1 Small Lie : Martin Dockery A year ago, I found a wallet tossed onto what is quite possibly the only bit of lawn on Peel Street in the concrete jungle of Griffintown. It was [read on]
Cinema Sous Les Etoiles is a great way to watch a film outdoors for free in a unique and intimate way. [read on]
It’s Looney Toons in Canada’s Parliament these days with Pierre Poilievre [read on]
Errol Morris is a respected American filmmaker who, over the course of his long career, has produced, directed, and written an array of important, unique, and thought provoking films. Included in his filmography are the [read on]
The new documentary The Corporate Coup d’État explores the current state of American politics by shining a revealing spotlight on modern corporatism. An ideology rooted in fascism, modern corporatism involves the government being controlled not [read on]
Phi Centre features cartoons about US and world politics by beloved comic [read on]
The new film Vice arrives on the big screen courtesy of writer/director Adam McKay. It brought together most of the same filmmaking team that dissected the 2005 U.S mortgage housing crisis and explored the inner [read on]
By the end of the 1950s, Maurice Duplessis had been in politics for thirty-two years of his life, eighteen of which had been as Premier of Québec. From humble beginnings as a politician’s son and [read on]
Frank Roncarelli was a businessman. The owner of a highly successful restaurant on Crescent Street, Quaff Café, Roncarelli had accumulated a certain wealth. He was also a member of the Jehovah’s Witnesses, a sect of [read on]
John Diefenbaker’s law practice that began in a shack that he had built on a vacant spot of land and ended with his competitor being run out of town. His political career began in the [read on]
Natural gas, a fossil fuel substance that occurs naturally in the soil, can be harnessed to power homes and vehicles and is generally less toxic to the environment than other fossil fuels in the same [read on]
In 1956, while the big movers and shakers of the next generation such as Jean Lesage and René Lévesque were already in politics or moving towards that goal, Robert Bourassa’s story was only beginning. Recognized [read on]
Wilbert Coffin was firstly a Gaspésien. A prospector by trade, his chance run in with three men and six hundred dollars led to one of the most hotly-debated cases in Canadian legal history. Three Pennsylvanian [read on]
As Maurice Duplessis reigned the world politics, there was another Maurice who reigned the hearts and minds of sports fanatics: Maurice Richard, the star hockey player of the Montreal Canadiens and seen by many of [read on]
It’s officially tax time in Canada, and you might be wondering why residents of Québec must fill out two income tax forms. Surprisingly, this is one of Maurice Duplessis’ many legacies to the people of [read on]
September 1952 marked a leap in Canadian media: Radio-Canada marked its first television broadcast. Its English counterpart, the CBC, broadcasting days after Radio-Canada’s historic transmission. Television, as a technology, started production for domestic consumption in [read on]
Well into his third term as Premier, Maurice Duplessis‘ campaign to electrify the countryside was going well, while his operation that imprisoned hundreds of thousands of children by declaring them mentally unstable was being kept [read on]
Maurice Duplessis, back in power after a stunning election, was once again at the very top of the provincial politics pecking order. Many things had changed as he sat as the Opposition leader: women were [read on]
The 1944 election saw old and new brought together. The first provincial election in which women could vote and where there were not only one but two new political parties that won seats, the election [read on]
The race to create an atomic bomb started shortly after World War II began, with the United States spearheading the Manhattan Project. The USSR, acting on intelligence that the United States was starting research on [read on]
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