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Sunday’s News: July 8th, 2012

08 Sunday Jul 2012

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Gloaming by Walter J. Phillips, R.C.A. woodcut (Photo Credit: Invaluable)

 
What a week, says Fido.  Micheline was all over the internet looking for dancers and singers, ladies in red, guitarists, passionate songs.  After she remembered Carlos Montoya, she remembered an entire culture: 
Flamenco.  And she remembered the chansonniers, also an entire culture.  I’m speaking on her behalf because today is her birthday and she has been invited out.  
 
English
The Montreal Gazette: http://www.montrealgazette.com/index.html
The National Post: http://www.nationalpost.com/index.html
The Globe and Mail: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/
The New York Times: http://www.nytimes.com/
Le Monde diplomatique: http://mondediplo.com/ (EN)
 
CBC News: http://www.cbc.ca/news/
CTV News: http://www.ctvnews.ca/
 
French
Le Monde: http://www.lemonde.fr/
Le Devoir: http://www.ledevoir.com/
La Presse: http://www.lapresse.ca/
 
© Micheline Walker
8 July 2012
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Saturday’s News, June 30, 2012

30 Saturday Jun 2012

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 Dufferin Terrace Quebec by Jean Paul Lemieux, 1967

Breakfast by Jean Paul Lemieux, 1965

I put together my blogs on the United States and posted them.  But I am afraid.  What if Mitt Romney has not lied?  What if he has changed his mind and, if elected, will do away with Health-Care Reforms he  previously endorsed and which have been deemed “constitutional” by the Supreme Court.  In the past, insurance companies have considered a disease such as cancer a pre-existing condition and denied people who had paid their premiums the financial help they

desperately needed.

President Obama needs money to run his campaign.  He needs donations.  But he has the better credentials and an impressive record, particularly in view of sabotage attempts on the part of hardline Republicans: the Tea Party.

 
 
Artwork: courtesy La Galerie Walter Klinkhoff, Montreal
Music by Antonio Vivaldi: Follia
 
English
The Montreal Gazette: http://www.montrealgazette.com/index.html
The National Post: http://www.nationalpost.com/index.html
The Globe and Mail: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/
The New York Times: http://www.nytimes.com/
Le Monde diplomatique: http://mondediplo.com/
 
CBC News: http://www.cbc.ca/news/
CTV News: http://montreal.ctv.ca/
 
French 
Le Devoir: http://www.ledevoir.com/
La Presse: http://www.lapresse.ca/
 
© Micheline Walker
30 June 2012
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Tuesday’s News: June 26, 2012

26 Tuesday Jun 2012

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Summer Bouquet,  Molly Lamb Bobak, OC R.C.A., 1997

Molly Lamb Bobak‘s painting is featured with permission from La Galerie Walter Klinkhoff, Montreal

Sorry, I did not deliver yesterday’s paper.

I was busy writing on Germaine Guèvremont.  I liked Guèvremont’s Survenant more reading it this time than I did when I taught it.  I now see new dimensions: bucolic.  No telephone posts.  No wires.  It was another world.

After the great ice storm, the 1990s, the worst in recorded history, Hydro-Québec chose the expensive option.  Given climatic changes, they prepared for the worst.  However, we now have a lot of very thick wires.

The News

English
The Montreal Gazette: http://www.montrealgazette.com/index.html
The National Post: http://www.nationalpost.com/index.html
The Globe and Mail: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/
The New York Times: http://www.nytimes.com/
 
CBC News: http://www.cbc.ca/tvnewsmontreal/ QC
CBC News: http://www.cbc.ca/news/ (national)
CTV News: http://www.ctvnews.ca/
 
French
Le Monde: http://www.lemonde.fr/
Le Devoir: http://www.ledevoir.com/
La Presse: http://www.lapresse.ca/(national)
La Presse: http://www.lapresse.ca/actualites/regional/montreal/
 
German
Die Welt: http://www.welt.de/
 
 
Micheline Walker©
June 26, 2012
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Sunday’s News: June 24, 2012

24 Sunday Jun 2012

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The Painter Ker-Xavier Roussel and His Daughter, 1903,
by Édouard Vuillard  (1868-1940)
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, NY
(with permission from Art Resource, NY)
 
 
English
The Montreal Gazette: http://www.montrealgazette.com/index.html
The National Post: http://www.nationalpost.com/index.html
The Globe and Mail: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/
The New York Times: http://www.nytimes.com/
 
CBC News: http://www.cbc.ca/tvnewsmontreal// QC
CBC News: http://www.cbc.ca/news/ (national)
CTV News: http://montreal.ctv.ca/
 
