• Voters just can't get no satisfaction – from any level of government

  6 Décembre 2012 - 10 h 42

  A recent study conducted by Samara, a non-profit organization aimed at improving political participation in this country, revealed that Canadians’ satisfaction with democracy has plummeted to new lows. Only 55 percent of us are satisfied with...

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• Why naming your child Hashtag is a bad idea

  30 Novembre 2012 - 14 h 16

  While I’m undeniably social-media obsessed, I’ve never been tempted to name a pet after a tag used to identify a key word or topic of interest on Twitter, let alone any offspring.

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• Israel-Hamas peace is temporary as long as both sides refuse to acknowledge one another

  21 Novembre 2012 - 14 h 34

  Recently, I went to bed, hopeful that a possible Gaza ceasefire might be in the works, only to wake up to news that a bomb explosion on a civilian bus in Tel Aviv had injured 21 people. The attack, the first of its kind since 2006, indicated that...

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• Montreal: the city our politicians don’t deserve

  15 Novembre 2012 - 11 h 28

  Last week, just as Quebecers’ favourite soap opera, the Charbonneau Commission, was taking a break, I decided to take off on a long-overdue visit to Toronto to visit friends and family. It’s a trip I undertake at least a few times a year,...

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• Why, it could only be Obama!

  7 Novembre 2012 - 14 h 24

  I spent the evening of the U.S. elections with like-minded friends in a downtown bar, tentatively awaiting the results, nervously listening to CNN journalists explaining and analyzing, furiously tweeting and re-tweeting the stats, and eventually...

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• Corruption casts a dark shadow over Montreal

  1 Novembre 2012 - 12 h 05

  I started off following every single detail of the Charbonneau Commission on TV, in print, and on my Twitter feed, but lately I find myself drifting away – mainly for my own sanity.

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• Can we just stop with the Blame Game already?

  24 Octobre 2012 - 16 h 54

  Last week, former City of Montreal engineer Gilles Surprenant took the stand at the Charbonneau Commission and began to describe a 20-year career of inflating the cost estimates of public contracts in return for cash.

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• There’s no way to legislate compassion

  18 Octobre 2012 - 11 h 44

  Just like many of you, I sat transfixed for eight long minutes and watched Amanda Todd’s online cry for help. Five weeks after posting that video, the B.C. teenager was found dead, having committed suicide when she saw no end to her anguish.

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• Constable 728 underscores the necessity for police not to police their own

  11 Octobre 2012 - 11 h 08

  Ah, the Yin and Yan of life... Just mere days after the Montreal Police Brotherhood announced it was “seriously uneasy” with the Tremblay administration, essentially implying a motion of non-confidence, Constable 728 (of the, infamous by now,...

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• Time for Tremblay to go!

  5 Octobre 2012 - 10 h 51

  The sheer scope of the corruption here in Quebec has been hinted on for so long now, we had almost grown accustomed to treating it like an urban legend. The roads were a disaster, pieces of concrete were crashing on our heads, the province’s...

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