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Beach Bumming in Tulum

January 27, 2012 – 9:23 pm | 6 Comments

For our last few days in Mex­ico, we decided to be beach-bum. An easy deci­sion to make con­sid­er­ing how great the coast­line is in Quin­tana Roo, and how cold it will be when we go back to Canada.

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French, English and Montréal

March 27, 2010 – 10:11 am | 24 Comments

It’s only when I showed up at Star­bucks that I real­ized I had no idea how to order in French. And order­ing my cof­fee in Eng­lish in Mon­treal would look back, wouldn’t it. But I needed cof­fee: this is a work­ing week­end for me and I haven’t had much sleep the last few days.

If You Immigrate To Quebec (4/10)

May 23, 2009 – 4:21 pm | 27 Comments
If You Immigrate To Quebec (4/10)

In the last two arti­cles, I reviewed the two most com­mon ways to immi­grate to Canada: through the skilled worker cat­e­gory, and through the spon­sor­ship cat­e­gory. But what if you want to set­tle in Que­bec? Things are a lit­tle bit different.

French And English (3/10)

January 19, 2008 – 10:00 am | 17 Comments

The province of Quebec’s offi­cial lan­guage is French, and the province of New-Brunswick is offi­cially bilin­gual. For the other provinces and ter­ri­to­ries, it’s a bit of a grey area… Eng­lish is most widely spo­ken but there are French com­mu­ni­ties almost every­where: in Ontario (the Franco-Ontariens), in Man­i­toba, in Alberta…

Us vs. Them

November 3, 2007 – 9:10 pm | 24 Comments

So, we (want) need immi­grants. Prefer­ably (young) not to old, (who won’t need any social help) edu­cated, and (white) who will blend in eas­ily. Oh, and (no ter­ror­ists) (prefer­ably Catholic ) — no really, we don’t mind.

Two Solitudes And One Loneliness

October 16, 2007 – 6:23 pm | 18 Comments

Not only I betrayed France by cross­ing the Atlantic Ocean, but appar­ently I also betrayed French lan­guage. Oh, that’s great.

Résistance à la connerie humaine

January 28, 2007 – 3:49 am | 4 Comments

Géni­aaaal… Une bande de 1300 red­necks qui n’ont sûre­ment jamais vu un immi­grant Arabe (quand on en est réduit à ce degré de sim­plic­ité, l’immigrant est for­cé­ment Musul­man, Islamiste, ter­ror­iste et tous les — ismes qu’on voudra bien lui accoler) de leur vie, décrè­tent par arrêté munic­i­pal qu’il est inter­dit de lapi­der les femmes sur la place du vil­lage. Et dans l’jardin, ça te vas-tu ? C’est vrai qu’il deve­nait urgent de légiférer sur les Tal­ibans qui peu­plent les régions québécoises…

A trop fumer la Fleur de Lys...

January 24, 2007 – 2:16 am | One Comment

Je suis en train de me deman­der si je vais voter aux élec­tions prési­den­tielles de Mai 2007. Pas par rejet de la société ou accès de rébel­lion soudain : tout sim­ple­ment parce que je trouve curieux de voter pour le prési­dent d’un pays dans lequel je ne vis plus. Et qui, acces­soire­ment, s’enlise dans une bataille poli­tique jamais renou­velée depuis vingt ans.