Etiket: writings
Writings | The dark side of the energy transition
The promise of a carbon-neutral world thanks to renewable energy hides a darker reality, which rarely makes the headlines. Over the next 30 years, we will have to extirpate as…
Writings | Rehabilitating modesty, in the midst of an epidemic of narcissism
Interview with the French psychiatrist Christophe André, who made himself known through various works on meditation and who has just been published by Odile Jacob Value yourself and forget yourselfa…
Writings | Another face of a great conflict
The ICI Première show Today the story, is so popular that the publisher Septentrion has grouped various subjects into 13 thematic books. The most recent is inspired by the fifteen…
Writings | Words against bombs
Who writes letters these days? Who takes the time to put enough words on paper, or on screen, to express their feelings to those close to them? Who still sends…
Writings | Vladimir Putin’s other war
Vladimir Putin is at war. The whole planet knows it, sees it. He is at war with Ukraine. Against NATO. And against the political opposition in Russia. Another war of…
Writings | Die on your terms
In End of life care, who decides? Jocelyne Saint-Arnaud offers us a toolbox to properly prepare for the big departure. Professor emeritus of the University of Montreal, the ethicist invites…
JoeyStarr returns to the stage to take on the great writings of anti-racist literature
Four years after “Elephant man”, JoeyStarr returns to the theater, in Lille, with the same director. A literary and poetic epic, from the beginnings of colonialism and slavery to the…
Writings – Living in beauty | Rethink the places we live
Aesthetics, of course, but also resilience and the common good are at the heart of Pierre Thibault’s reflection on buildings. In a second essay devoted to beauty, the architect dialogues…
Writings | Not just for fun!
You, who are reading this section as Christmas approaches, would like a remarkable but accessible essay recommendation whose universal themes can reach everyone? Updated yesterday at 12:00 p.m. You are…
Writings | Democracy… and die-hard Quebecers
“We hear everywhere that democracy is going badly”, that it is “in crisis”, even “in danger”, points out the co-director of The state of QuebecJosselyn Guillarmou, at the very start…
Writings | French: what decline?
Is French really threatened in Quebec? To those who answer yes without hesitation, a collective of Quebec authors retorts: not so fast! In an essay of nearly 500 pages, released…
Writings | India and Quebec: tenuous but surprising links
These are two former colonies that are a priori very distant, geographically and culturally, but where certain points of contact and mutual influences turn out to be unsuspected: India and…
Writings | Changing the world at the scale of cities
In Adapt. Tomorrow: resilient cities, the former mayor of the borough of Rosemont–La Petite-Patrie takes a step back to think about the city of tomorrow. Now a consultant, François William…
Writings | The shortage? However, we were told so!
If the worker shortage hitting Quebec was a fuel shortage, we would have seen a light on the dashboard a long time ago telling us that the fuel level was…
Writings | The courage of Iranian women
It’s difficult to tell the story of the revolt of Iranian women when the borders are closed to journalists. The anthropologist and researcher Chowra Makaremi has mapped the revolutionary movements…
Writings | More democracy and money for our cities
The role of Quebec municipalities has changed over the last 30 years. They have become more present in the lives of citizens, they have more responsibilities and their residents turn…
Writings | Miracle or mirage, the electric car?
Is the electric car the solution to the problems caused by its gasoline cousin? This is what the commercial hype about this long-neglected form of motorization suggests. By tempering these…
Writings | To put an end to the “great replacement”
In his book The declinistsAlain Roy dismantles the twisted rhetoric of the proponents of the “great replacement”, Éric Zemmour and Mathieu Bock-Côté in the lead. Updated yesterday at 1:00 p.m.…
Writings | Lotbinière, forgotten hero of New France
Long before being a region of Quebec, Lotbinière was a historical character. Journalist Dave Noël looks back on the fate of this adventurous engineer, who was at the forefront of…
Writings / Elon Musk | Visionary, powerful, brilliant and… toxic
Let’s start with an irrefutable observation: Elon Musk is a fascinating person, and, inevitably, his biography is too. Especially since it was written by a renowned expert in this type…