Super Anglo – mythical character still making language waves Guy Rex Rodgers August 11, 2023 1674 What We Choose To Remember Quebec’s summer festivals, street fairs and block parties create opportunities to speak with casual acquaintances and total strangers. A number of Francophones have asked me how Angl...
Dommage – nothing ‘Beau’ about Bill 96 Guy Rex Rodgers July 5, 2023 1878 What We Choose To Remember When I arrived in Quebec I was an undesirable immigrant, at least by the standards of Francois Legault’s CAQ government. I could not speak French and my mother tongue made me un maud...
François Legault’s Québec Guy Rex Rodgers June 6, 2023 1589 What We Choose To Remember Last October the Coalition Avenir Québec won a landslide electoral victory, crushing the Parti Québécois and the provincial Liberals. At the CAQ convention in May Premier Legault rec...
Maudite McGill – renewed criticism about funding for English-language universities Guy Rex Rodgers May 14, 2023 9231 What We Choose To Remember There is renewed grumbling in Quebec about English-language universities have ‘too much money’ and an unfair advantage over French-language universities In the wake of Bill 96, we ar...
Paved With Bad Intentions Guy Rex Rodgers April 11, 2023 1848 What We Choose To Remember Quebec is proud of its culture. The homegrown French-language star-system has made an asset of being a small linguistic island surrounded by an Anglo ocean. However culture in langua...
Compare François Legault to René Lévesque Guy Rex Rodgers March 23, 2023 1414 What We Choose To Remember Is Quebec on the verge of becoming Louisiana north? Is the English-language a threat to Quebec? Are people who speak English a problem? Are recent immigrants more of a problem than ‘...
Not Black and White Guy Rex Rodgers February 16, 2023 928 What We Choose To Remember Prior to living in Quebec I was not conscious of systemic discrimination. At high school there were jocks, motor-heads, hipsters and book-worms who formed distinct tribes but we eac...
Multilingual Reality Guy Rex Rodgers January 14, 2023 1223 What We Choose To Remember I remember vividly the first time I became an honorary francophone. It was at a New Year’s Eve party where I made a friend who shared my taste in music. Late in the evening she turne...
A debt of gratitude to architect Blanche van Ginkel Guy Rex Rodgers December 20, 2022 1606 What We Choose to Remember How many Montrealers had heard of Blanche Lemco van Ginkel before the flurry of memorials published after her death in October? It is not surprising we should forget a woman who live...
A red and orange island in a blue, blue sea Guy Rex Rodgers November 25, 2022 1594 What We Choose To Remember When I accepted Peter Kerr’s offer to write this column I saw it as an opportunity to engage in a conversation with Montrealers about why we choose to live here. Most of the Anglos a...
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