#yves françois blanchette

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Avril MMXXIII

Films

Le Troisième Homme (The Third Man) (1949) de Carol Reed avec Joseph Cotten, Alida Valli, Orson Welles, Trevor Howard, Bernard Lee, Paul Hörbiger et Ernst Deutsch

Fantasia chez les ploucs (1971) de Gérard Pirès avec Lino Ventura, Jean Yanne, Mireille Darc, Georges Demestre, Nanni Loy, Jacques Dufilho, Georges Beller et Rufus

Super Mario Bros. le film (The Super Mario Bros. Movie) (2023) de Aaron Horvath et Michael Jelenic avec Pierre Tessier, Audrey Sourdive, Benoît Du Pac, Jérémie Covillault, Emmanuel Garijo, Xavier Fagnon, Nicolas Marié et Thierry Desroses

La Folie des grandeurs (1971) de Gérard Oury avec Louis de Funès, Yves Montand, Alice Sapritch, Karin Schubert, Alberto de Mendoza et Gabriele Tinti

Les Trois Mousquetaires : D'Artagnan (2023) de Martin Bourboulon avec François Civil, Vincent Cassel, Romain Duris, Pio Marmaï, Eva Green, Vicky Krieps, Louis Garrel : Louis XIII et Lyna Khoudri

Vacances romaines (Roman Holiday) (1953) de William Wyler avec Gregory Peck, Audrey Hepburn, Eddie Albert, Hartley Power, Harcourt Williams et Margaret Rawlings

Le Signe de Zorro (The Mark of Zorro) (1940) de Rouben Mamoulian avec Tyrone Power, Linda Darnell, Basil Rathbone, Gale Sondergaard, Eugene Pallette, J. Edward Bromberg et Montagu Love

Flair de famille (2023) de Didier Bivel avec Sylvie Testud, Samuel Labarthe, Fatim-Zarha Alami Marrouni, Oscar Copp et Anne Girouard

Un pont trop loin (A Bridge Too Far) (1977) de Richard Attenborough avec Dirk Bogarde, James Caan, Michael Caine, Sean Connery, Edward Fox, Elliott Gould, Gene Hackman, Anthony Hopkins et Robert Redford

Sirocco (1951) de Curtis Bernhardt avec Humphrey Bogart, Märta Torén, Lee J. Cobb, Everett Sloane, Gerald Mohr, Zero Mostel et Nick Dennis

West Side Story (1961) de Jerome Robbins et Robert Wise avec Natalie Wood, Marni Nixon, Richard Beymer, Jimmy Bryant, Russ Tamblyn, Rita Moreno, Betty Wand, George Chakiris, Simon Oakland et Ned Glass

Inspecteur Lavardin (1986) de Claude Chabrol avec Jean Poiret, Jean-Claude Brialy, Bernadette Lafont, Jean-Luc Bideau, Jacques Dacqmine et Hermine Clair

La Bête humaine (1938) de Jean Renoir avec Jean Gabin, Simone Simon, Fernand Ledoux, Julien Carette, Blanchette Brunoy et Gérard Landry

L'Homme qui tua Liberty Valance (The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance) (1962) de John Ford avec John Wayne, James Stewart, Vera Miles, Lee Marvin et Edmond O'Brien

Le Goût des autres (2000) d'Agnès Jaoui avec Anne Alvaro, Jean-Pierre Bacri, Alain Chabat, Agnès Jaoui, Gérard Lanvin, Christiane Millet et Wladimir Yordanoff

Remorques (1941) de Jean Grémillon avec Michèle Morgan, Jean Gabin, Madeleine Renaud, Fernand Ledoux, Charles Blavette, Jean Marchat, Nane Germon et Anne Laurens

Le Dindon (2019) de Jalil Lespert avec Dany Boon, Guillaume Gallienne, Alice Pol, Ahmed Sylla, Laure Calamy et Camille Lellouche

Adieu les cons (2020) d'Albert Dupontel avec Virginie Efira, Albert Dupontel, Nicolas Marié, Jackie Berroyer, Philippe Uchan, Bastien Ughetto et Marilou Aussilloux

Indiana Jones et la Dernière Croisade (Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade) (1989) de Steven Spielberg avec Harrison Ford, Sean Connery, Denholm Elliott, Alison Doody, John Rhys-Davies, Julian Glover et River Phoenix

Tigre et Dragon (臥虎藏龍, Wò Hǔ Cáng Lóng) (2000) d'Ang Lee avec Chow Yun-fat, Michelle Yeoh, Zhang Ziyi, Chang Chen, Cheng Pei-pei et Sihung Lung

Séries

Friends Saison 6, 7

Celui qui faisait sa demande : 1re partie - Celui qui faisait sa demande : 2e partie - Celui qui croyait faire jeune - Celui qui réglait le mariage - Celui qui s'était mal assis - Celui qui retrouvait son rôle - Celui qui avait toujours l'air bizarre - Celui qui aimait les petites siestes - Celui qui avait un livre à la bibliothèque - Celui qui n'aimait pas les chiens - Celui qui offrait un vélo - Celui qui se déguisait - Celui qui aimait les cheesecakes - Celui qui a passé la nuit debout - Celui qui a vu mourir Rosita - Ceux qui avaient trente ans - Celui qui avait un cerveau neuf - Celui qui savait la vérité sur Londres - Celui qui voyait la robe de mariée - Celui qui récupérait le prix - Celui qui avait une jolie cousine - Celui qui fantasmait sur le baiser - Celui qui écrivait ses vœux - Celui qui rencontrait l'auteur de ses jours - Celui qui a épousé Monica : 1re partie - Celui qui a épousé Monica : 2e partie

Coffre à Catch

#109 : Le Dirt Sheet débarque à la ECW ! - #110 : Aurélien Portehaut débarque à la ECW ! - #111 : Mark Henry vs Matt Hardy - C'est un Perfect 10 ! - #112 : Le Championship Scramble: le titre de Mark Henry en danger!

