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Heading To The Polls

CBC | Posted 11.04.2012 | Canada Politics

Quebec voter turnout is up compared to the last provincial election, despite a few power outages and temporary closures at polling stations in Montrea...

Home Stretch

CP | The Canadian Press | Posted 11.03.2012 | Canada Politics

QUEBEC - It's the final day of campaigning in Quebec as voters prepare to cast their ballots Tuesday.Premier Jean Charest has spent the final weekend ...

Liberals? What Liberals?

CBC | Posted 11.02.2012 | Canada Politics

The head of the upstart Coalition Avenir Québec tried Saturday to frame the election as a two-way race between his party and Pauline Marois' Parti Qu...

Paging MDs

CBC | Posted 10.29.2012 | Canada Politics

A Quebec government under the Coalition Avenir Québec party would use the long-dormant notwithstanding clause in the Charter of Rights and Freedoms t...

Anti-Corruption Head Faces Corruption Allegations

CBC | Posted 10.21.2012 | Canada Politics

Coalition Avenir Québec star candidate Jacques Duchesneau has dismissed as "ludicrous" allegations from sources close to his 1998 Montreal mayoralty ...

Quebec Gets A Right Wing Party .. Or Does It?

CP | Jonathan Montpetit, The Canadian Press | Posted 10.09.2012 | Canada Politics

MONTREAL - If economic conservatives are looking for the great right-wing hope in Quebec's election campaign, they may have to shift their gaze a litt...

Stay There 'Til 5, Legault Says

CP | The Canadian Press | Posted 10.09.2012 | Canada Politics

MIRABEL, Que. - There will be a lot less late-afternoon texting and TV watching for Quebec high-school students if a new political party gets its way....

Legault Would Say 'Non'

CP | The Canadian Press | Posted 10.08.2012 | Canada Politics

MONTREAL - The conversion of Francois Legault away from the cause of Quebec independence appears more definitive, and complete, than ever.The leader o...

Quebec's CAQ Gets Some Support From Prominent Anglo

CP | Jonathan Montpetit, The Canadian Press | Posted 10.08.2012 | Canada Politics

MONTREAL - The man who led the last anglophone revolt against the Quebec Liberals says the time has come again for the community to rethink its electo...

CAQ Promises Middle Class Tax Cuts

CBC | Posted 10.07.2012 | Canada Politics

Quebec families are over-taxed, CAQ's François Legault said in St-Jean-sur-Richelieu on Tuesday, vowing to eliminate the $200 health service tax and ...

Yeah Right..

CP | The Canadian Press | Posted 10.06.2012 | Canada Politics

MONTREAL - It didn't take long for the star candidate par excellence of the current Quebec election campaign to take his first political lumps.In fact...

Corruption Takes Centre Stage

CP | Benjamin Shingler, The Canadian Press | Posted 10.05.2012 | Canada Politics

The third-most popular party in Quebec is hoping a star candidate who has just been at odds with the government will boost its hopes of vaulting into ...

Good News For Separatists In Quebec

The Huffington Post Canada | Eric Grenier | Posted 02.17.2012 | Canada Politics

Parti Quebecois Leader Pauline Marois’s attacks on the Harper government, whose unpopularity in Quebec is matched only by dissatisfaction with Premi...

Quebec Political Parties Officially Join Forces

CP | The Canadian Press | Posted 03.23.2012 | Canada Politics

QUEBEC - The Coalition for Quebec's Future, the province's popular new political party, added a notch to its belt Sunday by officially merging with an...

Why Division In Quebec Is Good For Jean Charest

The Huffington Post Canada | Eric Grenier | Posted 03.18.2012 | Canada Politics

The shine is already starting to wear off on François Legault's Coalition Avenir Québec (CAQ), according to a survey released over the weekend which...

Quebec's Rising Political Star

CP | Andy Blatchford, The Canadian Press | Posted 01.14.2012 | