tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7963035472241877292.post6416045760245905171..comments2024-02-17T03:22:53.951-05:00Comments on No Dogs or Anglophones: French versus English Volume 79Editorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05699783315783642466noreply@blogger.comBlogger197125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7963035472241877292.post-8222144541367839432013-04-02T16:28:40.540-04:002013-04-02T16:28:40.540-04:00I was in Paris last automn.
If you speak english ...I was in Paris last automn.<br /><br />If you speak english in Paris (or any other language...), you will not stand out of the crowd. Paris is a truely and incredibly international city and foreign languages are ubiquitous in the streets of Paris.<br /><br />" I actually visited [Montréal] in May of 2011 and was treated well, both in the city as well as the bus and Metro."<br /><br />Of course you were treated well. What did you expect? : ) How stunnig it is to see that the situation is not as bad as it is depicted on this blog.Michel Patricehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01355096630819086323noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7963035472241877292.post-14096571441208134382013-04-02T12:53:25.131-04:002013-04-02T12:53:25.131-04:00FROM ED
Cutie, Where did you get the bit about Dr....FROM ED<br />Cutie, Where did you get the bit about Dr. Couillard being a Federalist plant/? I've not seen anything like that and I don't think it's reality. EdAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7963035472241877292.post-82001175542758706212013-04-02T12:41:05.402-04:002013-04-02T12:41:05.402-04:00Student, do you plan your monthly budget based on ...Student, do you plan your monthly budget based on the amount of BS you'll receive in 2 months from now?<br /><br />I suppose you do.<br /><br />Maybe you should try to get a job instead, to make your own money instead of counting on hand outs from others.<br /><br />I know it seems like an alien concept to you, others not paying for everything you do. But believe me, you'll feel better about yourself afterwards. You might even learn a thing or two about life, and so there will be less need for you to come here to ask everyone stupid questions.Quebecker of Tree Stumpnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7963035472241877292.post-6607495607341700062013-04-02T11:25:15.296-04:002013-04-02T11:25:15.296-04:00Thanks Yannick, I appreciate it. And I will admit ...Thanks Yannick, I appreciate it. And I will admit what you say is true...it is nerve-wracking, but also exciting at the same time.Resident Evilhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18006023666779445318noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7963035472241877292.post-22315725605414126352013-04-02T10:54:44.485-04:002013-04-02T10:54:44.485-04:00I also read about the story about the supervised v...I also read about the story about the supervised visits forcing parents to speak in english. It was picked up by other Ontario newspapers and the Ontario government immediately took steps to remedy the situation. Jarry Streetnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7963035472241877292.post-57247423403733884942013-04-02T10:52:48.217-04:002013-04-02T10:52:48.217-04:00Shut up Student - you once again really are openin...Shut up Student - you once again really are opening your tireless bullshit-filled mouth and piping up about what you don't know about.<br /><br />Cat, I'm a big fan of the magazine and was very happy to see the three lads grow from a punk rock b/w street rag to glossy mag with worldwide distribution.<br /><br />I personally believe it couldn't have happened if they stayed in Montreal. The whole magazine is based on a multinational slant and Quebec simply can't provide that.Resident Evilhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18006023666779445318noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7963035472241877292.post-62588431553217673372013-04-02T10:15:03.869-04:002013-04-02T10:15:03.869-04:00FROM ED
Tony, if Charest's ministers had to ra...FROM ED<br />Tony, if Charest's ministers had to raise 100, 000 it was probably for themselves. Every politician needs money to run his own campaign.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7963035472241877292.post-36063077038907065132013-04-02T08:06:04.242-04:002013-04-02T08:06:04.242-04:00@tony
"Corruption there may have been with C...@tony<br /><br />"Corruption there may have been with Charest's Liberals but I don't think that includes him giving a mandate to his ministers to raise $100,000."<br /><br />of course this is not corruption per se. but i can't imagine the minsters stay will stay clean when they are imposed such a burden.<br /><br />"However, like Quebec, there are donation rules about the maximum one can give to a political party or campaign in the U.S. So a lot of time is spent on this."<br /><br />a lot of time would be spent on this, in reality in quebec bernard trépanier and franco fava took care of the money laundering for the liberals. so the ministers could focus on looking good and setting up their next carreer.studentnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7963035472241877292.post-41608995356476894232013-04-02T08:00:36.918-04:002013-04-02T08:00:36.918-04:00@r.s
