The Year of  2008 has been a historic year in terms of infrastructural changes that U S banks, financial institutions had gone through  and dire effect they had on  global economy.   In some respect it resembles to great depression in some others to the end of the second world war.  Some compare it with 1989 collapse of  communism some others look at it as a financial equivalent of September 11 2001. What happened,  why it happened, What are the diagnosis?... more >>

Dr. Amir Khadir (born 1961 in Tehran, Iran) is a francophone Iranian-Québécois politician, the MNA-elect for Mercier, and currently the male spokesperson for Québec solidaire, a sovereignist and left-wing political party which was created by the merger of the Union des Forces Progressistes and Option Citoyenne, a feminist political movement, in February, 2006. On December 8, 2008, Khadir became the first and only elected representative for Québec solidaire in the general election in Quebec.This session Dr. Khadir will talk about... more >>

A Party till midnightCheck the competion results here and read an informal report from night here.... more >>

CaféLitt is not a place; it is a gathering of minds. We are a group of mostly Persian young students, scholars and professionals who gather every Thursday evening around 19h00 in a café to discuss various subjects and share different ideas, ranging vastly from history to science, from literature to fine arts. We started these gatherings on Jan 17th, 2006. Each week, one of us takes the responsibility of presenting a topic (in Persian, English or French) for about an hour in a subject s/he is intimately familiar with or has an expertise in... more...