By Colin McGregor When we’re blinded by love all sorts of bad things can happen. Isabelle Rivest, founder of the dating site Effet Tandem, tells us that dating site scams cost Canadians a bundle. According to the RCMP, such sites saw $64.7 million worth of […] See more
By Colin McGregor I now live in a halfway house. But I will have to, one day or another, find myself an apartment. Which means I’ll be there alone. And living alone can be very bad for your health… I won’t be the only one […] See more
By Colin McGregor In the 2003 Quebec humorous film La grande séduction (Seducing Doctor Lewis), all the inhabitants of Sainte-Marie-la-Mauderne, a small village located in Quebec’s Lower North Shore region, accessible only by air and sea, try to convince Dr. Christopher Lewis of Montreal to […] See more
From Left to Right: Raymond Viger, Danielle Simard and Célie Dugand at the AMECQ awards banquet in Drummondville April 29th, 2023. By Colin McGregor Café Graffiti co-directors Raymond Viger and Danielle Simard attended this past weekend’s conference of the Association of Community Written Media of […] See more
By Colin McGregor In the 1960s, just as is the case today, Francophone Quebecers were afraid of losing their language to the forces of English assimilation. But the situation back then was far different than it is now. Economically, French speakers were shut out of […] See more
By Colin McGregor At the 24th International AIDS Conference held in Montreal last summer, a lot of thought went into describing how inequality perpetuates AIDS. But the coronavirus and monkeypox were also on the agenda as scientists, activists and UN agency workers alike struggle to fight […] See more
Hochelaga-Maisonneuve, April 19th, 2023: 4264 Ste-Catherine Street East is being held hostage even as we speak. It will be freed on April 27th. On that day, at 5 p.m., there will be a great unveiling at the site, to reveal the very effervescence of the […] See more
By Colin McGregor The Great Depression, the economic crisis of the 1930s, hit Quebec hard. Millions were left poor, unemployed, hungry and often homeless. One of the complaints that many citizens had was against those who provided their electrical energy. Electricity production was divided among […] See more
A program run by the Carrefour jeunesse emploi de Hochelaga-Maisonneuve (the Hochelaga-Maisonneuve youth employment agency), public readers read poetry and short excerpts of books to members of the general public. Aimed chiefly at those 16 to 35, this program has been at work since 2019. […] See more
By Colin McGregor Are you a student fed up with your classes? Imagine that you are in a school where you are never penalized for being late or absent; where you help to prepare meals and participate in the administrative decisions of your school; where […] See more
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