Etiket: Cornellier
Chronicle of Louis Cornellier – Twilight Archambault
Gilles Archambault will be 90 years old next September and he does not pretend not to know it. “For a few months, he writes in The candor of the patriarch…
[Chronique de Louis Cornellier] Against the robotic school
You may have thought, like me, that the pandemic had definitively put an end to the enthusiasm for the digital school and for distance education. Forced, by circumstances, to experiment…
[Chronique de Louis Cornellier] Lauzon strikes again
Léo-Paul Lauzon, ex-professor of accounting at UQAM, is quite a number. A man of the left with a popular verve, he taunts with cheerful effrontery the unrepentant rich of this…
[Chronique de Louis Cornellier] Bissonnette against the void
I admire Lise Bissonnette. The rigor of his analyzes and the elegance of his style, both orally and in writing, amaze me. I love his limpid, brilliant, direct words that…
[Chronique de Louis Cornellier] Read the enemy
I don’t like the Peruvian writer naturalized Spanish Mario Vargas Llosa, who received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2010. I dabbled in a bit of his effervescent narrative prose,…
[Chronique de Louis Cornellier] The trapped Frenchman
Zachary Bolduc, one of the best junior hockey players in the country, who plays with the Quebec Remparts, was not selected by Team Canada for this year’s world championship. He…
[Chronique de Louis Cornellier] Need Montreal
If Quebec wants to succeed in the matter of integrating immigrants, it will need the contribution of the City of Montreal. It is there, in fact, that the majority of…
[Chronique de Louis Cornellier] Living Nelligan
Nelligan has always moved me deeply. Since my first encounter with him as a teenager, I have devoted him a constant cult. His immense sadness frightens me, but also attracts…
[Chronique de Louis Cornellier] Christmas with Buzatti
In 1951, the great Italian writer Dino Buzatti (1906-1972) used irony to express his displeasure with Christmas grumps. Learning that an Australian radio station has just explained to children that…
[Chronique de Louis Cornellier] On wokism
I won’t tell anyone anything by noting that so-called Wokism has been controversial for some years. I have tried to stay away from this debate because I find it flawed.…
[Chronique de Louis Cornellier] Back to basics
What do we know today about New France? What do we keep in memory, if not a few images of Épinal? For some, nostalgic for a fantasy, it is a…
[Chronique Louis Cornellier] Farmer versus vegan
If veganism was limited to the choice of an individual lifestyle, there would be no debate about it. Everyone is free, of course, to eat what they want and to…
[Chronique de Louis Cornellier] The price to pay
I love sports since my early childhood. In the past 45 years, not a day has gone by that I haven’t played sports, talked about them, watched them or thought…
[Chronique de Louis Cornellier] Historians in Quebec
Do we still read the historians associated with this current known as the historical school of Quebec? In the 1950s and 1960s, more particularly, Marcel Trudel, Fernand Ouellet and Jean…
[Chronique de Louis Cornellier] The integral story
Along with the teaching of the mother tongue, that of national history should be at the heart of any educational system concerned with the well-being of pupils and the future…
[Chronique de Louis Cornellier] Understanding States
“American society seems so close to us and accessible that we sometimes tend to believe that we can understand the political phenomena that we observe there without having to make…
[Chronique de Louis Cornellier] Our illiteracy
Opinions about French in Quebec and its future are almost always steeped in deep confusion. When we are concerned, for example, about the decline in the place of French in…
[Chronique de Louis Cornellier] Lodger people
Sovereignty would no longer be on the agenda, we repeat here and there. Quebecers would be elsewhere. Where is that, elsewhere? In the debate between left and right? Concerned about…
[Chronique de Louis Cornellier] Reread Chomsky
In my mid-twenties, I discovered the political work of American linguist Noam Chomsky with delight. My reading of his essay The underside of Uncle Sam’s politics (Écosociété, 1996) blew my…
[Chronique de Louis Cornellier] When the giant stumbles
History buffs already know it: the Canadian radio show Today the story is a radio gem, a cultural treasure. She knows how to talk about history with rigor and passion,…