 Josh Freed |
Josh Freed
In 1995, Freed won the Stephen Leacock Award for Humour, one of Canada’s most prestigious awards, for Fear of Frying and other Fax of Life, a published collection of his columns. Among Freed’s film documentaries are The Last Train (1991), a 2 hour program about the last train trip across Canada’s national railway, North to Nowhere (1989), an award-winning documentary about the impact of industrialization on Mexico, Merchandising Murder (1995), a film about the American media coverage of the O.J. Simpson case, and At Your Service (1997), an humourous look at the people who “serve” us everyday at restaurants, stores and on the phone which aired last year on Witness.
Josh Freed
Montreal Gazette - Saturdays 2001
| Montreal Gazette - Saturday 30 June 2001 -Taking a shot at the machine | |||
| If you think it's tough getting through to an office with one of those automated voice systems, just wait until you meet the next electronic opponent coming your way: telephone machines you can TALK to. I had my first run-in with one of these talkative contraptions last week, when I called St. Luc Hospital to find out about getting a vaccination for a trip to Asia.. | |||
| Montreal Gazette - Saturday 23 June 2001 -This would be illegal in Edmonton | |||
| It's Saturday - and I wonder who'll be in my front yard this weekend? Will there be 1,000 tam-tam drummers, bare-chested and beating on bongos? Or several hundred cyclists preparing for a race up the mountain in the rain?. | |||
| -18 June 2001 -Don't ignore the panhandlers | |||
| Josh Freed (Column, May 26) notes that Montrealers are less callous in their treatment of panhandlers than in the rest of the continent. True, but there is no room for complacency. | |||
| - 16 June 2001 -This would be illegal in Edmonton | |||
| The Grand Prix party has finally left town in a blast of smoke and I've got a Grand Reprieve for another year. rain?. | |||
| - Thursday 14 June 2001 -Demolition wish list Big O at top of heap as critics name Montreal's ugliest buildings | |||
| "It's the ugliest thing," said writer Josh Freed. "It killed the Olympics, it killed baseball and city finances. Please, let's take it down before it kills again. rain?. | |||
| - 9 June 2001 -Hope through Larose-coloured glasses | |||
| To read the news this week, the newest spokesmen for anglophones are all francophones. The most surprising anglo-warrior-of-the-week is Gerry (The Rose) Larose, alias sovereignist hard-liner Gerald Larose, who has just issued his preliminary report on the state of the French language.Top Stories | |||
| - 2 June 2001 - Gadgets driving us to distraction | |||
| WARNING: If you are reading this column while driving, please put it down before accelerating - or at least hang up your cell phone. . | |||
| - 26 May 2001 - Beggarly solutions to panhandling | |||
| I had barely stepped out of my house onto the Main last week when the first panhandler hit me up, a weary woman in her 60s who looked like she could use a week's worth of meals. But no sooner had I handed her a twonie, than a skinny guy in a baseball cap popped out of a doorway looking for one, too. | |||
| - 12 May 2001 - Suburbs should swallow Montreal | |||
| The merger fight has turned into a battle between two stereotypes - with the city on one side and the suburbs on the other. | |||
| - 5 May 2001 - Space: wide open for business | |||
| When Stanley Kubrick made 2001: A Space Odyssey, he may have been more prophetic than he knew. Since the start of this year, space is suddenly back in fashion - with everyone from rich tourists to the U.S. military making plans to go into orbit. | |||
| - Monday 30 April 2001 - Americans weren't welcome | |||
| Josh Freed (Column, April 21) should bone up on his Canadian history. The Americans never occupied Montreal during the War of 1812 but were defeated in their attempted invasion at the Battle of Chateauguay by a much smaller colonial force. | |||
| - Monday 30 April 2001 - Yes, they were | |||
| In 1812, the United States only got as far as Chateauguay and therefore did not occupy Montreal. The event Josh Freed is probably referring to (Column, April 21) took place in 1775 when the revolutionary army under Richard Montgomery occupied Montreal. | |||
| - 28 April 2001 - Here's how to pick a leader, Alberta | |||
| It's hard keeping up with "Western alienation." Your province always claims that it resents Eastern politicians, but you keep choosing Western leaders who make them look good. | |||
| 21 April 2001 - Presidential primer on Kweebek | |||
| Dear President Bush: Welcome to the Summit of the Americas, where police and protesters are clashing in U.S.-style riots usually reserved for Canadian hockey rinks. | |||
| 7 April 2001 - Pothole pilots can vault or straddle | |||
| Good morning, class. Today's course is Introductory Potholes 101, a companion course to Digging out of Snowbanks 104 and Bridge Construction Traffic Jam 109. | |||
| 31 March 2001 - Shawinigolf one big, yawning divot | |||
