{"id":361,"date":"2019-09-22T10:40:32","date_gmt":"2019-09-22T13:40:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/?p=361"},"modified":"2019-09-22T12:11:01","modified_gmt":"2019-09-22T15:11:01","slug":"has-your-sense-of-humour-been-surgically-removed-or-not-yet-test-yourself-with-this-quebec-political-cartoonists-drawing-of-greta-mayor-valerie-plante","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/2019\/09\/22\/has-your-sense-of-humour-been-surgically-removed-or-not-yet-test-yourself-with-this-quebec-political-cartoonists-drawing-of-greta-mayor-valerie-plante\/","title":{"rendered":"Has your sense of humour been surgically removed or not yet? Test yourself with this Qu\u00e9bec political cartoonist\u2019s drawing of Greta &#038; Mayor Val\u00e9rie Plante"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"968\" height=\"675\" src=\"http:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/LeMay_GretaPlante.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-362\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/LeMay_GretaPlante.jpg 968w, https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/LeMay_GretaPlante-300x209.jpg 300w, https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/LeMay_GretaPlante-768x536.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><figcaption>La caricature d&#8217;YGreck by Mr. Yannick LeMay (Journal de Montr\u00e9al; September 20, 2019)<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>On September 27, 2019, Mayor Val\u00e9rie Plante will\nwelcome Greta at Montreal City Hall and give her the keys\nof the city.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mr. Lemay is referring to the famous yet controversial \u201c<em>Vive le Qu\u00e9bec libre<\/em>\u201d (= Long live free Qu\u00e9bec) proclaimed by General Charles de Gaulle, President of France on July 24, 1967 (during a state visit to Expo 67) from the balcony of Montreal&#8217;s City Hall.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"289\" height=\"174\" src=\"http:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/DeGaulle.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-363\"\/><figcaption>General Charles De Gaulle, President of France (Montreal City Hall balcony, June 24, 1967)<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>With all due respect to those who truly care for the environment, we cannot help not to smile at all the contradictions (driving OR even flying in\/out to the demonstrations, overusing their cell phones, eating their air flown food, all this whilst lecturing us about the bad free market\/capitalism and guilting the earlier generations).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This whole global climate strike movement\nis somehow reminding Bambi of a 2008 movie called \u201cThe Wave\u201d or\u201d La vague\u201d (\u201cDie\nWelle\u201d in German) by Dennis Ganzel:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/culture\/film\/3559727\/The-Wave-the-experiment-that-turned-a-school-into-a-police-state.html\">https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/culture\/film\/3559727\/The-Wave-the-experiment-that-turned-a-school-into-a-police-state.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Over a week, a high-school teacher offers his students an educational experiment designed to help them understand how a totalitarian regime can start and how it operates. It turned the school into a police state, leading to tragic consequences\u2026 <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"220\" height=\"310\" src=\"http:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/DieWelle.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-364\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/DieWelle.jpg 220w, https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/DieWelle-213x300.jpg 213w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 220px) 85vw, 220px\" \/><figcaption>The Wave movie<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On September 27, 2019, Mayor Val\u00e9rie Plante will welcome Greta at Montreal City Hall and give her the keys of the city. Mr. Lemay is referring to the famous yet controversial \u201cVive le Qu\u00e9bec libre\u201d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=361"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":370,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361\/revisions\/370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}