Archive for November, 2008

PQ and their sacrificial lambs

Well, it’s another election, and just as the posters of different candidates in the federal elections are disappearing, we got the new ones, from PLQ, ADQ and PQ.
Going to the train station, every day I pass by a sign of the PQ candidate for the Acadie circumscription. It’s Marc-André Nolet,  an accounting student at the [...]

Mark Bowden - Guests of the Ayatollah

I just finished this rather thick book about the hostage crisis at the American Embassy in Tehran. This is the first time I read a book written by Bowden and I found him to be a an excellent story teller. It was a book that I could hardly put down and once over it, I [...]

A new America

Last night the American people have elected Barack Obama, an African American as their next president. As the results were coming in, I could hardly believe my eyes, virtue has won over skin color and reason has defeated religious bigotry.
TV channels were streaming images of people celebrating on the street, cars were honking and a [...]

The job market during the Financial Crisis - video

The job
by trescourt
Written and Directed by Jonathan Browning