When did you first feel like a Quebecer?As National Day approaches, Le Devoir has compiled an anthology of commentary on this moment when belonging to Quebec blossomed, sometimes to encourage pride and solidarity to blossom , sometimes to raise awareness. What these personalities all have in common is that they have contributed to Québec’s influence in their own way and on their own level.

Anne-Marie Olivier

The former artistic director of the Le Trident theater cannot remember a specific spark that would have ignited her affiliation with Quebec. “I’ve always felt like a Quebecer. Because I’ve always known my name,” she wrote to Le Devoir. As she deepens her memories, she recalls a national holiday from her teenage years, when boundless love culminated in connection with life and her homeland.

“With 17 years. I was madly in love, and if I had already celebrated Saint-Jean-Baptiste with all my heart, I had never celebrated it with my whole body. That evening several times each of my nerve endings, a real firework. Pleasure and rejoicing in Saint-Jean, great blazing fire. That evening I flew on the wings that love bestows, that love so overflowing that in all winds it is thrown at passers-by, old people, ants, everything that lives. We had a light heart that gives us the necessary detachment to laugh at the little ugliness or inconsistencies that are also part of our national holiday… from the Chinese-made lily wares to the settlers drinking Bud while listening to music That is far from the case here.

It was at that moment that I realized I was madly in love with Quebec. »

Gilles Vigneault

When Gilles Vigneault found that the word “French-Canadian” too narrowly encompassed the people of his country, he understood for the first time that he belonged to Quebec.

“Even when I went to a small school where the ‘teacher’ was called Simone Landry, Berthe Cormier or Albina Jomphe, I heard about the story ‘Canada’. Since my father worked with a certain Dave King from Kegaska or with a certain Bastien Malec, an Innu from Natashquan, with whom I also “brought back” cod to dry on the “Vigneaux”, I understood that everyone I knew was from Quebec, and I’ve always been puzzled by the ambiguity of the word “French-Canadian”! Bastien Malec, Joseph Bellefleur and Michel Grégoire, Dave King, Wilfrid Keppen or George Court always seemed like they came from the same country as me and were an integral part of it. Then, later, I realized that certain dates, 1837, 1980, 1982, 1995, confirmed my beliefs. »

Guy Sioui Durand

It was during the turmoil of the 1970s, when Woodstock, Vietnam, rock ‘n’ roll, Expo 67 and the October Crisis shaped Quebec’s youth that Guy Sioui Durand, a sociologist and art critic born in Wendake, author of several books When he met contemporary Aboriginal art, he became aware of his Quebec origins.

“In 1970 I studied at Cégep Limoilou. It is both the first opportunity in history for us, the indigenous people, to exercise the right to vote following the amendment of the Indian Act of 1960. And it is above all the October Crisis in which the state deploys the army, in anticipation of the crisis of Kanesatake-Oka twenty years later. Pierre Vallières arrives to hold a conference in Cégep. He has just published Nègres blancs d’Amérique, a title despised today, as well as Indian, the official title of the Indian Act still in force. In 1971 I began studying sociology at the University of Laval, whose disciplines make us their major. A teacher told me bluntly: “You are not Indian anymore. Her socialization is that of a French Quebecer.” »

For Guy Sioui Durand, it was “keen awareness of Quebec” and learning a lesson in sociology: no matter what their origins, no one escapes their surroundings and the ideas that permeate them.

Joanne Liu

It was the snowy winters and a certain left half of the fridge that Dr. Joanne Liu, MSF par excellence, made aware of their connection to Quebec.

“I went to Paris for three years for Doctors Without Borders and that was the time I felt most Quebecois. Every day I was reminded that I had an accent. I had to rehearse every day. Every day I was criticized for the way I said things. I also remember a certain moment when I happened to see a film from Quebec, a film by Philippe Falardeau called “The Left Half of the Fridge”. There’s a scene showing the stairs in Montreal with snow: When I saw that I was so bored – I was homesick, I was homesick. Everyone asked me why I didn’t continue my career in Paris, people freaked out because I was promised an incredible career there and everyone thought I would be the next boss. I replied, “It’s not possible.” I was bored. I had to go back. »

Louise Otis

The Matane-born President of the Administrative Court of the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and mother of judicial mediation in Quebec says she has always felt like a Quebecer. However, she understood the place that Québec could take on the international stage from the words of the world’s highest-ranking diplomat.

