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THE HOLY HAND
By Bernard Bujold -
A relic of St-François Xavier, the right forearm, is exhibited in Montreal, notably at the Cathedral Marie Reine du Monde.
Although I am not a Catholic practitioner, as I grew up as a teenager in a presbytery with my aunt who was the priest's maid, I still like today to attend religious events. Moreover, since I have an exact replica of the watch worn by Pope Francis, I thought it would be the perfect opportunity to make it a relic of the third degree (something that touched the body of a saint ).
Thousands of Catholics, or observers like me, assisted at the evening of veneration held Sunday evening January 28 with Bishop Christian Lépine.
The relic of St. Francis Xavier is on display in
Montreal until Tuesday, January 30, 2018 including at the church Gesus.
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DONALD TRUMP AND THE MEDIA: A WAR TO THE FINISH!
By Bernard Bujold -
It's a war to the finish between the journalists of the left-wing media (CNN, NYT, NBC, etc.) who are still deeply humiliated following the election of Donald Trump in 2016 and their only recourse is to try to bring down the elected president.
Personally, if I were this president, I would have broken a long time ago so much is the opposition but Donald has a more combative character than normal people and, at his age with his career successes, he has great self-confidence. What sometimes makes an old man weak are his losses in life ...
So it's a war to end between some journalists as well as the left establishment against Donald, the revolutionary.
I continue to bet on the final victory of Donald Trump because the journalists are not in solidarity with each other. The worst enemy of journalists is the other journalists who are tired of this fight. Besides, the journalists, like the American people, are divided at 50%, half for Donald and half against. There is also jealousy from several journalists towards the journalists who play the star and the aspiring politician.
For his part, Donald Trump completely transformed the presidential style and imposed his own. He recently said that his main characteristic as a manager is to change and continually change his plan along the way...
He said: "I don't know what the word permanent means."
The year 2018 is going to be a good year, at least for those who are fans of Donald Trump.
SEE 2018 FAKE NEWS MEDIA AWARDS
AND NOW -
By Bernard Bujold -
Léa Clermont Dion and Aurélie Lanctôt launched on Sunday, January 14, 2018, during the program Tout le monde en parle at Radio Canada, the movement #EtMaintenant (And Now).
The project was already a success on Monday morning because the website posted 4 times out of 5 the message: "429 Too Many requests" ...
The title of the project obviously comes from a love song sung in several languages and recognized worldwide since 1961: "ET MAINTENANT" by Gilbert Bécaud and written by Pierre Delanoë. This is the story of an actress, Elga Andersen, who meets Bécaud on the Paris-Nice flight. The actress goes to her fiancé but the next day, Bécaud finds Elga back at the airport while the two return by the same flight. She is very sad. Her love story ended the night before. Bécaud offers her to have breakfast at his house, in his wooden cabin of Chesnay (Yvelines).
At one point, she leaned on the piano, muttering, "And now, what am I going to do? Gilbert Bécaud will immortalize this sentence! The song will quickly become a global standard.
Léa Clermont's movement is likely to succeed in Quebec, but it will have to be seen if it happen elsewhere in the world.
The movement can be reached at:
https://etmaintenant.net/ but better wait until tomorrow when the site will be repaired...
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VALÉRIE PLANTE AND THE END OF THE SMILE -
By Bernard Bujold -
The new mayor of Montreal, Valérie Plante, is still smiling, but the citizens of Montreal are less so, while the new mayor has just broken her main election promise not to raise taxes beyond inflation.
The increases for the next year exceed 3.3%, and even more, depending on the boroughs!
No politician is perfect and if Denis Coderre was a great "spendthrift", Valerie Plante is a great "tightfisted"...
In the last municipal election, one of the many slogans, including mine, was: "ABC- Anybody but Coderre! "
We got rid of Coderre but we did not really have a choice on who would take the place because there was only one offer!
Personally, I had grasped the direction of the vote but by default because, a deep admirer of Donald Trump like me would never have supported a candidate of left as Plante. But I and the other voters, we did not want Coderre. It was Anybody but Coderre.
We must live with the result. We had what we asked for, the departure of Coderre, but may be it would have been better not to have our wish realized.
Fortunately, for me, I can rejoice every day with the presence of Donald as US President but for Montreal, with Plante we "planted"ourselves, that's for sure!
See report Budget Valérie Plante 2018
