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Quebec’s declaration of values
By Amb. Martin Collacot on November 13, 2008
The decision by the Quebec government to require immigrants to that province to declare that they accept the basic common values of Quebecers makes good sense.,,
Boroughs gone bonkers
By Jessica Murphy on November 13, 2008
Last September, The Metropolitain reported on merchants along Parc. Ave being hit with a number of fines under Montreal’s cleanliness bylaws.
At the time, property owner Bill Vasilios Karidogiannis complained that the street was in disrepair despite merchants pressuring the borough to contribute to its upkeep. So when the borough sent a team of workers to clean the streets a couple of weeks later, he was overjoyed.,,
“..Some things are worth fighting for!”
By P.A. Sévigny on November 13, 2008
Last Sunday, Montreal’s St. James United Church held its annual Remembrance Day service to honor all who served and died for this nation during all of its wars.,,
Citizen Obama
By Beryl Wajsman on November 13, 2008
He started by testing the waters. That was what his campaign was all about at the start. Barack Obama burned with ideas and ideals, but he knew as a junior Senator with relatively little national exposure, that his 2008 campaign would probably be all about positioning. Positioning for the next time. But then something happened. Iowa...
Les défis
By Alain-Michel Ayache on November 13, 2008
Il y a encore quelques mois, l’idée d’avoir un homme de race noire comme président des États-Unis était en soi un défi, d’autant plus que dans l’imaginaire populaire de l’Occident, l’Amérique était encore une entité où le racisme était plus vivace qu’en Europe. Or, voilà qu’aujourd’hui, les États-Unis d’Amérique prouvent encore une fois la grandeur de ce pays et la force de sa démocratie; de quoi constituer une leçon d’ouverture au monde entier...
It matters
By George Jonas on November 13, 2008
Yes, it matters. Just because you've seen one president, doesn't mean you've seen them all. If you got the president you always wanted for a neighbour, don't yet heave a sigh of relief. If you got the one you always feared, don't yet despair. Knowing who the president is doesn't tell you everything, or even half of it. Presidents aren't free to be what they are. A candidate may be his own person. But a President is his office. As a leader, he no longer belongs to himself. The Chinese might call him the creature of the three Ps: His people, his place and his period. A leader is a follower by definition...
Kristallnacht: Seventy years later
By The Hon. David Kilgour on November 13, 2008
It is a challenge to address the stark issues posed by the 70th anniversary of Kristallnacht. One difficulty is that too many in my own spiritual community (Christian) stood by during the worst catastrophe in all of recorded history.There were exceptions-some famous, some virtually unknown—but most Christians in Europe and elsewhere, including Canada, did not do enough to love and care for our Jewish neighbours as ourselves. Another is drawing two effective lessons from the Holocaust of practical use today in Canada and elsewhere...
Everlasting debt
By Lawrence Rosenthal on November 13, 2008
Rêve est réalité
By Sébastien Dorélas on November 13, 2008
Ma couverture de cette campagne a commencé d’un drôle de manière. Nous (la délégation) étudiante du CIPUF avons eu droit à une escale forcée au bureau des douaniers au poste frontalier de Champlain. Le douanier en charge de l’inspection n’a pas apprécié que parmi la vingtaine d’étudiants de la délégation, certains avaient des passeports provenant de la France et de la Belgique...
“The glass ceiling has been shattered”
By Dan Delmar on November 13, 2008
The stakes were high on Nov. 4 for American Democrats, but also for members of Montreal’s Black community who expect to see the election of Barack Obama as a positive development for black youth in this country as well...
Piperberg's World
By Roy Piperberg on November 13, 2008
Government’s misguided attempt
By Robert Presser on November 13, 2008
Late last week, General Motors and Ford announced a combined third quarter loss of $7.2 billion US. In other years, this would be considered catastrophic as an annual loss figure, but in the current economic context..
Academia Nuts
By David Solway on November 13, 2008
As we survey the intellectual scene today, what appears perhaps most disconcerting is the modern western University. With its mimosa administrations, Jacobin unions and an energetic left wing professoriate, it has become the new industrial farm for the production of ideological madness and intellectual obscurantism...
Call it ‘The Sandwich Generation’
By P.A. Sévigny on November 13, 2008
Last Sunday, a new resource group called The Professionals Network for Caregivers, (Réseau des Professionels pour les Proches Aidants) held their annual resource fair at the Centre Mont-Royal in the downtown core...
La Fonderie Darling: un espace de création unique
By Louise V. Labrecque on November 13, 2008
« Il n’y a pas plus québécois qu’un Québécois ! » Voici une maxime résumant à elle seule un type de 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 ». Par sa mission, cet endroit étonnant oblige à sortir de soi et des sentiers battus, pour entrer de tout son long dans l’Autre, dans ses différences et complexités...
Titanic sails again
By Alidor Aucoin on November 13, 2008
A touring exhibition of artifacts from the Titanic opened this week in the old fourth floor cinema in the Eaton Centre in downtown Montreal, where they will remain until April...
Sleek Cat without claws
By Alidor Aucoin on November 13, 2008
Barry Flatman as Big Daddy, the dying patriarch of a decaying Southern family is alone worth the price of admission to the uneven production of the Tennessee Williams Classic, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof at the Segal Centre for the Performing Arts at the Saidye...
Did Liberals give 100%?
