The votes are in! Or rather, they were in a few weeks ago, but in this age of electronic voting you can never be too […]
Author: Jason C. McLean
2012 Year-in-Review: News
We always strive to offer a healthy mix of local, national and international content. In 2012, though, local Montreal and Quebec news took on international […]
728 minutes of fame
Some cops think they’re above the laws they are charged with enforcing, that’s nothing new. But now it looks like the Montreal Police force (SPVM) thinks it’s above the unwritten laws of celebrity and fame. Warhol said that everyone gets 15 minutes in the spotlight. Stéfanie Trudeau, better known as Constable 728, used those up well before the Maple Spring went on its summer break. So why did she turn up again in the news mid-October…
It’s not an earthquake until Facebook and Twitter say so
Tuesday night I was cat sitting for my mother when all of a sudden it seemed like someone had turned on a jackhammer in the apartment downstairs. When it stopped, I rushed to both balconies to see if anything was happening on the street below. Nothing.
Justin Trudeau wants to be prime minister—too bad it’s not the ’70s
On Tuesday a two-term MP announced his bid for leadership of the third-placed party in the House of Commons. News, for sure, but hardly the main headline.
If Harper is Statesman of the Year, then it must be 1984
George Orwell taught us that sometimes, with the right reinforcement, war is peace. This week, the Appeal of Conscience Foundation in New York proved that […]
#QC2012: Not the headline we were expecting
It was a tense election, but I didn’t think it would end this way. In the alley, behind Metropolis, one person on the ground, held there by cops making his gun visible to the cameras, another dead and another injured. PQ leader Pauline Marois, newly minted PM elect rushed off stage by security mid-speech. She had just won a minority government…
Quebec 2012: A bunch of channels but nothing’s on
Ever been asked if you’d rather contract herpes, gonorrhoea or crabs? That’s pretty much the question facing progressive Quebec voters on September 4th, at least when it comes to what the mainstream media (and TVA in particular) see as the three main parties. I’m beginning to understand why so many politically active students are considering not voting…
Farewell Montreal Mirror
In what surely is a peak time for Montreal culture, with festivals and marches everywhere, the city as a whole and the English-speaking progressive and artistic communities in particular suffered a major loss yesterday. After 27 years, the Montreal Mirror abruptly stopped publication. News came first from a press release by Sun Media, a division of the Mirror’s parent company Quebecor. Then the alt weekly’s site redirected to a message from the editors thanking readers and contributors and stating that…
The city’s newest festival
Montreal’s newest festival has already begun. It runs every night, features music, athleticism and is very inclusive. It visits all neighbourhoods and in just its […]