GeneralA Monocle on MontrealI let my subscription to Monocle magazine lapse this month -- I don’t need anyone telling me I need a poncy $1200 pedal bike with...
GeneralParty like it’s 1608!Quebec City celebrates its 400th birthday this year. So to bring the festivities home to the rest of Canada, here’s a day in the...
GeneralKicked while down, insulted while injured dep’tMaxime Bernier (not exactly as shown) Poor, poor Max. It’s bad enough that his comeback special yesterday had all the class of an...
GeneralMon cher ami...Happy St Jean, tout le monde. Remember: three glasses of water, three Advil and a banana before bed and you’ll be all set for work...
GeneralMaudit Racistes, in both official languagesQuebecers as comedy fodder. Image courtesy cbc.ca The other day, Journal de Montréal columnist and grande gueule par excellence...
UncategorizedMagic 17%Stéphane Dion’s popularity is soaring in Quebec !!!! Here I use "soaring" in its Globe and Mail election-time headline...
GeneralWinning the hearts and minds with incompetenceI was watching Andrew on At Issue last night when something Peter Mansbridge said struck me. I’m paraphrasing, but Mansbridge...
GeneralDeath by global warming: Quebecers at riskGlobal warming doesn’t just put polar bears at risk. Researchers at Quebec City’s Université Laval predict that, by the year...
GeneralPure laine, now and forever?As promised, I’ve got something on the Bouchard-Taylor report here . I thought I’d also point to Michel C. Auger’s post about the...
GeneralCrisis? What crisis? (Oh, that crisis.)"I don’t know many societies in the world where we could have had this type of exercise on such explosive subjects in such a...