Just came across a fascinating adventure that will retrace (more or less) humankind’s trek out of Africa and around the world. Writer Paul Salopek is calling it “Out of Eden:”…
An interesting development in the film forum NPD Ourtremont is organizing for next Monday, February 4: Widia Larivière of Femmes Autochtone du Québec and Idle No More will be on…
The Canadian Labour Congress has just published its report on corporate tax hoarding. The conclusion? Some $75 billion in the bank, but darn few jobs created. Here’s what the report…
Interesting constellation of events: a consulting engineer reports that he personally offered illegal cash to city officials not only in Montreal but several other municipalities, and a huge water pipe…
Back to work on the non-fiction book, slowly working toward a way of saying what it is about. Now I’m becoming increasingly convinced I have to go to Brazil, and…
For the NDP wine and cheese on Thursday we used bowls of clementines for table decorations. They looked quite nice, and had the advantage of being both cheaper than flowers,…
The aluminum multinational Rio Tinto Alcan made $74 million selling electricity to Hydro Québec during a recent lockout of its workers, Le Devoir reports. Under a very secret contract reached…
It’s going to be cold on the top of Mount Royal tonight, but inside Smith House things will be marvelously warm. NDP Outrremont is holding a wine and cheese beginning…
The Lion d’or, one of Montreal’s greatest halls, will be the scene this evening of a rally in support of the CBC. Canada has been defined by its public broadcaster…
Holly made it home to start the new year well, even though she’d run away when her owners were visiting in their RV 200 miles away. The New York Times…
Here’s a picture of Barack Obama in 2008 and one of him in 2013. Being president may be a “bully pulpit, ” as Teddy Roosevelt said, but it also is…
This is a photo lifted from the publicity stills for the film Kamousaska. The wind feels like this today, only the pictures I took were the pits.
Okay, guys, compared to Winnipeg it’s not all that cold this morning (-23 C on the back porch or about -5 F) but tomorrow they’re actually predicting temps near the…
Because I can’t resist it, here’s Monty Python and the famous cheese shop skit. For those of you considering going to the NPD Outremont’s wine and cheese tasting with Tom…
Yuli Turovsky, a Russian-born cellist, who adopted Montreal as his home, has died at 73. He was one of the generation of classical musicians who left the Soviet Union as…
Where would we be with out the National Film Board? For decades it has been making excellent films about Canada and Canadians. As it happens a film released last year,…
The snow has melted quite a bit these past few days, leaving banks of gray snow everywhere. This is the down side of winter weather. It makes me want to…
The temperature has risen, but before the snow is reduced to piles of grayness, here’s picture taken when our holiday snow began.
One of the things that is good about January is not thinking about January. We’re having a little thaw right now which means that the snow–still deep–is a little mangey.…
To celebrate the wonderful momentum of the NDP and to get ready for the battles to come, the NDP Outremont riding association invites you to an evening of wine and…