“Nearly 20 years ago, when I was still a judge at the Quebec Court of Appeal, the United Nations Secretary-General, Mr. Kofi Annan, asked me to join the UN’s System Redesign Group of Justice, which consisted of five members: national and international judges. On the first day of our mission, Secretary General Kofi Annan officially welcomed us into his cabinet and greeted all members from five different countries.

When he came to me he said, “Thank you for bringing the Quebec mediation system to the United Nations.” I still remember the great pride I felt when Quebec was named and recognized. Quebec Mediation. Our! Since then she has traveled the world with Quebec as her flag.

I could also feel the immense pride that would have resided in my father, this worthy Matanais who, until the age of 72, earned his living in the dense forests of the north coast to help me complete my law degree. He learned by reading his Larousse encyclopedia, one volume a year, at the foot of the northern spruces. »

To see in the video

The Broad in Los Angeles. The Shed in New York. The Institute for Contemporary Art in Boston. Architect Elizabeth Diller (Lodz, Poland, aged 69) with her partners Ricardo Scofidio, Charles Renfro and Benjamin Gilmartin has built some of the most unique museums of this century. It has also created the new face of New York, which wants to push the limits with experimentation. She grew up in the Bronx and came to the United States by boat as a child. He attended Fira de Barcelona to speak about Smart Cities at Smart City Expo. He’s having breakfast in a five-star hotel, pinching a roll and using a teaspoon to scoop out a soft-boiled egg.

She couldn’t make it to New York today like she could when she was a kid.

No. In 1959 it was possible to start a new life in the Bronx. Who could pay the rent today? Most artists are gone.

What do cities lose when they lose artists?

Someone who tells you the truth. When we made The Shed with The Rockwell Group, we wanted to revive the idea of ​​New York as a center of cultural production, not as a place where time has stood still.

Did you take unnecessary risks at The Shed? Why build a mobile building?

A theater is constantly changing. Why not move a little more? The conversion from an exhibition hall to an auditorium had to be something simple and electric. To save money, they did it manually, and today the result is clumsy.

Do you associate risk with intellectual growth?

Challenges strengthen me. Comfort makes me sleepy. I don’t understand the risk for the risk, but I understand the reward after a risk. It is a source of energy, life and change. I often knew that if I took risks I would lose competitions, but I didn’t know how to do anything else, I couldn’t.

She is a professor at Princeton. Does it teach risk?

I teach the students. I free them from what they have learned so they can think. prejudices stop thinking. I asked them how to deal with the obsolescence and speed of the world in something as slow as architecture. If they had something half-finished, I would change the assignment and ask them to adapt it. The exercise destabilized them, they had to rethink everything. they hated me but they learned a lot.

The Architect on the High Line, a project by Diller Scofidio + Renfro in collaboration with James Corner Field Operations and Piet Oudolf. Vincent Tullo

She is the architect of 21st century New York. And he came to this city when he was five years old.

My parents had to say goodbye to their lives. It was traumatic. They left their past in Poland. Also her consolation: They had money. But they came to what was considered the land of opportunity. Traumatized by the Holocaust, they wanted to flee as far as possible so that their children could have a life.

did they have it

Well… they were always scared, but I studied whatever I wanted.

Did you have a religious childhood?

In my house, religion was a cultural issue, not a spiritual one. My father was Czech and my mother Polish. He managed textile factories in Lodz. Although neither he nor my mother had studied. He was an enterprising man. He spoke languages. Shortly after arriving in New York, he learned English. He was a survivor. My mother, on the other hand, never adjusted. He spoke to me in Polish and thanks to that I speak it. Sometimes I think it was my fault that he didn’t learn English from talking to me.

Did you flee from National Socialism in 1959?

After the war there was a lot of anti-Semitism. Even though my father wasn’t religious, he was Jewish. My father’s nine brothers and my grandparents perished in concentration camps. As a child, I fled this pain in New York. Today I regret not having asked more. But in my house, everyone wanted to forget and start over.

