By Bernard Bujold -
I love going into town on weekends and stopping by my favorite Starbucks…
My companions Ulysses, Argos, and Gus love English muffins…
Have a great spring weekend in 2026!
samedi 18 avril 2026
vendredi 17 avril 2026
DREAM OF SPRING
A SPRING DREAM…
By Bernard Bujold - I had a strange dream last night…
I was with Pablo Rodriguez and his family, walking along a beach. Pablo told me that I was a true friend and that he appreciated having me there with his wife and daughter. Suddenly, I spotted a rowboat sitting on the beach, and I suggested to Pablo that we go for a little ride out on the water. For some reason, in my dream, we found ourselves out on the water, and it was Pablo who was rowing... He told me he had experience with rowboats… Then, without warning, I woke up.
I really tried to go back to sleep to be in the rowboat with Pablo and his family, but we all know it’s impossible to go back into a dream. In reality, I miss Pablo a lot, and I’m convinced he would have been a great prime minister. That, too, is like in my dream—a lost memory impossible to relive...
Happy spring 2026!
See Video
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ecgD-YIYFe2I8YIQVS04W8yOHOHv0ngr/view?usp=sharing
By Bernard Bujold - I had a strange dream last night…
I was with Pablo Rodriguez and his family, walking along a beach. Pablo told me that I was a true friend and that he appreciated having me there with his wife and daughter. Suddenly, I spotted a rowboat sitting on the beach, and I suggested to Pablo that we go for a little ride out on the water. For some reason, in my dream, we found ourselves out on the water, and it was Pablo who was rowing... He told me he had experience with rowboats… Then, without warning, I woke up.
I really tried to go back to sleep to be in the rowboat with Pablo and his family, but we all know it’s impossible to go back into a dream. In reality, I miss Pablo a lot, and I’m convinced he would have been a great prime minister. That, too, is like in my dream—a lost memory impossible to relive...
Happy spring 2026!
See Video
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ecgD-YIYFe2I8YIQVS04W8yOHOHv0ngr/view?usp=sharing
jeudi 16 avril 2026
TO WHOM DOES GOD BELONG
TO WHOM DOES GOD BELONG… By Bernard Bujold -
The existence of God is increasingly a topic of discussion in our society, and the most recent question is: to whom does God belong? Can the Catholic Pope claim to be the only one capable of communicating with God, or can someone else claim to be in contact with God, for example, a politician like Donald Trump? I discussed the issue with religious experts, and in the end, they all agreed that there is only one God who belongs to everyone. The difference lies in communication! Everyone addresses God according to their own beliefs and language, whether they are Catholic, Protestant, Muslim, or of another religion. But there is only one God who belongs to no religion.
Amen...
mercredi 15 avril 2026
A CONE OF ICE CREAM
A CONE OF ICE CREAM…
By Bernard Bujold -
Last night, on my way to buy a book at Indigo, I had to walk past a massive crowd gathered in front of the ice cream shop. The line stretched all the way to the Sport Expert store.
I love ice cream, and I never turn down a bargain, but some offers are just too much for me.
So Ben & Jerry’s offer was just too much for me…
A free ice cream cone, but only after waiting in line behind several hundred people—and on Tuesday, April 14, 2026, it was raining.
It still baffles me to see people willing to subject themselves to physical suffering just to save a few pennies.
Note that a single-scoop Ben & Jerry’s cone costs $10, plus tip…
They say that “Free Cone Day” is a Ben & Jerry’s tradition all over the world and that on this day, over 1 million free cones were handed out.
As for me, I’ll have to save up if I want to try a Ben & Jerry’s cone, because the free offer only lasted one day—and that was yesterday...
mardi 14 avril 2026
MARK CARNEY - THE CHAMPION
MARK CARNEY - THE CHAMPION-
By Bernard Bujold -
One could say that Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney is the champion of Canadian politics… Indeed, all three of his candidates won their respective by-elections held on Monday, April 13, 2026. Mark’s candidates came out on top…
The most captivating race, however, was the one in the riding of Terrebonne. In the end, Liberal candidate Tatiana Auguste received 22,445 votes against Bloc candidate Nathalie Sinclair-Desgagné, who received 21,714 votes—a difference of 731 votes. Tatiana Auguste was born in 2001 (age 25) in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, and had her first election declared invalid by the Supreme Court of Canada. In the April 2025 election, she tied with the incumbent MP Nathalie Sinclair-Desgagné, only to be declared the winner by a single vote following errors by Elections Canada—a result ultimately overturned by the Supreme Court.
Mark Carney was determined to win the re-run election to send a strong signal of his political superiority. He now holds a majority in the Canadian Parliament with 174 MPs.
