Etiket: Rioux
Nine months in prison for the cyberstalker of documentary filmmaker Sébastien Rioux
Documentarian Sébastien Rioux can breathe a sigh of relief: his cyberstalker Peter Poncak was sentenced Thursday to a nine-month prison sentence, accompanied by three years’ probation and several conditions of…
Seb Rioux against his troll
It all started with a meme, in December 2019. An image taken from the film Taken, in which actor Liam Neeson, playing a vengeful character, warns his interlocutor on the…
[Éditorial de Louise-Maude Rioux Soucy] C-11 and Quebec, a worm in the fruit
Quebec’s cultural specificity is an endangered species, which deserves to be fought tooth and nail for it. The Minister of Culture and Communications, Mathieu Lacombe, is perfectly right to be…
[Éditorial de Louise-Maude Rioux Soucy] A youth interrupted by their mental health challenges
How are our young people doing? This is the title that caps the most recent survey on the psychological health of 12-25 year olds, which offers complex answers to this…
[Chronique de Christian Rioux] brain drain
Their names are Tatiana, Houda, Dorice or Esther. They come from Cameroon, Morocco, Algeria or Mauritius. They are now in the Bas-du-Fleuve, but they could also be in Abitibi, in…
[Éditorial de Louise-Maude Rioux Soucy] Save your (cultural) soul with this song
“When we don’t laugh anymore, it’s because we don’t live anymore,” sings Ferland, who worries that we forget his head and his songs in The cat from the artists’ café.…
[Éditorial de Louise-Maude Rioux Soucy] Young people and vaping, the end of recklessness
Ten years ago, vaping among high school kids was marginal. But while tobacco consumption continued to fall thanks to the combined effect of a tight legal framework and targeted awareness…
[Éditorial de Louise-Maude Rioux Soucy] The best is sometimes the enemy of the good with trauma warnings
It is unthinkable to mold the public space to the satisfaction and needs of everyone. This does not prevent us from wanting to make it habitable for as many people…
[Éditorial de Louise-Maude Rioux Soucy] The heritage designation should not be a foil
Find the error. The Ministry of Culture classifies heritage houses. Newly vested with this same power, which they are slow to use, the regional county municipalities (RCM) are making an…
[Éditorial de Louise-Maude Rioux Soucy] Our daycare services fall victim to a great illusion
On paper, the Quebec model shines in early childhood. In practice, our daycare services (SDG) have become Swiss cheese. More than 33,000 families hang around waiting for a place. It’s…
[Chronique de Christian Rioux] A world without children?
Let’s admit that for a Quebecer, the current debate in France on postponing the retirement age from 62 to 64 may seem distant. But there is one aspect for which…
[Chronique de Christian Rioux] Memory of skirmishers
Nothing like a historical film to stir up controversy in France. Especially a film on this page of colonial history that was the participation of Senegalese skirmishers in the First…
[Éditorial de Louise-Maude Rioux Soucy] playing muscle
the New York Times recently detailed how the oil superpowers are masterfully using their “diplomatic muscle” to obstruct climate action. It is the triumph of this uninhibited approach that is…
[Chronique de Christian Rioux] Benedict XVI, philosopher pope
The media tribunal is always unfair. While the whole world was praying over the coffin of the greatest footballer inand all the time, “King” Pelé, the funeral of former Pope…
[Éditorial de Louise-Maude Rioux Soucy] Death at several speeds
A solid social consensus made Quebec the champion of medical assistance in dying (MAID) last year. With figures that now reach 5.1% of deaths, we are ahead of the Netherlands…
[Éditorial de Louise-Maude Rioux Soucy] No protection without vision
Was the worm already in the apple? The vigorous dusting off of the Cultural Heritage Act carried out in the spring of 2021 by the CAQ government shows signs of…
[Chronique de Christian Rioux] christmas woke
Political life sometimes resembles those board games that are all the rage at Christmas. These pastimes, traces of which can be found even in Mesopotamian tombs, derive their name from…
[Éditorial de Louise-Maude Rioux Soucy] Link literary life and democratic life
It was written in the sky that the reform of the status of the artist would shake the foundations of the book chain. That we learn these days that it…
[Éditorial de Louise-Maude Rioux Soucy] The good faith of the Archdiocese of Montreal is not enough
The transplant does not take place between the Archdiocese of Montreal and its independent ombudsman, whose holy anger expressed this week seems perfectly justified. Since taking office in May 2021,…
[Éditorial de Louise-Maude Rioux Soucy] Finally, an inclusive blood donation!
Morality and public health do not mix. This is why we should be happy to see that science will finally prevail over prejudice in the delicate issue of blood donation,…