choices, with and without regret

The Liberal MP for Saint-Laurent, who announced that she would leave political life after her mandate, is not surprised to see no woman in the leadership race for her party.

Maybe Jonathan Trudeau was right when he said that “politics is before, when you have everything to give, or after, when you have nothing left to lose,” mentioned Marwah Rizqy.

Saying she needs gentleness and to catch her breath, the MP does not believe she will regret her choice.

Everyone she consulted before making this resolution told her that their only regret was the time lost with their children before making this decision.

For his part, Dany Turcotte regrets not having left his position as jester of the king sooner. He claimed to have suffered extremely in recent years on the set of Everyone is talking about it.

Guy A. Lepage told him that the show’s team was “surprised” and “shaken” by the story he gave on this subject in his book D. Turcotte & fils which will be published on October 10.

“I should have talked about it more,” admitted Dany Turcotte, emphasizing that the “core” of the team rarely spoke to each other. A fault that many men have, he believes.

The former madman of the king said he was heartbroken when he watched the excerpt from the show where he asked a question to Mamadi Camara, arrested by mistake by the SPVM after the attack on a police officer, and who rushed his departure.

Even before that moment, he had become increasingly sensitive to public comments online, he argued.

Before tackling this hot topic of his biography, his former colleague made him talk about the ghosts to whom he pays homage in this book, in particular his bipolar father, Dominique Lévesque and André, his ex-lover. They taught him that life is cruel, but also that you have to enjoy it, he concluded after sharing touching anecdotes.

The October 6 broadcast began with a tribute to Daniel Pinard, who died of a pulmonary embolism on October 2 at the age of 82.

Director Francis Legault, who was by his side until his last breath, was emotional as he recounted the last moments of this man with a varied CV. He spoke of the freedom so important for the cook who did not like “recipes” and of his message which “was so much bigger than the recipe”, as Josée di Stasio so eloquently said.

Like Paul Arcand, the host, who took her first steps in front of the camera with Daniel Pinard, praised the sensitivity of this man who “disrupted” his professional trajectory and left his mark on Quebec.

Nuances and complexities

Guylaine Tremblay didn’t know she was going to become a grandmother when she imagined the concept of the new fiction Watch over me. This series, which will be broadcast on Extra d’ICI Tou.tv, tells the story of Corinne, a mother with drug addiction problems who reappears after abandoning her child in the care of her own mother, Maggie.

She insisted that this series be written by Pascale Renaud-Hébert, who plays the main role.

The author and actress did not expect to put herself forward for the role of Corinne, but Guylaine Tremblay, who plays the grandmother, had a feeling that she would.

The latter said she was inspired by the stories she read about the DPJ. And even if these testimonies do not always give a glorious image of youth protection, the two women wanted to present a nuanced portrait in order to show the complexity of the files and the dedication of certain employees.

Speaking of complex files, the journalist Guillaume Lavallée and Professor Thomas Juneau were invited to review the events of last Tuesday, when Iran sent some 200 missiles to Israel.

According to Thomas Juneau, Iran did not want to lose face in front of its partners even if the country had every interest in avoiding escalation towards total war, because, in this context, Israel would have an advantage.

Guillaume Lavallée believes that a response from Israel is very likely, since this is its habit.

Moreover, he mentioned that this new chapter in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is perhaps wanted by Hamas. He explained that, on October 7, 2023, the Palestinian organization might have wanted to start a regional war in order to put this conflict back on the map, while thinking of limiting deaths by taking hostages.

“I can’t believe that wasn’t in their calculation,” said the journalist who published Gaza before the 7th – Diaries of a siege on September 24.

Guy A. Lepage had several topics to discuss with Léa Clermont-Dion, starting with Stéphane Venne’s comment on a photo where the documentarian posed with her mouth half open. This publication, where he accused her of using a “sexual code”, followed the #boucheouverte solidarity movement in which the co-host of the evening, Kim Lévesque Lizotte, participated.

Léa Clermont-Dion confided that she was “stunned” and that this situation was even a little ironic since, a big fan of the author-composer, she had used one of his songs in her documentary I salute you bitchon online misogyny.

Even if Stéphane Venne deleted his publication on

There was then talk of his book Hi, how are you? in which she debunks myths about sexual assault. And since the main stakeholders will probably not buy her book, Léa Clermont-Dion goes out into the field, particularly in schools, to talk to them about it.

Always ready to go into the field, she emerges “troubled and worried” from her research carried out in the United States and Canada for her new documentary Fear in my stomachon the threat to the right to abortion. What is happening to our neighbors to the south since the invalidation of the Roe v. Wade in June 2022 could happen with us, she made the listeners understand.