A population that can’t sustain itself will eventually cease to exist. And France, facing the lowest number of births it’s ever seen since the Second World War (at a rate of 1.86 per woman), is starting to wake up to that fact.
Last week, French President Emmanuel Macron announced his government will engage in a “demographic rearmament” to raise the country’s faltering birth rate. The actual plan behind this is a lot less exciting: he plans to revise parental leave and devote more resources to combatting infertility. Right now, France gives 16 weeks of maternity leave, with the optional extension of up to three years, but this is poorly-paid at 400 euros (C$586) per month.
Alzheimer’s disease was passed to patients given hormones extracted from corpses, scientists have shown for the first time.
The “dumb criminals” phenomenon has surely crossed the computer or phone screen of anyone who has spent even a scintilla of time on the internet — but we think this story out of the Brampton, Ontario area, north of Toronto, takes the concept to a different plane altogether. According to Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) officers in the Caledon area, early January a 25-year-old motorist allegedly opened a beer in-car to commemorate having just passed his G2 license exam 
