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THE PLEASURE OF LIFE...  By Bernard Bujold - The problem, and it is serious, is that "pleasure" has been eliminated everywhere in our civilization.  I used to love museums, but I don't know when I'll go back, because it's become so complicated and without pleasure. What about the restaurants that will be opening soon? We don't go to restaurants to eat, but for the pleasure of eating.  In the few shops that are open (one out of four are open) on St. Catherine Street, in the middle of pin fences and plywood, there are waiting lines of 10 to 20 people on the street in front of each shop and only two or three customers at a time can enter.  The final question is, "What's left in life if the fun is gone?"  I don't have an answer...  SEE LE JOURNAL DE MONTRÉAL

THE CIRQUE DU SOLEIL  By Bernard Bujold - Cirque du Soleil's main creditor, THE CATALYST CAPITAL GROUP of Toronto (led by Gabriel de Alba) may well become the new owner by simply converting its debt into shares.  For another group to buy the Cirque, it will have to spend around 1 billion new money, which would be very risky and above all too expensive in terms of performance.  QUEBECOR is interested but, as an external group, the transaction is financially outside the limits of an acceptable financial risk.  To be continued...  See report LA PRESSE  

RESTAURANTS OF SUMMER 2020 -  Par Bernard Bujold -  I hadn't seen my neighbor and friend, a life-loving Italian, since the confinement of March! I was pleasantly surprised to see him earlier this week, briefly in the entrance of the building, and he had lost at least 100 pounds (a bit like Denis Coderre ...). The cause, my neighbor loves restaurants and everything has been closed since early spring. So he's on a forced diet... He is likely to continue losing weight this summer because, even if restaurants will be legally allowed to open from June 22, many will not open, first because it will be impossible to be profitable financially, and also because of health security measures that will make the pleasure of eating no longer there. Good luck to my neighbor...  See story LA PRESSE     See story LE JOURNAL DE MONTRÉAL 

THE PILLARS OF SOCIETY... -  By Bernard Bujold -  Half of the pillars of the society in which I lived became outcasts and the symbol of exception and talent that they represented disappeared as if it had never existed.  The last to fall is Edgar Fruitier...  In Edgar's case, I briefly rubbed shoulders with him during his activities as a great connoisseur and collector of classical music records.  I've been in contact with many of society's symbols, including Gilbert Rozon; Eric Salvail; and Marcel Brisebois, the father of the Musée d'Art contemporain de Montréal. I often tell myself that perhaps it would have been better for me to be alone on the shore of a lake than to be badly surrounded! But how to know?  If there's a conclusion, it's that the people we meet are not always who we think they are... Fortunately for my peace of mind, I had never met Gabriel Wortman, the millionaire denturist from Nova Scotia, who killed more than twenty people last...

A LOVE OF SPRING 2020... - By Bernard Bujold - Montrealers' love affair will have lasted only a few days in the spring of 2020. The humpback whale that amused the curious in the Old Port of Montreal was found dead on Monday, June 8 near Varenne. The fun in the Old Port has returned to the quiet and deserted...  SEE PHOTOS AND STORIES

BARRICADES ON THE CITY OF MONTREAL - By Bernard Bujold - It's like the days of New France and the barricades against the Iroquois... Except that the warriors attacking Montreal are rioters who mingle with popular demonstrations.  With the good weather on the weekend and the demonstration announced for Sunday, June 7 at 11 a.m., the merchants did not want to take any risks and almost the entire Saint Catherine Street was barricaded with plywood planks. Some wealthier merchants, such as Apple, decided to increase their protection and cover their entire shop window. On Friday, Apple had only covered half of its window but on Saturday, they completed up to the roof...  Personally, I'm not a big fan of demonstrations and I went on Saturday to my favourite bookseller, INDIGO, to plan my Sunday. The book of the hour, which I recommend: STAR TREK PICARD. A science fiction novel that reminds us both of our Coronavirus 2020 crisis and of the destructive manifestations that North ...

HAVE A GOOD WEEKEND ON JUNE 6TH, 2020!  The summer season is approaching and arrives in two weeks, on Saturday, June 20th at 4:44 p.m. Let's enjoy the last days of spring 2020...  https://espacepourlavie.ca/equinoxes-et-solstices