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Comment on Claude Goyette and Mireille Reid: the de la Concorde collapse by tyler cavell

tyler cavell — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 04:16:59 +0000

Very interesting. Great site!

Comment on Sexy béton on tour: a success by River

River — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 07:53:17 +0000

My problem was a wall until I read this, then I smashed it.

Comment on Sexy béton on tour: a success by Latasha

Latasha — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 21:39:32 +0000

An intelligent point, well made. Thanks!

Comment on Sexy béton on tour: a success by Laurence Miall

Laurence Miall — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 19:21:38 +0000

As someone who has been drawn to this play from its earliest days, I am so heartened to see the success it had on tour. Bravo Porte Parole! I think taking it to the regions was a fantastic move and has shown what a resonance this story has with a broad Quebec audience.

Comment on Infrastructure is the Face Cities Present to the World by Annabel Soutar

Annabel Soutar — Tue, 19 Oct 2010 02:46:36 +0000

I love this idea you present that successful infrastructure projects can result from either authoritarian central planning or healthy civic collaboration. I would add that both need at least small doses of the other for enormous initiatives like the Olympic Games to work out. In Beijing they at least did allow Western architects and local artists to contribute to their master plan. And I hear that behind the scenes in Vancouver there was some pretty tough power-politics going on!

But most of all what I’m interested in is finding ways of working that place more emphasis on a healthy process and less stress on creating the perfect product. I feel like a lot of potholes in Montreal get poorly paved over because we’re just like: ‘Quick! Get that blasted thing smooth again!’ instead of taking the time to think about how it can be filled in and stayed filled in for more than 1-2 years. In some ways our democracies have become as panic-ridden and control freakish as those totalitarian systems we scoff at. Leaders are terrorized by polls and citizens are motivated by short-term and specialized interests. Not surprising then that we have a hard time collectively managing our aging infrastructure…

Comment on Concorde, September 30th: what deserves commemoration? by Annabel Soutar

Annabel Soutar — Mon, 27 Sep 2010 14:44:05 +0000

My guess is that Jean Charest will be thinking about some more pressing matters (for him)on September 30th, like how to keep pretending that everything is cool in his administration while being attacked daily at the Bastarache Commission. If we want anyone to be commemorating de la Concorde on that day, we will have to make noise ourselves….

Comment on Do we live in a no-trust society? by Laurence Miall

Laurence Miall — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 18:40:12 +0000

…Or we COULD question democratic capitalism too! After all, it’s only been around in its current form for a few decades. There is no saying that maybe a better system cannot be found. But yes, to make any improvements at all, it will take an engaged citizenry to make it happen.

Comment on Do we live in a no-trust society? by Martin Dansky

Martin Dansky — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 17:52:56 +0000

Pleased to see this clarification on the two types of capitalism; it is another way of understanding the process that becomes more evident especially after the oil crisis in the Gulf of Mexico, and is exemplified by Obama sitting across the table from a squint-eyed BP executive. I wonder if the US government will get the money it has asked for…