by Matthew Friedman | Sep 11, 2021 | Essays
My first memory of that day is of the sky. It was clear and bright, and as I walked along de Terrebonne Street to Concordia University’s Loyola campus, I marveled at the deepness of the blue. I could still see the sky outside the windows of the computer lab in the...
by Matthew Friedman | Sep 5, 2021 | Commentary, Essays
I am enraged. The decision by the Supreme Court of the United States last week declining to hear the Center for Reproductive Rights’ challenge to the Texas “Heartbeat Act,” no less than the law itself, has left me apoplectic. The Texas law is the most egregious...
by Matthew Friedman | Sep 2, 2021 | Essays, Features, Jewish Life
YidLife Crisis, an award-winning online comedy series featuring fast-talking Montreal funnymen Jaime Elman and Eli Batalion has 20,000 loyal subscribers on YouTube and 17,000 followers on Facebook. The bilingual struggles of the pious, often flawed, but always loving...
by Matthew Friedman | Aug 20, 2021 | Essays, News Analysis
The scenes from Kabul are uncanny; specters from the past which are simultaneously shocking and familiar. The enemy waiting just outside the city prepared to deliver the coup de grace, while what remains of the US mission packs up its barracks and offices, shreds...
by Matthew Friedman | Jul 25, 2021 | Essays
I remember feeling an overwhelming sense of elation on 24 September 1988 as I watched Ben Johnson cross the line at Seoul’s Olympic Stadium, pointing to the sky with his right hand. It was a moment of celebration across Canada. The CBC-TV announcers reminded us of the...
by Matthew Friedman | Jul 18, 2021 | Essays
The crowd demonstrating outside the Massachusetts Department of Education offices on Pleasant Street was energized. A speaker led the protesters in chants between squawks from his megaphone; they waved signs and placards denouncing tyrannical government overreach. One...