Etiket: Opinion
Opinion – Living closer, an ode to camping
Like many young people, my first solo trip, finally, without my parents since I was accompanied by my girlfriend, was a camping one. We left for a month, each with…
Opinion – The tools of the Facebook-Instagram family
The US government, with the tools of the Meta-Facebook-Instagram family and the recently launched Threads, has a phenomenal source of intelligence with multiple AIs, useful for the full range of…
Opinion – François Legault, the reader…
François Legault, it is now known, is a good reader. Unlike Duplessis, who boasted of not reading (but was it true?). The current Prime Minister reads, mostly from Quebec, of…
Opinion – Tap, tap, ding, ding!
For convenience, I chose the mouse. But how I would have liked to respond to this architecture student who invited us to reflect on our relationship to technology by strumming…
Opinion – Four years later, where is French “feminist diplomacy”?
In 2017, President Emmanuel Macron made the fight for equality between women and men a “great national cause”. Its external component took shape in the feminist diplomacy announced in 2019.…
Opinion – “Made in Quebec”, I buy, therefore I am
I’m from quebec. Like you, probably. I eat maple syrup and poutine, I waste it, I drive despite the terrible whims of winter, I buy endless pairs of mittens, I…
Opinion – Has the left really abandoned the economy (and the proletariat)?
The left is at an impasse. But why ? We hear it repeated periodically, both in Quebec and in France and in the United States, that it has abandoned the…
Opinion – The legal professions facing uberization and artificial intelligence
On March 19, 2020, I was to give a lecture to law students at the University of Sherbrooke under the title: the uberization of law; it was three days after…
Opinion – Teaching, a mission as noble as it is fundamental
Without dissociating myself from my union, because I know that we have demands and that they are legitimate, I wanted to write about the teaching profession, because I am disappointed…
Opinion – Mercantile Compassion | The duty
Is it boycott time for Nike Canada? The company is at the center of a serious controversy over its alleged involvement in the use of forced labor by Chinese Muslims…
Opinion – The fight against inequalities requires bodily autonomy
Sex. Contraception. The couple. Children. See a doctor for an abortion. For most of us who live in Quebec, these are decisions that are made individually and freely, and it…
Opinion – The Moralizing Art | The duty
I have a lot of admiration for the French philosopher Yves Michaud. I consider him a visionary. […] Of The crisis of contemporary art published in 1997 until Iart is…
Opinion – Kitsch according to Milan Kundera
The author is a professor of literature in Montreal, contributor to the journal Argument and essayist. He notably published These words that think for us (Liber, 2017) and Why do…
Opinion – The Big Lie | The duty
Forget the transition, we will rather rely on the torture of adaptation. It is the combined inaction of governments and big business that is plunging us into the depths of…
Opinion – Economic growth has a green thumb
A fringe of popular discourse likes to oppose the concept of economic growth to that of environmental protection. For the proponents of this discourse, it is as if each additional…
Opinion – The paradoxical constraints of femininity
This summer, The duty takes you on the side roads of university life. A proposal that is both scholarly and intimate, to be picked up like a postcard. Today, Chiara…
Opinion – Overcoming digital enslavement, an ode to the typewriter
We live in a time when it is almost utopian to separate the average student from the tools of technology. In this context of the omnipresence of digital technology, it…
Opinion – Threads or Twitter?
Choosing between Threads and Twitter is like choosing between two pitfalls. Speaking of these platforms, commentators have brought up the classic image of Charybdis and Scylla. Two monsters with insatiable…
Opinion – A magic bus
Baie-Saint-Paul, Gatineau, Montreal (Pierrefonds), Sainte-Brigitte-de-Laval and Sherbrooke. The floods come and go. However, the municipal council of Trois-Rivières, in a divided vote (7 against 6), continues the steps to carry…
Opinion – The bereaved of Fruiterie Roger
Writer and committed citizen, the author has taught literature at college; she is president of the governing board of a primary school and member of the editorial board of Quebec…