Etiket: lettres
The Cowboys Fringants become Compagnons des arts et des lettres du Québec in 2024
The Cowboys Fringants will become members of the Order of Arts and Letters of Quebec. Jean-François Pauzé, Jérôme Dupras, Marie-Annick Lépine, as well as the late Karl Tremblay, will receive…
C-63, online harms, Margaret Atwood and the lettres de cachet
In France, under the Ancien Régime, lettres de cachet were orders of arbitrary imprisonment signed by the king. Last week, in a few messages on the The one who proposes…
[Lettres] Fear, young people and queers
Let’s talk briefly about young people. Seeing the news, I thought it would be good to do a simple little reminder. Let’s say instead that it would be wise to…
[Lettres] Really Minister of Education?
Mr Drainville, With your words, you have disrespected all teachers. Your apologies came late, which diminishes their sincerity. When you were appointed, I had reservations about your qualifications for this…
[Lettres] Still up for Mother’s Day
The expression “never two without three” makes a lot of sense when it comes to my experience of Mother’s Day. Is that for the third time, I will celebrate my…
[Lettres] Women, Iran and the United States
Iran and the United States. Two countries that we would think are diametrically opposed, but which have more similarities than we think lately. Both American and Iranian women are forced…
[Lettres] Bypassing Notes… 20 years ago
What a surprise this morning to see from the pen of Marco Fortier comments on brainwashing, numbered notes and the portfolio. A manager of a private school would have made…
[Lettres] And if the Quebec college took the example of Switzerland?
The status of CEGEPs has changed surprisingly little since the creation of this network, more than fifty years ago. However, the CEGEP is often questioned, rightly or wrongly, with many…
[Lettres] Broken Innocence | The duty
What is both heartbreaking and reassuring about humanity is that it is constantly renewing itself. Already, whole generations of adult and vaccinated adults were born after the sadly fateful day…
[Lettres] The economic benefits of caribou protection
More than 10 years ago, I had the incredible chance to meet a group of about ten caribou near Mount Logan, during a cross-country skiing trip in Gaspésie National Park.…
[Lettres] Account time
I hope that François Legault, despite his impassive denial, reflects on the galloping anglicization of CEGEPs, once the jewels of our education system. Now these jewels are tarnished day by…
[Lettres] Read or re-read Vassili Grossman
For the past few weeks, I have been inhabited by a furious desire to re-read Vassili Grossman, this Soviet writer born in Berdichev, then educated in kyiv and Moscow, who…
Four authors crowned by L’Académie des lettres du Québec
The Académie des lettres du Québec preferred, for a second consecutive year, given the health measures in force, to award its literary prizes during a virtual ceremony on Tuesday. The…