| Canadians are partial to pedestrian scandals, but PM's foes proving to be boring bogeymen... | |||
| 17 March 2001 - Well, dot's dot for josh.com. Period. | |||
| Dear shareholders: Last year, in the midst of a rising stock-market frenzy, I asked you to invest in an exciting new venture I was launching: josh.com, a cutting-edge product with nowhere to go but up. | |||
| 10 March 2001 - Landry could be Trojan horse | |||
| Last fall, I complained that Quebec had vanished from the Canadian news as the rest of the country lost interest in our debates and became infatuated with Stockwell Day. | |||
| 3 March 2001 - Spring out of winter in 10 easy steps | |||
| NA Happy Feb. 31. The shortest month of the year is officially over, but it refuses to go away. Long ago, we humans chose to give February only 28 days because we did not like having it around. | |||
| NA 24 February 2001 - Flu, etiquette work hand in glove | |||
| Cough, cough. Sniffle, sniffle. Pass the echinacea, please. Like many of you, I've been sick all week, sucking on Sinutabs, swallowing fistfuls of Aspirins and fighting the grippe that grips Montreal every February. | |||
| NA 17 February 2001 - Beating the February blues | |||
| I've always been a festival kind of guy whether we're talking jazz fest, comedy fest, carifete or just the annual Festival of the Donut in Saint-Malo, Quebec. | |||
| 10 February 2001 - Time to send phone pests a message | |||
| Beep. | |||
| 3 February 2001 - Bye-bye, as Americans buy | |||
| Now that the Montreal Canadiens have become the American Canadians, you've got to wonder what's for sale next. | |||
| 27 January 2001 - It takes a noodle to make a boodle | |||
| Like many people, I've always had a secret fantasy about opening a small restaurant. In this fantasy, I don't actually run the restaurant or spend 14 hours a day slaving over the stove, like most restaurant owners do. |
Josh Freed - 2000
12/30/00 Themes for 2001 sure to ring true
It's time for Swami Josh's New Year's predictions, so pay attention. After all, I was the guy who predicted 2000 was the right year to buy technology stocks, that Harry Potter was a passing fad and that the U.S. election wouldn't even be close.
So here's what happens next year: 5020961.html
23/Dec/2000 No gift for PM
From the office of Santa Josh:
It's almost Christmas and I'm way behind schedule, what with my reindeer stuck in a snowbank, the price of gas going up, and my elves on another work slowdown. And you try to find a decent chimney to fit into these days.
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9/Dec/2000 Come Mel or high water, let's swap
Dear Toronto: For years we have watched your city steal our Montreal-style bagels, baguettes, bistros and brain power - but now you have gone too far. You have stolen a Montreal-style mayor, and tried to pretend he is your own. But you won't get away with it.
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3/Dec/2000 Oh Canada! U.S. needs our help
Pity the poor Americans. Their election has gone from a political battle to a court battle, a vicious armed war of lawsuits and countersuits fought to the last chad. It's the American way: winner take all - and they don't know who the winner is.
Meanwhile, our election was an exercise in calm, settled in a few hours, while most of the country fell asleep in front of their TVs. 4977988.html
11 November 2000 do see Is that your final president? The neverendum election is in its fifth day, and the way things are going it could soon turn into a season-long mini-series called Who's the President?
- 14 June 2000
#954 Freed 14 June, 2000 Carl Otto intro Josh Freed & Michele then Stefi Wohnsigl & Robin Wohnsigl's best friend and Uta Hope... Annie Richer's radio show ..Syria, by Josh.. LET FORIEGN BANKS IN.. dubious "airport improvement" taxes Robin permit cabotage.. Reichmans deal dead fear of Free Trade, globalization demonstrations, break up Microsoft, Education economy Peter Trent, Marcus Hope pan
Wednesday-Night 954 with Josh Freed
- June 3
A distinctly healthy society ...A recent national poll on work stress found we're less stressed than the rest of Canada and we sleep better, too.
- May 27
Long Day's journey into trite ...I would like to cancel my subscription to your newspaper because of the current lack of news. Every time I open the paper, there is only one story: the former Reform Party's leadership race between Tom Day and Stockwell Long.
- May 20 Nothing quite fills the bill ...Canadians can't agree on who should grace our home and native cash...
- May 13
I demand Quebecois points ..Isn't it time you had a card that told the world who you are? Something distinct that says you're not like all the others? Isn't it time for "La Carte Quebecoise?" ...
- May 6 Hot-air alert! Hot-air alert! ...WARNING: For the next 48 hours, do not turn on your radio or TV. Do not read this newspaper. A sovereignty rhetoric alert is currently in effect throughout the Quebec region and parts of Canada.