Top Gear Saison 11

L'art de la chasse - La traversée du Japon - Alfas bon marché - Apprentis policiers - Spéciale Inde - Ski vs Audi - Angleterre vs Allemagne - Spécial Pôle Nord

Meurtres au paradis Saison 12

Désignée coupable - Un foyer aimant - La lettre anonyme : première partie - La lettre anonyme : deuxième partie

Affaires sensibles

La crise des missiles de Cuba - Poutine/Macron : le face-à-face des présidents - L'affaire Iacono : le mensonge - L’Erika ou la monstrueuse année noire - Cinq colonnes à la Une : la révolution télévisuelle - La sombre histoire du roi du polar, José Giovanni - « Humilier les morts pour terroriser les vivants » : la profanation de Carpentras - Georges Marchais, les mémoires effacées. - Le renard de Kerlouan

L'agence tous risques Saison 3, 4

Jeu de piste - Chasseurs de primes - Effacez-les ! - Les Chevaliers de la route - Boisson gazeuse - Le jugement dernier : 1re partie - Le jugement dernier : 2e partie - Mystère à Beverly Hills - Le docteur est sorti - Aux frais de la princesse - Un quartier anglais - Le monstre du lac - La route de l'espoir - Gran prix - Rien que du muscle - Un quartier tranquille - Prudence les enfants - Opération Abraxis - Le trésor sous la mer - Rock N' Roll - Une vraie mine d'or

Inspecteur Barnaby Saison 7

L'Homme du bois - La Réunion des anciennes - La Malédiction du tumulus - Le Prix du scandale - La Légende du lac

Spectacles

Fallait pas le dire ! (2023) de Salomé Lelouch avec Pierre Arditi, Evelyne Bouix et Pascal Arnaud

Dido : Live at Brixton Academy (2004)

Livres

Nanar Wars : Le Pire Contre-Attaque ! d'Emmanuel Prelle et Emmanuel Vincenot

Détective Conan : Tome 6 de Gôshô Aoyama

Détective Conan : Tome 7 de Gôshô Aoyama

Une enquête du commissaire Dupin : Un été à Pont-Aven de Jean-Luc Bannalec

Détective Conan : Tome 8 de Gôshô Aoyama

On ne vit qu'une fois, souvenirs d'hier et d'aujourd'hui de Roger Moore

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ÉLECTIONS CANADA 2019

Le grand jour de la fin de course est arrivé et le lundi 21 octobre 2019, les six chefs s’affronteront pour le trophée du champion et le titre de Premier ministre du Canada.

Une élection est comme une course de chevaux et si les sondages prédisent un résultat, la course apporte souvent des surprises et un revirement imprévu à la ligne d’arrivée.

Le dernier sondage de Léger (dimanche 20 octobre) place les Libéraux et Conservateurs à une égalité de 33%.

La course entre les quatre partis secondaires sera importante car ce seront ces quatre chefs qui deviendront « King Maker ».

Est-ce que le Bloc balayera le Québec tel que prévu; les Verts et l’environnement feront-ils une percée canadienne; le NPD et son chef au style particulier imposeront-ils leur vision de gauche politique; Maxime Bernier sera-t-il le cheval surprise à l’arrivée?

Voilà autant de questions qui exciteront les électeurs et observateurs dans les gradins le lundi 21 octobre!

À suivre et que le meilleur cheval gagne!

https://www.journaldemontreal.com/2019/10/20/suspense-a-quelques-heures-du-vote

ELECTIONS CANADA 2019

The big day of the end of the race has arrived and on Monday, October 21, 2019, the six leaders will compete for the champion's trophy and the title of Prime Minister of Canada.

An election is like a horse race and if the polls predict a result, the race often brings surprises and an unexpected turnaround at the finish line.

Léger's latest poll (Sunday, October 20) puts the Liberals and Conservatives at 33%

The race between the four secondary parties will be important because it will be these four chefs who will become "King Maker".

Will the Bloc sweep Quebec as planned; will the Greens and the environment make a Canadian breakthrough; will the NDP and its peculiar leader impose their political left vision; will Maxime Bernier be the surprise horse on arrival?

These are all questions that will excite voters and observers in the stands on Monday, October 21!

To be continued and may the best horse wins!

https://www.journaldemontreal.com/2019/10/20/suspense-a-quelques-heures-du-vote

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like i remember in i think the 2019 federal elections? when the Bloc Québecois won big and essentially destroyed most of the holdouts from the 2011 orange wave in the “victory” speech yves-françois blanchette mostly talked about being against immigration but also a bit about how they would make sure no pipelines would be passing through quebec and stuff, and people cheered for that. i may be misremembering. anyway yeah reminder the politics of quebec are a different game than canada’s or america’s. though in many ways closer to france’s, which is its own hell

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Isabelle Huppert: The Most Dangerous Actress in European Cinema

Etre actrice, c’est avant tout faire l’apprentissage de sa liberté.

