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The morning after: where are we and where do we go from here?

Submitted by Judy Rebick on Tue, 05/03/2011 - 2:56pm
It was an extraordinary election. Both Stephen Harper and Jack Layton got the results they were aiming for. Stephen Harper got his majority and Jack Layton replaced the Liberal Party not only as the Official Opposition but quite possibly as the only federal alternatives to the Harperites.   Canada now looks like so many other countries with one party on the Right and one on the Left. So why do I feel so bad?
 
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A tribute to Marcel Simard, a great Quebec filmaker and friend

Submitted by Judy Rebick on Thu, 03/11/2010 - 4:38pm

The article below is a tribute to Marcel Simard, a central figure in Quebec cinema who is barely known in English Canada. Last Saturday, Marcel committed suicide after a long depression. His death is a terrible loss to cinema throughout Canada because, as his friend Marquise Lepage says in the extraordinary piece below, he made provocative films often about the people society prefers not to see.

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