How is the exit from the COVID-19 crisis affecting finances? The test Inflationfrom our colleague, the economic journalist Gerard Berubeanswers the question (Somme tout, September 20) by launching the partnership between The duty and Éditions Somme tout. In this partnership, What remains of #Me too ? (Somme tout, October 12), another colleague, the investigative journalist Ameli Pinedadraws up the synthesis of the “tremors” in Quebec of a planetary movement which, she recalls, “has transformed our society”.
Until more thirsty (Fides 11 October),Yvan Clicheenergy specialist at the Center for International Studies and Research of the University of Montreal, also addresses current issues: Oil-gas-solar-wind power: energy issues and conflicts.
To thwart global warming, renewable energies, for example wind and solar, are becoming essential. We cannot continue to act “until we are no longer thirsty”, that is to say until the total exhaustion of resources. A change of mind is needed.
Mayors, formerly often perceived as symbols of conservatism, even narrow-mindedness, bear witness to a new lease of life, such as the current mayor of Laval, the astonishing Stephane Boyerauthor of the book Car-free neighborhoods (All in all, September 13). The subtitle From audacity to reality is provocative, and the preface signed by the new mayor of Quebec, Bruno Marchand, is out of the ordinary.
This change in mentality is no stranger to the indigenous renaissance expressed in the militant autobiography Ninanimishken, I walk against the wind (Flammarion Québec, September 22), by the Innu musician Florent Vollant, a fervent environmentalist. The book has benefited from the collaboration of Justin Kingsley. It includes a preface by the artist Richard Séguin.
On the occasion of the 60e anniversary of the Boréal Express, whose origin is linked to the influence of the history of Quebec, we are republishing a founding book of Maurice Seguin (1918-1984), one of the representatives of the historic school that revolutionized the teaching of human sciences at the University of Montreal.
The classic is called The idea of independence in Quebec (Boreal, September 13). Accompanied by the subtitle Genesis and history, it is the transcription of a lecture that Séguin had given at the beginning of 1962 on Radio-Canada television.
The book reflects the outspokenness and innovative attitude of an unforgettable politician, whose centenary we are celebrating this year. The event prompted the publication of bright lights (Boreal, 1er November), 88 film chronicles written by Rene Levesquepublished in The Clarion of Saint-Hyacinthe between 1947 and 1949, and collected by Professor Jean-Pierre Sirois-Trahan.
A war correspondent during the world conflict between 1939 and 1945, Lévesque was aware at the time of the seriousness of the warlike relations between Japan and the West. Professor of Cinema and Journalism, Alain Vezina performer in godzilla and america (PUM, September 19), the monstrous fantastic creature that has illustrated Japanese films since the military defeat of Japan in 1945. The former enemy country of the United States will become its economic rival. No wonder Vézina calls the rivalry “the clash of the titans.”
The history of the XXe century cannot make us forget the millennia that preceded it. Our colleague from To have to Caroline Montpetit publish Good morning ! Kwe! Meet the Aboriginal languages of Quebec (Boreal, November 7).
It is an anthropological journey, often picturesque and even poetic, through the 11 ancestral languages still spoken on our territory: Algonquin, Cree, Naskapi, Maliseet, Abenaki, Micmac, Wendat, Atikamekw, Mohawk, Innu and Inuktitut.
For his part, the young historian Francois-Olivier Dorais, who teaches at the Université du Québec à Chicoutimi, revisits an intellectual history that is both complex and enigmatic. He follows the paths of historians Marcel Trudel (1917-2011), Fernand Ouellet (1926-2021) and Jean Hamelin (1931-1998) in The historical school of Quebec (Boreal, October 11).
From history, we pass to literature thanks to the novelists Jennifer Belanger and Martine Delvaux who, writing The elongated (Héliotrope, October 10), turn their chronic pain into poetic material. The musicality of the description they make of their involuntary test leaves us dreaming in addition to making us reflect. Here it is: “Surrounded by other women – writers, artists, friends, mothers, daughters, lovers and caregivers – the authors pay homage to the horizontal life of the injured, the sore, the insomniacs, the dreamers and the survivors. »
To thwart global warming, renewable energies, for example wind and solar, are becoming essential. We cannot continue to act “until we are no longer thirsty”, that is to say until the total exhaustion of resources. A change of mind is needed.
Under the direction of Christiane Lahaie and Christophe Duretthe collective work Here and now (Lévesque editor, October 18) brings together fifteen researchers to deal with “representations of urban living in contemporary fiction”. The collaborators wonder how “contemporary fiction represents the habitat and the living practices within the city”. They make, “always in a transmedia perspective, analyzes of literary works, but also cinematographic, video game, cartoonists and television”.
The novelist Madeleine Monette, born in Montreal in 1951 and who has lived in New York since 1979, is perhaps the best illustration of literary urbanity. It is at least urbanity that haunts her in her essay America is also a Quebec novel (Nota bene, September 14) where “views from the inside” gather. Madeleine Monette discovers “a reinterpreted or revisited America, an America which is also a Quebec novel, a transcontinental fiction, where the Americas can take their place again”.
The essayist ends up exclaiming: “Yes, America is also a Quebec novel. A Quebec poem. Doesn’t it shake us infinitely more gently than the COVID-19 crisis, the horror of sexism and terrible global warming?