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Anchor turned author
By Alan Hustak on May 6, 2009
Former Pulse News anchorman Bill Haugland, who retired three years ago as one of Montreal’s most familiar and trusted faces on television will undoubtedly add to his considerable fan base with his first novel, Mobile 9.
Lettres - Letters
By readers on April 9, 2009
Les apostats de la dernière pluie
By Pierre K. Malouf on April 9, 2009
Il existe pour un catholique deux façons de quitter l’Église : par une porte dérobée au fond de la sacristie, ou par la porte principale donnant sur le parvis. La manière discrète et la plus courante : on se désintéresse de la religion, on ne va plus à la messe, on ne reçoit plus les sacrements, on cesse de croire, mais sans le crier sur les toits ; la manière forte, c’est-à-dire l’apostasie...
“Arrogants, vulgaires et disgracieux!” - Downtown merchants fed up with green onions, parking rules
By Dan Delmar on April 9, 2009
Some downtown business-owners came out swinging on Wednesday, saying the Tremblay administration has lost control over its employees and is driving people out of the heart of the city with overbearing regulations...
Panicking in the sunlight
By Vincent Geloso on April 9, 2009
After reading the details of the stimulus bill in the United States, the federal deficit in Canada and the upcoming deficits in Quebec and other provinces, I began to wonder why I was the only one to see this as absolutely normal. After all I had grown like anybody familiar with economics and public choice theory to think that economic irrationality is highly reasonable in political markets. A nice way to summarize this is a saying from a former teacher of mine who used to say that governments always have crazy solutions ready that are only waiting for problems...
The Anglo exodus may be over
By Dan Delmar on April 9, 2009
Angryphone alarmists would have you believe that the hemorrhaging seen in that community following Bill 101 and the referendums has not ended; that Anglophones are still driving U-Hauls down the 401 in droves to escape our oppressive Francophone overlords. Unfortunately, pesky facts and statistics expose that argument as one that is misleading, exaggerated and rooted in paranoia. The fact is, the bleeding has stopped and some of the Anglo deserters of decades past are coming back...
L’histoire méconnue de nos libertés
By Francis Tourigny on April 9, 2009
À peu près tout le monde, dit-on, connaît l’histoire dont il est question dans le présent compte-rendu. Elle nous a d’ailleurs été répétée à maintes reprises dès l’école primaire : c’est l’histoire du clergé et de son emprise sur le Québec. On sait aussi que l’élite cléricale prônait une idéologie profondément réactionnaire, antihumaniste et antilibérale, qui se manifestait notamment par son opposition à l’éducation gratuite et obligatoire, par la haine de la liberté d’expression et de création et par un nationalisme identitaire et étroit qui confinait au culte de la « race »...
L’insensé a dit en son coeur…
By René Girard on April 9, 2009
La campagne publicitaire récemment affichée sur une dizaine d’autobus montréalais à l’initiative de l’Association humaniste du Québec (AHQ), a suscité réactions et débats. Chacun y est allé de son interprétation de la fameuse phrase traduite d’une publicité originellement anglophone : « Dieu n’existe probablement pas. Alors cessez de vous inquiéter et profitez de la vie. » Ont pu notamment s’exprimer les voix légitimes des athées, agnostiques, libres-penseurs et sans dieu, lesquelles sont trop rarement entendues dans notre société pourtant censée être laïque...
Canada and Afghanistan
By Jessica Murphy on April 9, 2009
Afghanistan is a mess - increasingly violent, facing major hurdles in development and a severe food shortage - but according to a panel of experts lined up by the Canadian International Council, NATO needs to see its engagement through...
Afghanistan: Women’s rights are human rights
By Beryl Wajsman on April 9, 2009
It was a mistake from the beginning to allow the recognition of state faith into Afghanistan’s constitution. It was an even greater error to allow the organization of faith-based political parties. Now the west’s encounter with Afghanistan will be put to an important test. And Canada has a profound role to play.
Fundamentalist Shia clerics in Afghanistan pushed for the primacy of Sharia law, and exclusivity of it in family law matters. Not satisfied with this, they recently demanded, and obtained passage of what has come to be pejoratively called Afghanistan’s “Rape Law”.
Star Wars Episode VII: Missile Defense
By Akil Alleyne on April 9, 2009
So President Barack Obama has delivered yet another stirring speech to a vast crowd of European well-wishers, this time in Prague, Czech Republic, on April 5th. This time, however, he threw his fans something of a curveball. President Obama made clear that he would not scrap the ongoing development of a nuclear missile defense shield. “As long as the threat from Iran persists,” he declared, “we will go forward with a missile-defense system that is cost-effective and proven.”..
