We The People Guy Rex Rodgers March 17, 2025 175 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 Peter Kerr March 12, 2025 372 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 Guy Rex Rodgers February 22, 2025 284 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 Guy Rex Rodgers December 7, 2024 992 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...
Learning (Or Not) From History Guy Rex Rodgers November 13, 2024 890 What We Choose To Remember The 1960s were stormy years in Quebec. One of the most consequential battles of the era exploded in Saint-Léonard. A new film by Félix Rose makes the case that La Bataille de Saint-L...
Anthony Housefather – giving back through public service Peter Kerr November 4, 2024 1497 Anthony Housefather is a principled person in his public and private life. He has recently been lauded by many suburban mayors for his leadership in defending minority language rights and his opposition to Bill...
Courageous, Cowardly or Just More Confusion? Guy Rex Rodgers October 15, 2024 970 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 ...
Celebrating 30 Years of making The Montrealer! Peter Kerr October 9, 2024 1799 Well – look at us now! It’s an important achievement to have been in business for 30+ years. I’m going to give you a short history of the publishing experience that preceded The Montrealer, and then fast-forwar...
Disturbing Language: Young English-speakers are concerned about language and have serious questions about their future in Quebec Guy Rex Rodgers September 15, 2024 1437 What We Choose To Remember In August I had the pleasure of being invited to Bishop’s University to show my documentary film What We Choose To Remember. The annual Bishop’s Forum offers young leaders (18-26) an...
Remembering the International City of Jazz Guy Rex Rodgers August 16, 2024 1162 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...
