Tag Archives: Montreal
Le Grand Charlie
There were a few mentions in the newspaper this past week about it being the 50th anniversary of Charles de Gaulle’s infamous proclamation of “Vive le Quebec libre!” (That’s long live a free Quebec for those of you who don’t speak French.) I didn’t read the articles – I remember 1967 and the furor over […]
Musical Memories
About the third song this past Friday night it hit me. Living in Montreal, at the end of the 1960s and during the early 1970s I had the opportunity to experience an explosion of creative musical culture that may have been unprecedented. Certainly it was for Canada Last Friday Michel Pagliaro came to town. I […]
Municipal Tensions
Clashes between church and state are never pretty. There is a tension between the sacred and the secular, between worldviews that all too often seem diametrically opposed when you would expect them to be complementary. After all, both the state and religious authorities are ostensibly concerned with the well-being of the people. I guess it […]
Another Brick In The Wall
I didn’t see him spit on the fan. I was too far back. But I did see the kick in the face. Roger Waters, bass player for the British rock band Pink Floyd was back in Montreal last week, reliving the 1977 concert at the Olympic Stadium that gave birth to the band’s 1979 epic […]
Ghost At The Door
Families frequently have secrets. Sometimes not even deliberate ones. Once upon a time of my mother’s “secrets” scared me. Or should that be scarred me? In the summer of 1967, when I was 11 years old, my family lived in Montreal. It was Canada’s centennial year and the centrepiece of the celebrations was Expo ’67, […]
Waiting For A Plane XIII – Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport
On a Friday evening in November the place is almost deserted. This is nothing like the summer bustle I have seen before. I guess no-one travels this far from summer or maybe I should say this close to Christmas. There are 25 flights on the departures board. Ours is the last to leave. And then […]
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