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The “Shit Happens” factor
By Dan Delmar on February 5, 2009
If you will forgive the vulgarity, I would like to expand on a theme that this newspaper’s editor touches on frequently: The seemingly instinctive desire for politicians to enact laws that attempt to prevent the unpreventable, covering all possible bases to make sure that we all behave like good little boys and girls, while leaving us with the impression that they are earning their salaries...
Is it a paradigm shift ?
By David Simard on February 5, 2009
The Democrats have retaken the White House after eight long years of soul-searching. I look upon this historic occasion with all the hopes and dreams of my generation. However, to believe that one man can change the world is perhaps dangerous. There are no saviours, but certain politicians can push history in the right direction...
Obama’s Megatrillions for Change
By Robert Presser on February 5, 2009
Many around the world celebrated as they watched the inauguration festivities in Washington DC. Barack Obama warned Americans that the challenges they face as a nation are numerous and grave, requiring individual sacrifice and difficult choices to plot a path back to prosperity. While he spent a few minutes speaking to the world, he avoided asking them for their contribution to America’s renewal; the purchase of $5 trillion of new US debt to cover a half decade of enormous budget deficits.,,
Lessons for Democrats
By David T. Jones on February 5, 2009
One of life's lessons is that no man stands so tall as when he puts the monkey on some one else's back. Appreciating that sobriquet, "Bush 43" jets into history (or at least to Crawford Texas), and a chattering troop of simians have seated themselves on President Obama's shoulders. Caging them, throttling them, or just enduring them are now the Democrats problem as for the first time since 1992, the Democrats control both the Congress and the Presidency...
Piperberg's World
By Roy Piperberg on February 5, 2009
Les « plans de relance » ne sont pas le bon remède
By Kherridin et Veldhuis on February 5, 2009
La plupart des groupes d’intérêts, des économistes, des politiciens et des journalistes appuient des hausses massives de dépenses publiques afin de « stimuler » l’économie. Le gouvernement du Québec ne fait pas exception, le premier ministre Jean Charest préconisant des dépenses accrues pour les infrastructures et la formation des travailleurs et s’opposant à des baisses d’impôts.,,
Laïcité « ouverte » : une nouvelle trahison des clercs ?
By Roger Léger on February 5, 2009
La première question qui me vient spontanément à l’esprit, lorsque l’on parle du cours Éthique et culture religieuse, est son libellé même : Pourquoi Éthique et culture religieuse? Pourquoi pas Éthique et culture philosophique? Craindrait-on d’exposer les enfants à la philosophie, qui serait un « danger mortel pour l’humanité », disait Nietzsche ? Est-il préférable de maintenir la jeunesse dans le cocon douillet des fables religieuses ?..
Quebec’s poverty wall
By Jessica Murphy on February 5, 2009
Quebec gets both top marks and failing grades when it comes to fighting poverty in the province...
Réjean Thomas et le SIDA
By René Girard on February 5, 2009
Une vérité qui n’est dite qu’à demi ne sert nullement la cause que l’on défend. Grand défenseur d’une cause dont on ne peut que le féliciter, Réjean Thomas, à chaque fois qu’il apparaît en public, occulte néanmoins une partie importante de la vérité, et nuit en fin de compte à la cause qu’il défend...
Shirley Valentine
By Alidor Aucoin on February 5, 2009
Shirley Valentine, at the Centaur Theatre until February 22, is a harmless feminist fantasy about a middle-aged housewife who skips out on her husband on two week Aegean holiday to find her self...
Peace for Piaf
By Sharman Yarnell on February 5, 2009
She was born in Belleville, Paris in 1915 and died at age 47 in 1963. Little did she know the lasting affect that she would have on generations of music devotees the world over. She was once the most highly paid star in the world, but when she died, much of her savings had been spent on alcohol and a drug habit...
