Letters: Banks and Consumers
Par Duff Conacher le 19 mars 2009
It is not surprising that Canada’s big banks are still profitable, given that the federal government has offered them and other financial institutions more than $250 billion in direct and indirect subsidies in the past few months.
Rodéo à Québec
Par Pierre K. Malouf le 19 mars 2009
La Caisse de dépôt a connu une très mauvaise année. La chasse aux responsables est maintenant ouverte. Le hic, c’est que dans cette affaire il n’y a que des IRRESPONSABLES. C’est la faute à personne parce que c’est la faute à tout le monde. « Il n’y aura pas d’empreintes digitales sur l’arme du crime, car il n’y a pas de crime...
Brother Tremblay: Is Marcel Tremblay done with politics?
Par Dan Delmar le 19 mars 2009
The affable Marcel Tremblay – NDG councilor, Montreal executive committee member and City Hall’s resident crusader for civic-minded behaviour – is, as they say, in a period of reflection...
Broken promises: The Ala Morales affair
Par Beryl Wajsman le 19 mars 2009
Before we take on an advocacy issue that revolves around a single individual, it must meet one important criteria. The story must have within it a multiplicity of elements that affect us all. It is in that context that you should understand the headline of the story of Ala Morale...
Is journalism dead? I will not be reduced to Twittering for attention
Par Dan Delmar le 19 mars 2009
Journalists, writers are insecure manic-depressives on a never-ending quest for praise – in the best of times. In a recession, they are still those things, but also hyper-aware of a new reality; no matter how much they are loved and admired, the advertising revenue is simply not paying the bills these days. Journalism was on life-support long before the economy tanked. Now, one has to wonder if the printed word can survive, let alone thrive in new economic and social contexts..
Sunday’s C.R.A.P. demo
Par P.A. Sévigny le 19 mars 2009
Last Sunday afternoon, only minutes after they began to gather in front of the Mount Royal Metro station, Montreal’s CRAP (La Coalition contre la Repression et les Abus Policiers ) lost no time as they began to pick their annual fight with city’s police...
Government’s not the solution to our problems; government is the problem
Par Mischa Popoff le 19 mars 2009
“Until August 1914 a sensible, law-abiding Englishman could pass through life and hardly notice the existence of the state. All this was changed by the impact of the Great War. The state established a hold over its citizens which though relaxed in peace time, was never to be removed and which the Second World War was again to increase. The history of the English people and the English State merged for the first time.”
The Israel ‘Apartheid’ lies
Par Beryl Wajsman le 19 mars 2009
Recently we witnessed the fifth Israel Apartheid Week manifestations. In cities from Oxford to New York to Montreal we saw the usual collection of Islamist apologists and their fellow-travelers in academic, political and diplomatic circles. These events sought to portray Israel as an apartheid-era South Africa in relation to its Arab citizens...
Separatists have a point
Par David T. Jones le 19 mars 2009
The contretemps over the now aborted recreation of the battle on the Plains of Abraham demonstrates this reality...
Stressing the banks!
Par Robert Presser le 19 mars 2009
Investors around the world could be forgiven for expressing some optimism given the stock market results for the week ending on March 13th 2009: US markets posted the biggest gains in twenty years, with the Dow up over 9%, with similar gains on the broader S&P 500 index and the Canadian TSX. One of the catalysts for this surge of optimism was an announcement by Citigroup that after receiving $45 billion in government assistance, the bank was able to post an $8 billion dollar profit in their current fiscal quarter...
EI for the self-employed
Par Jessica Murphy le 19 mars 2009
Chris Hopkins never really wanted to be an entrepreneur. But facing dire job prospects after moving to Prince Edward Island, he started a home business that eventually failed. Now, Hopkins is using his free time to spearhead a campaign to allow entrepreneurs to opt into the federal employment insurance program...
Piperberg's World
Par Roy Piperberg le 19 mars 2009
So just how Irish is Quebec?
Par Alidor Aucoin le 19 mars 2009
So Irish, in fact, that people with names such as Aubrey, Charest, Sevigny, Beaudoin, Duceppe, Bourque, Sylvain and Dore can claim to be sons and daughters of Erin. A new exhibition that opened this week at the McCord Museum illustrates how Quebec has been shaped by the blending of the Irish and French identities...
Tousignant
Par Alidor Aucoin le 19 mars 2009
Can there be a more dazzling art exhibition around than the Claude Tousignant retrospective at the Musée d’art contemporain?
Let us Prey: One Twisted Sister.
Par Alidor Aucoin le 19 mars 2009
You’ve got to have doubts about a production of John Patrick Shanley’s Doubt at the Centaur until March 29 that reduces a complex, engrossing 80-minute play to little more than a war between the sexes...
Compelling “Tryst”
Par Alidor Aucoin le 19 mars 2009
British playwright Karoline Leach’s unsettling romance, Tryst, running at the Segal Centre for the Performing Arts until March 29 is a compelling , heartbreakingly superb evening of theatre. It’s the story of a Edwardian gigolo, a charming rake with the rather suspect name of George Love (C. David Johnson)...
Pour que les Lumières ne s’éteignent pas
Par Pierre K. Malouf le 19 mars 2009
Philippe Val est directeur de Charlie Hebdo, heddomadaire satiriste français dont la réputation s’est étendue à toute la planète après la publication, le 8 février 2006, des douze caricatures de Mahomet qui avaient paru pour la première fois le 30 septembre 2005 dans le journal danois Jyllands Posten. Objet de poursuites de la part de la Grande Mosquée de France, de l’Union des organisations islamiques de France (UOIF) et de la Ligue Islamique Mondiale pour « injure publique à l’égard d’un groupe de personnes à raison de leur religion », Charlie Hebdo sortit vainqueur d’un procès qui fut tenu les 7 et 8 février 2007, jugement confirmé le 12 mars 2008 par la cour d’appel...
Pour débusquer les préjugés
Par René Girard le 19 mars 2009
Cet ouvrage constitue l’une des meilleures démonstrations à l’effet que les préjugés entretiennent l’absence de démarche intellectuelle face aux fausses représentations du monde. En d’autres termes, il s’agit de montrer en quoi consiste l’abdication pure et simple de la raison devant tout ce qui est présenté comme étant à croire sans examen, et aussi comment les pensées humaines sont, en quelque sorte, embarrassées par les préjugés qui remplacent souvent le manque d’éducation...