His brother was 13 years old.

I wanted to forget. In Lodz he was bullied as a Jew. Here he was able to study engineering. Today he no longer identifies with being a Jew.

And you?

It depends who is asking.

A flexible identity?

The survivors. I feel European. But not particularly Polish. And at the same time, I’m a real New Yorker. I believe that my ethics and sensitivity to what is different comes from my parents. I’ve never felt quite American, whatever that might be. I’m used to change. I’m interested in fixing things. I don’t know how this conflicts with my parents’ decision to run away from the problem. But I am like that. I never felt the loss of someone I didn’t know. In my work and in my life I confront things and try to change them. Children run away in pain. But then you realize how much guilt you end up bearing.

What does that mean?

My parents were overprotective. I think the loss scared them. The damage you take increases over your lifetime.

What did your parents do when they arrived?

Starting from scratch in the Bronx. My father carried sacks full of fruit. My mother cleaned offices. At the end of his life, my father fulfilled the American dream of seeing his children go to college. And he came to run a hotel. We never feel poverty.

It was within this framework that he decided to become an artist.

What worried my mother was that she was not financially dependent on men. I was obsessed.

And you go and fall in love with your teacher.

That also happened. But my mother always supported me. He asked me why I hadn’t studied architecture. When I said no he insisted I become a dentist! He wanted me to have a job. I studied fine arts and after two years of sculpture I switched to architecture. That’s where I met Rick. And if. It was a swarm.

I was 23 and he was 42.

It’s all the more shocking that we’re still together. We have dedicated our lives to architecture.

It seems to be the strongest in the relationship.

Because I talk a lot. I could never have done what I did without him. He’s a great teacher and people love him.

Elizabeth Diller.Vincent Tullo

Does he have children?

Ric had a marriage and we didn’t. Sometimes I think about it. I’ve spent my life putting it off until next year, and in the end, that year isn’t here yet. I’m happy with the life I have. How to know what would have been better? you have children

Two.

Stop working?

No. I think I would have gone insane.

Rick was four. If he had asked for it, he would have agreed to another, but he didn’t want to force it. The only one who pressured me was my mother and… I didn’t listen to her.

Her mother urged her to live her own life and also have children.

For her it was not a contradiction. He wanted me to learn English and spoke to me in Polish! That’s why I sank when he died.

It was difficult for him to create an imperishable work. As if he had to prepare himself.

Building was not our passion. Ric was tired of architecture. And I was pretty rebellious. I didn’t like authority. I think he liked that. As a child she had been naughty. Maybe because of my parents’ overzealousness.

Wasn’t she a good student?

It was the time of the Vietnam War and he spent more time protesting than studying. I remember my youth as a perpetual protest: mobilizations, drugs…

drugs in school?

It was a different era, with its difficulties and its advantages. I spent a third of my time at the institute, another protesting, and the other at MoMA.

After a few decades he signed the expansion of this museum. Who took her the first time?

I went alone My parents liked nature and sports. And I was fascinated by the modern world. I wanted to be a sculptor.

How much freedom did you have in designing the MoMA extension?

I know the museum by heart. I knew his problems: he had no connection to the city, you had to walk half a kilometer before you could see art. It was an unnatural, artificial building that was constantly overcrowded.

Do cities thrive when rents are cheap?

The New York of my youth was like that. This gives you time to act, think and live. I spent the day on the street. That opened my mind a lot.

Why did you finally become an architect?

i wanted to learn From photography I went to cinema and from cinema to architecture. It seemed to me more capable of transformation and more capable of defending interdisciplinary ideas.

The interface between the disciplines defines his work.

In the world of art, proof and even doubt are allowed. Also intuition. In architecture, you spend the day explaining why you do things.

Did you feel the fear of the other professionally more than personally?

Fear is always harmful. And it always describes who is placating it more than who is receiving it. But we suffer. We were artists for architects and architects for artists. Our work was dissident: it didn’t fit. Being in no man’s land is a problem for getting scholarships or a job as a teacher. However, as a woman, I believe that living in New York has benefited me from what many have struggled before.

Did you want to blend in?

We don’t work according to formulas, we experiment, question, mix. We transgressed to push the boundaries of architecture. And the architectural community thought we were geeks.

