Remembering the International City of Jazz Guy Rex Rodgers August 16, 2024 239 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 Guy Rex Rodgers July 16, 2024 1277 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 Guy Rex Rodgers June 23, 2024 814 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 Guy Rex Rodgers May 22, 2024 545 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 Guy Rex Rodgers March 16, 2024 900 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...
City Mice and Country Mice Guy Rex Rodgers February 10, 2024 871 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 985 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...
Fight, flight or foresight Guy Rex Rodgers December 14, 2023 1018 What We Choose To Remember We are living in times of division, frustration, resentment and hostility. Friendships can be damaged by a misplaced word, destroyed by a misinterpreted comment. The automatic physio...
Real Quebecers may yet have the last word Guy Rex Rodgers November 12, 2023 1169 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 1067 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 ...
