We have seen this scenario before, and to my dismay, we are seeing the same reactions from international “leaders”. From promises of a merciless response to commitments to annihilate the enemy. [Respectively, Francois Hollande and Manuel Valls.] But we need to stop dealing in this currency of violence. We need international leadership that gets us…
[Originally published in The Montreal Gazette, January 21st, 2014] Oh no. A new Rob Ford video is out. Can we please talk about real things? Like the Quebec public servants wearing Chadors? … oh, there are actually zero cases of that. Ok then, about the waves of invasion from Islamostanabia? … hm, non-existent too. Then…
[An edited version of this text was published in the Montreal Gazette, July 25th, 2012] I almost allowed myself to forget. The article by Jack Layton’s daughter Sarah takes us back to last summer, a paradoxical time of optimism, sadness and melancholy. Between his election success on May 2nd and his passing on August 22nd,…
Marois’ and Drainville’s Parti Québecois – a party that is a far cry in gravitas and substance from the PQ of yore — struck a win-win for themselves with this Charter proposal. Win-win because when – not if – it is struck down by the Supreme Court of Canada, it’s more ammunition to claim that…
[An edited version of this text also appeared in the Montreal Gazette] I have an ask of my fellow progressives: get behind David Cameron. At the end of the debate and vote in the British parliament tonight (which expressed opposition to the government’s desire to intervene militarily in Syria), Prime Minister David Cameron said the following:
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