Etiket: duty
The nomadic citizen | The duty
In his famous book, The Road to Somewhere, British journalist David Goodhart opposed two groups that now structure political divisions in the United States, England, France and Quebec. On the…
Wet firecracker | The duty
In its Reference Relating to the Secession of Quebec of 1998, the Supreme Court ruled that the federal government would be under an obligation to negotiate the secession of Quebec…
Passing identities | The duty
The medieval accounts of the Scandinavians indicate it in hollow: Viking ships had, long before the ships of Christopher Columbus, reached America. In Newfoundland, at L’Anse aux Meadows, as in…
Out November | The duty
By dint of exchanges, we begin to know each other a bit. You notice, no doubt, that I find it difficult to close the topics. It was also in this,…
Nationalize Facebook or… the Internet? | The duty
Nationalize Facebook? The idea is in the news these days, but has been circulating in the media since at least 2012, the year when Facebook went public. Is it realistic?…
Philo for all | The duty
The news hasn’t caused much noise, but it should worry us. September 4, The sun reported that the Quebec government “would prepare to reform the university environment by orienting young…
Marie Darrieussecq, confessions of an insomniac | The duty
“There are those who sleep, and the others. That’s all, ”believes the French novelist Marie Darrieussecq. She explains, explores and tells herself in a free and fascinating autobiographical essay entitled…
The spleen of Quebec | The duty
When you are tired of the noise of the metropolis, there is nothing like a short excursion to Quebec, out of tourist season, under the chills of the rising winter.…
The end is near | The duty
So it’s going to be sort of like this. Around the year 2030, catastrophic weather events will befall a significant portion of the world’s population. A fire will devastate the…
Meta, the future according to Facebook | The duty
Meta, the ex-Facebook, will spend US $ 10 billion to lay the groundwork for an immersive virtual universe called Metaverse. And that’s just one of the new products that will…
Difficult mission in Glasgow | The duty
The 26e Conference of the Parties (COP26), which opens Sunday in Glasgow, promises to be difficult to say the least. Not only will the international community have to commit to…
Dream again, Fanny Bloom | The duty
The latest episode of the exciting documentary podcast series Dream Again, devoted to the small and the big history of the cult album of Daniel Bélanger and its influence, was…
The acceptable threshold | The duty
The Prime Minister is impatient with family physicians who are not taking care of enough patients. Mr. Legault thinks they should contribute more to the collective effort. The president of…
Our choice tonight | The duty
There will be sport Rare fact: the same evening, three streaming giants launch a sports drama series inspired by the experience of real stars of professional sports. In addition to…
An obstacle course | The duty
The numbers indicate this trend since the first wave of the pandemic: Exposure to COVID-19 follows clear social fault lines. Low wage earners, people who live in densely populated, isolated…
Tread, Ross From Friends | The duty
When his first album was released, Family Portrait, British composer and DJ Felix Clary Weatherall was already the spearhead of successful lo-fi house underground of its composition Talk to Me…
Seven inches ‘strong’ | The duty
We suspected it, but there is a manual to become a “real” man, I mean a manly man, like a construction guy, Bruce Willis in Die Hard or hockey player…
Instrumentalising education | The duty
Banana peels are piling up on the road to the new Culture and Quebec Citizenship (CCQ) course, which is already slipping, even before its preliminary drafting, into the contours of…
Technologies: Facebook becomes Meta | The duty
Because he believes that the technology sector as it is currently “harms innovation” and that “this is not how we should use technology”, the CEO of Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg is…
Our choice tonight | The duty
Second parties welcome After a few weeks (or months!) Of waiting, those who let themselves be taken by the first episodes of the anthology of Patrick Sénécal and the police…