THe Thousand Words: Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe
By . on July 10, 2008
Notre politique linguistique. Une vache sacrée, une bête noire
By Julius Grey on July 10, 2008
Manifestement injuste et exagérée lors de sa promulgation en 1977, la loi 101 a été modifiée et améliorée à tous les niveaux des cours de justice, y compris celles des Nations unies, ainsi que par le législateur...
Morgentaler: It’s about liberty, not libertines
By Beryl Wajsman on July 10, 2008
French social critic Hervé Juvin's book “L'avènement du corps” (The Elevation of the Body), argues that our ability to live longer has seen the birth of the hedonism of self-preservation replacing the hedonism of self-indulgence...
Why Harper got it right on McCain
By David T. Jones on July 10, 2008
Cynics are inclined to conclude that a government that makes the right decision is akin to the proverbial blind pig finding an acorn. But such pigs do find acorns and, in the instance of the decision by the Harper government to see Senator John McCain during his June 20 visit to Ottawa, the Tories got it right...
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...
