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Dance for the World
By Jesse Samuels on October 30, 2008
ombine your love of music and dance to help developing nations all over the world on Sunday November 2nd at the “Dance for the World” event. The “Dance” in conjunction with CUSO and VSO form Canada’s Volunteer Partnership Fund...
Plummer shines "In spite of himself"
By Alidor Aucoin on October 30, 2008
Christopher Plummer is Montreal’s greatest gift to the theatre, Canada’s own swashbuckling John Barrymore...
Therefore choose courage! A personal reflection on memory and witness
By Beryl Wajsman on October 16, 2008
My father died this past Monday. At a time when so much of the currency of our public discourse is spent on meaningless façade, political correctness and false piety, I wanted to share this article I wrote last Remembrance Day about him. Our political elites could take a few lessons from a member of the “greatest generation”...
Pouvoir de nuisance
By Pierre K. Malouf on October 16, 2008
Le Québec vient d’aggraver son handicap, c’est-à-dire son éloignement du pouvoir par bloquistes interposés. Nous aurons donc un gouvernement minoritaire. Le troisième en quatre ans...
“What ever happened over just one night?” One on one with Julie Couillard
By Beryl Wajsman on October 16, 2008
She was never charged with any crime. She was never the object of any complaint. She’s lived her life openly and transparently. But in the public life of this country, anyone can be targeted if they can be abused for political gain to get at someone else. The math in politics is simple. Add two plus two and make sure it equals five...
Canada and Julie Cuillard
By Beryl Wajsman on October 16, 2008
My interview with Julie Couillard caused me to reflect on some issues in her story that really are message and metaphor for some sad realities in the public life - political and journalistic - of this country. I wanted to share them with you particularly on election week...
Election review of selected ridings served by The Métropolitain
By Dan Delmar on October 16, 2008
Trudeau takes north end riding
By P.A. Sévigny on October 16, 2008
ustin Trudeau learns fast. He waited till all the votes were in and counted before thanking his wife, his friends, his campaign workers and especially the people of his riding for their faith, their trust and their votes...
Dévoilée
By Dan Delmar on October 16, 2008
Le Métropolitain s’est entretenu récemment avec une candidate néo-démocrate des plus controversées, Samira Laouni. La musulmane pratiquante s’est vu répondre à nos questions concernant ses croyances religieuses, sa vision pour la circonscription de Bourassa (où elle s’est classée quatrième Mardi) et ses impressions sur la politique internationale...
“We are a testament to their failures”
By Dan Delmar on October 16, 2008
Three Canadian Muslims took a stand earlier this month against the extremist branches of their religion and appealed for Quebecers to stand up for their secular values...
Trois Aspects!
By Alain-Michel Ayache on October 16, 2008
Au moment où j’écris ces mots, le résultat des élections fédérales demeure encore inconnu bien que la plupart des sondages penche du côté des Conservateurs pour un second mandat minoritaire...
Excited delirium
By Jessica Murphy on October 16, 2008
The concept of 'excited delirium' is igniting the debate on stun gun use by police forces across Canada. Defenders of the term call it an unrecognized health and policing crisis while critics fear it could be used to whitewash police brutality...
Why the U.S. credit crisis should never have happened
By Robert Borosage on October 16, 2008
How did it come to this? The banksters issue a threat: hand over $700 billion in taxpayers’ money–on top of the $600 billion already forked over–or we’ll take down the global economy. There will be a lot of obfuscation—fingers pointing every which way—but the story is very clear...
À qui appartient l’or bleu ?
By Jean-François Minardi on October 16, 2008
La Commission des transports et de l’environnement de l’Assemblée Nationale du Québec vient de tenir des auditions publiques sur le projet de loi 92. Déposé au mois de juin dernier, ce projet de loi déclare, entre autres choses, que « …. l’eau de surface et l’eau souterraine, dans leur état naturel, sont des ressources qui font partie du patrimoine commun de la nation québécoise et qui ne peuvent être appropriées, sauf dans les conditions définies par la loi, dont le Code civil. »...
Saving the bubble…with inflation!
By Robert Presser on October 16, 2008
Those readers old enough to remember the oil shock of the early 1970’s and the resulting surge in inflation across most of the world’s economies will greet with skepticism the notion of inflation as a solution to the international economic crisis. In reality, we are already well on our way to inflation with the injection of trillions of dollars worldwide into the banking system to prevent it from seizing up – every dollar created by central banks to cover massive financial losses on the banks’ balance sheets debases the value of the issuing currency, and that’s the road we’re on...
Cassandra’s Lilacs succeeds in “gentling the condition”
By Beryl Wajsman on October 16, 2008
Some 600 people came to the Théatre St-Denis Thursday, October 2 and took part in a unique celebration of community activism and community solutions. It was the Garceau Foundation’s first major benefit called Cassandra’s Lilacs, The “Gentle the Condition” Concert. Put on in co-operation with the Institute for Public Affairs of Montreal, the concert was a rare multi-artist and multi-charity event...
Kirpans and Political Correctness
By David T. Jones on October 16, 2008
A kirpan is a kirpan is … a knife. A kirpan wrapped up and under the clothing of the owner is … a concealed weapon.,,
Yeah, Yeah, Yeah
By Sharman Yarnell on October 16, 2008
The year was 1964. The date was February 9. It was Sunday night and everyone between the ages of 5 and 85 was glued to the old black and white television set, waiting for the phenomenon that had arrived in New York to appear on The Ed Sullivan Show...
