We The People
What We Choose To Remember
Democracy was built on the idea that ‘we the people’ can stand together to defend ourselves from tyrants and adversity.
‘We the people’ is an empowering concept, unless your people ar...
David Heurtel – attorney, marketing executive with Just For Laughs and evenko, MNA and Liberal Cabinet Minister, political commentator and radio host
Many of our readers know David Heurtel as a political commentator on CTV television, CJAD radio, and Radio Canada radio and television. His knowledge and political connections stem in part from his experience a...
The Enemy Who Mistook Himself For A Friend
What We Choose To Remember
There are days when I struggle to make sense of the world around me – and the people in it. On those days, the human race appears hell-bent on destroying everything we have built tog...
Cold Blooded Social Engineering
What We Choose to Remember
In 1961, Stanley Milgram conducted a social psychology experimented at Yale University that could only have been justified as an attempt to understand the horrors of the Second World...
Courageous, Cowardly or Just More Confusion?
What We Choose To Remember
Let’s start with courage. Full marks to citizens who raised their voices against this summer’s bizarre 31-page health ‘directive’ that made it sound like it was necessary to hire a ...
Remembering the International City of Jazz
What We Choose To Remember
What Montrealer has not enjoyed a summer’s day at the Montreal International Jazz Festival? Over the years, we came to take for granted the throngs of people of all ages and backgrou...
The Wreck of French, the Triumph of English
After a lifetime of studying languages in a global context, French-born linguist Lionel Meney concludes that the battle between French and English is over in his 250 page book
This provocative title is borrowed...
The Lionel Groulx School of History
What We Choose To Remember
Lionel Groulx – priest, historian, public intellectual and nationalist – understood the power of history to shape a national identity and make youth proud of their nation. Other coun...
Tell Me Your Story
What We Choose To Remember
Tell me your story and I’ll predict your future. If I know what you believe, I can predict what you will achieve.
The main reason I chose to spend my adult life in Quebec was its i...
The Rails of Reality
When the train runs off the rails of reality, you’re in for a wild and bumpy ride. Quebec is increasingly a land where fears and fantasies chart the course.
Back in the 70s, Quebec’s language and culture we...
