That was sure a surprise when we tuned in at the end of the afternoon yesterday. I sure hope they know what they’re doing. Dion doesn’t exactly seem like a popular figure inside or outside Quebec. But then, parties here don’t choose their leaders by popular vote.
Author Archives: Jonathan Sterne
The Best Rock Shows. . .
are always surprises. Sometimes it’s the quality of the performance itself, but in this case it was the very existence of the show. Looking up the starting time for Tuesday night’s Zombi/Maserati show, I stumbled across a listing for last night’s Grates/Life and Times/ Bad Flirt show at the Main Hall. I’m a big fan …
Baby’s First Liberal Convention
Last night Carrie and I watched our first Canadian political convention and . . . is was boring and disappointing. Yes, I know we should have known better from years of American political conventions but somehow I thought it would be different here, that issues and positions would be discussed. Instead, it was a serial …
The Catinator
It’s a snowy Friday, so in the tradition of “Friday cat blogging” elsewhere, I will provide a cat health update since I’ve gotten a few questions about an oblique reference in a previous post. This is Tet. He’s not radioactive: However, he’s proportionately had enough steroids in the past two weeks to turn him into …
New Text + Sage Update
(Scroll down to the bottom of the post if you just want the link to the article) This lovely note arrived in my email this morning: Dear Author We are pleased to send you a pdf file of your paper which will very shortly be published online in Interdisciplinary Science Reviews. The page numbering is …
“I love it when Americans immigrate”
Permanent residency (or “landed immigrant” status as it used to be called) is a big step in any immigrant’s life in Canada, but a lot of people don’t know exactly what it means. Basically, it means that we get all the rights of citizens except for the vote. The vote comes with citizenship in about …
The “Quebec is a Nation” Controversy 101 for Americans
Ron writes in the comments that he’d like an explanation of what the hell is going on up here in federal politics. Given that I have found no more divisive issue (1) among Canadians (and that’s among anglophones and among francophones as well as across language divisions), I’m sure to get myself in trouble here. …
Continue reading “The “Quebec is a Nation” Controversy 101 for Americans”