Scorching hot
By Alidor Aucoin on October 16, 2008
The hottest theatre ticket in town these days is Scorched. Toronto’s Tarragon Theatre Company brought its stark, fluent staging of Wajdi Mouawad’s chilling family drama, to the Centaur Friday. As translated from its original French-version, Incendies, into English by Linda Gaboriou, directed by Richard Rose and designed by Graham S. Thompson, Scorched is pure, unadulterated theatre...
The 37th Festival Nouveau Cinema offers quality and quantity
By Melissa Wheeler on October 16, 2008
Film festivals can be a double-edged sword. They’re great for industry to make business and creative connections, and the general buzz is welcome. But for people who just like to see good films, they can be a bit of a nightmare. You can’t just go to see a movie: you must spend a significant chunk of time with the program to make sure you’re seeing the best the fest has to offer...
Whatever happened to market corrections?
By Anthony Philbin on October 2, 2008
While bankers and financiers and the lawmakers they control are spinning various doom and gloom scenarios to rationalize why they need saving, under the tenets of a free market economy what we are witnessing is not some unexpected or earth-shattering aberration...
The Thousand Words: A beautiful season
By Robert J. Galbraith on October 2, 2008
La campagne électorale et la présence canadienne en Afghanistan.
By Pierre K. Malouf on October 2, 2008
Je n’avais pas aussitôt écrit dans ma chronique du 18 septembre (rédigée le 8) que le gouvernement conservateur (bientôt réélu) allait prolonger « la guerre en Afghanistan grâce à notre appui honteux », que Stephen Harper s’empressait de me rabrouer : la mission canadienne en prendra fin en 2011. Le gouvernement conservateur a l’habitude de tenir ses promesses, bonnes ou mauvaises, j’espère qu’il ne tiendra pas celle-là!..
Sébastien Dhavernas: un souffle nouveau en politique
By Louise V. Labrecque on October 2, 2008
C’est le portrait d’un homme intègre que je vous présente aujourd’hui. En le rencontrant et en discutant avec lui de ses idées et de ses priorités, j’ai pu percevoir un homme pour qui le dialogue, l’ouverture aux autres et la compassion sont réellement les moteurs de l’action, notamment politique...
Westmount going green
By Isaak Olson on October 2, 2008
Linking arms with the growing "green city" trend, Westmount officials have jump started a "sustainable development" initiative by holding the same community-wide discussion that has been building steam around this rapidly-warming globe we call home...
What happened to the honour system?
By Jessica Murphy on October 2, 2008
Revenu Quebec has played hardball for far too long. According to a partner and chartered accountant with a prominent Canadian financial management firm, the provincial revenue ministry has dropped the honour system and started to treat the average citizen like a crook...
A pastor for Jeanne Le Ber
By P.A. Sévigny on October 2, 2008
When Darryl Grey realized he couldn’t think of anybody he would want to vote for, he saw no reason why he shouldn’t run for parliament. As the pastor for Little Burgundy’s Imani Family and Full Gospel Church, he knew why he had to run for parliament...
Du machiavélisme « Assadien » renouvelé !
By Alain-Michel Ayache on October 2, 2008
À en croire les nouvelles en provenance de Damas, la voiture piégée qui a explosé le samedi 27 septembre dernier serait le travail d’un terroriste irakien lié à Al-Qaïda. Ce « terroriste-suicidaire » se serait fait exploser avec sa voiture en plein milieu de la foule dans une région dense sur le chemin de l’aéroport...
Northern Exposure: so you think your Canadian bank is safe?
By Robert Presser on October 2, 2008
Much has been written over the past week concerning the US Federal Government’s $700 billion rescue plan for the nation’s financial firms. As of this writing no plan has been passed, but in the meantime the US Federal Reserve and most central banks in the developed world have been flooding the markets with US dollar loans to meet the demand for funds from banking institutions...
Piperberg's World
By Roy Piperberg on October 2, 2008
Decorated restaurateur spotlighted for extending a helping hand
By Dan Delmar on October 2, 2008
When the owner of a chic Parisian bistro hired Jean Lafleur, convicted in the wake of the sponsorship inquiry, to work as a sous-chef, he never imagined that his face would be plastered on the front cover of the Journal de Montréal shortly thereafter...
Réflexion sur le sévice qui vient
By Esther Delisle on October 2, 2008
Cette réflexion a été impulsée par le philosophe André Comte-Sponville avec un livre du même titre. Le bouquin encore très jeune (2004) construit une perception de la responsabilité dans notre système économique. Avec la crise économique qui sévit, il semble actuel de réviser ce moralisme qu’entend entretenir le capitalisme d’aujourd’hui, son système et son idéologie...
Warhol draws music
By Alidor Aucoin on October 2, 2008
Andy Warhol’s genius was that not only did he connect graphic design, cinema, sex, politics and pop culture, but as a new exhibition at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts demonstrates, Warhol was also the world’s most successful groupie...
Memo for artists : Arts are a market
By Vincent Geloso on October 2, 2008
Artists in Quebec were hoping that Stephen Harper would be ripping his hairs off to look like Jack Layton as they unleashed ads criticizing the government for cutting funding to arts in the province. However, their cause is not benefitting from widespread support as they expected and whatever support they have are polite yet lacking in passion...
The Thousand Words
By . on September 18, 2008
