GMCDI In the News
mardi 25 septembre 2007
Arme de séduction
Le Devoir
Chouinard, Marie-Andrée
Selon un rapport tout juste produit par le Comité consultatif de la Greater Montreal Community Development Initiative, la communauté anglophone de Montréal aurait du plomb dans l'aile. Peu mobilisée, désengagée politiquement, elle assisterait, impuissante, à l'érosion de sa capacité de travail en français et au déclin démographique nettoyant ses écoles.
Camouflée dans un sombre portrait clignote toutefois une lumière: et si l'élection scolaire du 4 novembre devenait l'occasion de réveiller une communauté languissante? S'il est porté de manière efficace, ce message pourrait bien être la planche de salut des commissions scolaires anglophones: là réside l'espoir de regagner une certaine légitimité.
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September 24, 2007
Montreal's English communities should organize to move forward
Task forces on education, employment and health care could work on problems
Don Taylor and Dennis Smith
Some media reaction to the release of the Greater Montreal Community Development Initiative Steering Committee Report last week missed the fundamental nature and central issues of the English-speaking community of Greater Montreal.In fact, a new dialogue has begun. The evidence-based report reframes our understanding of the social context, diversity and vitality of an English-speaking community, which has changed dramatically over the last three decades.The GMCDI steering committee was created with the support of the Quebec Community Groups Network and the Department of Canadian Heritage.
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September 22, 2007
Anglos could use school-board elections as public platform
English-speaking Quebec needs direction, and boards could fill that void
The Gazette
Henry Aubin
This week's report on the state of the Montreal region's English-speaking communities notes a "disquieting trend toward political disengagement" among anglophones. The report by the Greater Montreal Community Development Initiative says this means "the visibility and voice of English-speaking Montreal are weak."
How true. But how can anglo Montreal - and, for that matter, anglo Quebec as a whole - start reversing this passivity?
This fall happens to provide an ideal opportunity.
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mercredi 19 septembre 2007
Les anglos se sentent négligés
La Presse
Lacoursière, Ariane
Au cours des dernières années, la communauté anglophone de Montréal s'est faite trop discrète et c'est pourquoi il est temps qu'elle prenne plus de place, clame la Greater Montreal Community Development Initiative. Pour y parvenir, l'organisme propose qu'un plus grand nombre d'anglophones soient embauchés dans la fonction publique et que Santé Canada finance mieux les soins médicaux anglophones dans la métropole.
Depuis le début de l'année, la Greater Montreal Community Development Initiative (GMCDI) a tenu différents forums à Laval, à Longueuil et à Montréal pour entendre les préoccupations des citoyens de langue anglaise. Dès les premières rencontres, la GMCDI a réalisé que les 700 000 anglophones qui vivent dans la grande région métropolitaine n'ont plus le même visage qu'avant.
Plus de la moitié d'entre eux sont nés à l'extérieur du Québec, comparativement à 17% des francophones. Conséquence: la communauté anglophone est de plus en plus morcelée et elle peine à assumer son leadership.
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September 19, 2007
Anglo Survival in Peril
'We're fragmented'. Report calls for teamwork among interest groups
The Gazette
Max Harrold
Quebec's anglophone community is slowly withering and there appears to be no leader ready to revive it, a new report suggests.
Weakened political clout, declining English school enrolment and a high proportion of unemployed English-speakers are endangering the community's long-term survival, indicates the report, being made public today by a coalition of English-language groups.
Based on public forums held in and around Montreal by the Quebec Community Groups Network, the report says English-speakers are a fragmented, multi-ethnic lot with few compelling reasons to unite. But coming two years after the demise of the English-rights group Alliance Quebec, which some had seen as too confrontational, the report calls for a more introspective approach, including greater teamwork among anglo interest groups.
"We're very fragmented," said Sylvia Martin-Laforge, one of three of the report's authors who met with The Gazette's editorial board last week.
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September 19, 2007
Quebec's anglophone community in decline, survey finds
www.cbc.ca
Quebec's English-speaking community is increasingly fragmented, lacking in leadership and struggling to find jobs, according to a report released Wednesday.
More than 75 per cent of the province's anglophones live in the greater Montreal area, and a new survey paints a grim portrait of their lives and their opportunities.
