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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...

Ottawa “Human Dignity Rally” an inspiring success

By Beryl Wajsman on August 21, 2008

The Ottawa rally for rights in China, that we have encouraged Mon-trealers to support over the past few weeks, was held last Thursday and was a resounding success. Finally dubbed the “Human Dignity Rally”, it saw hundreds of demonstrators from Montreal, Ottawa and Toronto gather in front of the Chinese Embassy, a hulking grey-stone monolith on St. Patrick St., and demand an end to Chinese tyranny, oppression, expansionist ambitions and human rights violations...

Garneau still holds healthy lead

By P.A. Sévigny on August 21, 2008

With only three short weeks to go before polling day in the Westmount-Ville Marie by-election, Liberal candidate Marc Garneau seems to have a healthy lead and there’s no reason why he should lose it before election day...

Permis d’espérer

By Pierre K. Malouf on August 21, 2008

Le 29 mars 1999, le GROUPE DE TRAVAIL SUR LA PLACE DE LA RELIGION À L’ÉCOLE formé en 1997 par Pauline Marois et présidé par Jean-Pierre Proulx déposait son rapport devant le ministre François Legault...

Turcot tensions

By Jessica Murphy on August 21, 2008

Forty years ago, Montreal looked to the future. Now, one of the iconic structures of that era—the Turcot Interchange—will be rebuilt, freeing the Turcot Yards for development. The Yards are now one of the largest empty urban spaces in North America. Whatever is built there will have a huge impact on the city...

Ces « poètes » de brousse…

By Louise V. Labrecque on August 21, 2008

Ils parlent tous du contexte… Le contexte dans lequel ils ont grandi, par exemple. « Très jeune, je voulais devenir écrivain », pour reprendre du même souffle : « l’école – c’est-à-dire la société -, ne semblait pas répondre à ce rêve »...

Mark Bruneau—raw

By Dan Delmar on August 21, 2008

It is apparent from the start that Mark Bruneau, who is seeking the Liberal party nomination in the south-west Jeanne-Le Ber riding, is different. And not the kind of “different” that is bandied about by most politicians who want to set themselves apart from so many of their dull and mediocre colleagues. Bruneau, 47, is an eccentric, in-your-face, heavy-set multi-millionaire with razor-sharp wit and, he says, a desire to spend the next quarter-century serving his country. In short, he breaks the mold...

Holding China accountable

By Beryl Wajsman on August 7, 2008

Several weeks ago Nazanin Afshin-Jam, the international human rights campaigner, called me up with an idea. She said that though a boycott rally of the Beijing Olympics was fruitless, she thought it was important to make some kind of demonstration for human rights in China on the eve of the Games’ opening...

The ‘killing’ of Justin St-Aubin

By Jessica Murphy on August 7, 2008

Justin Scott St-Aubin  was 25 when he died of a heart attack in the Rivieres des Prairies detention centre in Nov. 2007. The young Montrealer had been held in isolation for five days, never receiving the emergency psychiatric care recommended by two doctors...

Occulter des absurdités

By Vincent Geloso on August 7, 2008

L’été est normalement une saison politique assez calme. Les députés sont rentrés chez eux, les ministres n’annoncent pas de grand projets et le premier ministre fait quelques petites visites ici et là, mais rien de plus...

Les nonos cocasses

By Pierre K. Malouf on August 7, 2008

Loco Locass a causé un certain émoi au dernier spectacle de la Saint-Jean en interprétant, devant un public en délire, Libérez-nous des libéraux, la toune qui constitue à ce jour son plus grand succès. Les patriotes avinés qui assistèrent à cette performance hurlèrent de joie, mais d’autres ressentirent un certain malaise...

The troubles with Turcot

By Jessica Murphy on August 7, 2008

The provincial government has agreed that it will pick up the tab for the new Turcot Interchange. But it's Montrealers who may end up paying the highest price...

Je suis Canadien-Québécois !