- Isabelle Huppert

At 66 years old, Isabelle Huppert has had a long, celebrated career and is regarded in the highest echelon of French actors. Among actresses, Isabelle Huppert holds the record for César Award nominations (France’s Oscar award), with a whopping sixteen. She has also had twenty of her films in competition at Cannes, more than any other actress. And she is among just four actresses who have won the Best Actress prize at Cannes twice.

Not a bad track record.

Though she has appeared in a few American productions over the years, including “Heaven’s Gate” (1980), “The Bedroom Window” (1987) and “I Heart Huckabees” (2004), her best films have all been European.

Extraordinary women marked by tragedy and surrounded by mystery — these are Huppert's trademark cinematic roles. The films of Isabelle Huppert tend to be filled with sociopaths, self-mutilators, and murderers.

There was the jealous postmaster in “La Cérémonie,” the gun-toting young bride in “Coup de Torchon,” and the prostitute who poisons her family in “Violette Nozière. “The Piano Teacher,” “Elle” and “Greta” would make a crazy triple feature. Overall Isabelle Huppert, one of the iconic dames of French cinema, has garnered a reputation for being cold and steely. The French actress, now in her mid-60s, consistently chooses roles that are morally complex and sometimes hard to watch. And yet we can’t bring ourselves to look away.

Susan Sontag, who once called Huppert “a total artist,” said she had never met “an actor more intelligent, or a person more intelligent among actors.”

Huppert has been called France’s Meryl Streep for her technical skill, but for all her shape-shifting, Streep’s strongest women have never gone so dark as the roles Huppert has played.

Huppert expresses the moods and mental state of her characters with precision and great sensitivity. Her seemingly expressionless face and sparing facial expressions have become something of a trademark.

Fiction has a tendency to inflate things, she said once in an interview with The Financial Times in July 2017. "But when I look at people on the street, I find that most of them are pretty empty in their eyes. I have to do even less." To observe, she has been taught, you have to take away, not add something.

Isabelle was the youngest of five children, born in Paris to an engineer father and a mother who taught English. Her mother is credited with spotting her talent early on, and encouraging her to develop it. She was already well on her way as a teenager, getting acting jobs while studying at the National Conservatory of Dramatic Art in Paris.

Huppert’s résumé is remarkable over five decades: Just over 140 films since her debut in 1972, for many of cinema’s most audacious visionaries, including Claude Chabrol, Claire Denis, Curtis Hanson, Hal Hartley and François Ozon.

In “Things to Come,” a wistful, funny drama by the French director Mia Hansen-Love. She plays Nathalie, a Parisian philosophy teacher whose husband leaves her for a younger woman, whose mother dies, whose publisher won’t reissue her book — and yet, who finds unexpected freedom in all of these losses. Nathalie heads toward the light and Michèle toward the dark, but both roles showcase Huppert’s great ability to derive power from vulnerability.

What directors loved about Huppert — and she prides herself on being an auteur’s actor — was her ability to convey moral complexity in the most unique ways.

Working with such auteur directors, Huppert can inhabit extreme characters — "survivors who can be victims and rebels simultaneously," says the actress. "My films give these women a voice. Because even though they live on the edges of society, they are there: women who live brutal lives. It's a brutality that they themselves never sought out," Huppert told Zeit Magazine.

Paul Verhoeven who directed her in “Elle” described Huppert as a “pure Brechtian actor,” in that she puts distance between herself and the audience, without trying to seduce it or seek its sympathy. 

The actress is notorious for her illegibility - her almost Bressonian lack of expression, and the profound unrest she’s able to convey from behind the stillness of her freckled resting face. Pauline Kael, the famous film critic, once complained that “when [Huppert] has an orgasm, it barely ruffles her blank surface.” If Kael had lived to see “Abuse of Weakness,” “Elle,” or “I Heart Huckabees,” perhaps she would have come to appreciate how the stillness of Huppert’s unbeatable poker face allows her to normalize even the strangest and most perverse of characters; to make it seem as though any of their behaviors, no matter how unusual or demented, are as natural to them as we are to ourselves.

It’s a quality that European directors and audiences have embraced, but which can seem more foreign to Americans. Huppert loves American cinema, but she also knows her sensibility is distinctly French.

Huppert is known for her privacy and reserve - she generally doesn’t talk to the press about anything other than her films - and if there’s a connection between her autobiography and the roles she chooses, that’s something that only she knows.

Aware of her own enigmatic appeal, she has no qualms about exploiting it. She has even less desire to charm, although her formidable impassivity sometimes betrays a hint of vulnerability. Not that she will let the viewer get too close, however, as she is forever intent on remaining “more like a question mark than a statement”.

Isabelle Huppert is not just courageous when it comes to choosing film roles and artistic collaborators. She is fearless, and such is her integrity that we trust her instincts and follow wherever she leads. That’s what makes her the most dangerous actress of our time.

Below is a top ten list of Isabelle Huppert films. They are not in order nor are they her very best. There are simply too many films in her body of work that would deserve equal consideration. Instead the list is made up of films that given an introduction to her wide ranging talents.

