Pink Floyd / The Wall
1 CD of Pink Floyd / The Wall.
Public-interest broadcasting
Don’t get me started about the CBC. I don’t like what they have done to much of English television, especially crude right-wing programs like Dragons’ Den. Let the privates do ...Read more →
Daycare for the people
Our local day care centre is the warm, beating heart of the neighbourhood. It is right in the middle of the block, trees shading its yard. Built of warm red ...Read more →
Margaret
In The Iron Lady, we were hungering for a great political film. We did not get it. Instead, Meryl Strep as Margaret Thatcher, which is almost worth the price of ...Read more →
What’s opera, doc?
I went to the opera on Saturday night. It was a completely enjoyable evening and not just because half bottles of bubbly are available at the intermission. It was the ...Read more →
The Proust Questionnaire
Bookstores are full of self-help books. There are a lot of parlour games to be played, which you can often buy at the same stores you find the self-help books. ...Read more →
Torching the planet
At sunset the lone fisherman makes his toss. It’s a small circular net, weighted so it sinks, trapping the catch. It is a timeless gesture that goes back millennia. I ...Read more →
Mr. Potter and the great vampire squid
If you haven’t seen it yet, there is still time. It’s a Wonderful Life. The film with Jimmy Stewart and Donna Reed. It first came out in black and white ...Read more →
Some people and movements of note in 2011
Time Magazine’s person of the year was an unnamed protester. Not for nothing. We are living in a funny time. There are few leaders that inspire. It is an interregnum ...Read more →
Find the anglo
‘Tis the season to whack an anglo. Here is how a stereotype works: Seize on the evidence that confirms your preconceived notion. When you meet bilingual anglo Quebecers, don’t pay ...Read more →
The Rhodes scholars-elect
The evil that men do lives after them, The good is often interred with the bones. -Shakespeare Luckily this is not the case with Cecil Rhodes. Rhodes was just about ...Read more →
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Reply from J. Serge Sasseville to Anne Lagacé Dowson re: Quebecor Media
In a recent column (“Public-Interest broadcasting”), Anne Lagacé Dowson cast aspersions on Quebecor Media for what she calls its “attacks” on CBC/Radio-Canada. Unfortunately, to do so, Ms. Lagacé Dowson chose [...]
Film Anne Lagacé Dowson and Franco Nuovo, spokespersons of the 30th International Festival of Films on Art (FIFA)
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