Le Bon Prof
By Louise V. Labrecque on February 5, 2009
Le Québécois David Solway, écrivain anglophone et poète reconnu qui s’est notamment mérité en 2004 le Prix littéraire de la ville de Montréal, est l’auteur de l’essai sur l’éducation Le bon prof. Dans ce livre, on entre en conflit frontal avec la « nouvelle vérité ». En effet, en plein « renouveau pédagogique », voici un ouvrage qui décape, littéralement, et nous sort de ces tristes zones embourbées jusqu’au cou par le prêt-à-penser de la pensée unique...
Days that sear our souls
By Beryl Wajsman on January 15, 2009
This week and next, we would do well to pause and reflect on the solemn and universal backdrop against which this period of time unfolds every year...
La routine
By Pierre K. Malouf on January 15, 2009
L’année 2009 nous réserve-t-elle quelque surprise ? Au Canada, et au Québec en particulier, se produira-t-il quelque événement inattendu qui ferait dire aux générations futures que nous venons de vivre un moment-clé de notre évolution ?
Le combat d’Israël pour sa survie, c’est aussi notre combat
By Jacques Brassard on January 15, 2009
Pendant quelques instants, envisagez la situation suivante : à partir de Larouche et de St-Bruno, une organisation terroriste lance sur Alma, quotidiennement, des dizaines de roquettes et de missiles et cela, pendant des années. Et ces engins meurtriers sont tirés à l'aveuglette. Ils peuvent tomber n'importe où : sur un centre d'achat, sur une école, sur des résidences, sur une église...
Israel n'a pas le choix
By Germain Belzile on January 15, 2009
Quelque 7000 obus de mortiers et roquettes tirés sur le territoire d'Israël depuis 2001. Des dizaines de milliers de civils israéliens ciblés par des attaques quotidiennes. Les alertes plus que quotidiennes qui terrorisent les enfants dans leurs écoles et leurs garderies. Quel gouvernement peut tolérer cela ? Depuis sept ans, les brigades d'Al-Aqsa (branche du Fatah), le Djihad islamique et le Hamas se sont armés pour atteindre leur but : détruire l'État d'Israël.
Hate in the streets
By Beryl Wajsman on January 15, 2009
It was the images as much as the issues that got to you. You couldn’t intellectualize in your own mind what you were seeing. You wanted to ask the demonstrators questions...
New financial consumer watchdog groups needed to watch banks and investment industry
By Duff Conacher on January 15, 2009
OTTAWA - With Canada's big banks reporting a total of $16 billion dollars in losses and writedowns mainly because of their irresponsibly risky investments, Canada's leading bank accountability coalition called on federal Finance Minister Jim Flaherty to work with opposition parties and protect financial consumers by requiring banks to prove their credit card, other consumer and small- and medium-sized business loan interest rates and service charges do not amount to gouging, empowering the Competition Bureau to evaluate the lending record and competition level in basic banking services nation-wide, and requiring banks and other financial institutions to facilitate the creation of watchdog groups...
City still working on anti-poverty initiative with Quebec
By P.A. Sévigny on January 15, 2009
Just before Christmas the ruling majority at City Hall voted down a request for an emergency $500 000 donation to the city’s desperate food banks...
Lettre à Gaza...
By Alain-Michel Ayache on January 15, 2009
Pauvre Proche-Orient ! Pauvre Gaza ! Pauvres Palestiniens ! Pauvre peuple en perdition… Comme si le destin continue de s’acharner contre toi pour faire parvenir un message à l’ensemble des pays de la région, et particulièrement à tes « frères » arabes. ..
Keep real Gaza facts in mind
By Leo Adler on January 15, 2009
As the situation between Israel and Hamas continues to dominate headlines, and the calls for Canada to have an "even-handed" approach and to condemn Israel's "disproportionate" policies are renewed, it might be appropriate to step back a bit and review a few indisputable facts...
