tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7963035472241877292.post7932374838849464554..comments2024-02-17T03:22:53.951-05:00Comments on No Dogs or Anglophones: Léger Poll: Smoke, Mirrors and Statistical ErrorsEditorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05699783315783642466noreply@blogger.comBlogger102125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7963035472241877292.post-60447704379054959722013-06-07T02:48:12.805-04:002013-06-07T02:48:12.805-04:00FROM ED Re:Arvid Pradhan
...FROM ED Re:Arvid Pradhan<br />Either way there's a lot left unexplained. Why would a turban make a difference to a soccer player. It would make sense if helmet's were required but the law seems to be only against the religion. One would think that if God wanted the turban worn at all times he would have created one permanently attached. Then the seps could not object. There is a Sikh teen on the next street to me who takes it off and stuffs it in his bag on the way to school. If his parents knew............ EdAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7963035472241877292.post-165039437445717782013-06-06T23:59:05.048-04:002013-06-06T23:59:05.048-04:00I suspect Arvind Pradhan's letter to the (Gaze...I suspect Arvind Pradhan's letter to the (Gazette) editor is meant as sarcasm, a way to mock the Que. Soccer Federation's policy. At least, that's how I read it.Ex-MTLer1642noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7963035472241877292.post-28214639742994182952013-06-06T22:38:27.793-04:002013-06-06T22:38:27.793-04:00@michel
i think impugning motives is what you'...@michel<br /><br />i think impugning motives is what you're looking for, mate.<br /><br />many such examples here.<br /><br />dan delmar's got a few:<br /><br />"...the Parti Québécois leadership is plotting to ensure the fall is as politically tumultuous and hostile as possible."<br /><br />"PQ’s next task will be to fabricate a province-wide identity crisis; a tidal wave of intolerance, which they hope to ride into the next election campaign..."<br /><br />cutie003's is a faithful as well:<br /><br />"...then they will blame that on being part of Canada!"<br /><br />un gars bs de frankfort:<br /><br />"A separatist friendly company which will fudge numbers."<br /><br />all good examples of bad arguments.studentnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7963035472241877292.post-67823449944415147972013-06-06T17:38:14.587-04:002013-06-06T17:38:14.587-04:00No EdNo EdCutie003https://www.blogger.com/profile/09298173716590278098noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7963035472241877292.post-70115525437863072602013-06-06T17:26:23.430-04:002013-06-06T17:26:23.430-04:00FROM ED
Are soccer players not required to wear h...FROM ED <br />Are soccer players not required to wear helmets? EdAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7963035472241877292.post-8316043656430416512013-06-06T17:22:25.760-04:002013-06-06T17:22:25.760-04:00FROM ED
Liam, That ship has sailed. "this bus...FROM ED<br />Liam, That ship has sailed. "this businessmen company would be exposed as a fraud, and Leger as a sleazy business owner."<br />That's exactly what Editor has done. He has also exposed the undependency of polls. EdAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7963035472241877292.post-18748340036511855072013-06-06T17:12:04.188-04:002013-06-06T17:12:04.188-04:00The Cat,
Google Translate gave "trial of int...The Cat,<br /><br />Google Translate gave "trial of intent", which didn't seem right. I did not want to take time to look for a better translation, so I just commented in french, as I explained in my previous comment. There is nothing more to see into this.<br /><br />"... I will indulge you anyway, even if I suspect that the examples you seek are very likely meant to be used to cast aspersions upon anglophones."<br /><br />This is a nice and ironic example of a "procès d'intention"... : )<br /><br /><br />P.S.<br /><br />"A “procès d’intentions” has no exact equivalent expression in English (perhaps because the English are more virtuous and tend not to indulge in this as much as the French? LOL)."<br /><br />There was no exact equivalent expression in french for "french kiss" (until the recently accepted and little used "galoche"...), but it is not because we are not into it french kissing... :) (There is of course "Rouler une pelle" which means what it means, but lacks elegance...)Michel Patricehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01355096630819086323noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7963035472241877292.post-10209275138849551332013-06-06T17:08:03.572-04:002013-06-06T17:08:03.572-04:00What's your definition of a real country?What's your definition of a real country?R.Shttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16447818623561947563noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7963035472241877292.post-50274801965651819392013-06-06T15:03:36.078-04:002013-06-06T15:03:36.078-04:00Wow - we have to wonder where in the world we are ...Wow - we have to wonder where in the world we are going. What does wearing a turban have to do with the kid scoring goals? What am I missing here? Cutie003https://www.blogger.com/profile/09298173716590278098noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7963035472241877292.post-34456234317476911922013-06-06T14:48:41.476-04:002013-06-06T14:48:41.476-04:00Arvind Pradhan
