Etiket: Lanctôt
[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…
[Chronique d’Aurélie Lanctôt] The worse is yet to come
Power, not reason, is the new motto of this Court. It is with these words that Justices Stephen Breyer, Elena Kagan and Sonia Sotomayor, of the Supreme Court of the…
[Chronique d’Aurélie Lanctôt] Turn around
A few days before the Grand Prix, we published yesterday in The Press a letter from Nino Gabrielli, librarian at the Université de Montréal, and François Harvey, professor at Cégep…
[Chronique d’Aurélie Lanctôt] Aim for disaster
It is increasingly clear that Quebec will miss its greenhouse gas (GHG) reduction target for 2030. A target set at 37.5% compared to the 1990 emission level, which already ,…
[Chronique d’Aurélie Lanctôt] Depp against Heard, witches like the others
Over the past few weeks, I’ve absentmindedly and dragged my feet over coverage of actor Johnny Depp’s defamation lawsuit against his ex-wife, actress and model Amber Heard. I said to…
[Chronique d’Aurélie Lanctôt] The scope of the dispute
May 18 marked the tenth anniversary of the hasty adoption of the “special law” fabricated by the Liberal government of Jean Charest to put an end to the student mobilizations…
[Chronique d’Aurélie Lanctôt] Spread out until the end of the world
It is the sad lottery created by the morbid forces that dominate our times: for the next five years, there is a one in two chance that the global temperature…
[Chronique d’Aurélie Lanctôt] Rabies, bread and forests (2)
Maybe it had something to do with the almost summery weather or maybe it had something to do with a discontent that can no longer be ignored. On Sunday, in…
[Chronique d’Aurélie Lanctôt] Rabies, bread and forests (1)
It is probably no coincidence that feminist struggles focus and meet at both ends of life, just as they converge when it comes to defending the future. As if feminist…
[Chronique d’Aurélie Lanctôt] In new ground
The duty announced last week the creation of its brand new Environmental Pole, an initiative led by a dozen journalists from all sectors who, from now on, will feed the…
[Chronique d’Aurélie Lanctôt] Canada is not listening
It is hard to imagine a more cynical picture: a former environmental activist who became Minister of Environment and Climate Change, just after the publication of an IPCC report reiterating…
[Chronique d’Aurélie Lanctôt] A response, or the consequences of the Rozon affair
It is a story that we know, a story that has been written since 2017, in the courts, the media, the workplaces, the communities, the families. It is the story…
[La chronique d’Aurélie Lanctôt] A decade on the tuition front
Even though it was cooler than March 22, 2012 in Montreal on Tuesday, a few thousand demonstrators still took to the streets to demand free schooling from kindergarten to university,…
[La chronique d’Aurélie Lanctôt] between a thousand fires
Almost a year ago to the day, Myriam Lapointe-Gagnon, a resident of Cacouna, mother of a baby a few months old, alarmed by the impossibility of finding daycare for her…
The chronicle of Aurélie Lanctôt: in memory of witches
At first glance, one might think that it is an eccentricity, or else a commemoration with little anchoring in the present time. This week, on International Women’s Day, the First…
The chronicle of Aurélie Lanctôt: without further ado
It is an “awareness campaign” like the government of Quebec produces regularly, without fanfare. However, this one has a particular texture. On the last day of January, six months before…
The chronicle of Aurélie Lanctôt: always cause
The parade returns from one year to another, each time arousing the usual criticisms. At the low point of January, when the euphoria of early winter wears off and the…