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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!
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THE NEW YEAR 2018
by Bernard Bujold
The year 2017 ends and at each New Year's party, I like to make a "report" before embarking on the future and "predict" what will be the new year!
From the last year, I retain the following elements, which will influence 2018:
PHOTOGRAPHY-
Smartphone photography has definitely replaced traditional photography. Just compare photos taken with IPhone X with those of a conventional camera to understand;
INTERNET-
The arrival of "Google Home" in our living rooms is in a very primary stage but the future of the internet will develop from this kind of machine and artificial intelligence;
BOOKS-
I read hundreds of books in 2017, of which I put the following three at the top of my readings:
1. "ORIGINS" by Dan Brown, certainly a prophetic look at the future of our humanity.
2. "LET TRUMP BE TRUMP", a look at the most notorious politician of our entire planet,
3. "TWO NIGHTS" by Kathy Reichs, her new character Sunnie is so captivating that one almost gets to forget the very famous BONES;
THE MEDIA -
There was a period when I was a daily fan of CNN and Anderson Cooper. In 2017, I may have listened to Cooper a dozen times at the beginning of the year, but since June, I have completely abandoned CNN and I am a regular at FOX News;
INTERNATIONAL NEWSPAPERS-
There was a time when I read dozens of paper newspapers every day. During the last year, I read only one: the WSJ and I sometimes flipped through a few others, from time to time;
QUEBEC NEWSPAPERS-
It will be necessary to see how the market of Quebec newspapers will stabilize in 2018. Le Devoir, despite its limited means, hopes to occupy the space left free by La Presse in paper format. All observers will also monitor the progress of LA PRESSE + that some call it a stroke of genius while others consider this project the failure of the decade. Let's mention that LA PRESSE + is not yet financially profitable ;
MODERN INQUISITION -
If there is a social momentum to be monitored in 2018, it will be the direction in which go the wave that began in 2017 in terms of the denunciations and accusations for abuse by the leaders of our society.
During the past year, many leaders have been eliminated from society and, unfortunately, their creations have also been swept away by the fall of the creators.
It is unacceptable that humans dominate and benefit from other humans but what happens if in their elimination, their empire is also eliminated? Thousands of employees are penalized by the fall of deplorable leaders.
The answer is not as simple as saying that we need exemplary leaders because this situation is utopian, a leader usually having qualities equal to his faults!
I wish you all a Happy New Year 2018.
Remember that the important thing in life is to adapt and survive as to continue your journey.
Have a nice trip!
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