1. The Lace Maker 1977

Isabelle Huppert won the most promising newcomer award for her graceful, guileless performance as Pomme in Claude Goretta’s masterly adaptation of a Pascal Lainé novel, which took its title from a Vermeer painting. Whether doing her chores at a Parisian beauty salon, playing blindman’s buff on a Cabourg clifftop with dashing Sorbonne student Yves Beneyton, trying to eat an apple without disturbing his reading or choking over dinner with his snooty parents, Huppert is mesmerising.

2. Violette Nozière 1978

The first of her seven collaborations with Claude Chabrol earned Huppert the best actress prize at Cannes. She was 25 when she played the demure schoolgirl who shocked 1930s Paris when details of her double life as a prostitute emerged following the poisoning of her father. Violette claimed he had abused her, but Chabrol thinks otherwise and exploits Huppert’s genius for switching between fragility and cruelty to counter the surrealist myth that the teenage parricide was an anti-bourgeois icon.

Huppert embodies this character that’s chiefly concerned with finding love. She walks the streets at night, characteristically promiscuous, but don’t call her a prostitute. She’d refute. Throughout the film, she gives more money to the men then vice versa. At night, when she leaves her quiet bourgeois home, and finds a man to accompany her, she looks unusually bothered. The film is sometimes maddeningly ambiguous but perhaps that’s the point - Chabrol and Huppert want us to feel mixed about her.

Violette is a woman with an air of mystery around her. She’s precocious but not as clever as she thinks. Huppert gazes and kisses her own mirror reflection. She writes fictional love letters to herself as well. Huppert quietly stresses the motivation behind the character: desperate to find someone to love, or else she’ll have to love herself. Except, she can’t even love herself because she feels stifled by her home life. And as ever with narcissism, there are dangerous consequences.

3. La Cérémonie 1995

“Chabrol only ever cast me as fairly ordinary characters,” Huppert once revealed. “They just have rather particular destinies.” While she would go on to embody Chabrolian womanhood (“not victims, not fighters, somewhere in between”) in Rien ne va plus (1997), Merci pour le chocolat (2000) and Comedy of Power (2006), she gave her finest performance for him in this seething adaptation of Ruth Rendell’s A Judgement in Stone.

An upper-class family warns their meek maid (Sandrine Bonnaire) about the local mail lady, Jeanne (Isabelle Huppert). They become friends regardless. Huppert plays Jeanne as kooky, comic, and rebellious. We gradually find out more cryptic background on her character, which gives her spirited attitude a darker edge. She’s either heartbroken or heartless. Huppert portrays a character with so many contradictory traits without ever making it feel false.

Huppert performs the role cunningly. Jeanne is energised like a child, but she’s smart enough to know how to win over the maid. She’s a little silly - when she enters the family’s home while they’re away, she touches everything. Huppert balances all of this next to the near-mute Bonnaire, both slowly exacting their revenge against the upper class. Chabrol’s trademark: clash of the classes.

Huppert thoroughly deserved her first César.

In 2014, Huppert performed Jean Genet’s play The Maids with Cate Blanchett. The play was inspired, as was La Cérémonie, on the same true-story about the Papin sisters.

4. The Piano Teacher 2001

The Piano Teacher is an elegantly made film about the deranged endeavors of love. Huppert plays a buttoned-up music instructor, Erika, who attracts the eyes of an unassuming man half her age. She still lives with her mother and there’s a danger that lurks behind her carefully placed gaze. She’s been sexually repressed for such a long time; her repression and self-hatred has slowly evolved into masochism. It drives her to haunt peep shows, spy on copulating couples and mutilate her own genitals. This disturbing film really made an impact world wide. 

Nobody said this film was an easy watch!

Haneke gives the spectator all the intricacies of the concept of perversion inserted in Huppert’s character of Erika, a successful piano teacher and an apparently impeccable social life. Well, that’s what Erika keeps on the surface.

Huppert declared the second of her four collaborations with Haneke to be the film she had long been searching for.

5. 8 Women 2002

There’s no validity in the truism that Huppert doesn’t do comedy. In fact she proved she could both dance and sing (the plaintive ‘Message personnel’ is a career highlight) in François Ozon’s chic 1950s musical whodunit. Sporting a tight bun, a buttoned-up twin-set, pursed red lips and butterfly spectacles, Huppert invokes the spirit of legendary farceur Louis de Funès as Catherine Deneuve’s argumentative sister. She gives an indelible display of neurotic, spinsterly bitchiness that is simultaneously piteous and hilarious.

6. Elle 2016

A successful woman enters a real ordeal after being raped by a stranger in her home. Powerful, ‘Elle’ unravels all the nuances of a character’s life inserted into a completely incongruous personal, social and psychological reality. Here, the character will demonstrate how her attitude towards the world follows a sociopathic pattern of acting, despising any form of emotional attachment and using other individuals solely to satisfy her most primitive instincts. The film earned her an Oscar nod for Best Actress, which was fabulous but also made me wonder what took so long. Certainly she’s turned out enough superb performances over her nearly five decade career to have earned this recognition sooner.