The view from the top of Debt Mountain
By Robert Presser on April 9, 2009
After the conclusion of what is probably the most important G20 meeting ever held, one can be forgiven for feeling optimistic. While unemployment in the US is at a quarter-century high at 8.3% and first world economies continue to contract, G20 leaders looked past their local economic miseries, resulting in an remarkable level of international commitment expressed in London. This solidarity was truly exceptional given the divergent opinions held by many going into the meeting.
À contre-Coran
By Louise V. Labrecque on April 9, 2009
Comme on l’a vu durant les audiences de la commission Bouchard-Taylor, plusieurs bien-pensants considèrent que notre société démocratique devrait se plier à toutes les revendications faites au nom de l’Islam. C’en était trop pour Djemila Benhabib qui, dans l’éclairant ouvrage qu’elle vient de lancer, critique notamment le fait que, dans leur rapport, les commissaires Gérard Bouchard et Charles Taylor ont complètement négligé de faire la distinction entre « musulmans » et « islamistes », ces derniers étant de la graine de fanatiques et ne constituant, de ce fait, qu’une infime minorité parmi les immigrants de religion musulmane.
Le Monde de Piperberg
By Roy Piperberg on April 9, 2009
Following Mark Twain and the Mississippi River
By David T. Jones on April 9, 2009
It is a pity that political correctness has driven Mark Twain out of style. A generation ago, Samuel Clemens (whose nom de plume was “Mark Twain”) was both an iconic author of children’s stories (Tom Sawyer, Prince and the Pauper) and regarded as one of the “greats” in American literature for the classic Huckleberry Finn. Although “Tom” and “Huck” were often presented as a duality of “boys’ stories,” Huck was anything but a child’s tale with its sophisticated story of adult duplicity and mendacity along with Huck’s efforts to get a slave friend, “Jim” to safety...
Age of arousal
By Alidor Aucoin on April 9, 2009
Sexuality is turned up full throttle in The Centaur’s lavish production of Age of Arousal, a stylish, often outrageous and sometimes tedious take on how women relate to one another, and how a man can poison that relationship. Linda Griffith’s feminist play about a group of sexually repressed “new age” women in Victorian London, is inspired by George Gissing’s The Odd Woman, the 19th century novel which deals with the fate of emancipated women in a male-dominated society...
IMAGINE
By Jessica Murphy on April 9, 2009
John Lennon and Yoko Ono created a brand of fame 40 years ago that remains strikingly contemporary – shades of which can be seen in both the earnest activism of U2’s Bono to the self-obsessed flashbulb frenzy surrounding today’s vapid starlets...
Regurgitating the 60s
By Alidor Aucoin on April 9, 2009
It will be 40 years in May since John Lennon and Yoko Ono held their bed -in for peace at the Queen Elizabeth Hotel in Montreal. Apart from 60-something fans wrapped in the reassuring womb of nostalgia, why should anyone care? Lennon has been in his grave for almost 20 years and at the age of 75, his moody widow’s contribution to peace is to run around the world handing out pretentious little rubber stamps that bear the message, Imagine Peace...
The New Republic and the Mind Minus Imagination
By David Solway on April 9, 2009
I don’t know about The New Republic. Occasionally an excellent writer, say a Paul Berman or an Adam Hirsch, will embellish its pages and generate a certain positive impact. But its measured tones and prudential camber, giving the impression of considered good sense, is largely deceptive. A vital element seems lacking. Beneath the ostensible judiciousness and studied objectivity there is a curious feel of waffle, an haut goût of empty sophistication, of something not quite kosher...
Letters: Banks and Consumers
By Duff Conacher on March 19, 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
By Pierre K. Malouf on March 19, 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?
By Dan Delmar on March 19, 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
By Beryl Wajsman on March 19, 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
By Dan Delmar on March 19, 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
By P.A. Sévigny on March 19, 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
By Mischa Popoff on March 19, 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
By Beryl Wajsman on March 19, 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...
Iran: Responsible choices
By The Hon. David Kilgour on March 19, 2009
Iran is a country with immense human, cultural and hydrocarbon resources, but its people continue to be severely repressed by a government headed by a clerical Supreme Leader and president, who practise state terrorism, flaunt genocidal rhetoric, and are seeking to build nuclear weapons. Iran is pivotal to regional peace and world stability...
Separatists have a point
By David T. Jones on March 19, 2009
The contretemps over the now aborted recreation of the battle on the Plains of Abraham demonstrates this reality...
Stressing the banks!
By Robert Presser on March 19, 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
By Jessica Murphy on March 19, 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
By Roy Piperberg on March 19, 2009
So just how Irish is Quebec?
By Alidor Aucoin on March 19, 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
By Alidor Aucoin on March 19, 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.
By Alidor Aucoin on March 19, 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...
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