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Pour en finir avec l’âge de la déraison
By David Simard on September 18, 2008
Voici donc qu’on découvre que la candidate conservatrice dans Saint-Bruno/Saint-Hubert, Nicole Char- bonneau-Barron, est membre d’un groupe sectaire catholique et profondément réactionnaire, l’Opus Dei...
Why our elections highlight the need for a true Canadian Republic
By Beryl Wajsman on September 18, 2008
rime Minister Harper’s frustration with a recalcitrant opposition was understandable. An opposition that sabre-rattled with weekly regularity yet supported the government on some forty confidence votes.
Un pacifisme de tout repos
By Pierre K. Malouf on September 18, 2008
La campagne électorale vient à peine de débuter (j’écris ces lignes le 8 septembre) que déjà les sondages pleuvent...
Concordia back at the table
By P.A. Sévigny on September 18, 2008
Just days after classes resumed at Concordia, the university’s part-time faculty association is getting ready to pull the rug out from under the administration’s feet...
Election 2008 - Montreal: riding by riding
By Jessica Murphy on September 18, 2008
Sarah Palin and exceeding expectations
By David T. Jones on September 18, 2008
On November 3, Alaska Governor Sarah Palin accepted the Republican nomination for Vice President. Her selection on August 31 by Senator John McCain had prompted a tsunami of "Sarah Who?" instant analysis...
The Calm Before the Trade Storm
By Robert Presser on September 18, 2008
This November will mark 20 years since the historic election of 1988, when free trade with the United States dominated the debate. The Conservatives emerged from that election with a reduced minority and proceeded to enact the agreement that had been negotiated with the US...
Inspectors wreak havoc on fromageries
By Dan Delmar on September 18, 2008
The province’s food inspection agency is in the midst of a zealous, unprecedented raid on Quebec cheese shops. Their mission: To seek and destroy any piece of cheese that has had even the most harmless flirtation with the sometimes harmful Listeria bacteria...
Piperberg's World
By Roy Piperberg on September 18, 2008
Stars give of themselves for “Cassandra’s Lilacs” concert
By Beryl Wajsman on September 18, 2008
Jazz great Ranée Lee is the latest performer to join the star-studded line-up for the “Cassandra`s Lilacs” Gentle the Condition concert to be held Oct. 2 at 7.30 p.m. at Théâtre St. Denis. The concert is being staged by the Garceau Foundation in co-operation with the Institute for Public Affairs of Montreal...
L’affaire n’est pas tout à fait hockey : Deuxième période
By Michel-Wilbrod Bujold on September 18, 2008
Les irresponsables de la Ligue de Hockey Junior Majeur du Québec font encore face à tout un défi : comment rendre moins évident que des brutes en habits et cravates doivent amener des délinquants en chandails à numéros à manquer de respect à leurs adversaires pour maintenir à tout prix cette «volonté de gagner»...
Bristol Palin: walking lesson in sex education
By Dr. Laurie Betito on September 18, 2008
Becoming a grandmother at the age of 44 and watching your teenage daughter bring an unplanned pregnancy to term is no cause for celebration. But that’s exactly how Sarah Palin, John McCain and the Republicans are reacting to this unfortunate turn of events; they’re treating it as the joyful beginnings of a young, Christian family. Are they in denial or blinded by religious fanaticism or both?..
In fond memory of Richard Monette
By Sharman Yarnell on September 18, 2008
At a time when funding for the arts is contracting, it is significant to note that we have also lost a man whose perseverance and creativity pulled The Stratford Shakespeare Festival in Ontario out of deep financial debt...
“Dangerous Liasions” is eye-filling
By Alidor Aucoin on September 18, 2008
As Le Vicomte de Valmont in the Segal Centre’s eye-filling production of Dangerous Liasons, Brett Christopher is a satin-lapelled lounge lizard with all the right moves..
La fonderie Darling : un espace de création unique
By Louise V. Labrecque on September 18, 2008
Il n’y a pas plus québécois qu’un Québécois ! » Voici une maxime résumant à elle seule une québécitude bête à pleurer, un complexe en somme. De ce genre de cliché, de préjugé, de formule toute faite, impossible de ne pas faire matière à réflexion lorsque l’on visite la Fonderie Darling, nichée au cœur du Faubourg des Récollets, dans le « Quartier Éphémère »...
Les Mille Mots
By . on September 4, 2008
Don’t clean weeds and butts? You pay!
By Jessica Murphy on September 4, 2008
Montreal merchants say they're being fined under the cleanliness bylaws while the City remains in disrepair...
The “Gentling the condition” Concert
By Beryl Wajsman on September 4, 2008
The most satisfying thing for me about combining the social activism of the Institute for Public Affairs and the journalistic advocacy of media is the ability to help more people more effectively. It has also brought many more people together to do well and gentle the condition...
Tout ne va pas si mal
By Pierre K. Malouf on September 4, 2008
En santé publique, le Québec vit en régime de pénurie, surtout en ce qui touche les ressources humaines. Le nombre de médecins peut paraître suffisant, il y en a chez nous 215 pour 100 000 habitants, la moyenne canadienne étant de 190...