Letter to the Gazette
The current...Arvind Pradhan<br /><br />Letter to the Gazette<br /><br />The current uproar against the courageous stand taken by the Quebec Soccer Federation on Sikh players wearing turbans needs to cool down. I applaud QSF for taking this far-reaching decision. As a former boys soccer coach, I have first-hand experienced the humiliation that Sikh players can inflict on their opponents in soccer (and in other sports). I distinctly remember a boy named Sandhu scoring five goals against my U-12 boys team and drumming us out of the pitch.<br /><br />This must not be allowed to continue. We must disallow Sikh players in every sport, under any flimsy excuse.<br /><br />No matter if the rest of the world laughs at us and considers us racists, xenophobes and intolerant.<br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7963035472241877292.post-56143478882529094292013-06-06T12:46:32.229-04:002013-06-06T12:46:32.229-04:00OMG - These separatists have so much nerve - every...OMG - These separatists have so much nerve - everyone else in the whole country is to be bilingual to get a job but they themselves do not have to learn the other official language - by law. James Wolfe, our once in awhile contributor, may have struck the gold vein in his posts. No wonder the ROC are fed up with this stinking province. Why should be these highly paid people have to be bilingual when quebec wants English completely wiped out, legally? Until quebec stops isolating the anglophones and allophones in this province, the unilingual anglophones in the ROC should be able to hold any job in any government position that they like. I hope some highly qualified person that was interested in these job(s) takes this bilingual nonsense to the highest legal authority in the country based on discrimination. Cutie003https://www.blogger.com/profile/09298173716590278098noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7963035472241877292.post-10565044910797194672013-06-06T11:43:57.594-04:002013-06-06T11:43:57.594-04:00Leger is the second sleaziest businessmen I heard ...Leger is the second sleaziest businessmen I heard about. Does he have any pride in his work? How low is his business ethic? I am going to write to Leger Marketing to ask for comment. If this story turns out to be true, this businessmen company would be exposed as a fraud, and Leger as a sleazy business owner.Liamnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7963035472241877292.post-49396475324254466932013-06-06T10:25:13.079-04:002013-06-06T10:25:13.079-04:00FROM ED
Weirdo says, "I wonder whether your e...FROM ED<br />Weirdo says, "I wonder whether your employer knows that they have hired such a strange individual as you are and whether they are aware whether they are spending their money on you wisely or not."<br />They do know, that's why he's in Germany. Ed<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7963035472241877292.post-27291130822757569272013-06-06T09:54:28.600-04:002013-06-06T09:54:28.600-04:00"It’s extremely bizarre."
Tout à fait à..."It’s extremely bizarre."<br /><br />Tout à fait à l'image du faux pays qu'est le canada,non? <br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7963035472241877292.post-21974088076581897832013-06-06T06:33:22.129-04:002013-06-06T06:33:22.129-04:00Say what? Just like the other loudmouth troll, you...Say what? Just like the other loudmouth troll, you are not very sympathetic at all by insisting on writing in French on an English blog about anglophones. <br /><br />Why do you do this anyway? It’s extremely bizarre.<br /><br />There are plenty of French blogs where you can mock francophones in French, as is obviously your wont.<br /><br />I wonder whether your employer knows that they have hired such a strange individual as you are and whether they are aware whether they are spending their money on you wisely or not.<br /><br />I assume that your obvious pride in mocking people means that you won’t hesitate to identify yourself. Right?<br />What a weirdo he isnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7963035472241877292.post-48383827833814829732013-06-06T06:04:07.293-04:002013-06-06T06:04:07.293-04:00... if it *were* all the same, all the time...
