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Le Sujet Des Langues Officielles

Par Rejean Beaulieu, The Afro News Vancouver

2009 marquait le quarantième anniversaire du régime canadien des langues officielles, événement plutôt terne comme si la conversation suivante avait eu lieu :

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By Afro News Reporter, Ariadne Sawyer.

Cargo To Africa

Made in scenic Montreal and surrounding rural areas, this film follows the adventures of Norbert (Pierre Lebeau, Winner of the Grand Prize of the Americas at the 2009 World Film Festival, 2009 for his exceptional body of work).
Norbert is forced to return to Canada as an evacuee from a civil war in Africa after spending 20 years doing humanitarian work. He finds himself back in Montreal with ill health, feeling displaced and responsible for his cherished pet monkey Trotsky. Desperate to return to “home” to Africa, he hopes to be a stowaway on a cargo ship but realizes he cannot take his monkey with him. Enter Christophe, (Julien Adam) a confrontational young boy with family problems who becomes an advocate for the monkey. Norbert and Christophe form an unlikely bond in their efforts to find a home for Trotsky and in the process from a bond which helps them to overcome the life challenges while often finding themselves in humorous situations.
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Written by Helena Kaufman

Frances Margaret Gordon was a good ESL teacher when she began her working life in Montreal. Soon, however, she was swept up in the developments and opportunities that characterized her times. She changed herMontreal.career and even the cities she lived in. All the while she followed the great heart she had for social services and social justice but knew her goals would come together once she also put her mind to law.

“The term social justice had not yet been formed, and the way into the work I wanted to do in developing social policy was through the practice of criminal law,” says Gordon. “In this particular arena we see most clearly what our society values, whether it be crimes against the person or property.”

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