Etiket: Blanchette
[Vidéo] Drama in Amqui: interview with Mayor Sylvie Blanchette
In the aftermath of the tragedy that took place in Amqui, The duty spoke with the mayor, Sylvie Blanchette. A driver killed at least two people and seriously injured nine…
[Chronique de Josée Blanchette] Between duty and desire
Desire is an enigma; but we all know that we don’t tame feral cats. Desire is thirsty and monogamy may not be the best way to quench it. Desire is…
[Chronique de Josée Blanchette] The Invisible Woman
In an interview with journalist Bernard Magnier (I write as I live, 2010), the writer Dany Laferrière dwells on sexual relations in terms of racial confrontation with a smirk: the…
[Chronique de Josée Blanchette] paper loves
There are so many ways to love even if there are only proofs of love, as the poet said. Epistolary love no longer exists except in posthumous books or dark…
[Chronique de Josée Blanchette] Save the ordinary
Household is an art, getting rich too. I should have followed in the footsteps of Warren Buffett or those of Jeff Bezos, but in high school we were taught home…
[Chronique de Josée Blanchette] A cuckoo clock from beyond
I missed the burst of national outrage over “our” Charlemagne diva fallen from the top 200, barely batting an eyelid at the Sussex royal gossip, shunned the bye and survived…
[Chronique de Josée Blanchette] The mad cow, the lame deer and the wooden horse
The sky had the hoarse voice and the threatening tone of those who frighten children. “Ice thunder! thought Clopin, the three-legged deer. “I have to cross the bridge before it…
[Chronique de Josée Blanchette] Find hope
Old age, he seized it head-on through laughter, eroticism and hope. From his trilogy on aging of the 2010s, filmmaker Fernand Dansereau made a personal quest, but he offered an…
[Chronique de Josée Blanchette] Milking and being milked
So we can escape capitalism? I mean quotas or supply management. The cows from Saint-Barnabé are not crazy, they took the key to the fields and they went to fart…
[Chronique de Josée Blanchette] Dear asshole and co.
Dear asshole, You’re still the ? Do you hope that we will forget you or that we will absolve you? Me, I’ve been waiting to write to you for a…
[Chronique de Josée Blanchette] The deer lady
I could have become an old lady with pigeons in a park (or with camellias: white is yes, red is no), but fate wanted me to be a lady with…
[Chronique de Josée Blanchette] Homo comfort goes out of its zone
A climate refugee for a month and a half, my B sleeps on a thin inflatable mattress in his friend Sean’s living room. Last weekend, he came to live with…
[Chronique de Josée Blanchette] The response of the old (young) maid
It’s meant to be a refreshing proposal, not a priesthood or a sermon. “How do you go from a life obsessed with love to a life that pays little attention…
[Chronique de Josée Blanchette] mushroom season
For two or three years, I have attended from near and far the ” boom boom », the revival of psychedelic mushrooms, better known in medical or psychiatric circles under…
[Chronique de Josée Blanchette] Of Armandie and words
Under an upset sky, the rain chased us from the vines. The white Clos de l’Orme does not put water in its wine; the picking of the green and fleshy…
[Chronique de Josée Blanchette] 107 years without complaining
Claire Sigouin lost her election, but it would take more to bend the spine of this centenarian who was born under the Liberal government of Lomer Gouin (1905-1920). “Once in…
[Chronique de Josée Blanchette] The class enemy
They were meticulously opening the garbage bags that we had just dumped in the alley, in order to separate the electronics, the damaged clothes, the treasures that only they could…
[Chronique de Josée Blanchette] Vote for your children
“Do you realize that you are the first climate refugee in the family? – Mom ! It’s not the time to talk about the climate… It’s never time to get…
[Opinion] Carte blanche to Maïté Blanchette Vézina | This wind blowing over Rimouski
The duty asked five candidates who made the leap into the political arena for the first time what made them interested in public life. In turn, with one candidate per…
[Chronique de Josée Blanchette] To my daughters, my little sisters
You question me with your gaze, hoping for an almost definitive answer when everything is so moving. I’ve drawn bastard conclusions about the catch-all of existence and try to replace…