One of his first works was a cloud. Can an experiment become a building?

I honestly think so. But these projects were temporary. Others are ephemeral without being designed to be ephemeral. Austerity measures are often an excuse to avoid experimentation.

Elizabeth Diller depicted in one of her most famous works, the High Line in New York. Vincent Tullo

Architecture is taught today as a hybrid discipline.

We have always defended the mix. We don’t know how to see it any other way.

John Hejduk, his teacher, believed that building corrupts architecture. Do you agree?

No. He believed it was a discipline, not a profession. Therefore, my training consisted in connecting architecture with art, literature and creativity…

Can you contribute to architecture without building?

Yes. Cities are attracted by enacting laws, issuing commissions, and giving opportunities to others. For me, every way to create space is to create architecture.

Do you feel the need to make groundbreaking proposals?

It’s not about surprising, it’s about exploring.

The High Line: Restoring miles of old track as an elevated park changed its life.

It is an architecture that starts with the outdated and protects nature. It has to do with our adaptability.

And listen to the neighbors.

I had never heard what people said before. As I got out of the academic vision to do it, my perspective changed. After the September 11 attacks, a wave of courtesy swept through New York. We felt part of the same city. We had to take care of them and ourselves. This part of Manhattan was an empty, hopeless place: a perfect place for improvement.

Are you in favor of citizens being asked what the city should look like?

Getting out of your own world is good, but it takes hours of meetings and listening. For me, the idea of ​​turning urban waste into a living part of the city was intriguing. It went from the infrastructure to the ruins, from the ruins to the garden and from the garden to the promenade.

Is nature more powerful than culture?

It’s culture. It was less about building and more about working with nature. And with the neighbors. And it cost more to remove the tracks than to maintain them. They were already covered with vegetation. There were hardly any parks in this part of New York. The solution was to leave it almost as it was. And make it safer. It touched a nerve that needed to be touched.

That’s what artists do: they anticipate the future.

We are so tied to our screens that seeing what was happening on the street was considered a discovery.

What did you learn while building?

That there can be a lot of creativity in the effort. As Edison put it, “Genius is 1% illumination and 99% sweat.” This architecture is a team effort. And that an approval is more important than a line. The greatest difficulties in architecture are not of a technical nature, but arise from dealing with people.

It’s easier to get a building to move…

Like The Shed. Oh well. Let’s see, technical problems are fun and challenging. Explaining to people that what’s good for one neighbor is good for everyone is harder. And I like. It’s the story of my life: My friends are fleeing the fire and I’m running toward it.

The great challenges of current architecture are the slowness, the high building prices and the urgent needs of the world.”

Because?

Where others see failure, I see opportunity. I remember when we won the competition to expand Lincoln Center. Frank Gehry said, “Don’t touch it, these people are impossible.” And I thought: I’m going to prove him wrong. Of course we left a lot of energy. I have a conference to explain. I do it six different ways. They are all true: everyone is afraid of change.

You don’t seem to be.

Seems to be an opportunity for growth. I came to New York at the age of five!

Which of your projects reinvented New York?

The expansion of Lincoln Center. Philip Johnson’s original building was designed to be accessible by car. And not ours. This marks the development of the city.

What can the most intellectual architecture contribute to the world with little means?

It takes a lot of intelligence to deal with scarcity and chaos. The great architectural challenges lie there: between the slowness and the high construction costs and the urgent needs of the world.

Has immigration prepared you for austerity?

I don’t have a strict life. But I prefer one fabulous thing to a hundred good ones.

How does it relate to money?

I spend a lot But it doesn’t motivate me. I like the convenience and the fact that I don’t have to worry about the studio’s ability to pay. But I prefer freedom to money.

Are you a freelance architect?

A free man. I don’t have many things: no cars, no planes, no gold. My luxury is not doing commercial jobs, not having a list of good jobs and others that are worth the effort. To me that means being rich.

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“I feel a bit sad watching this Channel 5 ‘documentary’ which is really just a live special. Especially after today’s debris news. It’s just a bit early for that,” a social media viewer reacted on Friday, according to The Independent.

