Well, no, it’s been 30 years. Thirty years that Quebec was in referendum campaign. Thirty years that the Nordics had just left Quebec.
Animated by this reflection on the inevitable passage of time and in front of my quarantine which is eager, I went to search the archives of the Soleilmy favorite sport. Direction: August 11, 1995. Thirty years right.
An exercise always instructive. To measure the passing time. And what changes and what does not change.
In this summer, 1995, the yes and no camps fought their weapons for the second referendum campaign in the history of Quebec on October 30.
I remember as if it were yesterday in my 18th year when we were talking about politics by drinking the Bleue Dry while listening to the roommates and Pearl Jam.
On August 11, 1995, the estimated ex-colleague Gilbert Lavoie wrote in editorial that the referendum battle was well committed and that the tone rose.
“Barely returned from their summer vacation, the tenors of the yes and the no overwhelmed of denunciations and trials of intentions,” he wrote in The sun. “In one case as in the other, we carries with primary demagoguery, without realizing that the population no longer believes in this verbal inflation which keeps us away from the real issues.”
In a context where the 2025 parliamentary school year could well mark the return of a federalist/sovereignist axis with the rise of the Parti Québécois in the polls, we take notes.
All the more at the time when a crop surveyThe press An increase in support for sovereignty in young people 56 % said on Friday.
In the same Soleil From August 11, 1995, we also learned that the Prime Minister of the time, Jacques Parizeau, was going to give up his “old age pension” of the federally, he who had been 65 years earlier.
Question of independence principles? Yes, but also flatly mathematical taxation.
Indeed, we can read, a taxpayer who declared, in 1995, revenues above $ 84,444 was to return to the federal government all of the old age security pension. ” At the time, Mr. Parizeau received $ 130,111 for his functions as a deputy for the Assumption and Prime Minister of Quebec.
Tourism “cheap»
Beautiful irony to read in this same gazette of August 11, 1995 that nothing is going well for tourism in Quebec. The cuff The image of Quebec is tumbling Hairsty the front page.
It came from the outgoing director of the Quebec Tourist Office in Paris, Gilles Houde.
“Twinnings, bus groups, mononcles and matants visit cousins, it’s not the tourism industry. You have to develop the high -end, target those who have money and who are ready to pay $ 10,000 to eat cold in an igloo ”.
There, there, the observation was hard. And the situation is not so much that which prevails 30 years later!
If we had told Mr. Houde that in 2025, the regions of Quebec would be among the most popular, that the luxury hotels displayed complete and that the Michelin stars would land with us!
Forest fires
In August 1995, no less than 27 forest fires were active in the Saguenay-Lac-St-Jean region alone. A phenomenon that is sadly observed more and more 30 years later.
“At least 27 fires, all lit by the negligence of blueberries, ravaged some 1,500 hectares of forest. The most worrying of the fires was in the city of Chicoutimi, where evacuations were necessary, ”we could read.
Finally, a Montrealers’ news the day before will have important consequences on the criminal and judicial history of Quebec.
Sad key moment of the biker war
On August 9, 1995, the young Daniel Desrochers, 11, was seriously injured by a bomb in the Hochelaga-Maisonneuve district. It could be read on August 11 that the child was still in critical condition “after having undergone a three -hour surgery”.
He will succumb to his injuries on August 13, 1995 arousing the indignation of the population which is increasingly pressing the authorities to act to stop the bloody conflict which, at the time, opposed the Hells Angels to the Rock Machine.
The death of the little desrors has since often been quoted as the drop which has overcome the vase and in October of the same year was set up the carcajou squad.
The violence continued to continue to do so that various major police operations, such as the Printemps 2001 operation which led to the arrest of 130 members and associates of the Hells Angels, manage to calm the game.
Thirty years later, a new generation of criminals with equally bloody methods tried to stand up to bikers.
Very recently, a large part of this war was told in the series The call On the second trial of Maurice “Mom” Boucher. I recommend it to you in passing.
Place at the avalanche
The year 1995 marks (how to forget it?) The departure of the Nordiques de Québec to Denver to become the Avalanche du Colorado.
The heart of hockey lovers was bleeding. Friend Mikaël Lacettete also married events in a series of reports published earlier this year.
The Nordics were officially sold and moved in May 1995. But on August 11, we discovered the colors of the avalanche with the presentation of their new logo. The title The avalanche erases the Nordics. Ouch.
It seems to me that Joe Sakic in the Nordic uniform, that is also barely 10 years old. And yet.
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