What, perchance, do former politicians do with their lives once they are no longer politicians? If you’re Mario Dumont – whose ADQ party almost became extinct in the last provincial election, you become a TV personality. The man has been a figure in Québec politics since he first sprang into prominence as President of the [...]

The writers of Weeds have done for television what Victorian authors did for the novel – turned the genre on its head. Like their 19th century predecessors, the scribes at Weeds focus on what happens after a calamitous personal event, in this case, a death in the family. This is a series that began airing [...]