Tag Archives: Jacques-Demers

February 17, 2009 | Media

Journal (almost) Daily Digest: Rue Frontenac adds classifieds

(So I’m a bit behind…)

LOCK-OUT AU JOURNAL DE MONTRÉAL, 1ère partie
by actualite_citoyenne (via La Tribu du Verbe)

Classifieds ahoy!

Rue Frontenac, the website of locked-out Journal de Montréal workers, launched its classified ad section today. Their taking classifieds by phone or email. No prices are listed online.

Meanwhile

Martin Brodeur’s first column for Rue Frontenac is online. In it, he explains why he wouldn’t write for the Journal while they were locked out (among his reasons is that his father was a photographer for Montréal Matin), and he gives his thoughts on Canadiens goaltender Carey Price
The Journal has pulled its support from a charity that Jacques Demers is heavily involved with. Demers and Rue Frontenac suggest that this is in retaliation for Demers’s decision to no longer write for the Journal de Montréal. Way to punish the disadvantaged, PKP.
Astral marketing people visited the picket lines. Additional solidarity from Infoman and this guy.
Patrick Dion isn’t crazy about Guy A. making fun of Richard Martineau.
The Journal is still selling out in grocery stores, according to Chroniques Blondes (who until recently was a Journal columnist). My experience has been similar – the Journal isn’t exactly being left on the shelves.

And finally, as a demonstration of the excellent reporting skills that the Journal is missing because of this lockout, I give you this Rue Frontenac report on the Snuggie.

January 14, 2009 | TV, Video

I love you too, smoke-free TV people

CFCF's Rob Lurie, at his most smokalicious

A smorgasbord of government organizations and nonprofits is sponsoring Quebec’s anti-smoking week next week, and part of the campaign features videos with TV personalities giving heart-felt thank-yous to loved ones who helped them quit smoking, while sitting on the floor of the same living room. Each video ends with “je t’aime” (or “I love you”) in a serious, look-you-in-the-eyes way that seems to walk the line between tear-inducing and creepy (though maybe I’m overly sensitive in this regard).

Included in that list is token anglo CFCF’s Rob Lurie (above), TVA’s Dominic Arpin (who writes a blog post about the experience shooting this piece), RDS’s Pierre Houde and Jacques Demers, and a bunch of other people equally split between the media partners (they even got the two guys left at TQS).

Kidding aside, they’re pretty gut-wrenching videos, designed to make people uncomfortable and get them to talk to their parents, kids, siblings, spouses and other loved ones about quitting smoking.