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[Chronique de Jean-François Nadeau] A bird’s head
Coming out of the house, I saw them, they were there. Two steps away. Scarlet red feathers and other yellow ones, in the middle of a desert of snow, it…
[Chronique de Jean-François Lisée] Solidarity spleen
Next Saturday, solidarity activists will be reunited for the first time since the October 3 election. I recommend a theme song to them to open their discussions: sad companion, of…
[Chronique de Jean-François Lisée] Linguistic crystal ball
You may have noticed that there are two schools of thought about the future of French in Quebec. The one that includes demographer Marc Termotte, author Frédéric Lacroix, mathematician Charles…
[Chronique de Jean-François Lisée] Say “basta!” in Roxham
Let’s get things straight. If you or I were Haitians, Cubans, Guatemalans, among many others, we would move heaven and earth, sell all our possessions, go into debt up to…
[Chronique de Jean-François Lisée] McKinsey, the cabinet of toxic capitalism
We come out frankly stunned from reading When McKinsey Comes to Town (When McKinsey comes to town), the recent book by two journalists from New York Times, Walt Bogdanich and…
Rename the Overseas Territories, the latest idea from the ministry of Jean-François Carenco
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[Chronique de Jean-François Nadeau ] The air of advertising
In an uninhibited projection of his financial might, Cornelius Van Horne claimed he saw nothing less than the Pacific Ocean from his opulent office in downtown Montreal. In his universe,…
[Chronique de Jean-François Lisée] Take Taiwan from the inside
The best way to win a war, ultimately, is to make sure the enemy generals are working for you. It is no other way that Mao Zedong succeeded in taking,…
[Chronique de Jean-François Lisée] The Quebec plan to eradicate English
This column is the translation of a (sarcastic) text that I committed in English, rejected by the Globe and Mailthe National Post, Maclean’s and the CBC’s Opinion pages before being…
[Chronique de Jean-François Lisée] A la carte policy
The problem with polls or intention to vote polls is that you have to choose. But this choice only imperfectly reflects the complexity of our opinions on issues as well…
[Chronique de Jean-François Nadeau] The good pears
We are smaller than ever before the heights reached in supermarkets. The price of foodstuffs has increased by at least 11% on the shelves. In Europe, it is even worse.…
[Chronique de Jean-François Lisée] The crimes of Benedict XVI
The thing happened in Cameroon, a half-Catholic country, in 2009. It was Pope Benedict XVI’s first visit to Africa, a continent where, for 10 years, HIV-AIDS had been the leading…
[Chronique de Jean-François Lisée] Plea for respectful robustness
I’ve read a lot of political platforms in my life and helped write a few of them. However, I had never found a sentence like this: “We ‘agree to disagree’:…
Marie-Ève Janvier and Jean-François Breau are expecting another child
Another child will be added to the family of Marie-Ève Janvier and Jean-François Breau in 2023. The couple made the announcement on social media by sharing their New Year’s wishes.…
[Chronique de Jean-François Lisée] In the name of men and women
I dare to come out of the closet. I am a man. There, it is said. Come what may. I am aware that my gender is not valued these days.…
[Chronique de Jean-François Lisée] The first plot
My son has a theory. He identified a scourge: conspiracy. He found a culprit: Santa Claus. Or rather culprits: all the adults in the world, who pretend that Santa Claus…
[Chronique de Jean-François Lisée] The Golden Age of Quebec Documentaries
I am formal. Never have we produced so many quality documentaries as in the past three years. The best of them have absolutely nothing to envy, in terms of dramatic…
[Chronique de Jean-François Lisée] Trudeau, the jealous
This is the story of a boy pampered, in the cradle, by the Canadian fairy. His father ? The founder of modern Canada. The name that appears on his baptismal…
Jean-François Nadeau receives the Pierre-Vadeboncoeur prize
The historian, journalist and columnist at To have to Jean-François Nadeau received the Pierre-Vadeboncoeur prize on Wednesday for his collection of essays Bad weather (Lux editor, 2022). Awarded by the…
Jean-François Nadeau receives the Pierre-Vadeboncoeur prize
The historian, journalist and columnist at To have to Jean-François Nadeau received, on Wednesday, the Pierre-Vadeboncoeur prize for his collection of essays Bad weather (Lux Publisher, 2022). Awarded by the…