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D. Johnston 281 days ago
Steve Tucker, a chiropractic who grew up in Victoria and and until recently worked in Belfast, Northern Ireland, is thining of relocating to Montreal. He came here for a visit last year with his family and they loved the city. He's wondering what he has to do to to set up a practice here. The rules and regulations, and so forth. Here's some answers for Steve. To practise in Quebec, he needs to have national accreditation, which he has if he has passed the Canadian Chiropractic Examing Board exams. And he needs to learn about the Quebec regulations governing his profession, and pass a test on this. He can write this test in English. However, he will have to pass a French test if he wants to practise here more than four years. All professionals from the rest of Canada or abroad have to pass these langauge tests. When you arrive in Quebec as an accredited professional, you get a temporary 1-year permit. You can renew it three times – so that you are effectively looking at a ...
D. Johnston 289 days ago
Malajube in Toronto last week, promoting them new album. Aaron Lynett, National Post If you don't live in Montreal anymore, maybe you haven't heard of Malajube, a francophne indie rock band from Sorel. Then again, maybe you have. For not since Harmonium in the late 1970s has a Quebec rock band singing only in French made such a name for itself in the rest of North America. One of their songs, Montréal -40 C, is among 49 Canadian songs that are on a special compilation of Canadian music that the CBC has put together for U.S. President Barack Obama. The Top 49 playlist was assembled by the CBC as the national public broadcaster's inaugural "gift" to the new U.S. president, who visits Ottawa next Thursday, in what will be his first foreign trip since assuming office. These "49 songs from north of the 49th parallel," as the CBC calls them, were chosen to help give Obama a better sense of Canada, through exposing him to "the depth of our ...D. Johnston 292 days ago
Montreal's downtown core is a happening place, day and night. Gazette photo: Gordon Beck In response to publication of the Moving On series Jan. 31 to Feb. 4, Steve Tucker has written to say he is thinking of moving to Montreal. But he's not sure if the city is a good fit for him. Maybe readers in Montreal and former Montrealers now living elsewhere can help him decide. Steve writes: "I just want to say great job on the Moving On series – it's definitely given me food for thought. "I've just moved back to Canada (from the United Kingdom) with my wife and 18-month-old daughter. I had always intended to move back to Victoria, B.C., where I grew up. However, on holiday last summer, we spent some time in Montreal and absolutely fell in love with it. We just felt it had the perfect mix of Europe and North America – and a vibrancy I've never come across. "So we're very interested in moving to Montreal this summer and starting a new life there. But ...D. Johnston 297 days ago
And a special hello as well to those of you who are still living in Quebec. The five-part print version of the Moving On series concluded today – and as I expected, there has been a lot of reaction. Exodus has marked the lives of so many families here. Some of the reaction you might have seen on our letters-to-the-editor page. Other reaction can be seen on our Moving On blog feature. These online comments are interesting from a geographical point of view, because they include posts from people who grew up in Montreal and are now living elsewhere. You might not know it, but The Gazette is unique in the Canwest Publishing chain in that a majority of its online readers do not live in the province in which the print edition is published. Most people who read The Gazette online live outside of Quebec! We're the only metropolitan daily in Canada with this kind of online readership profile. Like the Jerusalem Post and the Irish Times in Dublin, we have a long reach in the cyberworld. ...
D. Johnston 302 days ago
There’s something in journalism called the back story. It’s the story behind the story. The backstory to our Moving On series opened last March in Boston, at a conference on narrative journalism organized by the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University. “Try to come back with an idea for something we can do for The Gazette,” said Catherine Wallace, assistant managing editor of The Gazette, before I left with a group of other reporters for the weekend event. The conference was held in a downtown hotel in Boston’s charming Back Bay district. There were seminars on newspaper and magazine storytelling on one side of the hotel mezzanine, and seminars on web-based narrative storytelling on the other side. Narrative usually refers to story structure, and how dramatic elements can be used to portray a conflict that ultimately points to some sort of resolution. But narrative is a word that is also sometimes used intechangably with theme. While in Boston, the thought suddenly ...