7. Coup de Torchon 1981

Having survived a seven-month stint in Montana for Michael Cimino’s Heaven’s Gate(1980), Huppert ventured to Saint-Louis in Senegal for Bertrand Tavernier’s Oscar-nominated transposition of Jim Thompson’s pulp novel, Pop. 1280, from a small Texan town in the 1910s to west Africa on the eve of the Second World War. Although Pierre-William Glenn’s sun-scorched Steadicam imagery seems antithetical, this is a darkly droll noir that sees Huppert in an unusually skittish mood, as the abused colonial wife who forges an unlikely alliance with Philippe Noiret’s pathetic rogue police chief, who is humiliated by everyone around him, and suddenly wants a clean slate in life - but resorts to drastic means to do so.

8. Merci pour le chocolat 2000

The film follows the nuances of a French upper class family, exploring the destructive ways in which each member acts on the world. Directed by Claude Chabrol, ‘Merci pour le Chocolat’ is an interesting film, bringing a more cadenced plot that values studying each meander of the behavior of its central characters.

The movie is set in Lausanne, and that Swiss location, having an ambient sense of buttoned-up severity and menace, is an appropriate setting with a Nabokovian mien for this horrid tale of sociopathy.

Huppert dominates the film with the slightly frigid poise of a great dancer who has retired to become an exacting teacher. She plays Mika, a woman who presides wearily and almost negligently over the prosperous chocolate business built up by her late father. But however disengaged she is in the boardroom, in the kitchen she loves chocolate with a passion - concocting various types of drinking chocolate, using subtly differing recipes, with fanatical and murderous care.

There is something fascinating about Huppert's face here. In repose, it has a kind of unsettling serenity, the serenity of a cunning and covert predator who has already decided on an unspeakable course of action.

9. La Séparation 1994

Isabelle Huppert and Daniel Auteuil play a couple on the verge of a separation. The relationship’s mainstay is their child, one-year-old Loulou. Autueil gets most of the film’s focus, but he’s essentially a sitting duck, nervously shifting between passive-aggressive contempt and hopeful endearment, as he prepares for the outcome of his girlfriend’s infidelity. He says, “Never two without three.” This could be the quote-totem of the film.

The director smartly leaves the interloping lover out of the film (he’s never seen or even named). Instead, we study Auteuil’s growing impatience and Huppert’s pivotal decision. She adds a lot of depth to a character that could’ve just been the unsympathetic partner of the cuckold.

Huppert gives her character integrity and even though she’s ostensibly guilty, she never comes off as purely selfish. She’s troubled, as well, by their situation - we sense her detachment not due to ego but because she’s boggled in trying to assess the right mode of conduct. Huppert and Auteuil have great chemistry, changing gears effortlessly between vitriol and affection.

Huppert’s distinctive talent for suppressing suffering is readily evident in her slowly disintegrating relationship with Daniel Auteuil, as Huppert imparts chilling intimacy to a withdrawn hand, an unanswering gaze, a treacherous silence and a careless word in conveying the pain of falling out of love.

10. Madame Bovary 1991

Not her greatest film but certainly one of the most accessible for anyone not familiar with the talents of Huppert. Based on Gustave Flaubert’s fabulous novel, the film brings the exacerbated trajectory of a young girl who has a highly romanticised view of the world and craves beauty, wealth, passion, as well as high society. It is the disparity between these romantic ideals and the realities of her country life that drive most of the novel, leading her into two affairs and to accrue an insurmountable amount of debt that eventually leads to her suicide.

This adaptation of ‘Madame Bovary’ is perhaps the best of any adaptation to date. Claude Chabrol manages to capture even the most emblematic nuances of Flaubert’s book, elevating a unique atmosphere for the unfolding of scenes. 

However, the main point of distinction between this work and the others is the presence of Isabelle Huppert as protagonist, delivering a powerful and visceral performance from the first to the last scene.

[twiggyrps]

I really hope Yves-François Blanchette will be booted for the leadership of the Bloc because he’s such a disgusting person. He should not be in any position of power. Ideally he should be behind bars but we all know that won’t happen.

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The Pool Scene - Alain Caya, Alain Martel, Alain Trahan, Anick Cadorette, Carol Audet, Christian Boisvert, Daniel Gagné, Daniel Sumun, Danny Hewitt, Dany Normandin, Darren Auclair Clément, Dave Simard, Denis Bernier, Dominic Byrne, Eric Cloutier, Éric Duchêneau, Éric Lepage, Gaston Soucy, Ghislain Champagne, Guillaume McNicoll, Harold Rousseau, Jean-François Dorais, Jeff Blais, Jérémie Boutet, Joey Cicero, Karl Tremblay, Louis-Martin Pratte, Luc Salvas, Marc Malette, Marco Caron, Marco Michel, Marie-France Blanchette, Mario Gamache, Mario Jacques, Markus Noe, Martin Daigle, Martin Sears, Medhi Bahloul, Michel Ferland, Michel Gagnon, Nick Jacques, Nicolas Charette, Pat Desbiens, Pierre Jubinville, Pierre Thériault, Réal Fontaine, Rémy Lefebvre, Sébastien Binette, Stéphane Fournier, Sylvain Béliveau, Sylvain Mercier, Tommy Cayer, Valerie Bedard, Yan Lalande, Yves Gaudreault - Quebec Billiards

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Daigle wins Falcon Tour in Drummondville