French
Le Monde: http://www.lemonde.fr/
Le Monde diplomatique: http://www.monde-diplomatique.fr/
Le Devoir: http://www.ledevoir.com/
La Presse: http://www.lapresse.ca//(national)
La Presse: http://www.lapresse.ca/actualites/regional/montreal/
 
German
Die Welt: http://www.welt.de/
 
Micheline Walker©
June 24, 2012
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Saturday’s News: June 23, 2012

23 Saturday Jun 2012

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Garden doormouse and mole, Jacopo Ligozzi  (c. 1547-1632)
Gabinetto dei Disegni e delle Stampe, Uffizi, Florence, Italy
(with permission from Art Resource, NY
 
English
The Montreal Gazette: http://www.montrealgazette.com/index.html
The National Post: http://www.nationalpost.com/index.html
The Globe and Mail: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/
The New York Times: http://www.nytimes.com/
 
CBC News: http://www.cbc.ca/tvnewsmontreal/ QC
CBC News: http://www.cbc.ca/news/ (national)
CTV News: http://montreal.ctv.ca/
 
French
Le Monde: http://www.lemonde.fr/
Le Devoir: http://www.ledevoir.com/
La Presse: http://www.lapresse.ca/(national)
La Presse: http://www.lapresse.ca/actualites/regional/montreal/
 
German
Die Welt: http://www.welt.de/
 
Micheline Walker©
June 23, 2012
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Friday’s News: June 22, 2012

22 Friday Jun 2012

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Frederico Barocci
(1526-1612)
 
Head of the Virgin Mary
Pinacoteca, Vatican Museums, Vatican State
By permission from Art Resource, NY
 

We can see the watermarks, but she is so beautiful.  I’ve asked Art Resource to purchase this image.  If it is purchased, the watermarks are removed.  I have not heard from them and Fido is taking a day off.

The News

English
The Montreal Gazette: http://www.montrealgazette.com/index.html
The National Post: http://www.nationalpost.com/index.html
The Globe and Mail: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/
The New York Times: http://www.nytimes.com/
 
CBC News: http://www.cbc.ca/tvnewsmontreal/ QC
CBC News: http://www.cbc.ca/news/ (national)
CTV News: http://www.ctvnews.ca/
 
French
Le Monde: http://www.lemonde.fr/
Le Devoir: http://www.ledevoir.com/
La Presse: http://www.lapresse.ca/(national)
La Presse: http://www.lapresse.ca/actualites/regional/montreal/
 
German
Die Welt: http://www.welt.de/
 
Micheline Walker©
June 22, 2012
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Thursday’s News, June 21, 2012

21 Thursday Jun 2012

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Fido

Fido tells me that one is never too late with the news because it is forever updated.  As soon as an event takes place, the computer gets the necessary information.

The News

English
The Montreal Gazette: http://www.montrealgazette.com/index.html
The National Post: http://www.nationalpost.com/index.html
The Globe and Mail: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/
The New York Times: http://www.nytimes.com/
 
CBC News: http://www.cbc.ca/tvnewsmontreal/ QC
CBC News: http://www.cbc.ca/news/ (national)
CTV News: http://montreal.ctv.ca/
 
French
Le Monde: http://www.lemonde.fr/
Le Devoir: http://www.ledevoir.com/
La Presse: http://www.lapresse.ca/ (national)
La Presse: http://www.lapresse.ca/actualites/regional/montreal/
 
German
Die Welt: http://www.welt.de/
 
 
Micheline Walker©
June 21, 2012
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Keeping up with Current Events in Quebec

17 Thursday May 2012

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Flag of Quebec City, Quebec, Canada.

Flag of Quebec City, Quebec, Canada. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Current Events in Quebec

For those of you who wish to keep up with current events in Quebec, I am listing a number of links.

Yesterday (May 16), the students were prevented from re-entering the classroom by unsavoury and potentially dangerous groups: gangs.

Given the threat to the students and to their teachers, the Quebec Government has ordered an end to the tuition strike.  There was violence between 1960 and 1970, so the presence of gangs preventing the students from attending their classes has to be taken very seriously.

I saw Madame Marois on television.  She was asking the premier to act as a “good father” (the « bon père » notion of the Quebec Code civil fr/ Civil Code en) to the students and sit with them.  I am hearing the word “negotiations.”  To what extent should a Premier negotiate?  Madame Marois spoke about attentive mothers who talk with their children, etc.

As a bon père, monsieur Charest is putting an end to the academic year and to the strike. I believe monsieur Charest will ask the population to decide: a referendum of some kind.

Here are Civil Code entries (English):

Code civil entries in French:

Here are the URLs of newpapers covering the events:

Le Code civil
© Micheline Walker
May 17, 2012
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