The show, titled Titanic Sub: Lost at Sea, tells the story of the research submarine that was supposed to allow five billionaires to explore the remains of Titanic’s sinking before it was reported missing last Sunday.

But while the planet nervously counted down the hours until the submarine lost its last reserves of oxygen, Britain’s TV network reportedly decided to air its documentary about the tragedy just an hour after the macabre count ended.

Wreckage of the submarine had been found that morning, causing the authorities to fear the worst, who eventually confirmed the complete deaths of the five passengers during the broadcast.

“I can’t believe Channel 5 is showing this show live on Titanic Submarine. Disgusting, distasteful and utterly disgusting of them,” a second reportedly wrote, while a third instead called the show “macabre,” according to the British outlet.

For his part, Ian Rumsey, content director of ITN, which produced the documentary, emphasized the “very human” side of the show, pointing out that it is about the rescue and the testimonies of the families of the passengers, but also about shipping and the ascent of extreme tourism.

“Our expertise and heritage in fast-moving documentaries, as well as our reputation for responsible cinema, mean we always treat these stories with great sensitivity,” he said in a statement before airing, The Independent reported.

Right now, the senior Russian general is urging Wagner’s mercenaries to obey Putin and return to their bases – all while tightly clutching his GUN throughout the video

By Katherine Lawton

Published: 09:41, 24 June 2023 | Updated: 10:34 AM, June 24, 2023

This is the chilling moment a senior Russian general told Wagner’s mercenaries to obey Putin and return to their bases – while tightly clutching his gun.

Sergei Surovikin, described as the “most pro-Wagner” general, urged the group not to obey orders from Wagner boss Yevgeny Prigozhin against the president.

In a video posted to Twitter, he said: “I address the command, the officers and fighters of Wagner PMC.” Together we have come a long and difficult road.

“We fought with you. We risked it. We have suffered casualties. We have won victories together. We are of the same blood.

“You must do this before it is too late: obey the will and command of the President-elect of the Russian Federation.”

Meanwhile, Surovikin sat and clutched his gun, which he gripped tightly in his right hand.

Prigozhin declared Friday that his 25,000-strong force was marching into Rostov-on-Don “without resistance.”

Senior Russian General Sergei Surovikin (pictured) urged Wagner’s mercenaries to obey Putin and return to their bases – while tightly clutching his gun

In a video posted to Twitter, he said: “You must do this before it’s too late: obey the will and command of the President-elect of the Russian Federation.”

Wagner leader Yevgeny Prigozhin said in a video released early Saturday morning that his troops had reached the strategically important city of Rostov-on-Don

Prigozhin made the move out of anger at Moscow’s alleged attack on his men, adding that he intends to march to Moscow to confront the defense chiefs.

In the video, Surovikin continued: “Stop the convoys, return to the bases and places where you are stationed.”

He said: “The enemy is just waiting for our internal political situation to come to a head.”

“Don’t play into the enemy’s hands at this difficult time for the country!”

Addressing the Russian people today, Russian President Vladimir Putin called Prigozhin’s military coup a “treason” and said the military leader “stabbed him in the back”.

Prigozhin and his feared 25,000-strong Wagner militia have reportedly seized control of the southern Russian city of Rostov-on-Don and have said they are “ready to die” as they swear vengeance for a military strike by Putin’s forces that has reportedly killed the mercenary leader killed some of his men.

All public events in the Russian capital were canceled as Vladimir Putin said on television some Russians had been “embroiled in a criminal adventure” to confirm his shaky position of power.

Putin described the group’s actions as a “criminal adventurous campaign” that was “tantamount to an armed mutiny” and urged those involved to halt all armed action as the unit’s headquarters in St. Petersburg was reportedly raided today.

About the author: Brian P Klein is the founder of RidgePoint Global, a strategic consulting firm, and a former US diplomat.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to Washington this week marks the strongest sign in decades of a warming in bilateral ties, fueled by current geopolitical realities. However, courting comes with borders that have historically kept these two countries at a distance.

Any notion that democracies can or should agree on everything needs to be tempered with a dose of pragmatic realism. The US may believe that oil sales are helping to prop up Russian President Vladimir Putin’s regime and, by extension, his war against Ukraine. But Modi’s India is buying cheap Russian oil anyway. Trying to force India to choose sides will backfire.

