Art Scene

Félix Rose’s new documentary, La bataille de Saint-Léonard (The Battle of Saint-Léonard), chronicles the language and education protests of the late 1960s that made national headlines for many months. What began as a local dispute soon exploded into a wider political conflict that demanded the intervention of both the provincial and federal governments. The crisis eventually paved the way for Quebec’s Charter of the French Language (Bill 101), adopted a decade later, which forever changed the linguistic and cultural landscape of Quebec. A film devoted to this pivotal, albeit largely…

In June 1940, at the outbreak of World War II, Italy declared war on Great Britain. At the time, Canada…

The first time I visited Rome, I was nine years old. Throughout the year, my mother would save enough money…