Police walking “thin line” in Montreal North
By P.A. Sévigny on September 4, 2008
Only days after the shooting of Freddy Villanueva and the ensuing riot that ripped through the streets of Montreal North, SPVM Police Chief Yvan Delorme said the city’s police were doing everything possible to re-establish law, order and “a sense of security” in the district...
Safe injection facilities: compassionate or enabling?
By Dan Delmar on September 4, 2008
The ongoing debate over whether or not to provide Montreal drug addicts with clean syringes and a safe place to shoot up pits the tough love crowd against a more sympathetic, mothering approach; long-term solutions versus short-term relief...
What constitutes appropriate force?
By P.A. Sévigny on September 4, 2008
Canadian police and other law enforcement officials will have to wait until 2009 to answer questions posed about the safe and efficient use of their ubiquitous ‘Taser’ stun guns...
Incident, ou Meurtre prémédité avec message à l’appui?
By Alain-Michel Ayache on September 4, 2008
Lorsque l’information est tombée, ma première réaction était de la vérifier pour voir si les agences de presse ne s’étaient pas trompées – bien que rares sont les erreurs de ces dernières, voire impossible – en annonçant qu’un hélicoptère de l’Armée libanaise avait été abattu au dessus d’une zone contrôlée par le Hezbollah au Sud Liban...
Ideas before identities
By Anthony Philbin on September 4, 2008
Historic moments have a way of sneaking up on us...
Getting ready for $200/barrel oil
By Robert Presser on September 4, 2008
Perhaps it seems foolish to suggest that oil will head to $200 US in the wake of a $4 per barrel decline in the price of oil (to $110) on Monday, since Hurricane Gustav caused less damage than expected to offshore oil rigs in the Gulf of Mexico...
Piperberg's World
By Roy Piperberg on September 4, 2008
The running mate is fear
By David T. Jones on September 4, 2008
Earlier in the campaign season, once Democrats and Republicans identified their presidential candidates, respectively Senators Obama and McCain, the next question for the chatterers was "Who will be the Veep (Vice President)."..
The weekend to end modesty
By Dan Delmar on September 4, 2008
Everything about the recent Weekend to End Breast Cancer is over the top. Judging solely based on the millions of dollars raised, one could come to the conclusion that the adage ‘bigger is better’ should be applied to charity. But when a supposedly selfless deed is flaunted in front of an entire city and turned into an exercise of corporate and self-promotion, what’s left is a sad commentary on just how selfish we’ve become...
Forgotten master
By Alidor Aucoin on September 4, 2008
Roman Catholic who was incarcerated in a series of Nazi concentration camps during the Second World War, Christo Stefanoff’s signature works have enduring political value because not only do they depict the Jewish Holocaust, but Christian suffering as well...
Thank you Centaur for 40 Magical Years
By Sharman Yarnell on September 4, 2008
Time for Montrealers to raise a glass and celebrate the theatre that has given our city years of innovative, provocative and classical works...
Une élégie empreinte d’ironie
By Alidor Aucoin on September 4, 2008
Dans la plus récente pièce de Michel Tremblay, Le Paradis à la fin de vos jours, présentée au Théâtre du Rideau Vert jusqu’au 6 septembre, le paradis est loin d’être ce à quoi on pourrait s’attendre. Comme le dit l’auteur, on n’y voit pas grand-chose (en fait, on voit rien pantoute, dit-il), le bon Dieu est toujours aussi occupé et inaccessible ici qu’il ne l’est pour ceux qui le prient sur Terre, et le fait de retrouver ceux que l’on aime n’est pas aussi rassurant qu’on voudrait bien le croire...
Cette riche mosaïque humaine
By Louise V. Labrecque on September 4, 2008
Les témoignages sont à la mode. On raconte sa vie. Dans le roman de Josée Bilodeau, la ville désarticulée est au contraire mise en scène, sur 188 pages, avec un impressionnant patchwork de personnages, tous plus hétéroclites les uns que les autres. Au détour des rues et des ruelles, dans les clameurs urbaines, On aurait dit juillet nous transporte dans une ville inconnue – j’aime bien imaginer qu’il s’agit d’un Montréal chargé de vie-, s’observant au travers mille et unes vitrines, comme des scènes parfaitement liées au décor de la ville...
The Thousand Words: A dead soldier lays in the street in the south Osetian town of Tskhinvali
By . on August 21, 2008
Ottawa “Human Dignity Rally” an inspiring success
By Beryl Wajsman on August 21, 2008
The Ottawa rally for rights in China, that we have encouraged Mon-trealers to support over the past few weeks, was held last Thursday and was a resounding success. Finally dubbed the “Human Dignity Rally”, it saw hundreds of demonstrators from Montreal, Ottawa and Toronto gather in front of the Chinese Embassy, a hulking grey-stone monolith on St. Patrick St., and demand an end to Chinese tyranny, oppression, expansionist ambitions and human rights violations...
Garneau still holds healthy lead
By P.A. Sévigny on August 21, 2008
With only three short weeks to go before polling day in the Westmount-Ville Marie by-election, Liberal candidate Marc Garneau seems to have a healthy lead and there’s no reason why he should lose it before election day...
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