The land where we live today
In recent years, we have been increasingly concerned collectively about the origin and quality of the food we consume. But do we care as much about those who produce all this food and the territories that are exploited to feed us?
This new documentary series hosted by the journalist (and editor-in-chief of the newspaper The right) Marie-Claude Lortie forces viewers to reflect on certain aspects of the current agricultural world in Quebec, which is undergoing profound changes, and not always for the better, for both producers and consumers.
Each of the six episodes looks at a reality of agriculture today, by highlighting the elements that pose a problem through concrete examples, but also and above all by highlighting solutions proposed by experts in the field. or already set up by farmers, but also other actors in rural areas. Thus, in the first episode, which focuses on the problems caused by monoculture, the host, along with agronomist Louis Robert, identifies the damage that heavy machinery, pesticides and fertilizers cause to our land, while that farmers who have turned to organic crops and less traditional methods of operation show how they manage to limit the damage.
Throughout the series, we will discuss the protection of agricultural land, the lack of succession, the future of agricultural cooperatives and the advantages and disadvantages of the union monopoly of the UPA.
You don’t need to be passionate about the subject to find your account in this inventory of Quebec agriculture, well popularized, supported by a host of relevant testimonials and clear explanations. You just have to worry a little about what ends up on your plate, and its social and economic cost, beyond the price paid at the grocery store, at the market or with your favorite farmer.
Cross-country
Savoir media, Thursdays, 9 p.m. and to savoir.media
Exit Chinatown
There was a time when the “Chinese buffets” numbered in the hundreds in Quebec, a legacy of an important transformation in the catering offer offered by the Chinese community of Montreal in the second half of the 20th century.e century. This documentary by Montreal author and director Day’s Lee goes back to the roots of these restaurants with the scent of chow mein and others egg rolls of our memories, to tell the story of the establishment that his father opened on Avenue du Parc, in 1951, outside Chinatown, Lee’s Garden of the title, but also those of other notable establishments of the metropolis that have “democratized” Chinese cuisine, such as Ruby Foo’s and Bill Wong.
This nostalgic journey through time is also an opportunity for the descendants of these pioneers who worked tirelessly to provide a better future for their children (including journalist Jan Wong), to reveal lesser-known parts of the history of Chinese community in Montreal, and more curiously to highlight the special links that have long united the Jewish and Chinese communities of the city.
Memories of Lee’s Garden
ICI RDI, Friday, November 5, 9 p.m.
Scoundrels of a golden era
It is sometimes forgotten, but 45 years ago, New York was a city on the brink, under trusteeship to avoid bankruptcy, in the grip of incredible violence and destruction of its central districts. At the turn of the 1980s, some seized the opportunity offered by its fields of ruins to build colossal fortunes or an enviable reputation, or both, but without bothering to respect the rules or the morals.
This documentary series produced by the American financial news channel CNBC paints the portrait of five of these personalities who participated in their own way in the rebirth of the Big Apple in the 1980s, by caring above all about their own rise… The six episodes , built on a timeline of this “golden” decade of New York, recounts the blows, the cheap blows, the successes and the setbacks of real estate mogul Donald Trump, his equally flamboyant colleague Leona Helmsley, the prosecutor and future New York mayor Rudy Giuliani, stock broker Ivan Boesky (who inspired the central character of the film Wall Street) and mobster John Gotti. Candy, with the taste of gall, like that.
New York Empires
Tou.tv Extra, from Monday