The Thousand Words: Soldier caring for injured civilian in Afganistan
Par Robert J. Galbraith le 13 novembre 2008
Des élections? Pour quoi faire?
Par Pierre K. Malouf le 13 novembre 2008
Que les prophètes de tout acabit se le tiennent pour dit : il n’existe pas plus sûr moyen de se fourvoyer que de prédire l’avenir. Une prédiction qui se réalise prouve que le voyant a eu de la chance ; une prédiction qui ne se réalise pas fait la preuve de son ineptie. Votre humble serviteur n’échappe pas à la règle : dans ma chronique du 16 octobre dernier je prévoyais le résultat de la prochaine élection provinciale, hallucination dont je me repens humblement.
Decision Quebec: riding round-up
Par Jessica Murphy le 13 novembre 2008
Quebec’s declaration of values
Par Amb. Martin Collacot le 13 novembre 2008
The decision by the Quebec government to require immigrants to that province to declare that they accept the basic common values of Quebecers makes good sense.,,
Boroughs gone bonkers
Par Jessica Murphy le 13 novembre 2008
Last September, The Metropolitain reported on merchants along Parc. Ave being hit with a number of fines under Montreal’s cleanliness bylaws.
At the time, property owner Bill Vasilios Karidogiannis complained that the street was in disrepair despite merchants pressuring the borough to contribute to its upkeep. So when the borough sent a team of workers to clean the streets a couple of weeks later, he was overjoyed.,,
“..Some things are worth fighting for!”
Par P.A. Sévigny le 13 novembre 2008
Last Sunday, Montreal’s St. James United Church held its annual Remembrance Day service to honor all who served and died for this nation during all of its wars.,,
Citizen Obama
Par Beryl Wajsman le 13 novembre 2008
He started by testing the waters. That was what his campaign was all about at the start. Barack Obama burned with ideas and ideals, but he knew as a junior Senator with relatively little national exposure, that his 2008 campaign would probably be all about positioning. Positioning for the next time. But then something happened. Iowa...
Les défis
Par Alain-Michel Ayache le 13 novembre 2008
Il y a encore quelques mois, l’idée d’avoir un homme de race noire comme président des États-Unis était en soi un défi, d’autant plus que dans l’imaginaire populaire de l’Occident, l’Amérique était encore une entité où le racisme était plus vivace qu’en Europe. Or, voilà qu’aujourd’hui, les États-Unis d’Amérique prouvent encore une fois la grandeur de ce pays et la force de sa démocratie; de quoi constituer une leçon d’ouverture au monde entier...
It matters
Par George Jonas le 13 novembre 2008
Yes, it matters. Just because you've seen one president, doesn't mean you've seen them all. If you got the president you always wanted for a neighbour, don't yet heave a sigh of relief. If you got the one you always feared, don't yet despair. Knowing who the president is doesn't tell you everything, or even half of it. Presidents aren't free to be what they are. A candidate may be his own person. But a President is his office. As a leader, he no longer belongs to himself. The Chinese might call him the creature of the three Ps: His people, his place and his period. A leader is a follower by definition...
Kristallnacht: Seventy years later
Par The Hon. David Kilgour le 13 novembre 2008
It is a challenge to address the stark issues posed by the 70th anniversary of Kristallnacht. One difficulty is that too many in my own spiritual community (Christian) stood by during the worst catastrophe in all of recorded history.There were exceptions-some famous, some virtually unknown—but most Christians in Europe and elsewhere, including Canada, did not do enough to love and care for our Jewish neighbours as ourselves. Another is drawing two effective lessons from the Holocaust of practical use today in Canada and elsewhere...
Everlasting debt
Par Lawrence Rosenthal le 13 novembre 2008
Rêve est réalité
Par Sébastien Dorélas le 13 novembre 2008
Ma couverture de cette campagne a commencé d’un drôle de manière. Nous (la délégation) étudiante du CIPUF avons eu droit à une escale forcée au bureau des douaniers au poste frontalier de Champlain. Le douanier en charge de l’inspection n’a pas apprécié que parmi la vingtaine d’étudiants de la délégation, certains avaient des passeports provenant de la France et de la Belgique...
“The glass ceiling has been shattered”
Par Dan Delmar le 13 novembre 2008
The stakes were high on Nov. 4 for American Democrats, but also for members of Montreal’s Black community who expect to see the election of Barack Obama as a positive development for black youth in this country as well...
Piperberg's World
Par Roy Piperberg le 13 novembre 2008
Government’s misguided attempt
Par Robert Presser le 13 novembre 2008
Late last week, General Motors and Ford announced a combined third quarter loss of $7.2 billion US. In other years, this would be considered catastrophic as an annual loss figure, but in the current economic context..
Academia Nuts
Par David Solway le 13 novembre 2008
As we survey the intellectual scene today, what appears perhaps most disconcerting is the modern western University. With its mimosa administrations, Jacobin unions and an energetic left wing professoriate, it has become the new industrial farm for the production of ideological madness and intellectual obscurantism...
Call it ‘The Sandwich Generation’
Par P.A. Sévigny le 13 novembre 2008
Last Sunday, a new resource group called The Professionals Network for Caregivers, (Réseau des Professionels pour les Proches Aidants) held their annual resource fair at the Centre Mont-Royal in the downtown core...
La Fonderie Darling: un espace de création unique
Par Louise V. Labrecque le 13 novembre 2008
« Il n’y a pas plus québécois qu’un Québécois ! » Voici une maxime résumant à elle seule un type de québécitude bête à pleurer, un complexe en somme. De ce genre de cliché, de préjugé, de formule toute faite, impossible de ne pas faire matière à réflexion lorsque l’on visite la Fonderie Darling, nichée au cœur du Faubourg des Récollets, dans le « Quartier Éphémère ». Par sa mission, cet endroit étonnant oblige à sortir de soi et des sentiers battus, pour entrer de tout son long dans l’Autre, dans ses différences et complexités...
Titanic sails again
Par Alidor Aucoin le 13 novembre 2008
A touring exhibition of artifacts from the Titanic opened this week in the old fourth floor cinema in the Eaton Centre in downtown Montreal, where they will remain until April...
Sleek Cat without claws
Par Alidor Aucoin le 13 novembre 2008
Barry Flatman as Big Daddy, the dying patriarch of a decaying Southern family is alone worth the price of admission to the uneven production of the Tennessee Williams Classic, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof at the Segal Centre for the Performing Arts at the Saidye...