In...... if it <strong>*were*</strong> all the same, all the time...<br /><br />In the absence of Troy's pedantry, I feel obliged to point out this very common misuse of the conditional, for the common good. Yes, I do. Sorry. (Not really) Winky face ;)Troy's Alter-Egonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7963035472241877292.post-82303854088241113502013-06-06T06:03:54.979-04:002013-06-06T06:03:54.979-04:00Ha ha ha!
Les policiers de Montreal se sont trouve...Ha ha ha!<br />Les policiers de Montreal se sont trouves un nouveau trucs contre les carres rouges et autres manifestants anarcho-marxistes:<br />http://www.lapresse.ca/actualites/montreal/201306/05/01-4658166-montreal-confirme-lachat-dun-camion-blinde.phpUN GARS BIEN SYMPATHIQUE DE FRANKFORTnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7963035472241877292.post-17682521431852232972013-06-06T04:36:13.309-04:002013-06-06T04:36:13.309-04:00Cool. Although, if I can offer a word of advice, d...Cool. Although, if I can offer a word of advice, don’t forget about that thing about pluralizing numbers incorrectly and then you’ll be all set… :)<br /><br />Remember:<br />One dozen, two dozen, three dozen…<br />One hundred, two hundred, three hundred…<br />One thousand, two thousand, three thousand…<br />One million, two billion, three trillion…<br /><br />I don’t know why; that’s just the way it is. *shrug*<br />The Cathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03505395670925907216noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7963035472241877292.post-26695658007671733242013-06-06T03:01:42.137-04:002013-06-06T03:01:42.137-04:00Not only that, but there were whole generations wh...Not only that, but there were whole generations who somehow believed that Tchaikovsky, Rudolph Nureyev, Marcel Proust, John Maynard Keynes, Jean Cocteau, John Gielgud, Christian Dior, Cole Porter, Jean Genet, Noel Coward, Tennessee Williams, Alan Turing, Eleanor Roosevelt, James Dean, Rock Hudson, Tab Hunter, Anthony Perkins, Dirk Bogarde, Malcolm Forbes, Yves Saint-Laurent, Gore Vidal, Andy Warhol, Richard Chamberlain, Long John Baldry, Dick Sargent (“Darren Stephens” on Bewitched), Will Geer (“Grandpa Walton”), Ellen Corby (“Grandma Walton”), Canadian Raymond Burr (“Perry Mason”/”Ironside”), Robert Reed (“Mr. Brady”), George Takei (“Sulu” on Star Trek), Paul Lynde, Charles Nelson Reilly, Elton John, and Liberace were actually heterosexual. At least they didn’t have to change their names to feel accepted. Oy vey!The Cathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03505395670925907216noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7963035472241877292.post-71492430597374741972013-06-06T01:20:28.466-04:002013-06-06T01:20:28.466-04:00Evelyn Samantha Donis is a cowardly franco-suprema...Evelyn Samantha Donis is a cowardly franco-supremacist who does not assume responsibility for her actions. Typical.The Conquesthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07377113471835829077noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7963035472241877292.post-41091342992682723442013-06-06T00:48:51.643-04:002013-06-06T00:48:51.643-04:00Yannick: My apologies, however there is no need to...Yannick: My apologies, however there is no need to feel defensive; I know that French is more difficult to write correctly. In fact, your French is far, far better than a great many unilingual francophones in Quebec who are unable to write French properly, and this despite some of them being proud anti-English nationalists. To clarify, I meant to say that your English is at least as good, if not better, than your French. The Cathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03505395670925907216noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7963035472241877292.post-76803643174787965292013-06-06T00:31:40.228-04:002013-06-06T00:31:40.228-04:00FROM ED