dude of course montreal as been corrupted fo...@r.s<br /><br />dude of course montreal as been corrupted for a while, but we were discussing about the provincial level. and of course this level too has been corrupted for a while. charest was the captain when the thing drifted to un untolerable levels, that's it.<br /><br />next time if you want to defend charest try to come up with documents that are relevant to the provincial governance.<br /><br />also, the index that ranks canada 9th is a perception index. perception. do you know what perception is and how it can differ from reality? don't rely on this if you want to discuss actual corruption, mate.<br /><br />"it places Canada ahead of Iceland, (...) in terms of being free from corruption."<br /><br />false. it places it there in terms of perception of corruption. you don't like nuances right?studentnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7963035472241877292.post-4091308796629095222013-04-02T07:51:28.834-04:002013-04-02T07:51:28.834-04:00@the cat
"they would have been slammed had t...@the cat<br /><br />"they would have been slammed had they been so successful in English. Isn’t that a pity?"<br /><br />of course it would. but if we are going to make a list of all the things that would be a pity if they ever happen the blog will become irrelevant in no time, mate.<br /><br />studentnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7963035472241877292.post-39044498774381508202013-04-02T04:18:32.586-04:002013-04-02T04:18:32.586-04:00This is neither here nor there, but it places Cana...This is neither here nor there, but it places Canada ahead of Iceland, Luxembourg, Germany, Hong Kong, Barbados, Belgium, Japan, the UK, the US, Chile, Uruguay, the Bahamas, France, Austria, Ireland and Qatar in terms of being free from corruption.R.Shttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16447818623561947563noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7963035472241877292.post-3553005434859461912013-04-02T03:16:46.611-04:002013-04-02T03:16:46.611-04:00I don’t know how many other people remember the “V...I don’t know how many other people remember the “Voice of Montreal” magazine (later “Voice”) back in the mid-90s that was based out of Old Montreal, but eventually they got big enough to move down to New York City. There, NYC’s “The Village Voice” magazine got upset at their name so they changed it to “Vice” and have since become a very popular magazine available in 28 countries, as well as a popular <a href="http://www.vice.com/en_ca" rel="nofollow">website</a> and <a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/vice" rel="nofollow">YouTube channel</a>. Now, 19 years later, they are starting their own show on HBO in Canada and the US, exploring weirdo things all around the world:<br /><br />http://www.vice.com/en_ca/read/watch-our-show-next-friday-night-on-hbo<br /><br />I’m so glad for them, but I have a feeling that they wouldn’t have been so successful had they remained in Montreal. Not only that but they would have been slammed had they been so successful in English. Isn’t that a pity? Is it just my imagination or what?<br />The Cathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03505395670925907216noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7963035472241877292.post-22578724016733637702013-04-02T02:28:04.505-04:002013-04-02T02:28:04.505-04:00And just to keep things in perspective, according ...And just to keep things in perspective, according to <a href="http://www.transparency.org/cpi2012/results" rel="nofollow">Transparency International’s Corruption Perceptions Index 2012</a>, Canada ranked as the 9th least corrupt country in the world, with a score of 84/100. The top three countries, Denmark, Finland and New Zealand, tied with a score of 90.R.Shttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16447818623561947563noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7963035472241877292.post-88094607189491390542013-04-02T01:58:42.050-04:002013-04-02T01:58:42.050-04:00For those (he) who forever require further “facts ...For those (he) who forever require further “facts and sources” and need to see the Cannon Report with their very own eyes in order to believe it, I refer them to:<br /><br /><strong>The Cannon Report :</strong><br />http://www2.ville.montreal.qc.ca/archives/democratie/democratie_en/expo/reformistes-populistes/bureau-commissaires/piece9/index.shtm<br /><br /><strong>UN SIÈCLE DE CORRUPTION: </strong><br />http://www.journaldemontreal.com/2013/02/23/un-siecle-de-corruption<br /><br /><strong>Regards sur la corruption - Montréal, ville viciée : </strong><br />19 janvier 2013 | Stéphane Baillargeon<br />http://www.ledevoir.com/politique/montreal/368818/regards-sur-la-corruption-montreal-ville-viciee<br /><br /><strong>Portrait des abus et des irrégularités existant dans l’administration civique de Montréal [1909] </strong><br />http://tolkien2008.wordpress.com/2013/02/05/portrait-des-abus-et-des-irregularites-existant-dans-ladministration-civique-de-montreal-1909/<br /><br />So yeah… obviously, all of this was Jean Charest’s fault. Obviously.