Last week I posted about the the informal end-of the-day reception coming up on Thursday and organized by the NPD Association of Outremont. on “Working in Canada Today: A Real…
The New York Times had an interesting article yesterday by Evgeny Morozov about what he thinks is a missed opportunity in the Internet Age: the way it allowed us to…
There is something to be said for the trees and gardens of post-World War II suburbs. On a winter afternoon the setting is peaceful. This was taken in Don Mills,…
If I seem to be spending too much time on this Canadian and Quebec blog talking about the US, it’s because I’m afraid that Stephen Harper and his friends slowly…
Come and discuss the economy and jobs at an informal end-of the-day reception, organized by the NPD Associaion of Ouotremont. Thursday, The topic of conversation will be “Working in Canada…
This is something for all those North Americans who find it strange to see “pain” rhyme with “again” in some English poetry. Language is a living thing, and, strangely, I…
Have I mentioned recently how I hate to shop? Probably not, because I avoid thinking about it as much as I can. (Food, garden and book shopping, being the exceptions.)…
It’s always a bit indelicate for somebody of my age to start complaining about changes in the old age security system since I’m hardly a disinterested party. But Stephen Harper’s…
The picture was actually taken toward the end of last winter, when a sunny Saturday attracted many to the slopes of Mount Royal, just up from Park Avenue. This year…
If discussed Lawrence Hill’s The Book of Negroes with six book clubs now, and one thing that cmes up every time is the astonishment tht marriage between people of African…
Artist Isabelle Hayeur says: “I’ve been exploring landscape issues ever since I started working with video. Through the moving image I am investigating environmental, urban planning and social concerns that…
Thomas Friedman in today‘s New York Times points out that the unemployment rates in the US correlated inversely with education: Americans with “less than a high school degree, 13.8 percent;…
From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs: them’s radical words, of course. But I always thought they were just, right, and what we need to…
Le Devoir has an interesting story this morning about the way that the methane escaping from those big dams behind hydroelectric plants in Quebec have not been figured into the…
We’re eating Portoguese this evening, and my thoughts are wandering back to Lisbon. It’s been three years since I visited that lovely city, but the images remain fresh. Here are…
Just before we were all interrupted in our getting and spending by the financial crisis of 2008, plans were rolling ahead to redevelop one of the oldest neighborhoods in Montreal,…
As I burrow deeper in River Music, I begin to wonder if it’s worth anything at all. That’s why coming across Garth Risk Hallberg’s essay/review in the Sunday New York…
There are no library book discussions in January–it is January, after all, and there is no telling what weather will befall us in this climate–so in addition to reading Christmas…
What is appropriate dress is as much a matter of fashion and wanting to please as it is of following strictures laid down by authority. Interesting question for my female…
