City Mice and Country Mice Guy Rex Rodgers February 10, 2024 1155 What We Choose To Remember Bloc-Québécois leader Yves-François Blanchet provoked a viral reaction last month with his interview for La Presse Canadienne about Montreal and the ROQ (rest of Quebec). Blanchet l...
Time to realign Guy Rex Rodgers January 13, 2024 1415 What We Choose to Remember Every nation has its foundational myths. For Quebec, Nouvelle France was conquered by English-speaking foreigners who have been a plague ever since. Most Anglos I know have encounter...
Real Quebecers may yet have the last word Guy Rex Rodgers November 12, 2023 1564 What We Choose To Remember Last month I moderated a panel on the Impact of Bill 96 for the Quebec Writers’ Federation. The mood was glum. We do not have to look very far in the world to see deeply divided popu...
London Calling: Help, we’re being invaded! Guy Rex Rodgers October 18, 2023 1455 What We Choose To Remember I was surprised last month by a documentary film – A London Lost: The Death of an English City – which made the remarkable claim that London is no longer English because it has been ...
Francos, Anglos and Allos have different memories Guy Rex Rodgers September 16, 2023 4007 What We Choose To Remember I am releasing the subtitled version of my documentary film this month. What We Choose To Remember will become Ce qu’on choisit de se souvenir. Anglophones, Allophones and Francopho...
Super Anglo – mythical character still making language waves Guy Rex Rodgers August 11, 2023 1980 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 2376 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 1947 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 9697 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 2206 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...