<br />R.Shttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16447818623561947563noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7963035472241877292.post-26034675202714560682013-04-02T01:54:31.271-04:002013-04-02T01:54:31.271-04:00As I’ve said before, both the PQ and Liberal Quebe...As I’ve said before, both the PQ and Liberal Quebec governments have been corrupt since well before the Maurice Duplessis era (1930s/40s/50s), in fact far longer than that. Anybody who thinks the Liberals invented corruption must be a snot-nosed twentysomething who thinks they know it all.<br /><br />By now, we are all well-acquainted with El Studento’s tiresome refrain about corruption being a newly-invented phenomenon that suddenly flourished under the Liberals. This is, of course, due to the separatist blinkers that he wears and no facts will ever change his mind. For the rest of us, however, this recent feature piece about corruption inquiries in Montreal through the ages may prove to be a reality check:<br /><br /><strong>1909 Royal Commission: Montreal “Saturated with Corruption”<br />MARCH 25, 2013 | BY ALANAH HEFFEZ</strong><br /><br /><em>Please go to this link to see the original article with its accompanying images:<br />http://spacing.ca/montreal/2013/03/25/1909-montreal-saturated-with-corruption/</em><br /><br /><strong>Montreal Corruption Retrospectives are all the rage these days</strong>, and for the spring 2013 edition of Spacing Magazine, which was released last Saturday, I put together a feature piece on corruption inquiries through the ages. Check Spacing Montreal each day this week for the latest “episode” in this century-long soap opera.<br /><br /><em>“Il semble que le déroulement d’une enquête soit un processus cyclique où l’on passe du scandale à l’indifférence.”</em><br /><br />“It seems that inquiry proceedings are a cyclical process in which we pass from scandal to indifference”, writes Jean-Paul Brodeur in his book <em>La délinquence de l’ordre</em>, published in 1984 (which was the source of much of the info here).<br /><br /><strong>The “Royal Commission” of 1909 may have been the first to invoke the monarchy, but it was not the first probe into corruption in Montreal, nor even the first of the century. Inquiries in 1864, 1877, 1894, 1902 and 1905 had been attempted, ignored, abandoned, aborted, and hushed up, respectively. </strong>So it is little surprise that by 1909 citizens were clamouring for a general and complete scrutiny of all seven departments of city hall (police, fire, roads, hygiene and statistics, finances, water, and lighting).<br /><br />Judge Lawrence Cannon, who headed the inquiry, concluded that <strong>city hall was “saturated with corruption,” </strong>with no less than 25% of the city’s revenues making their way into the pockets of elected aldermen’s friends and family.<br /><br />For instance, construction contracts were sub-divided to bypass calls for tender, then handed over to firms in the aldermen’s inner circles. Furthermore, dozens of liquor-license infractions had been ignored when business owners contributed to election coffers, and a position in the police, detective or fire department could be negotiated for about $25.<br /><br /><strong>Cannon’s scathing report, which convicted 23 of the city’s 40 aldermen, was published in <em>La Presse</em> shortly before the 1910 municipal election. </strong>Anticipating the political consequences of his revelations, Cannon specified that the next elected city council would be responsible for implementing his recommendations.<br /><br />The inquiry had far-reaching implications: the provincial government reduced the number of elected aldermen by half, a board of commissioners – which later became the executive committee – was created to oversee municipal services including the police force, and the police were endowed with a “morality squad.”<br /><br />The citizens’ committee that had launched the inquiry ran their own candidates and won the 1910 election by a landslide. But with new faces in office, the inquiry was quickly forgotten: none of those convicted in the report faced civil or criminal prosecution.<br />R.Shttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16447818623561947563noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7963035472241877292.post-39483597463911993762013-04-02T00:22:16.129-04:002013-04-02T00:22:16.129-04:00Student writes:
"all his ministers had to ga...Student writes:<br /><br />"all his ministers had to gather 100k each a year to the party treasure chest. that's asking for trouble. seems there's none of that anymore. big difference."<br /><br />Corruption there may have been with Charest's Liberals but I don't think that includes him giving a mandate to his ministers to raise $100,000.<br /><br />Politicians in both Canada and the U.S. have to raise money for campaigns. I think that as a requirement for being a minister, Charest gave them this amount each to raise under the existing laws of Quebec. And that's a pretty hard thing to do seeing as there are very strict limits as to how much each individual can give. Now, whether there are any "favours" proferred by the ministers in exchange for those donations is another matter.<br /><br />I remember reading an article about Al Franken, the comedian from Saturday Night Live and now a U.S. senator from Minnesota. When he was interviewed about his introduction to politics, he stated that what surprised him was how much of his day was devoted to just raising money. Now, Franken is a man of means; probably a millionaire many times over. However, like Quebec, there are donation rules about the maximum one can give to a political party or campaign in the U.S. So a lot of time is spent on this.Tony Kondakshttp://www.whycanadamustend.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7963035472241877292.post-77870288955655941152013-04-01T21:13:51.559-04:002013-04-01T21:13:51.559-04:00FROM ED
