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[Chronique d’Aurélie Lanctôt] “Perfect” Immigrants and “Essential” Immigrants
This is a derailed dream as we see too often. Earlier in January, on the front page of the Montreal Journalwe presented a family of French origin who had been…
[Chronique d’Aurélie Lanctôt] Advance backward
The Société de transport de Montréal (STM) will undoubtedly have found the most cynical way to start the year, by abandoning its promise of a bus every ten minutes on…
[Chronique d’Aurélie Lanctôt] The shadow of borders
Under the ice storm at the start of the year, a man was found dead between Roxham Road and the Saint-Bernard-de-Lacolle border crossing on Wednesday. The cause of death is…
[Chronique d’Aurélie Lanctôt] Learn to take care
It’s a film that immediately invites you to adjust your listening and attention register. From the first minutes of Geographies of Solitudethe snowy and windswept landscapes are suitable for slowness,…
[Chronique d’Aurélie Lanctôt] The art of illusions
On the eve of Christmas, we are busy in the houses, feverish, nervous perhaps, at the idea of finally coming together, after two pandemic Christmas Eve. It must be said…
[Chronique d’Aurélie Lanctôt] The war against ourselves
COP27 ended with modest gains last month, more about managing disaster than creating hope, and now the UN Biodiversity Conference (COP15) has opened to Montreal in an equally gloomy tone.…
[Chronique d’Aurélie Lanctôt] Defending the Ordinary | The duty
In these pages, the president and CEO of Ray-Mont Logistiques, Charles Raymond, responded Wednesday to an editorial by Marie-Andrée Chouinard. Stung, he denounced the “too negative” vision portrayed of his…
[Chronique d’Aurélie Lanctôt] Dirty hands and deep pockets
The harshest criticisms expressed before the COP27 were right: after two weeks of tense negotiations, one wonders if these major events are used for anything other than to organize diplomatically…
[Chronique d’Aurélie Lanctôt] flip the mirror
Five years after #MeToo, it was to be expected. The dust settled, the lawsuits took their course, the business community adapted its public relations strategies and had many opportunities to…
[Chronique d’Aurélie Lanctôt] The era of confrontation
Sunday opens the 27e UN Climate Conference (COP27), in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt. Time passes, fractions of a degree add up to expected global warming and the diplomatic ceremonies follow one…
[Chronique d’Aurélie Lanctôt] The neck of the bottle
The message was greeted with a smirk by those who, all year round and even in “normal” times, care about making the city more convivial, but here we are: the…
[Chronique d’Aurélie Lanctôt] hot soup
The tomato soup splashes were still fresh on the glass covering The sunflowers of Van Gogh that the anti-ecological resentment had already found a new target of choice. The images…
[Chronique d’Aurélie Lanctôt] From one coronation to another
There are blows that scrape morale even when you see them coming from afar. No surprises in the election results; no subject that had not already been extensively dissected in…
[Chronique d’Aurélie Lanctôt] In rainy weather
It rained, therefore, in southern Quebec on Tuesday. It rained a lot, a lot. Something like a month’s worth of rainfall in a few hours, it was said. Montreal received…
[Chronique d’Aurélie Lanctôt] Look both ways before crossing
It’s a systematic stop in the middle of my running circuit: in front of the monument to Sir George-Étienne Cartier, at the corner of Duluth Ouest and du Parc avenues,…
[Chronique d’Aurélie Lanctôt] The best environmental record in history
The suspense did not suffocate anyone, but it is now said: the electoral campaign will be launched on Sunday. The pre-election murmur will have accompanied the song of the crickets…
[Chronique d’Aurélie Lanctôt] Horne Foundry: “Nobody is going to die”, really?
This is the story that clung to the front page all summer, to the great displeasure – we can imagine – of François Legault, who no doubt hoped to be…
[Chronique d’Aurélie Lanctôt] News from the Mont-Carmel seniors’ residence
I wouldn’t have bet that many people would show up at the courthouse on a hot Friday in July. That day, the occupants of the Mont-Carmel seniors’ residence were there…
[Chronique d’Aurélie Lanctôt] The habit of flames
Just a year ago, the town of Lytton, in southern British Columbia, was ravaged by flames, as the province experienced an unprecedented heat wave. The mercury reached 49.6 degrees, the…
[Chronique d’Aurélie Lanctôt] The lives that we erase
Here we are again, two days before moving day, ready to witness yet another demoralizing spectacle of the failure of housing (non-)policies. Ready to see the ever more serious consequences…