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Real estate chronicle: he makes a gain of $170,000 in two years
Every day, hundreds of properties change hands in Quebec, most of them without knowing the fine details. That was before anyone got interested in it… Here are the latest transactions…
Chronicle – Ricard with perplexity | The duty
Along with Fernand Dumont, François Ricard is one of the most profound Quebec essayists I have read in my life. I can say this in the absence of any conflict…
Chronicle – Misadventures of slavery in New France
At first, the native slaves bought by French settlers almost all took to their heels. It was because other colonists revealed to them that slavery was illegal in France and…
Chronicle – The Montreal of tomorrow
Dear Valerie Plante, I was reading your tweet last Sunday on Twitter: “Air quality is heavily affected in Montreal […] Close the windows and doors of your house or apartment.…
Chronicle – Grocery inflation
Although a ceiling has been reached and its rate of growth is decelerating, inflation in the price of food purchased from stores remains stubbornly high. The strong surge in grocery…
Chronicle – Letting our children beat themselves up (1/2)
Here comes the end of classes and the start of vacation for Quebec children and students. For many parents, it will be the race to accompany their offspring to sports…
Chronicle – Compulsory solidarity | The duty
Among the thousand reasons that make me proud to be a Quebecer is our early tolerance, then our resolute defense, of homosexuals. Don’t we say that, without us, Canada would…
Techno Chronicle | Hyundai robots to the rescue
In its native Korea, the Hyundai company has worked on a concept to support businesses in a context of labor shortages that are rampant everywhere. Fully electric autonomous robots come…
Chronicle – Changing the (explosive) battery of your phone
It is an explosive subject. Literally. Electronic waste is constantly piling up, and many of them explode once in sorting centers or in landfills. The culprit: the battery welded somewhere…
Chronicle – The right to live
The sculptor of the statue of Prime Minister Honoré Mercier, a monument that adorns the terraces of parliament, survived the sinking of the titanic. As the ship sank into the…
Chronicle – Russian Metastases | The duty
It is a real embryo of civil war, in yet another repetition of history, where an imperial military operation turns to disaster, is coupled with serious internal divisions and can…
Chronicle – The history of Quebec, from page to page
Here is the Saint-Jean-Baptiste. Quebec flags are waving everywhere. Declarations of love to the nation are launched. But I am often surprised, even among my most nationalist compatriots, to discover…
Chronicle – Wiser than we are
From the age of 12, I sensed that my older sisters, more experienced, could pave the way, serve as a beacon on the long stormy river of existence. And still…
Chronicle – Parallel National Holidays | The duty
The theory of multiple universes states that, each time a choice is offered to us, worlds appear where we have chosen each of the possible options. This column therefore comes…
Chronicle – Make summer and financial organization rhyme
The summer season, my favorite, is too short. I begin it each year with an optimism that borders on utopianism, as the list of my projects calls for the “ultimate”…
Chronicle – Nicole Garcia as Lady Macbeth
On the stage of the Théâtre du Nouveau Monde (TNM), Gabrielle, a high school teacher faced with the suicide of a student who was harassed, is reminiscent of Shakespeare’s cruel…
Chronicle – Indomitable Welsh in Doha for the FIFA World Cup
God is one, but He is three: the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit. And “by an equally incomprehensible mystery,” wrote Eduardo Galeano in Football, shadow and light (1995),…
Chronicle – The new caquiste | The duty
“It is far too early to talk about the succession,” said Premier François Legault at the end of the parliamentary session, ensuring that he wanted to remain in office for…
Chronicle – Summer reading for those passionate about education
Here are the arrivals, for teachers, of the summer holidays. By this we mean two months which, according to one of my friends who has been teaching for a long…
Chronicle – Failing to be king, Maxime Bernier chooses the jester
When he was a candidate for the succession of Stephen Harper as leader of the Conservative Party of Canada (CPC), in 2017, Maxime Bernier represented the libertarian wing of his…