Here are the Falcon Cues Quebec tour results from march 03-04 from billard Hériot in Drummondville,Québec

1 Martin Daigle 1 200 $ 2 Dany Normandin 915 $ 3 Daniel Gagné 700 $ 4 Alain Martel 500 $ 5 Marco Caron 350 $ 6 Luc Salvas 350 $ 7 Danny Hewitt 225 $ 8 Yves Gaudreault 225 $ 9 Éric Cloutier 125 $ 10 Medhi Bahloul 125 $ 11 Éric Lepage 125 $ 12 Guillaume McNicoll 125 $ 13 – 16 Carol Audet 60 $ 13 – 16 Nick Jacques 60 $ 13 – 16 Stéphane Fournier 60 $ 13 – 16 Martin Sears 60 $ 17 – 24 Valérie Bédard 0 $ 17 – 24 Louis-Martin Pratte 0 $ 17 – 24 Pierre Thériault 0 $ 17 – 24 Dominic Byrne 0 $ 17 – 24 Sylvain Mercier 0 $ 17 – 24 Sébastien Binette 0 $ 17 – 24 Mario Jacques 0 $ 17 – 24 Rémy Lefebvre 0 $ 25 – 32 Harold Rousseau 0 $ 25 – 32 Karl Tremblay 0 $ 25 – 32 Markus Noé 0 $ 25 – 32 Denis Bernier 0 $ 25 – 32 Tommy Cayer 0 $ 25 – 32 Yan Lalande 0 $ 25 – 32 Pat Desbiens 0 $ 25 – 32 Ghislain Champagne 0 $ 33 – 48 Michel Gagnon 0 $ 33 – 48 Marc Malette 0 $ 33 – 48 Gaston Soucy 0 $ 33 – 48 Mario Gamache 0 $ 33 – 48 Dave Simard 0 $ 33 – 48 Sylvain Béliveau 0 $ 33 – 48 Joey Cicero 0 $ 33 – 48 Alain Trahan 0 $ 33 – 48 Pierre Jubinville 0 $ 33 – 48 Anick Cadorette 0 $ 33 – 48 Jean-François Dorais 0 $ 33 – 48 Jeff Blais 0 $ 33 – 48 Christian Boisvert 0 $ 33 – 48 Éric Duchêneau 0 $ 33 – 48 Darren Auclair Clément 0 $ 33 – 48 Alain Caya 0 $ 49 – 64 Réal Fontaine 0 $ 49 – 64 Daniel Sumun 0 $ 49 – 64 Marie-France  Blanchette 0 $ 49 – 64 Jérémie Boutet 0 $ 49 – 64 Marco Michel 0 $ 49 – 64 Michel Ferland 0 $ 49 – 64 Nicolas Charette 0 $

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LE DÉBAT DES CHEFS 2019

Selon ma projection, le résultat de l’élection du 21 octobre 2019 va fortement être influencé par le débat en français de ce soir jeudi 10 octobre.

Le joueur à surveiller sera Yves François Blanchet et sa performance. S’il maintient son élan des dernières semaines et fait bonne figure au débat, il va aider Andree Scheer à obtenir une minorité.

En effet, si Blanchet et le Bloc balayent le Québec, le perdant sera Justin Trudeau et son parti. Directement Scheer ne mise aucunement sur le Québec pour gagner des sièges supplémentaires mais chacune des victoires de Blanchet seront aussi des victoires pour Scheer car une diminution du nombre de députés libéraux au Québec signifie aussi une augmentation du nombre de députés conservateurs sur la carte finale des résultats de 338 députés à choisir.

Le débat de ce soir en langue française devrait donc être très significatif pour les électeurs du Québec qui seront vraisemblablement les décideurs du prochain gouvernement canadien.

À suivre 20 heures.

https://www.noscommunes.ca/Parliamentarians/fr/partystandings

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LE CHAMPION - JUSTIN TRUDEAU Justin Trudeau a fait un miracle et il a remporté la course électorale Canada 2019 obtenant ainsi le titre de Premier ministre du Canada. Mon fidèle Ulysse lui offre les fleurs du champion et moi, je vais placer la photo du cheval victorieux dans mon salon pour les quatre prochaines années... THE CHAMPION - JUSTIN TRUDEAU Justin Trudeau worked a miracle and won the 2019 Canada Election Run, becoming Prime Minister of Canada. My faithful Ulysses offers him the flowers of the champion and I will place the picture of the victorious horse in my living room for the next four years...

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ÉLECTIONS CANADA 2019

La meilleure façon de regarder une course de chevaux est de connaître le résultat de la dernière course!

The best way to watch a horse race is to know the result of the last race!

