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Last week English-speaking Quebecers were gently reminded of the very important role we serve in this fall’s provincial election. Élections Quebec asked if an exception
I am far from a political analyst. I’ve spent days reading and listening to pundits’ two cents on what will or won’t happen in this
I think a local newspaper subscription should cost the same as a basic Netflix subscription. Change my mind. I certainly value my local newspaper more
It was 8:30 a.m. last Tuesday. I was scrambling to get an editorial done before we went to print when my phone buzzed in my
The earliest example of art, as we are aware, is at least 67,800 years old, and lives on a cave wall on the Indonesian island
It was a jarring first day on the job. Over two years ago, freshly arrived in the Pontiac from Nova Scotia, my first assignment was
When Lorianne Bertrand was in Grade 3, she made a go at teaching her grandmother to read. Still herself new to making meaning of vowels
For the past week, as we all witnessed the climate apocalypse play out across the tiny screens in our hands and sucked back the smoke-heavy
The title of this piece is borrowed from the influential 1985 book by NYU professor Neil Postman, who wrote about the dangers of a society
Last month in France, some 40 people drowned in the span of six days while trying to cool off their bodies during a deadly heat
Last week English-speaking Quebecers were gently reminded of the very important role we serve in this fall’s provincial election. Élections Quebec asked if an exception could be made to Bill 96 to allow for voting information to be sent in
I am far from a political analyst. I’ve spent days reading and listening to pundits’ two cents on what will or won’t happen in this Quebec election, who has an advantage over whom, who is best positioned to defend Quebec
I think a local newspaper subscription should cost the same as a basic Netflix subscription. Change my mind. I certainly value my local newspaper more than a streaming subscription. My local newspaper keeps me informed about my community and connected
It was 8:30 a.m. last Tuesday. I was scrambling to get an editorial done before we went to print when my phone buzzed in my pocket with a CBC news alert. “Sunken Nazi warships are resurfacing as Europe’s drought deepens,”
The earliest example of art, as we are aware, is at least 67,800 years old, and lives on a cave wall on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi. The image, created by blowing a red pigment over a hand pressed against
It was a jarring first day on the job. Over two years ago, freshly arrived in the Pontiac from Nova Scotia, my first assignment was to attend the McDowell Spring Fair. I remember the quizzical look on one volunteer’s face
When Lorianne Bertrand was in Grade 3, she made a go at teaching her grandmother to read. Still herself new to making meaning of vowels and consonants strung together in seemingly nonsensical combinations, she figured out how to teach this
For the past week, as we all witnessed the climate apocalypse play out across the tiny screens in our hands and sucked back the smoke-heavy air that followed, I was imagining using this editorial space to somehow process the terror
The title of this piece is borrowed from the influential 1985 book by NYU professor Neil Postman, who wrote about the dangers of a society guzzling easy-to-digest info-tainment on television as opposed to the more difficult task of conventional reading
Last month in France, some 40 people drowned in the span of six days while trying to cool off their bodies during a deadly heat wave. Some people didn’t know how to swim. In some places, swimming wasn’t safe. When
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