Spring 2026 is looking good for Mark Carney...
https://www.facebook.com/tatiana.auguste.2025
By Bernard Bujold -
One could say that Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney is the champion of Canadian politics… Indeed, all three of his candidates won their respective by-elections held on Monday, April 13, 2026. Mark’s candidates came out on top…
The most captivating race, however, was the one in the riding of Terrebonne. In the end, Liberal candidate Tatiana Auguste received 22,445 votes against Bloc candidate Nathalie Sinclair-Desgagné, who received 21,714 votes—a difference of 731 votes. Tatiana Auguste was born in 2001 (age 25) in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, and had her first election declared invalid by the Supreme Court of Canada. In the April 2025 election, she tied with the incumbent MP Nathalie Sinclair-Desgagné, only to be declared the winner by a single vote following errors by Elections Canada—a result ultimately overturned by the Supreme Court.
Mark Carney was determined to win the re-run election to send a strong signal of his political superiority. He now holds a majority in the Canadian Parliament with 174 MPs.
Spring 2026 is looking good for Mark Carney...
https://www.facebook.com/tatiana.auguste.2025
dimanche 12 avril 2026
QUEBEC ELECTIONS 2026
QUEBEC ELECTIONS 2026 -
By Bernard Bujold -
Quebec’s current ruling party, the CAQ, has finally chosen its new leader, Christine Fréchette (55), who automatically becomes Quebec’s new premier for the next six months.
We now know who the five political party leaders will be running in the general election on October 5, 2026.
You could compare an election to a horse race...
Unfortunately, as far as I’m concerned, none of the party leaders in the running really excites me.
I was just starting to warm up to Liberal leader Pablo Rodriguez when he fell victim to a deadly coup on November 17, 2025…
You could say I was just as surprised and disappointed by his downfall as Pablo himself!
In the end, on October 5, I’m going to vote for the candidate in my local riding, rather than for a political party. I’ll be voting for a former fellow journalist, Philippe Schnobb. It won’t be a vote for the Parti Québécois, but a vote for Philippe Schnobb.
Even though I’m not backing any leader, I won’t deprive myself of the great pleasure of commenting on the race...
In my view, the next Quebec government will be a minority government, either the Liberal Party or the Parti Québécois.
The challenge is to predict which horse will win, as both could, on paper, win the race.
Some polls predict that the CAQ could end up with no elected members, which would mean its total disappearance from the National Assembly.
If that happens, Fréchette will follow in the footsteps of Kim Campbell of the Canadian Conservative Party in 1993, who replaced Brian Mulroney and defeated Jean Charest in the leadership race. She served as Prime Minister of Canada only from June 25 to November 4, 1993 (4 months).
The Canadian federal election of October 25, 1993, resulted in a landslide victory for the Liberal Party, led by Jean Chrétien, which won 177 of 295 seats, forming a majority government; the Bloc Québécois became the official opposition with 54 seats, while the Progressive Conservative Party, which had been in power with 151 MPs, was reduced to two seats: Jean Charest (elected in the riding of Sherbrooke, Quebec) and Elsie Wayne (elected in the riding of Saint John, New Brunswick)
Good luck with your respective bets for October 5!
To be continued
https://www.electionsquebec.qc.ca/
WATCH VIDEO
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1wtY8BOYkaq_qMMT-0GaxqMywkaRDbpB6/view?usp=sharing
QUEBEC'S NEW PREMIER
By Bernard Bujold -
On Sunday, April 12, 2026, Christine Fréchette (55) was elected by CAQ members as the party’s new leader and, by default, Quebec’s new premier, for a six-month term leading up to the next general election on October 5.
A total of 20,524 members were eligible to vote, of whom 15,833 exercised their right to vote, representing a turnout of 77.1%.
Fréchette received 57.9% of the votes, compared to 42.1% for Drainville.
To be continued...
samedi 11 avril 2026
BACK ON EARTH
The astronauts from NASA’s Artemis II mission returned home safely Friday evening (April 10,2026), completing a historic lunar flyby after drifting back to Earth under parachutes.
The Orion capsule that ferried the crew during the mission landed off the coast of San Diego at 8:07 p.m. Eastern time, broadcast on a NASA livestream. A recovery team arrived to retrieve the crew—Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch, and Jeremy Hansen.
The agency says the four astronauts were in excellent condition.
mercredi 8 avril 2026
ON THE WAY TO THE MOON
ON THE WAY TO THE MOON…
By Bernard Bujold -
The ARTIMIS program is NASA’s ambitious initiative to return humans to the Moon. The 2026 mission included the first woman and the first person from an ethnic minority, as part of long-term exploration, scientific discovery, and preparation for the exploration of Mars. Using the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket and the Orion spacecraft, the program aims to establish a sustainable lunar presence (Gateway) in collaboration with international partners.
