It Can Happen Here
By Rev. John Vaudry on February 16, 2011
American author Sinclair Lewis, in his chilling 1935 novel It Can’t Happen Here, imagines the United States becoming a fascist state. Doremus Jessop, a small town Vermont newspaper editor, tries valiantly to warn his compatriots that what is taking place in Europe in the 1930s could occur on this side of the Atlantic, but is met with disbelief—“It can’t happen here.”
Iran: Responsible choices
By The Hon. David Kilgour on March 19, 2009
Iran is a country with immense human, cultural and hydrocarbon resources, but its people continue to be severely repressed by a government headed by a clerical Supreme Leader and president, who practise state terrorism, flaunt genocidal rhetoric, and are seeking to build nuclear weapons. Iran is pivotal to regional peace and world stability...
Les Mille Mots
By . on November 27, 2008
Élections pour les nuls
By Pierre K. Malouf on November 27, 2008
Je regarde aller M. Charest, M. Dumont, Mme Marois (voire Mme David et son acolyte), et je me pâme !..
“It’s a matter of dignity”
By Jessica Murphy on November 27, 2008
When Quebec’s 38th legislature was dissolved on Nov. 5, the work by the national assembly’s standing committee on social affairs came to a halt...
Trivializing Hate
By Beryl Wajsman on November 27, 2008
This week Rouba Elmerhebi Fahd, mother of the United Talmud Torah fire bomber, received a sentence of only twelve months probation after having been found guilty in September of being an accessory after the fact in the firebombing. The trial judge qualified the attack on the Jewish school as a terrorist act...
Le discours du PQ : mensonges et idées dépassées
By Jean-François Rancourt on November 27, 2008
L’idéologie du Parti Québécois est basée sur une série de mensonges et d’idées dépassées. Si ce parti a déjà été jeune et dynamique, voire utile au Québec, ce n’est plus le cas depuis longtemps. Par des manœuvres habiles et en martelant sans cesse la même rhétorique, le PQ a réussi à faire croire à plusieurs qu’il serait le seul parti à pouvoir défendre les intérêts des Québécois, comme s’il détenait l’exclusivité des valeurs québécoises, et comme si, par surcroît, il détenait le monopole de la définition de notre identité collective.,,
SAQ coming down on east-end topless landmark
By P.A. Sévigny on November 27, 2008
At 8:30 in the morning, the fast-food restaurant on Hochelaga Street was just as busy as any other fast-food joint in the city — perhaps busier. While Les Princesses served fast-food breakfast meals just like any other of its kind in the city, the well-known restaurant also had a liquor license. For almost 10 years, Gaetan Thomas, its owner, said the restaurant was doing good business before Quebec liquor board authorities recently decided to revoke his liquor license. Now he will probably have to close the business.,,
Opération Mr. Big™ (Made in Canada)
By Daniel Laprès on November 27, 2008
Même si certains médias (dont le journaliste Brian Hutchinson dans le National Post du 18 décembre 2004) en ont parfois fait état, peu de gens au pays savent que la Gendarmerie Royale du Canada (GRC) applique depuis plusieurs années des tactiques policières qui relèvent purement de la fabrication de preuves et dont plusieurs parmi nos concitoyens ont été les innocentes victimes...
To rouse the world from fear
By Beryl Wajsman on November 27, 2008
Saturday was the 45th anniversary of the assassination of President John Fitzgerald Kennedy. That tragedy haunts us still. In many ways and at all times. The writer Mary McGrory said on that day that we shall never smile again. Daniel Patrick Moynihan answered no, we may smile again, but we’ll never be young again. For many it was the day hope died...
L’avocat du « Diable »
By Alain-Michel Ayache on November 27, 2008
Après Maher Arar, c’est au tour de trois autres musulmans… canadiens, Ahmad el-Maati, Muayyed Nureddin et Abdullah Almalki de réclamer des dommages et intérêts au gouvernement du Canada pour des crimes commis contre leurs personnes par des pays dont ils sont originaires, tel la Syrie et l’Égypte. Ce qui est regrettable, c’est que le contribuable canadien se voit désormais obligé de payer la facture à la place des dictatures du Proche et du Moyen-Orient, tout cela à cause d’un précédent créé par l’affaire Arar!..
More Lessons for Republicans
By David T. Jones on November 27, 2008
Journalists are inclined to depict every political bend in the road as a major turning point. Historians know better. And so it is after the 2008 election in which President-elect Obama is being globally greeted with hosannas and depicted as the bearer of solutions to all ills foreign and domestic. ..
Who’s afraid of the big bad debt?
By Robert Presser on November 27, 2008
What a difference two weeks makes; our federal government has moved from calling a budget deficit in fiscal 2009-2010 “irresponsible” to “likely”. Mr. Harper and Mr. Flaherty divulged ever more pessimistic prognostications for our economic future in order to soften up the public for what is likely going to happen whether we plan for it or not: a couple of years of federal deficits...
Healing scars: ‘the girl in the picture’
By Megan Martin on November 27, 2008
To much of the world, she is known simply as ‘the girl in the picture.’ She is a stark representation of the realities of war. But when Kim Phuc spoke to the students at Concordia University , she had only one message: peace.,,
Piperber's World
By Roy Piperberg on November 27, 2008
Le festin lu
By Louise V. Labrecque on November 27, 2008
Le repas est un acte social. Il est le rituel par excellence de la socialisation, soutenu, à partir du dix-neuvième siècle, par un nouveau discours alimentaire, tout à la fois hédoniste et normatif...
Sex: Uncovered
By Dan Delmar on November 27, 2008
For the last two decades, Dr. Laurie Betito has been shining a light into the dark, dirty and sometimes depraved corners of the human psyche. “Better communication, better sex,” is her motto and beginning this week, she will help take readers of The Métropolitain on a journey to new heights of sexual enlightenment.
Intimate Passions
By Dr. Laurie Betito on November 27, 2008
The Thousand Words: A beautiful season
By Robert J. Galbraith on October 2, 2008