The Inaugural Inspiration
By Alidor Aucoin on January 15, 2009
All US presidents eventually reveal their flaws, but the ones who are remembered in spite of their flaws are those who inspire Americans - and by extension all free people - to serve and make a difference...
Israel is disproportionate. Disproportionately restrained.
By David Solway on January 15, 2009
The recent outbreak of hostilities between Israel and Hamas should give us an opportunity to reflect, once again, not only on the current belligerents, but on the role of the obligatory third party to the conflict. I refer to the ground troops of the armies of the liberal-left, aka the Western media, who inevitably tilt the balance of the war they are “covering” in favor of their confederates or, what amounts to the same thing, against the side they reprove.
Political Correctness--the Curse of Civilization
By David T. Jones on January 15, 2009
We can be confident that, as soon as our long ago ancestors started living in caves, there was "correctness"--social, political, tribal, etc. Just where do you throw your bones after cracking them open and sucking out the marrow? Just where do you perform your bodily functions? Or who speaks (grunts?) in what order in the group meeting?..
Secteur automobile : une aide éhontée
By Vincent Geloso on January 15, 2009
Depuis plusieurs mois, les accusations à l’effet que le marché serait incapable de se corriger seul se multiplient et appellent à l’intervention massive de l’État. L’accusation est ridicule puisque, depuis des mois, les gouvernements multiplient les interventions qui empêchent le marché de se corriger...
Quebec at the crossroads: the recession as Charest’s Odyssey
By Robert Presser on January 15, 2009
Many Quebeckers remain fixated on the economic problems in the United States and their spillover effect into Canada, notably the potential bankruptcy of one or more of the Big Three US automakers and the devastation this would wreak on central Canadian manufacturing...
Piperberg's World
By Roy Piperberg on January 15, 2009
The New Frugality
By Jessica Murphy on January 15, 2009
Will 2009 be the year we finally learn financial common sense? History and the emerging field of behavioural finance suggests that we won't..,
Humanity 2009
By David Simard on January 15, 2009
The sum of human knowledge doubles every 18 months or so. Our understanding of everything is moving along in leaps and bounds. There are more scientists per capita than at any other time. These men and women are working in fields such as nanotechnology, the human genome and renewable energies...
Federal employees DO NOT earn more than private workers!
By Michèle Demers on January 15, 2009
For the fifth time in a row, the Canadian Federation of Independent Business has issued a flawed analysis alleging “widening gaps” between public and private-sector employee compensation...
King Jack
By Alidor Aucoin on January 15, 2009
As one of Canada¹s richest industrialists and media barons, a biography of John Wilson McConnell, the President of St. Lawrence Sugar Refineries who once owned Holt Renfrew and the Montreal Star newspaper is certainly long overdue...
The Childrens’ Theatre turns 75
By Sharman Yarnell on January 15, 2009
When I interviewed him at a Montreal Actra Awards ceremony, William Shatner recognized a number of Montreal theatre icons as being instrumental in creating a strong foundation for his career in acting...
Nous sommes tous Kafka
By Louise V. Labrecque on January 15, 2009
On commence à ouvrir les yeux lentement sur les vrais rapports qui lient l’auteure à Kafka, et cela, dès la première page. Les métamorphoses, c’est bien connu, s’opèrent lentement, de fil en aiguille ; mais pas ici. C’en est presque frustrant, car déjà on sait que le suicide, réellement la mort, est imminente, à la toute fin...
The Thousand Words: Michael Ignatieff addresses Liberals on December 10, 2008
By Alidor Aucoin on December 18, 2008
The Ignatieff ascendancy
By Beryl Wajsman on December 18, 2008
Many have speculated what a Michael Ignatieff Liberal Party will look like. With his ascendancy we will soon find out. After the turbulent events of the past few weeks this country needs what Harry Truman once called some “plain speaking”. Not just for the sake of Michael Ignatieff’s party but for the sake of conscience and for the sake of this country. Without fidelity to conscience, public men are of little use......
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