Where the US can offer credible alternatives, New Delhi is likely to choose them. So is the country’s historical reliance on cheap Russian military equipment, which is now severely impacted by supply chain problems and bottlenecks. India is buying $3 billion worth of US drones in one of many new initiatives to strengthen military ties. The US-India Business Council of the US Chamber of Commerce also launched its first INDUS this week

India’s economic development also exhibits a strong socialist and sometimes xenophobic tendency, which has hampered private sector development. In turn, informal policies and overly bureaucratic hurdles have limited the participation of foreign companies in India’s growth. A coordinated, intergovernmental US approach will be required to effectively persuade India to open up traditionally restricted areas of its economy. Success will be achieved by demonstrating that greater openness to New Delhi is the most effective way to realize its broader ambitions of becoming a regional growth hub.

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Even some of the success stories of economic relations have a dark side. The rapid increase in generic drug production in India has helped drive down drug prices for American consumers. But serious quality problems in chemotherapy treatments and contaminated eye drops have led to drug shortages and endangered the health of patients.

India has been officially geopolitically non-aligned since gaining independence from British rule in 1947. That’s why New Delhi balks at any perceived treatment as an unequal partner, or at Western countries’ “guidelines” about what to do. This is particularly true on legitimate human rights issues, including mistreatment of Muslims, political repression and attacks on freedom of expression, which have become more common under Modi’s rule.

Washington’s attempts at intimidation will improve none of these conditions. Soft power’s influence through a greater presence in US society might be better than the widely perceived hypocrisy of Washington’s penchant for global moralizing. India is the fifth-largest source of inbound tourists to the US, but still only saw 430,000 visitors in 2021, just ahead of Ecuador and the Dominican Republic.

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With all these difficulties, common interests and a long, vibrant history of sharing can lay the foundation for that much-needed closer relationship.

Washington and New Delhi are already warming in a way rarely seen in non-treating countries. The reaction to China’s regional expansion is certainly one reason. India shares a long, hotly contested border with China. Beijing has also actively courted India’s neighbors, including Afghanistan, Pakistan, Nepal and Bangladesh, strengthening their access to the sea, expanding power transmission lines and investing heavily in regional infrastructure.

Modi does not want to be completely excluded from China’s strategic moves and needs support. The Biden government is happy to help. For this reason, in an unusual step in building regional ties, India has been included in the quad along with Japan and Australia. Cooperation within this framework covers “infrastructure, maritime security, public-private partnership, climate, health, critical and emerging technologies and space”.

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India is seen as the new global engine of growth without showing many of the ideological differences in US-China relations. The World Bank forecasts India to grow 6.9% in 2023. US exports to India more than doubled from 2016 to 2022, reaching $47 billion last year. This makes India the tenth largest market for US goods.

There are plenty of commercial opportunities, similar to China’s opening and reform phase, which has now ended. Investments in the billions flow to India. GE will build aircraft engines for the Indian military and Micron is planning a chip factory. Apple has finally opened its first retail stores in Mumbai and New Delhi, and analysts expect 25% of iPhones will be made there by 2025. Tesla plans to expand into India’s emerging electric vehicle market. US companies are also actively looking for alternatives to using China as a production location. The more they are squeezed out of this domestic market, the greater the opportunities for India’s sustained growth.

And bilateral trade tensions, which have long been a source of tension, are easing. The Office of the US Trade Representative announced on Thursday that six disputes with the World Trade Organization will be settled. India is also removing retaliatory tariffs on several US products, including some agricultural commodities. After the Senate finally confirmed Eric Garcetti as US ambassador to India in March, problems can now be handled more proactively.

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All of these apparent affinities don’t belie the significant hurdles that remain in this burgeoning new diplomatic romance. At the moment it should be primarily a purposeful relationship. But the South Lawn reception, White House dinner, address to the US Congress, and even a rare press event for Modi illustrate the importance of this newfound diplomatic partnership.

US companies will benefit by considering this background and the immense cultural diversity of a fast-growing India. Any difficulties that arise, and there will be many, are surmountable as long as Washington policymakers take a measured and pragmatic approach to forging stronger ties.

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