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Vol. 1 NO. 9 - The Métropolitain

Les Mille Mots

By . on September 4, 2008

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Don’t clean weeds and butts? You pay!

By Jessica Murphy on September 4, 2008

Montreal merchants say they're being fined under the cleanliness bylaws while the City remains in disrepair...

The “Gentling the condition” Concert

By Beryl Wajsman on September 4, 2008

The most satisfying thing for me about combining the social activism of the Institute for Public Affairs and the journalistic advocacy of media is the ability to help more people more effectively. It has also brought many more people together to do well and gentle the condition...

Tout ne va pas si mal

By Pierre K. Malouf on September 4, 2008

En santé publique, le Québec vit en régime de pénurie, surtout en ce qui touche les ressources humaines. Le nombre de médecins peut paraître suffisant, il y en a chez nous 215 pour 100 000 habitants, la moyenne canadienne étant de 190...

Police walking “thin line” in Montreal North

By P.A. Sévigny on September 4, 2008

Only days after the shooting of Freddy Villanueva and the ensuing riot that ripped through the streets of Montreal North, SPVM Police Chief Yvan Delorme said the city’s police were doing everything possible to re-establish law, order and “a sense of security” in the district...

Safe injection facilities: compassionate or enabling?

By Dan Delmar on September 4, 2008

The ongoing debate over whether or not to provide Montreal drug addicts with clean syringes and a safe place to shoot up pits the tough love crowd against a more sympathetic, mothering approach; long-term solutions versus short-term relief...

What constitutes appropriate force?

By P.A. Sévigny on September 4, 2008

Canadian police and other law enforcement officials will have to wait until 2009 to answer questions posed about the safe and efficient use of their ubiquitous ‘Taser’ stun guns...

Incident, ou Meurtre prémédité avec message à l’appui?

By Alain-Michel Ayache on September 4, 2008

Lorsque l’information est tombée, ma première réaction était de la vérifier pour voir si les agences de presse ne s’étaient pas trompées – bien que rares sont les erreurs de ces dernières, voire impossible – en annonçant qu’un hélicoptère de l’Armée libanaise avait été abattu au dessus d’une zone contrôlée par le Hezbollah au Sud Liban...

Ideas before identities

By Anthony Philbin on September 4, 2008

Historic moments have a way of sneaking up on us...

Getting ready for $200/barrel oil

By Robert Presser on September 4, 2008

Perhaps it seems foolish to suggest that oil will head to $200 US in the wake of a $4 per barrel decline in the price of oil (to $110) on Monday, since Hurricane Gustav caused less damage than expected to offshore oil rigs in the Gulf of Mexico...

Piperberg's World

By Roy Piperberg on September 4, 2008

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The running mate is fear

By David T. Jones on September 4, 2008

Earlier in the campaign season, once Democrats and Republicans identified their presidential candidates, respectively Senators Obama and McCain, the next question for the chatterers was "Who will be the Veep (Vice President)."..

The weekend to end modesty

By Dan Delmar on September 4, 2008

Everything about the recent Weekend to End Breast Cancer is over the top. Judging solely based on the millions of dollars raised, one could come to the conclusion that the adage ‘bigger is better’ should be applied to charity. But when a supposedly selfless deed is flaunted in front of an entire city and turned into an exercise of corporate and self-promotion, what’s left is a sad commentary on just how selfish we’ve become...

Forgotten master

By Alidor Aucoin on September 4, 2008

Roman Catholic who was incarcerated in a series of Nazi concentration camps during the Second World War, Christo Stefanoff’s signature works have enduring political value because not only do they depict the Jewish Holocaust, but Christian suffering as well...

Thank you Centaur for 40 Magical Years

By Sharman Yarnell on September 4, 2008

Time for Montrealers to raise a glass and celebrate the theatre that has given our city years of innovative, provocative and classical works...

Une élégie empreinte d’ironie

By Alidor Aucoin on September 4, 2008

Dans la plus récente pièce de Michel Tremblay, Le Paradis à la fin de vos jours, présentée au Théâtre du Rideau Vert jusqu’au 6 septembre, le paradis est loin d’être ce à quoi on pourrait s’attendre. Comme le dit l’auteur, on n’y voit pas grand-chose (en fait, on voit rien pantoute, dit-il), le bon Dieu est toujours aussi occupé et inaccessible ici qu’il ne l’est pour ceux qui le prient sur Terre, et le fait de retrouver ceux que l’on aime n’est pas aussi rassurant qu’on voudrait bien le croire...

Cette riche mosaïque humaine

By Louise V. Labrecque on September 4, 2008

Les témoignages sont à la mode.  On raconte sa vie.  Dans le roman de Josée Bilodeau, la ville désarticulée est au contraire mise en scène, sur 188 pages, avec un impressionnant patchwork de personnages, tous plus hétéroclites les uns que les autres.  Au détour des rues et des ruelles, dans les clameurs urbaines, On aurait dit juillet nous transporte dans une ville inconnue – j’aime bien imaginer qu’il s’agit d’un Montréal chargé de vie-, s’observant au travers mille et unes vitrines, comme des scènes parfaitement liées au décor de la ville...


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