franco comme moi

I had a piece in today’s paper about my personal undercover language investigation. I was initially going to write it as a blog item but it turned into a feature for the paper.
Here’s the top of it:
Speaking French in anglo ‘hoods
‘Francophone’ goes on shopping spree
ANDY RIGA, The Gazette
In Quebec’s long, tumultuous history of language squabbles, [...]

just what we needed: another reaonsable-accommodation debate

On the final day of the last provincial election, I mused in my campaign column about whether Mario Dumont and “the ADQ (would) have to declare as an election expense the Journal de Montréal’s sensational reasonable-accommodation exposés.”
This week, the Journal set its sights on the scourge of unilingual anglos working in downtown stores, and this [...]

creepy real-estate agents

Got something bizarre and creepy in the mail this week. It was a 2008 calendar from a couple of neighbourhood real-estate agents (Marie-Claire Le Pessec and Yvan Pelland) but it wasn’t the usual schlocky type. You know – stock photos of quaint landscapes and big pictures of the agents.
On this one, the photos of [...]