Montrealers will be getting a new print publication. Businessman Andy Nulman has decided to revive The Sunday Express Newspaper and I have agreed to be a contributor. Publishing will begin
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Louise Penny has two novels coming out this year: One featuring her trusty Chief Inspector Armand Gamache; the other, a collaboration with one of Gamache’s and Penny’s greatest fans, Hillary Clinton.
The Madness of Crowds, Penny’s 17
th Gamache crime thriller, comes out in August and, like the others, will doubtless find its way atop the New York Times bestseller list immediately thereafter. But it’s the latter novel, State of Terror, a political potboiler slated for release Oct. 12, that has been, understandably, garnering a lot of attention.
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Experts are celebrating the start of Quebec’s COVID-19 vaccination campaign, but they also warn that the benefits of the vaccine won’t be apparent for some time. “I think we should be ecstatic,” said Dr. Donald Sheppard, chair of the Department of Microbiology and Immunology in McGill’s Faculty of Medicine. “I think it is very clear that the only exit strategy for us to get back to normal life will be vaccination,” he said. “It’s the only way we’re going to protect the vulnerable people in our community, the elderly and those with chronic medical conditions.” But the first inoculations are unlikely to have any immediate effect on the number of hospitalizations and deaths.
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Merci-thank you.
That seems to be the most appropriate response to broadcaster Aaron Rand and fans of the satirical “bonjour-hi” T-shirt he created. The popular CJAD host presented a cheque for $8,655 to the Montreal Gazette Christmas Fund Thursday proceeds from the sale of the shirts this fall.
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The T-shirt is Rand’s latest salvo into the field of linguistic politics in Quebec. It says “bonjour Hi!” with a thumbs-up and the words “approuvé OQLF approved” underneath. Five hundred of them have been sold since Rand launched the line in November.