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April 19, 2007
Anglophones should express their needs: QCGN
Martin C. Barry TCN
This article appeared in the West End Chronicle, The Chomedey News and the Westmount Examiner...
Despite comparisons being made to work done by Alliance Quebec — the former anglo rights group which disintegrated following a long period of internal strife — supporters of a new project organized to boost the interests of Montreal's English-speaking community say they have no intention of losing track of their purpose or of getting mired in a debate that becomes too political.
Most anglos in Montreal
Anglophone residents of the Greater Montreal area met downtown last week to voice their opinions on the future of the English-speaking minority communities in Laval, the West Island, the South Shore, Montreal East and the city's centre. "Eighty per cent of the province's English-speaking community lives in the Greater Montreal area and many have expressed a need to voice their concerns about the development of their community and society at large," said Don Taylor chairman of the Greater Montreal Community Development Initiative steering committee.
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April 12, 2007
Des Montréalais anglophones s'inquiètent de leur avenir
Ariane Lacoursière
La Presse
«Papa, est-ce que parler anglais c'est mal? Pourquoi les autres ne veulent pas de nous?» Quand sa fille lui a posé cette question, le Montréalais Gandhi a été ébranlé. «J'ai réalisé que les anglophones sont des citoyens de deuxième classe à Montréal et que la fierté de notre langue se perd», dit-il.
Tout comme plus de 150 résidants de la grande région métropolitaine, Gandhi a décidé de prendre part au forum sur l'avenir des anglophones à Montréal. La rencontre, organisée par la Greater Montreal Community Development Initiative (GMCDI), s'est déroulée hier soir à l'hôtel Bonaventure.
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April 12, 2007
Testy anglos ponder their future in Quebec
The Gazette
Jeff Heinrich
“Can you hear me?"
The chairman’s question – wondering whether his microphone was working – was apt.
Opening a public forum Wednesday night on the future of Montreal’s 700,000 Englishspeakers, Don Taylor could have been speaking for an entire community.
Anglophones and English-speaking allophones need to make their voices heard in Quebec, organizers said, and there was plenty of talk at the meeting, attended by about 200 people at a downtown hotel.
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April 11, 2007
Les anglophones de Montréal se réunissent pour discuter de leur avenir
cyberpresse.ca
Presse Canadienne
Montréal
Des anglophones de Montréal et des allophones faisant principalement usage de l'anglais dans leur vie sont invités à un forum, ce mercredi soir, à l'Hôtel Bonaventure, afin de discuter de leur avenir collectif sur les plans de l'éducation, de la démographie et de l'emploi, notamment.
L'événement, organisé par un collectif de 24 organisations représentant quelque 400 000 personnes ayant l'anglais comme langue maternelle, est motivé par certaines réalités qui inquiètent la communauté dans la région: stagnation de la population anglophone, haut taux de sans emploi et écart grandissant entre les âgés, souvent fortunés, et les plus jeunes, qui sont aussi plus pauvres.
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April 11, 2007
Anglos' future under microscope: Calling all english speakers. Education, demographics, employment, services among items on agenda at tonight's forum
The Gazette
Jeff Heinrich
Montreal anglophones will converge at a downtown hotel tonight for a major forum on the community's future.
Six major topics are on the agenda: education; demographics; social participation; arts, culture and heritage; economic development and employment; and health and social services.
Anglos and allophones who speak English and live in communities around Montreal -including the West Island, Montreal East, central Montreal, Laval and the South Shore -are invited to attend.
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March 19, 2007
Mapping out a widening anglo divide
We're now polarized into old-stock haves, immigrant have-nots
The Gazette
Jeff Heinrich
What is a Montreal anglophone?
It used to be an easy question to answer. A Montreal anglo is someone who grew up in English and still speaks it - point final.
But with immigration now the main source keeping the city's anglo communities afloat, and with Quebec's French-language laws diluting the pool of English-only citizens, it's getting hard to define just what an anglo is.
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March 19, 2007
Quebec group looks to map out Montreal's anglophone community
www.cbc.ca
Canadian Press
What is a Montreal anglophone?
It used to be an easy question to answer. A Montreal Anglo is someone who grew up in English and still speaks it — point final.
But with immigration now keeping the city's English communities afloat, and with Quebec's French-language laws diluting the pool of English-only citizens, it's getting hard to define just what an Anglo is.
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