of New France and he just may have been related to King Henry IIII. But do you know what Champlain really was? He was an investor. Most of the important things he has…

A France without burqas

On Tuesday, the Senate of France passed legislature banning the full burqa veil to be worn in public by a tremendous majority of 246 to 1 in favor of the bill. All it needs is French president Sarkozy’s signature. “Liberté, égalité, fraternité.” Those were the words on the Declaration of the Rights of Man coming…