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La barbe des barbus
By Pierre K. Malouf on July 10, 2008
Richard Martineau, le 7 juin, sur le hidjab : « Comme on pouvait le prévoir, l'ineffable Françoise David, ex-féministe qui fait maintenant des courbettes devant les extrémistes religieux (du moins, ceux qui ne sont pas d'obédience catholique, « ouverture » envers les autres communautés oblige), Mme David, donc, applaudit la décision des augustes commissaires à quatre mains [sic]. »....
Criminalizing the homeless
By Jessica Murphy on July 10, 2008
Despite recent steps by Montreal and the Ville Marie borough to alleviate problems surrounding homelessness downtown, ongoing policies continue to marginalize the very people they’re trying to help...
Ticketing our trash
By P.A. Sévigny on July 10, 2008
Last December, shortly before taking a taxi to the airport for an early-morning flight, Montreal writer Alan Hustak dropped a small bag of garbage into one of the city’s garbage cans in Old Montreal. Only a few days after he came back from his Christmas holiday, he received a letter from the Ville Marie borough authorities with included a $187 ticket for having broken one of the borough’s new municipal garbage by-laws...
Funding cuts will behead entrepreneur program
By Isaak Olson on July 10, 2008
Government funding for a local program dedicated to young entrepreneurs will be cut at the end of August—a move that, according to program officials, will have an economic ripple effect on the region...
Jamais plus!
By l'Hon. Irwin Cotler on July 10, 2008
Cette année c’est la soixantième anniversaire de l’adoption de deux instruments cruciaux dans notre histoire, soit la Convention pour la prévention et la répression du crime de génocide (la « Convention sur le génocide »)—connue comme la Convention « plus jamais »—et la Déclaration universelle des droits de la personne—reconnue comme étant la « magna carta » de l’humanité...
Global Conflict and North American Integration
By Prof. Thomas Velk on July 10, 2008
Cooperation with the United States earns Canada economic gains and gives it a discrete national identity. Meaningful cooperation is always possible, but international conflicts that shift the U.S. balance of power toward the executive branch represent unique opportunities for Canada to extend her national interest...
Third parties, first ideas
By Tom Lamberti on July 10, 2008
As we approach the 2008 U.S. Election, we see many familiar signs. Now that Republican John McCain and Democrat Barack Obama have just about clinched the nomination of their parties, they will be looking to sure up their core supporters, as well as try and appeal to the independent voters who will ultimately decide who the next president of the United States will be...
Antiaméricanisme et élections présidentielles
By Hubert Villeneuve on July 10, 2008
Affirmer que l’hostilité internationale face aux États-Unis fut forte au cours des dernières années relèverait de l’euphémisme. Ce phénomène multiforme a connu depuis la venue au pouvoir de pouvoir de l’administration Bush et, surtout, de l’invasion malheureuse de l’Irak, une immanquable virulence...
Piperberg's World
By Roy Piperberg on July 10, 2008
Les réalités propres à Israël
By Jean Ouellette on July 10, 2008
À vingt-quatre heures d’intervalle, au son lugubre des mêmes sirènes qui annoncent la chute probable d’un missile ennemi, les Israéliens, à onze heures du matin, et dans tout le pays, se mettent au garde-à-vous et observent deux minutes de silence. La première alarme marque le souvenir des soldats tombés au combat.
UAVs: Changing the face of modern warfare
By Robert J. Galbraith on July 10, 2008
On January 29th in the North Waziristan region of Pakistan, the commander of Osama bin Laden’s al-Qaeda terror network in Afghanistan, Abu Laith al-Libi, was killed by a US missile strike launched from what was believed to be an MQ-1 Predator, an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV)...
We’ll get what we vote for
By Robert Presser on July 10, 2008
Compared to many North American cities, Montreal is an easy place to own a car. Insurance rates are relatively low, our traffic congestion problems, although growing, are not at the levels of New York, Los Angeles, Atlanta or Toronto. The baby boomer generation can remember driving downtown and finding street parking with ease; today, the parking is still available, though we are paying for it at expensive rates...
