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They had hired them in September, a reputable firm, serious people, with a clear methodology and a deliverable expected by the first quarter, because margins had been eroding for eighteen months and something, somewhere in the supply chain, was no longer working the way it used to. The report had been presented that morning, sixty-two…

Behind the tools everyone uses and nobody really looks at. A company publishes a job posting. The role requires “leadership”, “change management”, strong execution capabilities, strategic thinking, several years of experience in complex environments. A few minutes later, a candidate copies the job posting into ChatGPT along with their resume and writes: “Can you rewrite…

They were standing in the branch manager’s office, gathered without an agenda, too close to one another, in the kind of stand-up meeting you improvise when something serious has just happened, and this time no one needed to ask what it was: a client had been struck. For a few seconds, no one spoke, and…

Behind the tools everyone uses and nobody really looks at. A recruiter opens a LinkedIn profile: “Leadership.” “Strategic Planning.” “Change Management.” “Python.” “Financial Analysis.” The words are clean, well aligned, validated by a few contacts, sometimes even accompanied by small social confirmations that create the impression that other professionals have seen these skills in action…

They were downstairs, at the café, just before heading up to the board meeting, the COO and the CFO, empty-handed, grabbing something to drink because they already knew they would have nothing to put on the table.They brought up two or three ideas, brilliant and innovative ones they would have liked to put forward, just…

In April 2026, in Montreal, a man parks on the side of a street, takes out a shovel, opens a bag of asphalt bought with his own money, fills a pothole, films the sequence, then gets back into his truck and leaves for another street where another hole is waiting. He does it again the…

Behind the tools everyone uses and nobody really looks at.. A job title almost never describes the real work. Two people with exactly the same title can spend their days doing jobs that have almost nothing in common. One manages internal political crises inside a transforming organization. The other coordinates weekly meetings inside a stable…

The Parti Québécois organizes a meeting with a community that does not vote for it, a community naturally distant from the sovereigntist movement but that could, under the right conditions, listen. A room is booked. A team travels. Documents are printed. Microphones are installed. A date is confirmed. Invitations go out. The invitations go out…

They were talking about him while he wasn’t there, the way you talk about someone who has always been there, too long for anyone to remember when he arrived, someone who was never really trained because he did the work, who was never named because he asked for nothing, someone who, by being reliable, had…

On January 20, 2026, in Davos, the Prime Minister of Canada explains to world leaders that the old system is dead, that Canada will no longer be dependent on the United States, that middle powers must build their strategic autonomy, and that his country takes the world as it is, not as it would wish…