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ÉLECTIONS CANADA 2019 - JOUR DE VOTE J'ai voté! Que le meilleur cheval gagne ! Je lui offrirai même des fleurs... MA PRÉDICTION: LIBÉRAL 135 ; CONSERVATEUR 130 ; NPD 26 ; VERT 12 ; BLOC 30 ; MAXIME BERNIER 5. ELECTIONS CANADA 2019 - VOTING DAY I voted! I will even offer flowers to the Champion.... MY PREDICTION: LIBERAL 135; CONSERVATIVE 130; NPD 26; GREEN 12; BLOCK 30; MAXIME BERNIER 5. PHOTOS https://www.facebook.com/bernard.bujold/media_set?set=a.10162562994810541&type=3

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ÉLECTIONS CANADA 2019 - JOUR DE VOTE Par Bernard Bujold Le grand jour de la fin de course est arrivé et c'est aujourd'hui, lundi 21 octobre 2019, que les six chefs s’affronteront pour le trophée du champion et le titre de Premier ministre du Canada. Une élection est comme une course de chevaux et si les sondages prédisent un résultat, la course apporte souvent des surprises et un revirement imprévu à la ligne d’arrivée. Le dernier sondage de dimanche 20 octobre place les Libéraux et Conservateurs à une égalité parfaite de 33%. La course entre les quatre partis secondaires sera importante car ce seront ces quatre chefs qui deviendront « King Maker ». Est-ce que le Bloc balayera le Québec tel que prévu; les Verts et l’environnement feront-ils une percée canadienne; le NPD et son chef au style particulier imposeront-ils leur vision de gauche politique; Maxime Bernier sera-t-il le cheval surprise à l’arrivée? Voilà autant de questions qui exciteront les électeurs et observateurs dans les gradins le jour de vote du lundi 21 octobre! À suivre et que le meilleur cheval gagne ! Nous lui offrirons même des fleurs... NOTE: MA PRÉDICTION: LIBÉRAL 135 ; CONSERVATEUR 130 ; NPD 26 ; VERTS 12 ; BLOC 30 ; MAXIME BERNIER 5. VOIR PHOTOS https://www.facebook.com/bernard.bujold/media_set?set=a.10162562994810541&type=3 ELECTIONS CANADA 2019 - VOTING DAY By Bernard Bujold The big day of the end of the race has arrived and it is today, Monday, October 21, 2019, that the six leaders will compete for the Champion's Trophy and the title of Prime Minister of Canada. An election is like a horse race and if the polls predict a result, the race often brings surprises and an unexpected turnaround at the finish line. The last poll on Sunday, October 20, placed the Liberals and Conservatives at a perfect equality of 33%. The race between the four secondary parties will be important because it will be these four leaders who will become "King Maker". Will the Bloc sweep Quebec as planned; will the Greens and the environment make a Canadian breakthrough; will the NDP and its particularly stylish leader impose their vision of the political left; will Maxime Bernier be the surprise horse when they arrive at the finish? These are all questions that will excite voters and observers in the stands on polling day, Monday, October 21! To be continued and may the best horse win! We will even offer flowers for the Champion.... MY PREDICTION: LIBERAL 135; CONSERVATIVE 130; NPD 26; GREEN 12; BLOCK 30; MAXIME BERNIER 5. SEE PHOTOS https://www.facebook.com/bernard.bujold/media_set?set=a.10162562994810541&type=3

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DÉBAT DES CHEFS 2019 Le débat des chefs en français était bien mené mais aucun des leaders n’a pu s’imposer comme le « champion » de l’élection du 21 octobre. Yves François Blanchet ne s’est pas échappé au devant de la course et si on compare à une course de chevaux, on peut dire que la course va finir au « photo finish »... Mon cheval favori, Maxime Bernier, a très bien fait mais contrairement à ailleurs dans le monde, notamment aux États-Unis, ici au Canada il n’y a pas de polarisation entre la droite et la gauche. La population canadienne est dispersée et diversifiée quant vient le temps de définir son appui politique. Pour Maxime Bernier, il n’a pas réussi à se démarquer de la course et n’a pas pu attirer vers son parti une section de la population canadienne. S’il y a une polarisation des électeurs au Canada, c’est au niveau des organisations des partis politiques. En ce sens en 2019, c’est l’organisation Libérale contre celle Conservatrice qui va produire un gagnant lors de l’élection. Ce sera au final soit Justin Trudeau ou Andrew Scheer comme Premier Ministre minoritaire car beaucoup d’électeurs voteront pour l’un ou l’autre des deux grands partis dépendant de leur situation géographique. Les autres chefs deviendront pour les quatres prochaines années des « fous du roi » dans la cour qu’est le Parlement canadien... Et Maxime Bernier? Mathématiquement avec plus de 300 candidats en lice, il devrait remporter quelques sièges, selon la loi du hasard, et il deviendra ainsi une voix dans la Cour du roi, comme les autres fous! Si Maxime ne devait remporter aucun siège, alors la théorie d’Albert aura été prouvée fausse... (Albert Einstein) 😉 À suivre ! https://www.partipopulaireducanada.ca/ DEBATE OF THE LEADERS 2019 The leaders' debate in French was well conducted but none of the leaders could establish themselves as the "champion" of the October 21 election. Yves François Blanchet did not escape at the front of the race and if we compare to a horse race, we can say that the race will end with the photo finish ... My favorite horse, Maxime Bernier, did very well but unlike elsewhere in the world, especially in the United States, here in Canada there is no polarization between the right and the left. Canadians are dispersed and diverse when it comes to defining their political support. For Maxime Bernier, he did not manage to stand out from the race and was unable to attract a section of the Canadian population to his party. If there is a polarization of voters in Canada, it is at the level of political party organizations. In this sense in 2019, the Liberal organization against the Conservative will produce a winner in the election. In the end, it will be either Justin Trudeau or Andrew Scheer as the minority Prime Minister because many voters will vote for one or other of the two major parties depending on their geographic location. The other leaders will become for the next four years "jester of the king" in the court which is the Canadian Parliament ... And Maxime Bernier? Mathematically with more than 300 candidates in the running, he should win a few seats, according to the law of chance, and he will thus become a voice in the King's Court, like other fools! If Maxime were not to win any seat, then Albert's theory will be proven wrong ... (Albert Einstein) 😉 To be continued ! https://www.peoplespartyofcanada.ca/

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FEDERAL LEADERS’S ENGLISH DEBATE 2019

The six leaders of the Federal Party debated in English (Monday October 7, 2019) and, according to me, the winner for this first battle is Yves- François Blanchette from the Bloc who is perfectly bilingual even better in his tone than Justin Trudeau... but more important he is very « grounded » in his opinions about Canada politics.