Nationalisme et sclérose culturelle
By Vincent Geloso on July 10, 2008
En cette terre d’Amérique, être francophone d’expression revient à être dans la minorité et cela représente un euphémisme. De descendance majoritairement catholique, nous sommes un peu moins minoritaire en Amérique du Nord mais nous demeurons tout de même minoritaire. Face à la culture anglo-saxone, nous sommes définitivement un îlot de différence dans une mer de soi-disant conformité...
Hot Blues
By Alidor Aucoin on July 10, 2008
With two of his stage plays opening on the straw hat circuit one week apart this month, Ricky Blue is suddenly Quebec’s hottest playwright in either language...
Couture as art
By Alidor Aucoin on July 10, 2008
Death can sometimes be a good career move for an artist. Yves Saint Laurent is a case in point. Before he died on June 1, Saint Laurent was considered a brilliant, influential designer whose career in recent years stood still as he wasted his enormous talent on cocaine and alcohol...
Lu: Omaha beach
By Louise V. Labrecque on July 10, 2008
6 juin 1944. Omaha Beach, Omaha « la sanglante », est l’une des cinq plages du débarquement de Normandie, lors de la Seconde guerre mondiale. Le jour J, Bloody Omaha sera le lieu des plus lourdes pertes américaines...
The Thousand Words
By Robert J. Galbraith on June 26, 2008
The soft jihad
By Michael Ross on June 26, 2008
I’ve walked into the aftermath of a suicide bombing, a meeting with a terrorist from the Palestinian Islamic Jihad, and a dank cell in Azerbaijan holding the al-Qaeda masterminds of the African Embassy bombings, but it only took an hour in Robson Square Provincial Court Room 105 in Vancouver to make me realize how fundamentally the nature of Jihad is truly changing and evolving...
Marc Garneau et « la cohesione sociale »
By P.A. Sévigny on June 26, 2008
When Marc Garneau flew in space, he could see the entire country from coast to coast and then some. Years later, now that he’s Stéphane Dion’s Liberal candidate in Westmount-Ville Marie, he’s still gets to cover a lot of territory but this time it’s on the ground as he gets to know the streets of his riding...
Le culte de la différence
By David Simard on June 26, 2008
Attiser les différences entre groupes humains à des fins partisanes est un procédé toujours très rentable politiquement, le recours aux mythologies nationales étant la recette de prédilection des démagogues désireux de justifier leur emprise sur la société...
Avons-nous déjà été Canadiens-français?
By Pierre K. Malouf on June 26, 2008
Interviewant Gérard Bouchard dans les heures qui suivirent la publication du rapport de la Commission sur les différences culturelles, Dominique Poirier s’étonnait que les commissaires utilisent à propos des Québécois « de souche » l’expression « d’origine canadienne- française », qui, disait-elle, nous ramène en arrière. M. Bouchard rétorqua qu’au contraire cela faisait avancer le débat, que l’expression « de souche » devrait être réservée aux Amérindiens...
Time for CCUs to open to the public?
By Daniel Bartlett on June 26, 2008
Little did she know the affect she'd have on the province's tourist trade and economy when she wrote the story so beloved by Canadians and others in so many countries the world over. She couldn't have conceived that her story and its sequels would be turned into movies, award winning television series and a musical that is staged to sold out houses every year in her home province...
Montreal food banks in crisis
By Jessica Murphy on June 26, 2008
May was tough for Montreal food banks. Moisson Montreal, Canada’s largest food bank, saw a 30 per cent drop in donations. Sun Youth, for the first time in its history, has had to launch a summer food drive...
Protecting the whistleblowers
By Duff Conacher on June 26, 2008
ederal Public Sector Integrity Commissioner Christiane Ouimet recently reported that she received only 59 complaints about government wrongdoing from whistleblowers in her first year in office...
