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• The importance of being earnest
  A recent study conducted on how social media users acquire their information, concluded that most readers actually follow columnists rather than ...
• Montréal la Magnifique
  «Merci Montréal », furent les premières paroles prononcées en français par le chanteur soliste, Win Butler. Puis il enchaîna en anglais : «Nos ...
• Combien de morts faudra-t-il encore avant de pouvoir...
  «Encore? Ce n'est pas normal!», me suis-je exclamée en apprenant la nouvelle. Belak est le troisième joueur de hockey à périr, au cours des ...
• How many deaths will it take before we redefine...
  I don’t claim to be a hockey fanatic, but it’s hard to live in this town and not have the game be part of your daily life. News that retired NHL ...
• Food obsessed, for sure!
  There's a scene in Pixar's animated film "Ratatouille", where cold-hearted food critic, Anton Ego, samples Remy's traditional Provencal stewed ...
• Prévenir plutôt que guérir
  Aussi tragique cet accident soit-il, je sais que lorsque cette chronique sera imprimée, nous serons déjà tous passés à autre chose dans nos vies, ...
• Common courtesy not so common anymore…
  There I was, stuck in rush-hour traffic again when I witnessed what I’ve witnessed a thousand times before. The driver in front of me casually ...
• Thanks for treating us like “ladies”, Rogers Cup!
  I instantly felt anger rise up in me. Why should the term “lady” offend, you ask? Because it connotes the image of a Southern belle sipping mint ...
• Levi Kreis: Southern soul with a touch of sexy
  When Levi Kreis’ publicist emailed me urging me to take a listen to his third album Where I Belong, she described him as “Paolo Nutini ...
• Think racial profiling doesn't exist in Montreal?...
  Suddenly the female resident, who, yes... happens to be black, was stopped by Westmount’s Public Security Unit. A female officer politely asked ...
• The City Streets play Montreal August 24
  “If you’re not careful this world will tear you all apart. It’ll lose your laugh, your identity for some wretched work of art. That ...
• Tierney sends the overly sensitive into a tizzy
  Being an allophone, and someone who’s spent a good chunk of my life abroad, I sometimes feel removed from the perpetual French-English linguistic ...
• Just like a waving flag…
  For a while, before Greece was eliminated, I, too, had the blue and white flag flying from my car. I’m not one for over-the-top patriotic ...
• Soul, Funk, and all that Jazz at this year’s Fest
  For 12 days, the corner of Ste. Catherine and Jeanne-Mance becomes Party Central, as music fans from around the world gather downtown to take in ...
• A little madness can keep us sane...
  When Zorba the Greek uttered that phrase to Basil, the timid Englishman he befriended in Crete, I felt shivers run down my spine. The book, ...
• Fringe fetes 20 years!
  Everyone knows that a Montreal summer consists of the Fringe, the Jazz Fest, Just for Laughs and the FrancoFolies. You mess with that order; ...
• BP legally and morally responsible for oil spill
  With an estimated 800,000 gallons of crude oil pumping into the Gulf each day, this spill will drastically – and perhaps irreversibly - affect ...
• A showcase of aristocratic decadence
  Last night found me outside beautiful Marché Bonsecours, teetering on uncomfortably high heels as I tried to navigate old Montreal’s cobblestone ...
• Being allowed a ‘good death’
  I wish the laws would better reflect popular convictions. According to an Angus Reid poll, a large majority of Canadians support the right to die ...
• Beautiful bohemian found a home in Montreal
  After posting the news on my Facebook profile, I received comments ranging from “how terribly sad and what an incredible loss” to “who?” Despite ...
• Does Tiger deserve a mulligan?
  These are truly mind-boggling times we live in. With so many challenges facing the world today, why we would even choose to focus on such a ...
• Nico Stands up and Rises above bullying
  The 25-year-old Montreal dancer has been all-over-the-place busy at work; choreographing, dancing with music legend Janet Jackson in L.A. and ...
• Believing the lie
  Have we now reached a point in advertising, where we don't even have to pretend to focus on the product, but can focus instead on communicating ...
• On behalf of whose God are you spewing hate?
  I am, however, extremely wary of the kind of organized religion that makes sheep of so many people who are unable or unwilling to think for ...
• Sushi, solidarity and ‘Someone between’ in NDG
  Written and performed by NDG resident Chantria Tram, a young Cambodian-Canadian, the story is basically one woman’s journey to come to terms with ...
• Shut up or else?
  As of yesterday, The Monitor announced that Loyola councillor Warren Allmand will not be running again, a fact that’s certain to disappoint many ...
• ’I Love You, Man’ is a brainy bromance. Go figure!
  Full disclosure: I love silly comedies and make no apologies for my viewing preferences. That being said, I found this particular comedy about a ...
• Spring exhibitions, Scrabble events and just plain...
  Right here in the West End, the Notre-Dame de Grâce Maison in the CDN-NDG borough has a pretty interesting retrospective of Canadian architect ...
• Rihanna, what are you doing?
  A hard worker, Rihanna never seemed to be in the tabloids like so many of her less talented peers. The only time I remember her name even making ...
• Trust no one in Tryst
  Set in uptight Victorian England, George targets his vulnerable victims, sells stories intent on seducing them, quickly marries them and then ...