-In 2022, “ARTEMIS I” was a test flight that entered orbit around the Moon to verify crew safety systems.
-In 2026, “ARTEMIS II” was the program’s first crewed flight, sending four astronauts on a 10-day loop around the Moon before returning to Earth;
-In 2027, “ARTEMIS III” plans to land astronauts on the lunar surface (specifically at the South Pole) using a commercial landing system;
-Finally, in 2028, “ARTEMIS IV” will focus on docking with the Lunar Gateway space station and establishing a sustainable presence on the surface. The next step will be building a village on the Moon...
The name “Artemis” was chosen for NASA’s modern lunar program because of its deep symbolic connection to the first lunar missions of the 1960s and 1970s. In Greek mythology, Artemis is Apollo’s twin sister. Since the first missions that allowed humans to set foot on the Moon were part of the Apollo program, naming this return to the Moon after his sister is a direct continuation of that legacy.
To be continued…
https://www.nasa.gov/
By Bernard Bujold -
The ARTIMIS program is NASA’s ambitious initiative to return humans to the Moon. The 2026 mission included the first woman and the first person from an ethnic minority, as part of long-term exploration, scientific discovery, and preparation for the exploration of Mars. Using the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket and the Orion spacecraft, the program aims to establish a sustainable lunar presence (Gateway) in collaboration with international partners.
-In 2022, “ARTEMIS I” was a test flight that entered orbit around the Moon to verify crew safety systems.
-In 2026, “ARTEMIS II” was the program’s first crewed flight, sending four astronauts on a 10-day loop around the Moon before returning to Earth;
-In 2027, “ARTEMIS III” plans to land astronauts on the lunar surface (specifically at the South Pole) using a commercial landing system;
-Finally, in 2028, “ARTEMIS IV” will focus on docking with the Lunar Gateway space station and establishing a sustainable presence on the surface. The next step will be building a village on the Moon...
The name “Artemis” was chosen for NASA’s modern lunar program because of its deep symbolic connection to the first lunar missions of the 1960s and 1970s. In Greek mythology, Artemis is Apollo’s twin sister. Since the first missions that allowed humans to set foot on the Moon were part of the Apollo program, naming this return to the Moon after his sister is a direct continuation of that legacy.
To be continued…
https://www.nasa.gov/
mardi 7 avril 2026
MARGUERITE BLAIS IN 2026
MARGUERITE BLAIS IN 2026…
By Bernard Bujold -
I’ve known Marguerite Blais since the days of Mayor Pierre Bourque’s Foundation for Young Entrepreneurs (1996–2003)—a mayor of Montreal whom I liked very much… Marguerite and I lost touch after that, but I have always followed her political career from a distance (2007–2022).
The new book she has just published, “MARGUERITE BLAIS - Au nom des aînés” is intended as a message to seniors, but above all, it contains Marguerite’s biography and an analysis of Quebec politics from Jean Charest to Philippe Couillard and up to François Legault, particularly during the COVID-19 period.
I read the book with great interest and would say that I found several insights within it that remain central to our political landscape in 2026 and may even serve as inspiration, especially with the campaign for the upcoming October 5 elections in Quebec. If you are passionate about politics, I invite you to read this book, written in collaboration with Guillaume Nadon.
https://qublivre.ca/products/marguerite-blais-au-nom-des-aines?srsltid=AfmBOoqsSlQY_jx1BL9wTHaa7QJSGyHn1bxy194b9bvkAs9SfwvNBFT9
By Bernard Bujold -
I’ve known Marguerite Blais since the days of Mayor Pierre Bourque’s Foundation for Young Entrepreneurs (1996–2003)—a mayor of Montreal whom I liked very much… Marguerite and I lost touch after that, but I have always followed her political career from a distance (2007–2022).
The new book she has just published, “MARGUERITE BLAIS - Au nom des aînés” is intended as a message to seniors, but above all, it contains Marguerite’s biography and an analysis of Quebec politics from Jean Charest to Philippe Couillard and up to François Legault, particularly during the COVID-19 period.
I read the book with great interest and would say that I found several insights within it that remain central to our political landscape in 2026 and may even serve as inspiration, especially with the campaign for the upcoming October 5 elections in Quebec. If you are passionate about politics, I invite you to read this book, written in collaboration with Guillaume Nadon.
https://qublivre.ca/products/marguerite-blais-au-nom-des-aines?srsltid=AfmBOoqsSlQY_jx1BL9wTHaa7QJSGyHn1bxy194b9bvkAs9SfwvNBFT9
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