By Alison@Creekside I do hope someone is securing the rights to make a Made In Canada thriller about Stephen Harper’s spy watchdog and his various business associates. I’m referring of course to the Honorable Dr. Arthur Porter, “His Excellency, Ambassador Plenipotentiary, Republic of Sierra Leone” and also “Member, Queen’s Privy Council for Canada” for life. Really, this […]
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Not in my Quebec. Not in my Montreal.
By Montreal Simon For a Montrealer like me, who lives and plays happily in both solitudes, and is always trying to bring Quebecers and Canadians together, it was the ultimate nightmare. An old Anglo, in a balaclava . . . and a bathrobe . . . screaming “The English are rising up!!! There’s going to […]
Relax Canada, it’s just democracy
By Montreal Simon On a sunny afternoon, in my favourite Montreal neighbourhood, both the Quebec election and the hysterical reaction in English Canada, seemed very far away. Which was a good thing eh? Because following the election campaign from Toronto and a beach in Maine has been very exhausting. And the reaction in English Canada […]
Teacher fired for showing class grisly video
A BoB short: A high school teacher at Montreal’s Cavelier-de LaSalle High School has been fired for showing the video “1 Lunatic, 1 Ice Pick” to his grade 10 history class. The grisly video, which is available online, is believed to show alleged killer Luka Rocco Magnotta butchering Concordia University student Jun Lin. Students report that […]
More civil liberties at the Grand Prix
By Marilyne Veilleix This Sunday, June 10, 2012, I attempted to take part in a protest-action: over the course of a few hours, I would take the metro back and forth from Berri to Jean-Drapeau station to peacefully protest my disagreement with the Formula 1 Grand Prix, which in my opinion promotes sexism. Dressed in […]
Twitter tale: Civil liberties at the Grand Prix
Wearing a red square was enough to get you turned away from the site of the Montreal Grand Prix on Sunday, and perhaps forced back into a nearby Metro station. Police also conducted random searches on subway platforms, and some riders were not even allowed to exit the trains. One who managed to do so […]
Jean Charest’s Grand Prix panic
By Montreal Simon Oh no. Somebody please stop him. It looks as if Jean Charest has finally, as we say in Québec, perdu ses pédales, or lost his pedals. He’s so eager to discredit the students, so he can run against them in a snap election, he’s accusing them of plotting to sabotage the Montreal […]
Occupy, the Quebec strike, and Canada’s tilt left
By Montreal Simon On my way home today I visited the park where Occupy Toronto once lived. And I could hardly recognize the place. The old gazebo where so many passionate speeches were made, and so many dreamed of a better world, was quiet now. And where there were once tents huddled together in the […]
Quebec: No longer just a student protest
By Montreal Simon There was another amazing freedom party in Montreal on Saturday night. Thousands and thousands of people marched peacefully through the streets, beating pots and pans. Defying the police to arrest them for taking part in an illegal demonstration. And what struck me the most, apart from the incredible energy, was the diversity of […]
Quebec strike: Je désobéis
By Montreal Simon It’s just after 8pm in Montreal, and the reporter from CUTV is talking to a young mother who is taking her two kids to the 28th nightly demonstration in a row. Even though she knows she could be arrested, for defying the Charest government’s totalitarian Bill 78, like so many were the […]