The looser to the Blanchette win is without a doubt Justin Trudeau because every deputy seat win by the Bloc in Quebec will be the Liberal lost and it will help Andrew Scheer as Justin is counting on Quebec to win a small majority and even a minority government.

Scheer was very solid during the debate, from a English Canada point of view, and he might even had made some gain with his arguments against Trudeau.

The three other leaders did not win anything during the English debate...

My favorite candidate Maxime Bernier is looking too much alone in his corner and he not very good in English; Jagmeet Singh is too much of an activist for Canada electors taste; and Elizabeth May did not succeeded during the debate in making the environment represented by her party the priority of this election.

People will have a second chance to see the leaders debating, this time in French, on Thursday October 10 at 8 pm.

To be continued...

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ÉLECTIONS CANADA 2019
L’élection fédérale 2019 est vraiment difficile à prévoir… 
-Émotionnellement, Justin Trudeau est avantagé car il est charismatique, jeune et beau même si, selon plusieurs, il est le moins compétent parmi les candidats en lice pour être Premier ministre.
-Mathématiquement, Andrew Scheer a une chance d’être le prochain PM et certains sondages le calculent gagnant même si personne ne l’aime, malgré qu'il soit probablement plus compétent que Justin. Le gros défaut de Scheer est qu'il n'a pas une allure sympathique!
-Logiquement, l’idéal serait un gouvernement minoritaire avec un peu de chacun des partis politiques, une portion de Vert, un peu de Maxime , quelque NPD, et beaucoup de Bloc, au Québec.
Vraiment compliqué… 
Il faudra voir si les deux débats du 7 (anglais) et 10 octobre (français) viennent brasser les cartes et changer le jeu.
-Moi, personnellement, je voudrais bien voter Maxime mais je ne vois aucune affiche de son candidat dans ma circonscription…
https://www.elections.ca/accueil.aspx ELECTIONS CANADA 2019
The 2019 federal election is really difficult to predict….
-Emotionally, Justin Trudeau is advantaged because he is charismatic, young and handsome even if, according to many, he is the least competent of the candidates running for Prime Minister.
-Mathematically, Andrew Scheer has some chance of being the next PM and some surveys calculate him as the winner even if no one likes him, despite the fact that he is probably more competent than Justin. Scheer’s big flaw is that he doesn’t look nice!
-Logically, the ideal would be a minority government with a little bit of each of the political parties, a bit of Green, a bit of Maxime, some NDP, and a lot of Bloc, in Quebec.
Really complicated…. 
It will be necessary to see if the two debates on October 7 (English) and October 10 (French) will shuffle the cards and change the game.
-Personally, I would like to vote Maxime but I don’t see any poster of his candidate in my riding…
https://www.elections.ca/home.aspx

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CAMPAGNE ÉLECTORALE CANADA 2019

Le premier débat des chefs en vue de l’élection du 21 octobre n’a pas fait de véritable gagnant sinon mettre la table pour les deux vrais débats du 7 et 10 octobre alors que les 6 chefs dans la course seront présents devant les caméras.

On pourrait dire que le débat de TVA (mercredi 2 octobre) était une discussion entre une « gangs » de 4 gars plus ou moins « macho » qui prenait une bière avec le gérant du bar...

Certains était plus arrogants que d’autres dont Justin Trudeau qui a commencé le débat en tutoyant directement et à répétition Andrew Scheer. « ....Mais toi, toi, toi, Andrew qu’en penses-tu.... »

La formule du débat était plus une discussion universitaire qu’un débat politique.

S’il y a une conclusion, c’est qu’Andrew Scheer est plus grand physiquement en taille que Justin Trudeau, mais les gars du BLOC et du NPD plus costauds des épaules...

https://www.lapresse.ca/elections-federales/201910/03/01-5243871-debat-des-chefs-des-experts-se-prononcent.php

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DÉBAT DES CHEFS FÉDÉRAUX

Le débat des chefs en français n'était pas un vrai débat mais plus un "cocktail".- selon la journaliste de TVA Emmanuelle Latraverse.

Je suis d'accord!

S'il y a un gagnant, c'est Yves-François Blanchette qui se déclare la seule voix représentant le Québec.

Les autres ont comme agenda d'être élu Premier Ministre et sans plus...

Il faudra voir le débat en anglais jeudi 9 septembre 21 heures.

À suivre!

https://www.lapresse.ca/elections-federales/2021-09-08/debat-des-chefs/un-segment-corse-sur-l-identite-vient-pimenter-un-debat-cordial.php