Fuzzy left

Although it was particularly concerning for us in Quebec and urgent to do away with, our now slightly relaxed post-secondary tuition freeze has not been the sole taboo resulting in good part from the defensive collectivism that is so prevalent in this country, on both sides of the language divide by the way. And we […]

Thorstein Veblen, who pioneered the institutionalist school in economics, published a short but classic book more than a century ago, entitled “The theory of the leisure class” (1899). That’s where he coined the expression “conspicuous consumption”, linking sociology and economics through the study of a type of behaviour, motivated not by direct hedonistic pleasure, which […]

Jean Charest’s electoral promise of using some of the funds recently transfered from Ottawa, in order to lower provincial income tax - which he finally did - has had way too many people losing their cool, both inside and outside Québec. The criticism has actually been flowing from at least three completely different directions.
First, independently […]

If one thing should be dealt with decisively and courageously in Québec, before anything else that is, it would be to abolish once and for all the tuition freeze on all post-secondary education. Yes, I know many will disagree, but I strongly believe we should leave it to CEGEPs and universities (there could be exceptions, […]

Short post today. Well, relatively short. With the few scattered entries that I published since I opened shop, and with a learning curve still pretty hard to climb, I thought I should focus these final musings of 2006 on… 2007.
In fact, since I would rather wait for next year before I get in any more […]