jeudi, août 28, 2008

Frosh week like whatever

August 25, 2008
6 Myths about McGill and Concordia


So here you are. You’ve left New Jersey or Bangalore behind, came to Montreal, McGill and Concordia and you are now ready to explore your new home and indulge in your new life of freedom and very loose drinking laws.

During your stay in Québec you will be expected to ingest quite enormous quantities of cheese, fries, gravy, beer and bullshit about your new home, all of which could quite understandably make you sick to your stomach if you are not careful.

Lucky for you, you’ve found the AngryFrenchGuide, the voice of reason and truth about Québec who will help you see through the fog of dinsinformation and closet francophobia that you might come accross in the streets of Montreal.

To start you off, here are a few myths about McGill and Concordia universities that you should be weary of:

1. McGill is Montreal’s only world-class university.

Although it has often claimed to have more international students than any other university in Canada and even though half of those “international” students live only a few hours down highway 15/87 in the United States, McGill only managed to attract 400 more students on a visa than l’Université de Montréal (the big yellow building that kind of looks like a mosque on top of Mount-Royal).

In 2006 McGill had 5549 sinternational students while UdM, with it’s affiliated engineering and business schools, Polytechnique and HEC, had 5130. Every single one of those had to take an airplane to get here. Who’s world-class now?

2. Québec needs McGill and Concordia to attract young upwardly mobile students from abroad.

What is this? 1998? You guys need to get with the program.

According to the British Council, the demand for a Western English language education by international students is falling fast, especially in Asia. In 2005 4 out of 5 UK universities recorded a drop in foreign students, as sharp as 50% in the case of students from China.

Most countries in the World have adapted to the reality that English is the global language. People are learning English at home, now. They don’t need to come to Canada and the West anymore. The British Council’s conclusion: “The recent decline in international students studying in the main English-speaking countries is unlikely to reverse.”

The latest numbers from McGill tell us that although international admissions were stable this year, admissions from China, Japan, Mexico and Latin America all were down.

3. English is still the global language. There will always be a demand for an English education.

India’s outsourcing business is in crisis because it doesn’t have enough multilingual staff. They need German, Chinese and Spanish-speaking staff to get new lucrative markets. It started outsourcing the English-language business to more inexpensive places like Viet Nam, Guatemala and the State of Georgia (not the country, the US state). English is no longer a high value skill. Anyone can speak English.

The word on the street is multilinguism. You can’t graduate from Montreal’s French-language universities without a high proficiency in English. You can very easily spend four years at Concordia without learning a word of French, which makes you unemployable in Québec, and just another unilingual English-speaker in that big multilingual world out there. Maybe you can get work at that Indian call-center in Atlanta?

4. I’ve heard about you AFG, you’re one of those bitter separatists trying to wipe English out of Montreal.

There are exactly 744 430 English-speaking people in Québec, not even 10% of the population. Nevertheless Québec has three English-language universities that receive 27% of the government higher education funding, including 33% of the research budgets.

The rest of Canada has exactly ONE French university and it doesn’t have enough money to have a medical school.

You’re welcome.

5. Yeah, but Montreal’s English universities help offset the “brain drain” in Québec.


Actually, if it wasn’t for Montreal’s Anglo universities, Québec would be in a “brain gain” situation. 70% of English-speaking students leave after earning a Ph.D. Every year, wilst Québec is in the middle of a doctor shortage crisis, more than 50% of doctors trained by McGill leave the province.

Québec’s French universities can train more fluently English-speaking doctors and engineers than McGill and Concordia at a fraction of the cost. McGill and Concordia are just not good investments.

6. Fuck you AFG! English Montreal built McGill and Concordia and you separatists don’t have any business telling us who and what we should teach!


Actually, McGill and Concordia have received between a quarter and a third of all the higher education budgets of Québec for the last 40 years. They were built by the Québec people and belong to the Québec people. If the people of Québec decide they need Concordia to train people to work in Tagalog, that’s what Concordia’s should do.

