Passing on Friday in the studios of Maisonneuve, which LCN and TVA will leave to move to their new premises located at 4545 Frontenac, former animator Jean-Luc-Monggrain returned to one of his editorials who has become cult on the web.
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In September 2009, Mr. Mongrain was winning on the absurdities of the education system and the disconnection of the school with young people.
During his tirade of about six minutes, he had notably spread out on his desk all the school supplies required for a first year student in elementary school.
“17 Duo-tangs!” 17! In the first year? We have had journalists by profession for 40 years and they do not have a cursed schoolbag! ”, He had launched.
16 years later, Jean-Luc Mongrain believes that this editorial remains relevant.
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“I don’t laugh because it’s still true. I am still indignant at that, to see – and we see it by what we want to do now in the school domain. We are wanting to remove the phones and bring back the vouvoyer, “he said on Friday.
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“What I want people to understand is that an editorialist is a journalist. In three pencil strokes, he gives an opinion, he poses an editorial. Me, when things were aberrant, I brought a visual caricature like that. […] It is not because this is the news that it must be flat, “added the ex-journalist.
Testimonials from Danielle Ouimet and Shirley Théroux
The former actress and host Danielle Ouimet, who was present at the first year of Télé-Metropole, the ancestor of TVA, in the studios of Boulevard de Maisonneuve, returned to her debut on the program Youth today.
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Shirley Théroux for his part spoke of his victory in the Yoland-Guérard singing competition in 1963, which revealed it to the public.
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“I left the boarding school, I was 21 years old and I barely knew that Télé-metropolis existed. It was my mother who wrote for me […] To pass the hearing, ”she says.
To see the full segment, watch the video above.
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