By Michel-Wilbrod Bujold on August 7, 2008

e n'ai jamais éprouvé de malaise identitaire.  Mais je jongle depuis longtemps avec la nature complexe de mon identité.  Mes ancêtres viennent de France. Une fois parvenus ici, ils ont voulu former une société distincte : ils étaient fiers de s'appeler les Canadiens...

Omar Khadr and the straining of Canadian virtue

By David T. Jones on August 7, 2008

So Omar Khadr cried. And he wanted his mommy according to much publicized, recently released interrogation transcripts...

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...

The soft jihad

By Michael Ross on June 26, 2008

I’ve walked into the aftermath of a suicide bombing, a meeting with a terrorist from the Palestinian Islamic Jihad, and a dank cell in Azerbaijan holding the al-Qaeda masterminds of the African Embassy bombings, but it only took an hour in Robson Square Provincial Court  Room 105 in Vancouver to make me realize how fundamentally the nature of Jihad is truly changing and evolving...

Marc Garneau et « la cohesione sociale »

By P.A. Sévigny on June 26, 2008

When Marc Garneau flew in space, he could see the entire country from coast to coast and then some. Years later, now that he’s Stéphane Dion’s Liberal candidate in Westmount-Ville Marie, he’s still gets to cover a lot of territory but this time it’s on the ground as he gets to know the streets of his riding...

Le culte de la différence

By David Simard on June 26, 2008

Attiser les différences entre groupes humains à des fins partisanes est un procédé toujours très rentable politiquement, le recours aux mythologies nationales étant la recette de prédilection des démagogues désireux de justifier leur emprise sur la société...

Avons-nous déjà été Canadiens-français?

By Pierre K. Malouf on June 26, 2008

Interviewant Gérard Bouchard dans les heures qui suivirent la publication du rapport de la Commission sur    les différences culturelles, Dominique Poirier s’étonnait que   les commissaires utilisent à propos des Québécois « de souche » l’expression « d’origine canadienne- française », qui, disait-elle, nous ramène en arrière. M. Bouchard rétorqua qu’au contraire cela faisait avancer le débat, que l’expression  « de souche » devrait être réservée aux Amérindiens...

Time for CCUs to open to the public?

By Daniel Bartlett on June 26, 2008

Little did she know the affect she'd have on the province's tourist trade and economy when she wrote the story so beloved by Canadians and others in so many countries the world over. She couldn't have conceived that her story and its sequels would be turned into movies, award winning television series and a musical that is staged to sold out houses every year in her home province...

Montreal food banks in crisis

By Jessica Murphy on June 26, 2008

May was tough for Montreal food banks. Moisson Montreal, Canada’s largest food bank, saw a 30 per cent drop in donations. Sun Youth, for the first time in its history, has had to launch a summer food drive...

Protecting the whistleblowers

By Duff Conacher on June 26, 2008

ederal Public Sector Integrity Commissioner Christiane Ouimet recently reported that she received only 59 complaints about government wrongdoing from whistleblowers in her first year in office...

Et la liberté dans tout ça ?

By Daniel Laprès on June 12, 2008

Il y a une chose dont on n’aura pas beaucoup entendu parler durant notre interminable psychodrame sur les accommodements religieux.  Cette chose-là, c’est la liberté.  En effet, peu de gens dans les médias ni parmi les bien-pensants de tout poil, et encore moins chez les politiciens, auront relevé le fait que c’est toujours la liberté, ce socle sur lequel repose la démocratie libérale, qui est la première à être remise en cause lorsque les adeptes des sectes religieuses s’efforcent d’imposer leurs coutumes superstitieuses à la société...

Where will it STOP?

By Isaak Olson on June 12, 2008

Tobacco products vanished from shelves June 1 as store owners across Quebec struggled to meet the demands of a new law that requires all smoke-related merchandise be kept from public view...

Un débat trop large

By Vincent Geloso on June 12, 2008

En 2006, Mario Dumont commençait à dénoncer les accommodements raisonnables. Plusieurs étaient au début ravis de constater qu’un homme politique osait dénoncer les concessions inacceptables faites à des groupes religieux au sein des institutions publiques. Néanmoins, on a vite réalisé qu’une boîte de pandore venait d’être ouverte...


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