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Compelling “Tryst”
By Alidor Aucoin on March 19, 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
By Pierre K. Malouf on March 19, 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
By René Girard on March 19, 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...
Lettres - Letters
By readers on February 26, 2009
Thérapie pour les traumatisés de 1759
By Pierre K. Malouf on February 26, 2009
Sarkozy a traité de sectaires certains nationalistes québécois. Le mot était peut-être exagéré. « Bornés » aurait suffi. Ou peut-être « obscurantistes ». Falardeau, par exemple, est un obscurantiste. L’énergumène écrivait récemment que l’historien Marcel Trudel aurait « vanté les mérites de la défaite », chanté « les louanges du conquérant ».
La Mer et ses sirènes
By Phillipe Allard on February 26, 2009
La raison la plus fréquemment invoquée par les nationalistes de toute tendance pour justifier leur nationalisme est le voisinage entre la majorité francophone du Québec et ce qu’ils appellent, dans un élan si poétique, « une mer d’anglophones ». D’un air entendu, nos patriarches, intellectuels et autres bien-pensants nationalistes ont l’habitude d’inaugurer quasi unanimement leurs discours de cette subtile métaphore. Tout juste si la « mer » ne fait pas partie des « attendus que » de la Loi 101...
A 3.5 million dollar miracle on Hickmore St.
By P.A. Sévigny on February 26, 2009
All of the pallets measure four by four by four feet high full of shrink-wrapped cases of macaroni and cheese, soup, pickles and jam. Rented cube vans wait patiently for their turn at the loading docks while lift trucks race around the warehouse piled high with crates full of broccoli, potatoes, onions and apples. In the back under the lights, at least two dozen volunteers are sorting through thousands of oranges as the bad ones are tossed into a loader at the end of the table...
A neighbourhood or a casino? The future of the Hippodrome
By Dan Delmar on February 26, 2009
Montreal housing groups scored a major victory last week when the provincial government announced that it has reversed its decision to fund a video lottery terminal and off-track betting centre on land around the Hippodrome de Montréal...
On Quebec and identity
By Julius Grey on February 26, 2009
Voices have been heard again in Montreal’s English Community calling for action if the Quebec government tries to overturn a successful Bill 104 challenge through use of the “notwithstanding clause”. At the same time, criticism has been leveled against Quebec Ministers Kathleen Weil and Yolande James for not insisting more on the protection of English identity. A new round of English complaints is unjustified, whatever happens to Bill 104, and the two ministers are clearly right in rejecting an exclusive English identity...
Who controls the Internet in Canada?
By Jessica Murphy on February 26, 2009
Net neutrality hasn't yet made an imprint in Canada’s national dialogue, but the controvery addresses nothing less than who acts as the gatekeeper to the most powerful communication tool we have. Net throttling – also called traffic shaping – can be defined as the control of computer network traffic in order to optimize performance, or the alteration of traffic on a particular connection to increase efficiency throughout the network...
World Parliamentary Alliance against Anti-Semitism meets in London
By Beryl Wajsman on February 26, 2009
Over 100 parliamentarians from 35 different countries gathered in in London from February 15-17th for the founding conference of the International Parliamentary Coalition to Combat Anti-Semitism (ICCA) hosted by the UK Inter-parliamentary Coalition for Combating Anti-Semitism and the Foreign & Commonwealth Office.
The London Declaration on Combating Antisemitism
By ICCA on February 26, 2009
"I am pleased that the British Foreign Office hosted the founding Summit of the Inter-parliamentary Coalition for Combating Antisemitism. The event brought together 125 MPs from 40 different counties and led to this important/powerful? Declaration that I’m honoured to sign today. So many of the principles it enshrines are already things we are doing here in Britain and while I’m proud of the bold action Britain has taken to combat anti-Semitism such as improved reporting, prosecutions for antisemitic internet hate and the funding of Holocaust Education in schools, there is no room for complacency. Within a month the DCLG are organising for an away day event at Beth Shalom, the Holocaust Centre, to look in detail at how the Government can implement the London Declaration. I encourage other Heads of Government to become signatories to this historic agreement - together our renewed efforts can rid the world of this ancient virus."
The Hon. Jason Kenney’s address at Lancaster House
By Hon. Jason Kenney on February 26, 2009
Mesdames et Messieurs, merci bien pour votre collaboration et j’aimerais commencer en félicitant John et ses collègues pour avoir organisé cet colloque historique et très important...
