While trying to access his own car last Thursday, local healthcare worker Brice Dossa was handcuffed by SPVM officers, who didn’t even have keys to unlock the cuffs.
“After taking the company private, Musk tweeted that the ‘bird is freed.’ The bird, of course, was never in a cage. My almost-daily contact with trolls who openly spew the most hateful content proves without a shadow of a doubt that far too much is tolerated on Twitter already.”
“Afterhours was my life, and the lifestyle sucks you in without you even realizing it. Young kids in that scene don’t realize how lost they are, and I want to help them as much as I can.”
“I consider cycling and walking my therapy — an antidote to my naturally wired persona and my a-million-thoughts-a-minute brain, and a refuge from often-frustrating online debates and angry trolls. I credit a car-free lifestyle with improving my mental health and dramatically decreasing my daily stress levels.”
“Plamondon making headlines with this has distracted from the fact that the PQ just posted its weakest election results ever. And yet his defiant stance against swearing allegiance to the British monarch has arguably allowed others to take a step in that direction.”
“I find it deeply frustrating to watch people who (justifiably) remind anyone who’ll listen about a time when francophones were shamed for not being able to speak English doing the very same thing now to newcomers unable to speak adequate French.”
In the tradition of David Fennario’s groundbreaking bilingual play Balconville, Cyclorama aims to unite audiences and help heal linguistic division, with humour, nuance and love.
Violence is climate inaction. Young kids yelling at people in power who have failed to deliver on one of the biggest challenges our world currently faces isn’t even a lack of decorum. It’s literally democracy at work.
“There are millions of francophones around the world who would love to move here. If politicians truly had Quebec’s best interests at heart regarding the French language and culture, they would encourage that. Instead, they’re trying to limit immigration and portray it as dangerous — to the detriment of our economy and social cohesion.”
“Anti-immigrant rhetoric is always based on the same fears, the same xenophobia, the same protectionism, the same efforts to limit the ‘other’ from diluting or altering the ‘us.’ Everywhere around the world, this discourse — and its destructive consequences — remains the same. The politicians win, the people lose.”
