Michel Vastel
Michel Vastel (20 May 1940 – 28 August 2008) was a Québécois journalist and columnist for Le Journal de Montréal and other medias. He was born in Saint-Pierre-de-Cormeilles, Eure, France and immigrated to Canada in 1970.[1]
Vastel began his career in the Nord-Pas de Calais region. He subsequently moved to Montreal, Quebec, Canada. He first worked at the Government of Quebec and the Quebec Employers Council, then began to write for Le Devoir, La Presse, Quebec City's Le Soleil and Ottawa-Gatineau's Le Droit.
He was also contributor for L'actualité, CKAC and the Société Radio-Canada. He died in Bedford, Quebec on August 28, 2008 from throat cancer.
Bibliography
- Le Neveu (1987, about mafia hitman Réal Simard)
- Trudeau le Québécois (1989, about Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau)
- Bourassa (1991, about Premier Robert Bourassa)
- Lucien Bouchard, en attendant la suite… (1995, about Premier Lucien Bouchard)
- Landry, le grand dérangeant (2001, about Premier Bernard Landry)
- Chrétien, Un Canadien pure laine, 2003
- Nathalie: Briser le silence (2005, about singer and abuse victim Nathalie Simard)
gollark: (The alternative of paying per middle node... fixes some problems and introduces exciting new ones)
gollark: (Although that breaks horribly too, since you're incentivized to run 10000 middle nodes which funnel money to you for your own connection)
gollark: (I'm assuming that you pay a fixed amount per packet or something which is split between all the nodes participating in sending that)
gollark: If I am paid for being a middle node, I would get money for going between A and B with a jammer, so that B can't connect with A directly, and providing a new node.
gollark: Let's say person A is connected to B, and A is also connected to the wider internet™ or something.
See also
References
- Notes
- "Journalist Michel Vastel dies at age 68". Retrieved 2008-08-29.
- Sources
- Alan Hustak, "Vastel remembered as good, but often abrasive journalist", The Gazette
External links
- Article archive (1996 to 2004) at Vigile.net
- Blog of Michel Vastel at the L'actualité website
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