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 as seen in this scene from Fritz Lang’s dystopian 1927 film Metropolis.

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...
La Bataille de Saint-Léonard

Learning (Or Not) From History

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...
Bonjour-Hi in the era of Bill 96

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 ...
Celebrating 30 Years of making The Montrealer!

Celebrating 30 Years of making The Montrealer!

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...
Guy Rex Rodgers (left) with Jazz Festival co-founder Alain Simard

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...
Raft of the Medusa

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

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...