The curious Canadian care for Khadr
By David T. Jones on February 26, 2009
It must be tedious and frustrating to be a "concerned Canadian." So many errors to be corrected; so many problems to be resolved; so many wrong directions to be set straight...
Global Antisemitism: Assault on Human Rights
By l'Hon. Irwin Cotler on February 26, 2009
Keynote Address by the Honourable Irwin Cotler at the founding conference of the Inter-parliamentary Coalition for Combating Antisemitism (ICCA)
Professor Cotler is the co-founder of ICCA with UK MP John Mann.
He is the former Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada and is the Liberal MP for the Montreal riding of Mount Royal...
Piperberg's World
By Roy Piperberg on February 26, 2009
Surfing the Kondratieff Economic Long Wave
By Robert Presser on February 26, 2009
As the world collectively suffers the hangover of economic excesses propagated by excessive debt, greed and deregulation, many wonder if all or any of this could have been avoided. Fans of Nikolai Kondratieff will tell you that this era of falling prices, deleveraging of excessive debt and increased unemployment was both predictable and unavoidable. We are suffering through the Winter, or final season of an economic long wave that lasts from forty to sixty years, and that we can expect that it will last for years to come...
Quel avenir pour l’agriculture québécoise ?
By Jean-François Minardi on February 26, 2009
L’agriculture québécoise est étouffée par un certain nombre de politiques publiques mal conçues qui ne servent en définitive ni les intérêts des agriculteurs, ni celui des consommateurs, ni celui des contribuables. ..
Madoff’s Montreal effect
By Jessica Murphy on February 26, 2009
Among the victims of Bernie Madoff's alleged Ponzi scheme were a number of prominent Canadians, including former Westmount resident Phil Robinson.
Robinson, part-owner of the Gray Rocks and Mont Blanc ski resorts, lost about $4 million to the accused Wall Street swindler, according to a report by The Globe and Mail newspaper. His extended family lost upwards of $13 million...
« Plus le mensonge est gros, plus il passe »
By Germain Belzile on February 26, 2009
Les signataires du présent article veulent faire savoir aux dirigeants de Radio-Canada leur indignation. Celle des citoyens trompés et à qui est dénié le droit vital à l’information mise dans son contexte. Les reportages de Radio-Canada sur les représailles contre les tirs de mortier, de roquettes Kassam et Grad, qui ont terrorisé jusqu’à un demi-million de civils israéliens pendant huit ans nuit et jour à raison de trois alertes quotidiennes, sont indignes d’une société d’État dans un pays libre et démocratique...
Buried Child was best of Segal series so far
By Alidor Aucoin on February 26, 2009
The National Art Centre’s production of Sam Shepard’s loopy nightmare, Buried Child at the Leanor and Alvin Segal Theatre was a thriller that walked a tightrope between the real and the surreal...
Oscars – The First Reality Show
By Sharman Yarnell on February 26, 2009
From a dark eyed boy scrounging off the streets of India and a baby born an old man, to a shamed American president, a martyr of the gays rights movement, and, finally, a young man's love affair with an SS concentration camp guard. Now that's pretty eclectic!..
Stimulate this!
By Beryl Wajsman on February 5, 2009
The current frenzy of economic stimulus packages sweeping around us like so many forest fires will not — and more importantly, should not — work. The reasons are threefold. First, they are stimulating the perpetuation of a false economy that has caused nightmares for tens of millions. Second, the packages are based on outdated Depression-era models without taking into consideration today’s much different realities. And third, they provide insufficient protection to get people through the tough three to seven years that are to come...
VOICES OF A GENERATION in The Métropolitain
By Alain-Michel Ayache on February 5, 2009
Being a student is not often an easy task. Between part-time work to be able to pay the tuition, and often five courses each semester, to deal with, a student can barely see the end...
Voices of a generation: Media, ethics and bailouts
By Alana Vineberg on February 5, 2009
As a young woman edging my way closer to graduation and onto the job scene, I cannot help but feel pessimistic about the future...
Voices of a generation: What of Quebec’s Future?
By Kaoutar Belaaziz on February 5, 2009
The drums sounded in December calling on Quebecers to decide who was best suited govern. As amusing as the rivalries were to many political junkies, the recent Quebec election did not spark much interest in the general public as he U.S. presidential election did. What Quebec needs are leaders willing to forget petty politics, abandon narrow rivalries and commit o end excluding people. What Quebec needs is an Obama Effect...
