Multilingual Reality

Multilingual Reality

What We Choose To Remember I remember vividly the first time I became an honorary francophone. It was at a New Year’s Eve party where I made a friend who shared my taste in music. Late in the evening she turne...
Disraeli Revisited

Disraeli Revisited – until February 19, 2023

Disraeli Revisited – Chronicle of an Event in Quebec Photography A Look Back on the 50th Anniversary of a Pivotal Chapter in Quebec Photographic History Until February 19, 2023, the McCord Stewart Museum prese...

A red and orange island in a blue, blue sea

What We Choose To Remember When I accepted Peter Kerr’s offer to write this column I saw it as an opportunity to engage in a conversation with Montrealers about why we choose to live here. Most of the Anglos a...
CP Holiday Train

CP Holiday Train 2022

CP Holiday Train returns to the rails in support of community food banks after two-year hiatus ​The Canadian Pacific (CP) Holiday Train will return to the rails this season on its first cross-continent tour in ...
La beauté du monde

La beauté du monde – November 19-27, 2022

Opéra de Montréal presents La beauté du monde To whom does art belong? After a successful premiere of the deeply moving opera Les Feluettes in 2016, Quebec playwright Michel Marc Bouchard is back at the Opéra ...
Montreal

The city of my dreams

My View of Our Montreal The Montreal Canadiens’ new captain, Nick Suzuki, recently explained that he had few opportunities to improve his French since he arrived in the city because «we seldom need to use it» i...
From Disaster Relief to Community Transformation

From Disaster Relief to Community Transformation

Think Philanthropically What happens when we try to do the right thing the wrong way? Often we do not achieve the result we are aiming for.  This is a very common philanthropic problem. Community-based non-prof...