A door just opened on a street I, lost, was passing by An instant’s width of warmth disclosed And wealth, and company -Emily Dickinson The Y – especially the Women’s ...Read more →
Once upon a time Montreal was the economic powerhouse of Canada. Centred around the Ritz and Le Château apartments, there was more wealth concentrated in one square mile of Montreal ...Read more →
Let me introduce the Tolerance Foundation. On the fourth floor of an innocuous building on René-Lévesque, a quiet revolution against intolerance is getting its final touches. The office is buzzing ...Read more →
"Get a bicycle. You will not regret it. If you live." That was Mark Twain casting a cool eye on the bike nation of his day. I own a bike. ...Read more →
The party that once had trouble organizing coffee and doughnuts suddenly orchestrated the greatest political funeral in the country’s history. (The joke going around the hall: Who knew so many ...Read more →
Candlelight vigils for dead celebrities have become common. But vigils for politicians who die before their time are rare. And yet there we were, gathered around the monument to George-Étienne ...Read more →
We called him Tommy, like we call Jack Layton Jack. He was the father of medicare in Canada. As premier of Saskatchewan, his Crown corporations made piles of cash. As ...Read more →
If the stock market were not giving the national media new red meat to gorge on, they would still be crunching the bones of NDP interim leader Nycole Turmel. It ...Read more →
There is a bitter standing joke to cover up the meanness and duplicity that swirls around so much of the underside of Canadian politics. "If you want a friend in ...Read more →
The film Word Is Out: Stories of Some of Our Lives was a radical statement when it hit the screens in 1978. It was made by the Mariposa Film Group, ...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 [...]