You mention the Jews changing names to fee...FROM ED<br />You mention the Jews changing names to feel accepted in Zion. Many American Jews changed names for acceptance by people in show business. Jack Benny, Edgar Bergan, Milton Berle, George Burns, Woody Allen, Carl Reiner , Phil Silvers, Mel Brooks, Danny Kay and even Bob Dylan changed their names to what they felt would be more useful to them. One can't help but noticing that Jews created the basis of the American entertainment industry we enjoy today. Irving Berlin , one of the greatest song writers even started ASCAP in 1914 to prevent Artist from being ripped These were great men who dedicated themselves to giving enjoyment to others. Whatever the reason for changing names it sure worked for them. EdAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7963035472241877292.post-85429234710548969062013-06-06T00:28:25.649-04:002013-06-06T00:28:25.649-04:00So creating the false “visage” of a French-only Qu...So creating the false “visage” of a French-only Quebec has not pacified the ethnic nationalists. Quelle surprise. The passage that stands out for me:<br /><br /><strong>Bill 14, like Bill 101, does little, if anything to strengthen French. Instead, it compels citizens to accept a linguistic duality or conflict that wouldn’t otherwise exist without government intervention. French is not stronger, it’s just more visible in the most superficial sense. That’s Bill 101’s big lie: Despite conventional wisdom in Quebec, French has not become more relevant or vital in the past three decades. English, along with other languages and cultures, have just been weakened, leaving the false impression that the langue de Molière is flourishing. It’s addition by subtraction.</strong><br /><br />Immigrant children will continue to learn English despite having no choice in what schools they are allowed to attend. Francophone children will continue to receive substandard education in English in French schools (and wind up <a href="http://globalnews.ca/news/610967/listen-brigitte-frot-on-quebecs-ban-on-turbans-in-soccer/" rel="nofollow">sounding like Quebec Soccer Federation director Brigitte Frot</a>, who this week told Sikh kids that “they can play soccer in own backyards”, when she claimed that FIFA has a rule against turbans, which in fact it does not.<br />True Montrealernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7963035472241877292.post-14256871071282470852013-06-05T23:58:01.383-04:002013-06-05T23:58:01.383-04:00The last time we went was this past Christmas. The...The last time we went was this past Christmas. The extended family was meeting at a restaurant in the next village, all three dozen of them. We snuck outside to smoke and take swigs from a hidden bottle of wine. Her father knew what was going on, but never said a word. I guess he didn’t want to kill our buzz. Before returning to Quebec City her parents asked us to stop by the house. With only a few days’ notice (we had only recently gotten back together) they were kind enough to give me a Christmas present. Token items, yes – socks from the functional father, a diary for my thoughts from the spiritual mother – but for the first time I felt something like home in Quebec.<br />We have since parted ways, and it seems this time for good. But, upon reflection, I realize that what made us work when we were together, and what makes Canada as a country work are the solutions we create to the problems we face. We are a Métis nation; the three founding nations of the country, Native, French, and English, provided the basis for the cross-cultural success that we are today, in which each of us participates on a daily basis.<br /><br />The experimental American band Ween, named its 2003 album “Quebec”. I have wondered why a band from Pennsylvania, reputed for its wild behaviour (members were known for consuming copious amounts of psychedelic mushrooms during performances, and they once wrote an entire country album for a joke, incidentally one of their best records) would choose such a name. And then I realized how strange and magical and unique Quebec is. For an American, or for that matter myself, as a Manitoban, discovering a land where the women are beautiful and know how to dress and the corner stores sell beer, where cannons line the same streets where industry bustles, where in the span of a few city blocks you can see where Roosevelt and Churchill planned the end of the Second World War, where Charles Aznavour and Bob Dylan performed and hung out, where Brian Mulroney lived as a law student and René Lévesque lived as a Premier, where our nation was founded, I cannot help but feel grateful for having been in some way a small part of it.<br /><br />The world has enough walls dividing people. Now is the time to start building a Bridge.<br /><br /><em>Troy Media syndicated columnist Nelson Peters is originally from Manitoba. He has spent much of the last five years in Quebec, where he completed a degree in Civil law at Université Laval and served as Editor-in-Chief of the faculty student law review from 2010-2011.</em><br />The Cathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03505395670925907216noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7963035472241877292.post-20630863637671062162013-06-05T23:56:33.847-04:002013-06-05T23:56:33.847-04:00Talk of independence
