Quebec Takes On the World in Short Films

10/03/2025 Colin McGregor 0

By Colin McGregor Imagine a 6 minute, 21 second film made in Quebec by a filmmaker from Pointe-aux-Trembles… a film with no dialogue! Terre Ancestrale, a tale about defending the environment, shot in a medieval, fairy-tale style, has circled the world several times over – […] See more

Neighborhood Bookstores: A Vanishing Species?

09/19/2025 The Social Eyes 0

By Oumou Diakité While Amazon redefines our book buying habits, and giants like Renaud-Bray extend their empires, neighborhood bookstores find themselves at a crossroads. Slim profit margins, high rents, increasingly volatile readers: several elements signal a delicate rebalancing of the literary landscape. Books still get […] See more

Funky: The duck with dancing dreams

07/08/2025 Colin McGregor 0

A review by Colin McGregor In 1910, in his epic poem « If, » the British poet Rudyard Kipling wrote: If you can face Triumph and Disaster And treat both these impostors alike… Yours is the Earth and everything in it. That’s essentially the theme of a […] See more

Living with Only One Planet

06/20/2025 KevenWong 0

By Keven Wong “Reducing the impact of human activity on our planet is one of this age’s most important challenges. The choices we make now will have an enormous impact on future generations.” This comes from the introduction to the book Vivre avec une seule […] See more

Alcohol: The Devil on my Shoulder

11/01/2024 Colin McGregor 0

By Colin McGregor Seven days a week, alcoholics seek the company of their peers to battle their cunning, baffling and powerful addiction. It’s an international movement, with meetings in 180 countries. On a typical Friday, I found 201 meetings in Quebec on the Alcoholics Anonymous […] See more

Quebec’s Community Media Ad Wars

09/13/2024 Colin McGregor 0

By Colin McGregor “The survival of Quebec community media depends on immediate and concrete measures.”   Maxime Caouette doesn’t mince words when describing the crisis state of provincial government ad buys when it comes to community written media. “It’s catastrophic – there is a terrible division […] See more