“What Sugar Sammy’s harshest critics resent about him, a poster child for Bill 101, is that his ability to speak impeccable French hasn’t automatically translated into his miraculous transformation into a version of a Quebecer they want to see materialize.”
“Pierre Poilievre is so desperate for power, he’ll do and say anything to push buttons and to rage-bait. The Great Passport Scandal of 2023 should insult most Canadians’ intelligence.”
“For some Journal de Montréal columnists, the need to denigrate the city has almost become an unhealthy compulsion.”
Joshua Harmon’s play Prayer for the French Republic, on now at the Segal Centre, is a gripping tale about the weight of antisemitism across generations.
Chinese Canadians including Montreal artist Karen Tam are commemorating the 100th anniversary of the Chinese Exclusion Act, discriminatory legislation that inflicted intergenerational trauma on an already marginalized community.
“The Immigrant Workers Centre partnered with photojournalist Tamara Abdul Hadi to put together a multilingual booklet featuring images of undocumented workers, aiming to make visible the often-invisible people in thankless yet essential low-wage jobs.”
“Closing Roxham betrays a lack of understanding of global migration challenges that will continue for decades to come. Immigration advocacy groups warn this will only incentivize human smugglers. It’s perhaps only a matter of time before humanitarian tragedies like the ones occurring almost daily elsewhere happen here, too.”
Last week’s unanimous motion declaring that Quebec is no more racist than the rest of the world is meaningless and self-serving, doing nothing to help Quebecers whose lives have been impacted and forever changed by racism.
“This plan basically decimates the foreign languages department. It means that if you come to an anglophone college, you can’t learn Spanish or Mandarin. Those two languages alone represent 20% of native speakers in the world. Why would we want to limit the education people can get?”
An interview with Montreal-based filmmaker and visual artist Kevin Park Jung-Hoo and interdisciplinary artist Jin Heewoong, whose joint exhibition is on till April 1 at the MAI.
