CONLOGUE Ray

  1. Oh Canada, Oh Quebec, Oh Richler
    Ray Conlogue G&M June 26, 2002 - It's a shame having to return to Mordecai Richler on the first anniversary of his death. Last year I made the point that he was one of those fiction writers who make terrible journalists. [...] Those who look at the facts will find it very difficult to describe Richler, however great his artistic achievements, as a "friend of liberty."

  2. Trudeau's hidden co-stars: the two solitudes
    By RAY CONLOGUE G&M Wednesday, April 3, 2002 - Radio-Canada, as the French arm of the CBC, is obliged to broadcast the Trudeau series in Quebec. It has already been shown here, but Radio-Canada is still dragging its heels on a Quebec broadcast date. It will get shown there, eventually, and almost nobody will watch it. After all, it really doesn't have a thing to do with them.

  3. Facing up to both sides of Mordecai
    RAY CONLOGUE G&M 25.7.01 - «His most infamous accusation -- demonstrably false -- was that the Parti Québécois's theme song was inspired by the melody of a Nazi anthem. [...] He wrote an astonishing seven out of eight major articles in magazines such as The Atlantic, The New York Times Magazine and The New Yorker. In all of them, he defamed Quebec with considerable venom.»

  4. Culture is a blood sport
    By RAY CONLOGUE - G&M - 10.5.01 - Flooded by U.S. mass entertainment, countries like France are showing Canada how to defend national identity, says arts writer RAY CONLOGUE - «Slow City, Citta Lente, is the name of a new Italian movement that resists globalization by consciously preserving the appealing traditions of old cities -- which goes to show how quickly the kids who demonstrated against the World Trade Organization in Seattle two years ago have morphed into a planetwide anxiety attack. Prime Minister Jean Chretien, noticing the sea change, has moved to claim this suddenly interesting constituency by injecting a half-billion fresh dollars into Canadian culture.»

  5. C'est la culture... stupid!
    [entrevue avec Ray Conlogue par Carole Beaulieu] L'Actualité 15 mars 1997