"Mon pays," the refrain goes, "ce n'est pas un pays, c'est l'hiver." My country is not a country, it is winter. Gilles Vigneault rarely gives interviews in English, but he welcomed David Gutnick into ...

“Mon pays,” the refrain goes, “ce n’est pas un pays, c’est l’hiver.” In English: My country is not a country, it is winter. Penned almost 50 years ago by Gilles Vigneault, Mon pays is a song of love ...

Karen elaine spencer and Nadia Myre say they're proud their carpet design based on Gilles Vigneault's iconic "Mon Pays" song made it to Canada House in London. The carpet is one small part of a ...

One difficult aspect of the opening ceremonies was the French element, and not for a lack of effort on our part. David Atkins's team had developed a spectacular segment around the well-known Quebec ...

A Parti Quebecois motion Wednesday denouncing "all attempts to make Gilles Vigneault responsible for the absence of French" at the opening ceremonies of the Vancouver winter Olympics was ...

When David Atkins was designing the opening ceremonies for the 2010 Olympics, he crafted what he thought would be a spectacular segment around the Quebec anthem Mon pays. Written in 1964 by Gilles ...

Gilles Vigneault (born 27 October 1928) is a Canadian poet, publisher, singer-songwriter, and Quebec nationalist and sovereigntist. Two of his songs are considered by many to be Quebec's unofficial ...