Can no one here see what the trolls are do...FROM ED<br />Can no one here see what the trolls are doing. They are getting you to repeat useless points that are dishonest or open lies.<br /><br />Student twisted my words to say "you've got this one right ed. corruption level was much worse under the liberals" which is the opposite to what I said. He gets Tree Stump to repeat it. So the untrue statement that I never made is posted three times<br />still totally untrue. He is using you like pawns, please ignore the trolls. EdAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7963035472241877292.post-25516720687623373312013-04-01T21:09:31.636-04:002013-04-01T21:09:31.636-04:00what should marceau do with equalization liam, if ...what should marceau do with equalization liam, if not balance his budget? would you prefer if he spent it on more social programs?studentnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7963035472241877292.post-61206159516937905482013-04-01T21:01:26.577-04:002013-04-01T21:01:26.577-04:00FROM ED
Cebeuq, I'm on board with everything y...FROM ED<br />Cebeuq, I'm on board with everything you say. I'm only asking that you wait until there's some proof of corruption before you accuse someone of it. EdAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7963035472241877292.post-7485381644118436652013-04-01T18:42:30.884-04:002013-04-01T18:42:30.884-04:00Thanks Liam but the troll seems to like to pick at...Thanks Liam but the troll seems to like to pick at me for some reason - anyway, do as I do and don't bother with him - he just adds to the problems we already have and contributes nothing to the conversations about the province. He does not even pretend to understand what the discussion is all about.Cutie003https://www.blogger.com/profile/09298173716590278098noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7963035472241877292.post-11131982689914363182013-04-01T18:38:15.106-04:002013-04-01T18:38:15.106-04:00Elections in November - we'll have to wait to ...Elections in November - we'll have to wait to see if we can do better I guess. He doesn't seem to get much done with all the money we pay in taxes. His first priority always seems to be to pretty the place up (superficial things) rather than tackle the problems with access to Ottawa and other areas that we need so badly.Cutie003https://www.blogger.com/profile/09298173716590278098noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7963035472241877292.post-273133161712477632013-04-01T17:55:44.991-04:002013-04-01T17:55:44.991-04:00Separatist Marceau plays down using equalization f...Separatist Marceau plays down using equalization funds to balance budget<br />http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/pq-plays-down-impact-of-federal-funds-in-balancing-budget/article10484307/<br />“On a budget of $90-billion we are talking about a small amount,”<br />"The increase in equalization payments stems mainly from improvements in the Ontario economy."<br />What an incompetent idiot. Liamnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7963035472241877292.post-10471827488213005242013-04-01T17:51:11.397-04:002013-04-01T17:51:11.397-04:00Their is a difference at complaining at politician...Their is a difference at complaining at politician than at life. Listen many people complain about Redford. Does that mean they hate Alberta? No. Liamnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7963035472241877292.post-5871557606855627962013-04-01T17:43:19.950-04:002013-04-01T17:43:19.950-04:00cutie
Be happy with your life in quebec. You live ...cutie<br />Be happy with your life in quebec. You live there, you love it there.<br />Embrace the french cutie...<br />1,000's of folks, English speaking folks, live in the Gatineau area and LOVE their lives there, speaking and living english.<br />What else do you need, cutie?<br />Why do you always complain?<br />Why dont you get a better cause in life to fight for? Why do you always attempt to subvert quebec into what your conception about a uber-english quebec world should be?UN GARS BIEN SYMPATHIQUE DE CALGARYnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7963035472241877292.post-41760888065409301262013-04-01T16:43:10.371-04:002013-04-01T16:43:10.371-04:00You could be right Liam but I wouldn't bet on ...You could be right Liam but I wouldn't bet on it - many, many people would like to get this whole debate over and done with and get on with their lives - not just us. As you know, I'm all for partition and if the Pontiac is the first to go, I would support it all the way. Cutie003https://www.blogger.com/profile/09298173716590278098noreply@blogger.com