Perhaps the solution would be...<strong>Talk of independence</strong><br />Perhaps the solution would be independence for Quebec. But in what sense? In today’s wired, connected world, interdependence is the new everyday reality. Even if Quebec were to achieve some kind of formal statehood, its economy would remain dependent on trade with its Canadian counterparts. Jacques Parizeau has said that the final decision would be made in Paris and Washington, betraying a colonial mindset that only knows how to serve a master. Quebec would not free itself from the rest of Canada, but would instead annoy and perturb its most valuable trading partners, a movement that is as foolish as it is futile.<br /><br /><strong>The fear and insecurity</strong><br />Sadly, Quebec nationalism is rooted in fear and insecurity: Fear of losing their language, Fear that English Canadians will abuse their political majority; Insecurity over their culture, which they seem to think is not strong enough to survive without passing laws to protect it, Insecurity regarding their national identity which they are quick to proclaim but unable to agree upon. It should be noted that this phenomenon is not particular to Quebec. Almost all nationalism is the fear of losing oneself were it not for others like them; the fear that without others like oneself a person’s own self-identity would not be adequate.<br /><br /><strong>The village mentality</strong><br />After all of these years, Quebec in many ways still sees itself as a backwards outpost, surrounded by myriad hostile outsiders.The walls around Quebec remain, today and for the foreseeable future. And yet I cannot help but admit that I too am a product of Quebec. A critical voice perhaps, but with a twinge of an accent to it, a dip of maple syrup into the sauce.<br /><br />I am proud and privileged to have attended Université Laval, one of the best law faculties in the world, where I was able to study closely with some of the very jurists who helped create Quebec’s legal system. Canada would indeed suffer without Quebec. Its departure would leave a giant gaping hole in the middle of Confederation, both geographically and psychologically. Quebec has been by far the most dynamic member of Confederation, responsible for such dramatic and necessary innovations as the Provincial Court system, a provincial revenue agency, and the most staunch advocate of greater provincial self-determination.<br /><br />I feel in many ways that my perspective on Quebec has been tainted by a simple matter of bad timing. One of my best friends’ fathers came of age in Montreal during the 1970s, and regaled us with stories of Mountain Street in summer, rubbing shoulders with Leonard Cohen and Pierre Trudeau; the Habs won the Stanley Cup back then, <em>every year</em>. If I had been so fortunate to have experienced Quebec during those days I doubt that I would be accused of being negative towards the province.<br /><br />For some time I dated a girl who grew up on the banks of the St. Lawrence. Many times I accompanied her to her family home, located in a small village east of Montreal. I never really fit in with her family; I couldn’t understand the machine-gun delivery of her father, much less the stammering of her grandmother’s boyfriend (although I was much relieved to hear that even they had difficulty understanding him).<br /><br />People always used to ask me if dating someone who spoke a different first language caused problems. I always replied that it helped, more than anything else. When you have to make efforts to communicate clearly there is surprisingly less room for misunderstandings. Nonetheless, our time together was tumultuous, full of breakups and reunions. Through it all, every few months we took to Highway 20 to return to her village, to visit the family for holidays, or an Épluchette de blé d’inde (Corn roast).The Cathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03505395670925907216noreply@blogger.com