So there you have it. French-speaking North Americans (3% of the continents population) are subsidizing the education of English-speaking North Americans (90% of the population). Pay attention in your PoliSci class when the teacher will describe neo-colonial systems. You just might hear things that sound like this post.

But it’s cool, don’t worry about it. You’ve got time. Take those four years, learn some French, explore the east, make some friends and join the good fight.

And remember, don’t go back home without having that poutine. It helps keep everything down.


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samedi, août 23, 2008

Luc Archambeault définit l'aliéné

Le fait de subordonner le plein exercice de la souveraineté démocratique du peuple du Québec à l’intérieur ou à l’extérieur du cadre Canadien, le fait de subordonner l’accession du Québec à la souveraineté politique à la bonne performance d’un parti politique, à l’irréprochable personnalité des membres et des représentants de tel parti politique

Le dénigrement de la classe politique et la mise en veilleuse de la souveraineté, Luc Archambault, 21 août 2008


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jeudi, août 21, 2008

Je suis indécis


‘Inní mér syngur vitleysingur’ - Official Video


Mais pas sur le look; Jónsi en Harkonnen m'a particulièrement saisi.

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mercredi, août 13, 2008

Radio-Cadenas

Par votre oeuvre journalistique, vous contribuez généreusement au lavage de cerveau américain. Les États-Unis sont de loin le pays le plus militarisé de la terre. Le gouvernement y dépense environ 2000 $ par habitant chaque année pour faire la guerre... en temps de paix. Les États-Unis répandent tantôt sournoisement, tantôt ouvertement la terreur et la désolation. Au Chili, au Vietnam, à Haïti, en Irak, en Afghanistan, au Congo et à bien d’autres endroits. Mais, selon les Américains, toutes les guerres sont la faute des autres, parce que, voyez-vous, les autres sont des méchants. Comment sait-on qu’ils sont des méchants ? Avec des reportages comme les vôtres, répétés des dizaines et des centaines de fois, sur plusieurs années, alors que la vérité sur les agissements des Américains et de leurs valets du Canada, de la Grande-Bretagne et d’ailleurs est savamment occultée ou marginalisée par les grands médias occidentaux, notamment ceux du système fédéral au Canada.

Les méchants Chinois et les séparatistes québécois, Bernard Desgagné, 12 août 2008

M. Desgagné nous offre entre autres un lien vers le documentaire La guerre secrète d’Ottawa


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À dimanche alors

source reuter




dim. 17 août 20:30 Tremplin 3 m - femmes, finale



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They may say nothing exists but Budweiser and acting tough

Ça commence vers 5:30. 3ième partie de 4, l'ensemble est disponible sur la chaîne YouTube d'Alex Jones



Mais en ce moment:



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Sur ce que pensent nos compatriotes canadians de nous

Et pourquoi ça pourrait être important. Non pas que notre état colonial nous soit inoffensif, mais faut voir plus loin c'est tout.

That's because the Georgians–with help from lobbyists like Scheunemann–have been pushing the line that South Ossetia is a fiction, a construct of evil Kremlin neo-Stalinists, rather than a people with a genuine grievance.

via-1 Chris



Que viendrait ici une accélération de l'histoire, des violences qui éclatent, et nos appels à l'aide, enfin ceux qui seront reçus, sculpteront le contour exact du discours (Canadian et U.S.) sur notre histoire en marche. Si nous n'existons pas, alors...

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Moi

Les Lumières

La Patrie

La Santé










  • All quieted on the word front (pdf) [he] therefore is telling us, loud and clear, that he not only is a dedicated opponent of freedom of speech, but he believes with equal passion that it is critically important to safeguard the right to lie not in the interests of freedom of expression, which he strongly opposes, as just demonstrated, but rather in one special case: to lie in service of power and privilege.


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