What's Left 2017-03-05 Volume 89
Electrical Energy in Ontario; Let's talk: Québec's non-partisan effort to find solutions for a better province; Uber is a terrible company; What we shared this week.
Wealthy Canadians exposed in KPMG offshore tax 'sham' | CBC
'In its internal marketing pitches, KPMG solicited Canadians with a 'minimum' of $5 million to invest in an 'Offshore Company Structure,' charging clients $100,000 simply to start it up. KPMG also guaranteed confidentiality.'
Les Contes des Mille et une Nuits
Quel bonheur de s'immerger dans l'univers médiéval des Contes des mille et une nuits, cet imaginaire auquel la culture populaire et littéraire nous a rendus si familiers! Le lecteur averti peut entreprendre la série des 40 contes au complet, mais il existe aussi de nombreuses compilations qui présentent une lecture condensée et essentielle.
Critique: Les Années d'Annie Ernaux
Voilà plusieurs livres d'Annie Ernaux dont je fais la lecture. Je cherche en quelque sorte à me familiariser avec l'œuvre de cette auteure pour qui l'écriture est à mi-chemin entre le mémoire et l'autofiction. Dans Les Années, Ernaux a comme point de départ des photos d'elle à différentes étapes de sa vie. Elle les passera une par une, faisant état de sa situation personnelle et des préoccupations du monde à cette époque.
L'Art d'aimer d'Ovide
Nul meilleur temps que le mois de février pour plonger dans l'une des œuvres phares du thème de l'amour. Ovide, poète antique, s'amuse en offrant un manuel de l'amour et des règles de base de la séduction. Reçue à l'époque comme un ouvrage subversif, cette prose est une représentation joyeuse et même drôle d'un thème vieux comme la terre.
Citizens' Press revisits great works of literature
It is widely said that those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it. While this should be obvious to any modern society, these times require us to never take for granted some of the most basic assumptions. As we seek answers to understand the increasingly divided, unequal, and unpredictable world we live in, going back in time and space is a good place to start. It seems more appropriate than ever to revisit great classics of literature, to soak in the world order that once was in order to understand the context and conflicts of today.
A cautionary tale about political grandstanding | What's Left
Special contribution by Mike Fancie: Fortunately for progressive organizers, the Liberal government has racked up a remarkable rap sheet of broken promises in just over a year of power. Aside from recent electoral reform and Syrian immigration backpedaling, the Liberals have failed to fund First Nations education, they haven't repealed a word of Bill C-51, and they're following the same emissions targets set by Stephen Harper. Heck, even Katimavik is publicly begging Trudeau to follow through on his promise to re-fund its youth leadership programming.
What's Left 2017-02-05 Volume 88
A cautionary tale about political grandstanding; Book Review: The Wonder by Emma Donoghue; Citizens' Press revisits great works of literature; Left noise; What we shared last week.
Book Review: The Wonder by Emma Donoghue
Emma Donoghue was born in Ireland and now lives in London, Ontario. Her last book, Room, was a hit and made into a film for which she also wrote the screenplay. It was the story of a woman and her son being held captive in a man's shed: not the most uplifting subject and yet told with lightness and might. Her most recent book, The Wonder, builds on a different theme: an eleven-year-old girl in the Ireland of the 1850's stops eating for religious and spiritual reasons. Here too, Emma Donoghue treats a dark topic with so much grace.