- April 29 My head rolled in Syria ..grave-robbers and jail threats, so let me tell you a story from my recent Middle East travels: the Tale of the Supposedly Stolen Syrian Statue.
- April 22
Diary from a dictatorship Syria's isolation under Assad has fostered a genteel.
- March 25 Saving French in Montreal ..ATTENTION ALL APOSTROPHES! Take cover immediately.
- March 18
A food's paradise beckons .. Loblaws makes grocery-shopping fun
- March 4
The cola wars are just a taste of what'll be learned at school
- February 26
Here's a really super idea
- 29 January
Chretien for emperor He could let others practice governing Canada while he plays golf
- 22 January Get the picture? Life's perilous Allan Rock's proposed cigarette-package would say smoking is disgustin
- 15 January
Pfffffffffffffffffft!
Punctured male ego leaves columnist feeling more than just tired
- 8 January 2000
O .com, all ye faithful Welcome to Josh.com. (don't bother Not Josh.Freed)
1999
- Friday 24 December Hey, we're cool again Visitors talk about our town with envy instead of putting it down
- 18 December The mothers of all inventions
- 11 December Medicine's new frontier
- 4 December ABCs of the WTO battle in Seattle
- 11 December Hands up, baby, hands up Why go south, when you're living in Montreal-on-the-Riviera?
- 18 December The mothers of all inventions Forget gizmos; which promise a stress-free future
- 4 December 1999 on the WTO
- 20 Nov Cheers! Here's to museums
- 6 February Made-to-measure misery If the suit fits, you probably got it off the rack at a department store
- Mar 23
Quebec debates 'right on a red'
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- Wednesday 9 June 1999 News eg: Anglos will be francos
- 20 March It's all the rage road, air and ...
- 14 November 1998 Quebec voters in two camps Unlike nous autres, francophones don't expect another referendum
- October 03, 1998 MSO, Expos should team up
- July 21, 1997 And on a computer if you dare
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Josh Freed wrote for the NFB
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- Magic Time 1997 48 min 57 sec
- Between the Solitudes 1992 49 min 10 sec
- Mile Zero: The SAGE Tour 1988 48 min 41 sec
- A Song for Quebec 1988 55 min 12 sec
- Never-Endum Referendum Bowser & Blue
- TICKET TO HEAVEN based on the Josh Freed book Moonwebs
- Polar Bear Safari marks the first time a camera crew has been allowed to witness such a hunt. The film is written and directed by Josh Freed
- search for Produced by Josh Freed "At Your Service" attitudes in England, France, Canada and the U.S.
- The Coat of Many Countries 48 minutes ..This program traces the coat's fascinating history: from an Australian sheep ranch, to an Indian village, to a Chinese factory, and eventually to Canada by way of Hong Kong, Hamburg and Eastern Europe.
- At Your Service, 1997, 51 min, Directed by Josh Freed Galafilm
- MERCHANDISING MURDER A Video by Josh Freed on O.J. Simpson trail
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Escaping from History 1994, 51 min 58 secEscaping from History, by Josh Freed, ends this remarkable series with a mix of weird affirmations (the majority of human beings now live in democracy!) and extremist proposals (developed countries should ration cars, 1 for 10 people, and probably jobs!). Just forget that the Human Race series includes this video
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"Some anglos , like myself, suffer from what I'd call the Stockholm syndrome," states Josh Freed, thepriceless columnist for The Gazette. "They're prisoners of the political debate and they've fallen in love with their torturers. The only cure they've found is to return to their jailer."
"If there were a prize for the city that got the poorest media coverage, it would have to go to Montréal!" said Josh Freed, a columnist at The Gazette. Freed is one of the English-language journalists who has written the most on the metropolis, often with humour. (He's the author of The Anglo Guide to Survival in Quebec.) "The post-referendum shock is a thing of the past," he said. "People have begun to bank on Montréal again."
Josh Freed wonders what we're waiting for to rename Crescent Street after its most faithful denizen. Nick Street or Auf der Maur Street! It's clearly only a question of time before the issue becomes an election promise in Montréal.
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from The CBC.ca
[Download Players]Tue Mar 23, 1999 Quebec debates 'right on a red'
It's hard to tell what the people really want.
Writer Josh Freed says don't touch the law.
He says the very survival of pedestrians would
be at risk. "It's like taking away wild life
preserves in Africa from the lion. There would
be no more pedestrians, they would be
extinct."
The Office de la langue francaise is trying to make golfing in Quebec more French. They're doing it with a list of French golf terms to be used in place of English terms like putter, driver and par. The Office doesn't plan to give fines to golfers found guilty of not using the terms, so the question is: will anyone use them? Josh Freed is a columnist with the and is one of the editors of the new book "2000 Reasons to Hate The Millenium." To tell us why we should all hate the continuous blather about the Millenium
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