Ho ho ho? Should you drink that eggnog alone or with family this year?
The American election is over (well, mostly, we think) and there isn’t much in the way of sports on TV (see last week) and, yes, cases numbers are rising in...
A welcome shot in the arm, or the hope of one anyway.
As the COVID-19 daily total in Quebec remains at a high average, as France continues to experience high numbers and restrictive health measures, and as cases in the bordering U.S....
Georgia on my mind
The story in the English-speaking world, it will come as little surprise, was the story of the American presidential election; indeed, the conclusion of the race has been watched, covered,...
Montreal-based Companies not Immune to Covid
In 1992, a much younger Bill Clinton managed to pull off a rare [su_tooltip style="dark" position="north" content="Feat (noun): a surprising, astonishing accomplishment. "]feat[/su_tooltip] in American politics through the use of...
The NDP takes British Columbia and the Pope Takes our Minds off of Elections for a few Minutes
British Columbia is a long way - three time zones away - from Québec, and it’s even further during these pandemic times. Many Montréalers might be excused for not realizing...
Return of the Living Covid
We’ve all been watching the U.S. Presidential Election race with a quality of attention that can only be compared to—in the most clichéd terms—watching a train wreck. Perhaps this week,...
A Fly Creates Buzz before American Elections
The American election continued to dominate the news in North America, and, for that matter, across much of the world. In the wake of the drama around President Trump’s positive...
Québec goes red and Trump goes negative before testing positive.
It’s difficult to choose just one story from this past week to highlight, as so much has happened since last Sunday. This week I’ll highlight two major stories; in doing...
The American West is on Fire
This past week much of North America—and even the world—turned its attention to the American West, where massive forest fires continued to burn simultaneously. Drought-like conditions across the American West,...
Thanks to a scandal, Canada gets a historic first.
The WE scandal has been steadily dripping in the background of Canadian and North American news for some weeks. It’s easy to understand why we might lose sight of it:...