It was without an audience in the studio that Guy A. Lepage reconnected with the faithful of Everybody talks about it for this live premiere of 2022 on ICI Télé. With the visit of the Premier of Quebec, François Legault, but also of Chantal Machabée, whose appointment as vice-president of communications for the Montreal Canadiens was unanimous.
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Asked about the identity of the future general manager of the team, she affirmed that the choice will be made “in the coming days”. “We don’t want to be wrong, we want to make the right choice,” she said, confirming that there are indeed three candidates still in the running, without however naming them.
“I learn everything on the job because I still have a lot of sports journalist reflexes,” says Chantal Machabée, who took almost five weeks before saying yes to the proposal. “My heart and my soul were at RDS, I had been there for 32 years. […] It’s my whole life! »
Joined in Glendale, Arizona, where she accompanies the team, the new vice-president of communications has already set to work. About the players who rarely attend TV shows, she wants to “change mentalities” and make sure that the public sees them more off the ice.
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Chantal Machabee
To Serge Savard, who claims that the vice-president of hockey, Jeff Gorton, will also lead the boat as general manager, she says she does not believe it, adding that Mr. Gorton wants to work in the shadows.
Prime Minister François Legault, whose last visit to this set dates back to 2018, did not make a big announcement on Sunday evening, after all little hounded by the host and the king’s jester Alexandre Barrette. Once again, he wanted to challenge the unvaccinated, who constitute half of the patients in intensive care. He claims that these 600,000 adults should be contacted “one by one” to ensure that they are well informed about the vaccine, otherwise they will be imposed a “health contribution”.
He announces for the beginning of February the filing of the bill aimed at implementing this new measure for people who refuse to be vaccinated without valid reason.
I think it’s normal for them to pay a contribution and I think Quebeckers are okay with that.
François Legault, Premier of Quebec
It is because the government has curbed the increase in COVID-19 cases that the curfew has been lifted and schools have reopened. Mr. Legault is wary of comparisons with the rest of Canada and other countries in the world. “So far, if we look at 2021, there are fewer deaths in Quebec per million inhabitants than in the rest of Canada and the United States. That’s because we have tougher measures in Quebec than elsewhere. »
Michel Charette repeated seven or eight times the famous opening scene of the first episode of Happiness, which has gone viral, where the teacher burnout he embodies throws a memorable crisis. “It did a collective good for everyone,” says the actor.
“Happiness is a way of seeing life and there are those who don’t have the right glasses”, admits the author of the TVA comedy, François Avard, who always sees the glass half empty and who has himself even lived a burnout about ten years ago.
About the end of District 31, Michel Charette affirms that he and his colleagues all reacted very well, understanding the intention of the author Luc Dionne not to want to do the year too much. “That’s the role of my career so far. I went to play in areas where I had not gone to play, ”says the actor, adding that a number of police officers recognize themselves in the character of Bruno Gagné, in particular for his episodes of psychological distress.
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Daniel Lamarre
Very interesting meeting with the executive vice-president of Cirque du Soleil, Daniel Lamarre, who is told in the book The balancing act. When he talks about his passion for this institution, we can only believe him, he who is nevertheless preparing his exit gently, scheduled in two years.
About the parties olé olé by Guy Laliberté in Saint-Bruno-de-Montarville, he recalls that it was there that he met George Harrison, which was to lead to the creation of the show Love of the Beatles. “Needless to say, it was a good investment, party-the ! “says Mr. Lamarre.
“It took Cirque to another level. Suddenly our brand was known worldwide,” he says of Love. The event will even have brought Paul McCartney and Yoko Ono closer, the time for an exchange of kisses.
The leader of the Parti Québécois, Paul St-Pierre Plamondon, took advantage of his presence on this stage to announce that he would be running next fall in the riding of Bourget, with the aim of taking over from the CAQ this riding formerly occupied by Camille Lauren.
While the Prime Minister had just affirmed that he met the leaders of the opposition parties every week, Mr. St-Pierre Plamondon said he was excluded from the decision-making process and accused the government of lacking transparency.
Incidentally accusing the Liberal Party and Québec solidaire of being “anti-nationalist”, he smiled when he heard Guy A. explain that ministers Danielle McCann and Marguerite Blais and the Dr Horacio Arruda do not agree on when they were made aware of the worrying situation of CHSLDs, at the start of the pandemic. “It tells us that there are people who do not tell the truth,” says the leader of the PQ.
Starting in the spring or whenever possible, Virginie Fortin will present her second show on tour, entitled My feelings, whose solo texts she signs. “It’s about nostalgia, but it’s also about alternate reality and Gino Chouinard,” says the comedian, who likes to play with the absurd.
This improv pro, who had to postpone her interview because she contracted COVID-19 in December, will take the seat occupied by Alexandre Barrette next week.
Gentleman, Guy A. Lepage expressed his solidarity with the team of Star Academy in the competition at TVA, which had to postpone its premiere for a week due to cases of COVID-19 among the candidates.