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 →
There is a pall over the economy. There is a pall over politics. But even when everything seems to be seen through a glass darkly, a splash of bright colour ...Read more →
This week is the 48th anniversary of one of the world’s great murder mysteries, the assassination of the greatest of all Irish Americans, John Fitzgerald Kennedy. JFK was killed for ...Read more →
A taste of the violence to come against the Occupy Wall Street movement unfolded last summer at the G20. In Toronto, militarized riot police attacked and arrested more than 1,000 ...Read more →
Open a new calendar. A brand new year full of possibility. This year, skip the kittens and landscapes. The present is built on the past. And so let me introduce ...Read more →
One day we were coming home from Jeanne-Mance park. We rounded the corner of the lane behind our house and saw a thin, dark-haired guy with his sleeve rolled up. ...Read more →
Do objects give off vibrations, tell stories of the people connected to them? Go to the Montreal Holocaust museum and ask for a viewing of the small jacket worn by ...Read more →
The Occupy Wall Street action has come to Victoria Square and the towers of the Montreal stock exchange. The peaceful hum coming off the Montreal occupation is in dramatic contrast ...Read more →
Thanksgiving is the best holiday of year. The weather is cool and sunny, it often follows on the Jewish high holidays and it is really a celebration of the harvest. ...Read more →
Kevin Tierney has done it again. The guy who brought you Bon Cop, Bad Cop has bravely gone where no Quebec filmmaker has gone before – into the zone where ...Read more →
Piknic Électronik will be celebrating its 10th season this summer, with 20 events featuring over 100 acts from May 20 to September 30. From the press release: “Those who remember [...]
