Etiket: chronique

[Chronique] To stop paying roaming charges

Oh, the holidays! In principle, it’s time to pick up and stop worrying about everything and nothing. Abroad, however, all you have to do is take your phone out of…

[Chronique] Invincible Robelus | The duty

Who is Robelus? It is the three-headed giant that rules Canadian telecommunications. More than ever. Without impunity. Rogers. Bell. Telus. One wonders who, in Ottawa, will really have the audacity…

[Chronique] In the skin | The duty

Casually, together, we are erecting, against and against the steamroller of standardization, a small series of words that are as dense as they are unique to tell a multitude of…

[Chronique] When self-loathing sells

I was returning home. In the back, my baby of a few months was sleeping in his seat. I had just given birth to him and was struggling with something…

[Chronique] The peaks | The duty

On May 29, 1953, exactly 70 years ago, against all reasonable advice, Edmund Hillary and Sherpa Tenzing Norgay reached the summit of the world: Everest. At 8848 meters above sea…

[Chronique de François Brousseau] | The duty

It is the “most repressive country in the world” against women, according to a declaration made on March 8 by the UN, during the 47e International Women’s Day. The Taliban…

[Chronique] Morbid scroll, morbid | The duty

Doomscrolling. In French, the OQLF suggests “morbid scrolling”. The expression is not bad and would undoubtedly obtain the endorsement of the director of public health of the United States, who…

[Chronique] Musketeers! | The duty

I saw with delight The three Musketeers. D’Artagnan, the recent film by French director Martin Bourboulon, with Quebecer Nicolas Bolduc as cinematographer. I’ve always loved this vigorous swashbuckling story and…

[Chronique] This recession that still won’t come

Many times announced, this recession which still does not come would be imminent. Based on the predictive reliability of its model of leading indicators for the Canadian economy, Oxford Economics…

[Chronique] The difficult management of lies

Of all the incredible stories that occurred during the 1995 referendum campaign, one of my favorites concerns Lucienne Robillard. A former Liberal minister in Quebec, she had just entered the…

[Chronique] And there was light

It sometimes takes time for François Legault to see the light. When he founded the CAQ, he was resolutely in favor of oil exploitation. “It may be the chance or…

[Chronique] Michael Sabia chooses Quebec (bis)

During his first appearance in a parliamentary committee after his appointment as head of the Caisse de depot et placement du Québec in 2009, Michael Sabia faced a full-scale attack…

[Chronique] The right to earn money

The quarrel which, for the past few weeks, has pitted Québec solidaire (QS) against the Coalition avenir Québec (CAQ) on the question of the increase in the salaries of MNAs…

[Chronique] Second hand second skin

My prom dress, I dreamed it retro, including the fascinator with a veil and the gloves. I was 15 and my budget was $30; I found everything at Eva B,…