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Small scenes at work that no one notices or questions. And yet, this is where everything shifts. The process had been launched properly, with the right words, the right titles, the right hierarchical levels around the table, and a level of compensation high enough for everyone to convince themselves that the stakes were serious, strategic,…

Small workplace scenes no one notices or questions. The strategic retreat had been organized seriously, almost methodically, with weeks of preparation, solid consultants, well-prepared documents, workshops scheduled down to the minute, and that muted excitement that accompanies the arrival of a new CEO, when everyone wants to believe—sincerely or not—that something is finally going to…

The Government of Quebec is now committing $450 million to the Digital Health Record, a project meant to modernize access to care, centralize data and simplify coordination between professionals, at the very moment when there is no leader in place to politically assume the consequences. SAAQclic showed that a billion dollars can be committed, spent,…

The Quebec Liberal Party finished the last elections with 21 seats, and in several regions it almost no longer exists, to the point where the party that governed Quebec only a few years ago has become a formation that is almost entirely Montreal-based, with an electoral base that has slowly emptied outside the major centres,…

Small scenes at work that no one notices or questions. And yet, that’s where everything shifts. The sentence landed just after the candidate had left the room, delivered with that falsely composed tone people use when they want to appear reasonable while mostly reassuring themselves, as if the chosen word’s primary function were to avoid…

The SAAQclic system was supposed to simplify citizens’ lives. More than one billion dollars were committed.On the ground, screens freeze, appointments disappear, employees go back to paper, and people take time off again to handle procedures that were supposed to take a few minutes. In a so-called emerging country, or if the same thing were…

Small workplace scenes that no one notices or questions. He called her because he was afraid, not a spectacular or confessable fear, but that very specific fear of leaders appointed by default, by circumstance, by urgency, because someone was needed immediately, because the previous one had just been dismissed, because the board had no desire…

When a party moves into first place, the nature of the political game changes.The election is approaching and the Parti Québécois is leading, while other parties are busy rebuilding themselves, organizing leadership races, and dealing with internal issues as the calendar keeps moving. That position creates a clear risk: the risk of complacency.Reusing promises people…

The Northvolt battery plant was supposed to cost around $7 billion, including $4.4 billion from the federal government and $2.9 billion from Quebec, with the idea of building a local battery industry capable of supporting the energy transition and creating a durable industrial base. Part of that money has already been committed, immobilized, or written…

Small workplace scenes no one notices, no one questions. And yet, this is where everything shifts. The program was ready long before the meeting.Not ready in the “presentation” sense, but ready in the living sense. Something that had taken weeks to build, to test, to refine — one of those programs you don’t create to…