Etiket: duty

I skipped the demonstration | The duty

There are weeks when I wonder what the meaning of our lives is. Take Tuesday of last week: there were 800 guinea pigs with their eyes closed who took off…

Autopsy of a predicted tragedy | The duty

Isaac Brouillard Lessard admits to sending text messages to his family because he is angry with them. He maintains that his uncle is the supreme leader of the pedophiles of…

Discuss it calmly | The duty

It is frankly discouraging to learn that nearly 17,000 young French speakers on the island of Montreal have become English speakers between the last two censuses (Jean-François Lisée, April 20).…

Single-use plastic | The duty

This morning, I think I heard the best proposal for us to (finally) start to reduce the use of plastic: banning the use of single-use products. What immediately comes to…

Thank you, Mr Rocher! | The duty

Thank you from the bottom of my heart, Mr. Guy Rocher! In the same way that it only takes a few miserable individuals to transform the earth into hell, it…

The birth of a library | The duty

This had been going on for several years: I was losing control of my personal library. There comes a confusing moment in the life of a reader, when you realize…

Pseudonym strategies | The duty

Every Tuesday, The duty offers a space to the creators of a periodical. This week, we offer you a text published in the magazine Mensvolume 23, number 2 (Spring 2023),…

Grammar for sale | The duty

A magnificent new French grammar is unfortunately to be given away or sold for a ridiculous price. Any reasonable offer will be accepted before it quickly and silently joins history.…

An essential commitment | The duty

A crisis shakes the Justice and Faith Center and the magazine Relationships since the end of March: sudden interruption of activities and brutal layoff of staff, accompanied by unsatisfactory explanations…

The truth | The duty

Mr. St-Pierre Plamondon said out loud what many Quebecers like me are thinking quietly. We cannot be too grateful to him. He expressed with force and clarity what many keep…

“Who lives”, Valérie Zenatti | The duty

Who lives, seventh novel by Valérie Zenatti (who is also a translator, notably of Aharon Appelfeld), plunges us into the inner tumult of a Parisian, history and geography teacher, who…

Dare to renovate yourself | The duty

This text is part of the special Pleasures notebook For more than twenty years, entrepreneur and communicator Stéphanie Lévesque has demystified the world of manual work and encouraged homeowners to…

A life as a trio | The duty

The Bourgie Hall welcomes the Wanderer Trio on Wednesday, the largest active trio, in one of the absolute masterpieces of the genre: theOpus 100 by Schubert. The duty wanted to…

Flowers | The duty

I have few memories of the last month. My sister called me on a Monday evening, I was alone, I was rereading the revisions of one of my translations, she…

Find out everything | The duty

I say this without boasting, quite simply because it is true: I am driven by an insatiable quest for knowledge. I would like, in the field of intellectual knowledge, to…

Sin without confession | The duty

We will not surprise anyone by saying that Hugo Meunier (Missed, The boss) is not the first artist to be interested in the seven deadly sins. Over the centuries, avarice,…

Teaching with Sweller | The duty

Teaching, of course, means having the objective of making people learn things and using the most effective means to do so. Let’s imagine a large number of teaching specialists, people…