By Dan Delmar on October 30, 2008
Just 14 of 75 seats in Quebec: The search for answers and the finger-pointing has begun inside Liberal Party ranks. Was it a one-off, attributable to an unpopular leader and a convoluted carbon tax scheme? Could more have been done to win battleground ridings like Outremont or Jeanne-Le Ber? Was this just an accident or was it…murder?..
Les Mille Mots: Canada geese get a glimpse of winter to come during this week's snow storm
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Le poids du mépris
By Bernard Amyot on October 30, 2008
Dans La Presse du 19 octobre dernier, le « chroniqueur » Patrick Lagacé a su décocher tout son fiel dans une charge tout à fait gratuite et sans fondement contre Stéphane Dion, et cela au moment où celui-ci était plus blessé et vulnérable que jamais auparavant, soit à la toute veille de l’annonce de sa démission comme chef du parti libéral du Canada...
Outflanking the Liberals on the left
By George Jonas on October 30, 2008
There’s no confusion about the election results in Canada, only about who won. Some say, well, the winner is whoever forms the government, and that’s Stephen Harper. Not so, others counter. Mr. Harper called an election to get a majority; he was denied one, so he lost. Even worse, look at his opponent. Anyone who can’t knock out Stéphane Dion has no business claiming the belt...
La nation ne s’est pas prononcée
By Pierre K. Malouf on October 30, 2008
Gilles Duceppe déclarait récemment que c’est la nation québécoise qui s’est prononcée le 14 octobre en élisant 50 députés du Bloc. Aucun commentateur n’a jugé bon jusqu’à maintenant de relever l’énormité des prétentions de M. Duceppe. Alain Dubuc grattait les bords de la plaie dans sa chronique du 26 octobre, mais ne mettait pas le doigt sur le bobo. Je serai donc le premier à le faire...
Justice for Anas?
By Jessica Murphy on October 30, 2008
Bizarre circumstances surround the shooting death by police of Mohamed Anas Bennis on Dec. 1, 2005. This summer, the family, who has been fighting for almost three years against government stonewalling, thought they would finally learn the facts about that day in Cote-des-Neiges...
Catastrophe looms for Ashraf refugees
By The Hon. David Kilgour on October 30, 2008
The 3500 refugees in Camp Ashraf, located in Iraq about an hour's drive from both Baghdad and the Iranian border, are at serious risk. They are members and supporters of the main opposition in Iran, the People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI), formed in the 1960s in opposition to the Shah's absolute monarchy...
Butt Out
By David T. Jones on October 30, 2008
U.S. observers of the Canadian scene are well aware of the almost obsessive attention Canadians pay to the United States. It is almost as if you don't have a life of your own...
Visa to paradise
By Rouba al-Fattal on October 30, 2008
I stood for inspection at the gates of heaven
‘Passport and visa please’, a full armed angel demanded...
The Cascading Crisis of Confidence
By Robert Presser on October 30, 2008
There is not enough money in the world to give everyone who is suffering through hard times some kind of bailout. Be they individuals, small businesses or corporations, some will have to be allowed to fail...
Bailout robbery
By Anthony Philbin on October 30, 2008
U.S. Treasury Secretary Paulson hasn’t clearly explained why the U.S. needs to bail out the Wall Street millionaires, and he has even gone on record saying that the $700 billion figure in the bailout package is completely arbitrary. He has further admitted that the $700 billion number is “not based on any particular data point”. In other words he doesn’t have a clue...
Piperberg's World
By Roy Piperberg on October 30, 2008
Concordia’s Place Norman Bethune finally taking shape
By P.A. Sévigny on October 30, 2008
After years of discussion, assorted arguments, endless urban planning and a lot of construction, a statue raised to honor the memory of Dr. Norman Bethune, a hero of the Chinese revolution, will be located at the heart of one of the city’s more successful urban design projects...
Robert Latimer, prisonnier politique
By Michel-Wilbrod Bujold on October 30, 2008
Après deux procès, deux appels et un dernier appel devant la Cour suprême, après sept années d’incarcération, Robert Latimer reste convaincu que ses derniers juges l’ont injustement condamné. Il réclame un nouveau procès. Il soutient toujours avoir agi pour soulager les douleurs de sa fill, dont l’état ne cessait d’empirer sans qu’il soit possible de lui administrer une médication anti-douleurs...
Un peu de dignité SVP !
By Louise V. Labrecque on October 30, 2008
C’était un soir d’automne, un jeudi soir qui aurait pu être banal. Je marchais en direction du théâtre St-Denis. J’étais en avance au rendez-vous, un concert-bénéfice de la Fondation Garceau fondée par Brigitte Garceau et l’Institut des affaires publiques de Beryl Wajsman, venant en aide aux démunis, notamment des enfants...
Local youth learn about global responsibility
By Isaak Olson on October 30, 2008
Hundreds of young voices became one, filling the air with hope and dreams of change: "We can make a difference,” they chanted. “We have a global responsibility! We can make a difference!"..
Bill Brownstein's 24 Hours
By Alidor Aucoin on October 30, 2008
Bill Brownstein never walked into a saloon he didn’t like. The Gazette’s man about town has compiled a loving tribute to Montreal’s night spots in 24: Twenty Four Hours in the Life of a City. His interlocking chapters convey the mood of the city through the owners, employees, trend setters, and bar flys that he¹s interviewed in 24 different locations around town...
MCA's Sympathy for the Devil
By Alidor Aucoin on October 30, 2008
On the heels of the show at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts which examines music and dance in Andy Warhol’s work, the Museum of Contemporary Art has opened a similar exhibition of its own: Sympathy for the Devil: Art and Rock and Roll since 1967...
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