Voices of a generation: Pay equity: how much of a real gap exists
By Sonia Sangregorio on February 5, 2009
In the year 2009, we still ask ourselves are men being paid a higher wage to do the exact same job as women. When answering the question the obvious answer is yes and many believe that women are being discriminated in the work place when it comes to promotions, salaries and what we refer to as statistical discrimination. We refer to statistical discrimination when a person applying for a job is not taken into consideration because she or he is not part of what statistics show to be the more productive group in the society...
Voices of a generation: Our Land is Your Land...or Something
By Bethea Clarke on February 5, 2009
Our society’s frightening reliance on fossil fuels has been lamented ad nauseam. Frankly, we are all tired of hearing about Alberta, and if one more granola-eating hipster drops the word “sustainable” into a sentence just for kicks... well
Voices of a generation: What does it take to be Canadian?
By Chantel Lattimore-Durant on February 5, 2009
What does it take to be Canadian? Will citizenship ever be enough? Or will we continue to ask people, “where are you from?” the infamous question that visible minorities must hear at least twice a month. The response “Canada” is never enough; it is almost always accompanied with a look of shock or disapproval, followed by “No I mean where is your family from?” ...
Voices of a generation: The independence of crossing the floor
By Ali Khan Lalani & Mark Small on February 5, 2009
It is always fun to watch when a politician crosses the floor. Whatever side is losing a member waves their arms at the injustice, the thwarting of democracy, the cynical self-interest that motivated the move, and whatever side is gaining the new member welcomes the new MP with open arms and speaks about sticking up for ones beliefs and the courage it takes to cross the floor.,,
Traffic cops rack up record city revenue
By P.A. Sévigny on February 5, 2009
For the third year in a row, the city broke its own record as police and parking authorities managed to rack up almost $200M for assorted parking and driving code offenses committed on the island and in the city. Based upon a 6% increase over the number of tickets issued during the previous year, informed critics and more than a few outraged drivers believe the city’s draconian parking policies are nothing less than a “hidden tax”.,,
Echoes of darker evils
By Beryl Wajsman on February 5, 2009
The next time labour leaders in Canada want to know why there is such antipathy to their agenda in many quarters, they need look no further than the Canadian Union of Public Employees’ Ontario wing. Over the past ten days its president, Sid Ryan, has been up to his anti-Israel agitation for the second time in 30 months. This time he wants a boycott of t Israeli academic institutions.,,
So-So-So-Solidarité – with Palestine
By Dan Delmar on February 5, 2009
Pro-Palestinian marchers now weave their way through Montreal’s downtown core on a weekly basis since Israel began its military operation in Gaza last month. To say the crowds are diverse would be an understatement. Aside from groups whose main purpose is to defend the Palestinian cause, there are pockets supporters who wouldn’t normally be associated with that movement: New MNA Amir Khadir and his Québec Solidaire party, la Fédération des femmes du Québec, housing rights group FRAPRU, the neo-Rhinoceros party, Christian groups and even the Raëlians...
Une autre occasion manquée: Les dernières contestations de la loi 101
By Phillipe Allard on February 5, 2009
En décembre dernier, la Cour suprême a entendu de nouvelles contestations de la Charte québécoise de la langue française. Elles avaient pour objet la loi 104, adoptée en 2002 par l’Assemblée nationale, qui visait à « colmater une brèche » dans la loi 101, par laquelle les élèves allophones pouvaient fréquenter l’école publique anglaise s’ils avaient fréquenté une école anglaise privée non subventionnée pendant au moins un an...
L’affaire Burns-Rafay et le terrorisme islamiste
By Daniel Laprès on February 5, 2009
Dans l’édition du Métropolitain du 27 novembre dernier, je présentais les grandes lignes des tactiques appliquées par la GRC pour contraindre, en laissant planer des menaces graves, des innocents à s’auto-déclarer coupables de crimes violents. La cause de Sebastian Burns et d’Atif Rafay (voir www.rafayburnsappeal.com), par laquelle j’ai pu illustrer ces méthodes policières plus que douteuses, comporte également l’implication potentielle d’un groupe islamiste relativement peu connu, nommé Al Fuqra, une organisation désignée en 1999 comme terroriste dans un rapport du Département d’État américain, intitulé Patterns of Global Terrorism (pour plus d’informations, voir www.alfuqraexposed.com)...
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