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...
Dance for the World
By Jesse Samuels on October 30, 2008
ombine your love of music and dance to help developing nations all over the world on Sunday November 2nd at the “Dance for the World” event. The “Dance” in conjunction with CUSO and VSO form Canada’s Volunteer Partnership Fund...
Plummer shines "In spite of himself"
By Alidor Aucoin on October 30, 2008
Christopher Plummer is Montreal’s greatest gift to the theatre, Canada’s own swashbuckling John Barrymore...