Kissinger à Montréal
By Alain-Michel Ayache on June 26, 2008
À 85 ans, l’ancien Secrétaire d’État américain, Henry Kissinger, n’a pas manqué d’impressionner les quelques huit cents convives—ou dois-je dire privilégiés—qui ont assisté à son allocution dans le cadre de la quatorzième édition du Forum économique des Amériques, de la Conférence de Montréal au Hilton Bonaventure...
China indicted: Human dignity is indivisible
By The Hon. David Kilgour on June 26, 2008
In recent weeks, the world has witnessed catastrophes of nature in China and Burma beyond the ability of mostof us to comprehend. For what happened in Sichuan province, the thoughts, sympathies and prayers of all of us go unreservedly to all families of the victims and survivors...
Le protectionnisme agricole
By Prof. Ian Irvine on June 26, 2008
e monde a une énorme capacité de production de nourriture en réserve pour dénouer la crise alimentaire mondiale. Mais ce potentiel a été bridé depuis trop longtemps par le protectionnisme agricole dans les économies développées et, plus récemment, par les restrictions imposées aux exportations dans les pays moins développés...
New tolls proposal could spell disaster
By Isaak Olson on June 26, 2008
On June 16, Montreal’s city council voted overwhelmingly in favor of Mayor Gérald Tremblay’s plan to revitalize the city’s transportation system – a plan that could potentially use region-wide tolls to help fund the $8.1 billion, 20-year project...
Piperberg's World
By Roy Piperberg on June 26, 2008
L’affare n’est pas tout à fait hockey
By Michel-Wilbrod Bujold on June 26, 2008
La Ministre Courchesne perd son temps et gaspille nos argents avec sa croisade qui vise à interdire «les bagarres» au hockey junior. Si, au moins, elle avait l’ambition de régler, à ce niveau, le problème de « la violence au hockey »…
First stop
By Jessica Murphy on June 26, 2008
On a late sunny May afternoon, Henri-Charles Baudot sat in Place Émilie-Gamelin, wrapped in a scarf to recover from a spring cold, and spoke about his experiences helping vulnerable people in the area...
Mauvais diagnostic, funeste ordonnance
By Philip Stevens on June 26, 2008
Les médecins étant réputés pour être des gens sérieux et sensés, on les écoute attentivement lorsqu’ils nous prodiguent leurs conseils...
Gilles Proulx!
By Dan Delmar on June 26, 2008
“Je suis vieux. Après 46 ans, ca me fatigue. J’ai des problemes de surdité et je n’ai plus d’énergie,” Gilles Proulx began as he prepared for last Friday’s edition of Le Journal du Midi on Montreal’s francophone powerhouse talk station, 98.5 FM. “À 68 ans, j’ai dépassé largement la plupart des carrières à la radio, qui durent en moyenne de 10 à 12 ans.”..
Women protest global sex trade
By P.A. Sévigny on June 26, 2008
As Formula-One festivities were taking over the streets in the downtown core, a small but determined group of women stood their ground against the passing crowds on the corner of Montreal’s party central- Crescent and Ste. Catherine Street. While the women, all dressed in solid black, stood out among the crowds, they still managed to convince hundreds of people to sign their petition and to send signed postcards to Prime Minister Stephen Harper asking him to do something about the globe’s flourishing trade in human flesh...
CHUT! Ça commence… «Il était une fois…»
By Louise V. Labrecque on June 26, 2008
Jo Légaré a connu une histoire d’amour avec le peintre Guildo Molinari, cet artiste en arts visuels de grand talent dont l’œuvre est trop peu connue. Jo Légaré parle en prose dans ce récit autobiographique. Un récit bien écrit donne toujours l’impression d’être autobiographique. Et puisque c’est d’amour dont il est ici question, les banalités y sont, comme de la musique, poignantes...
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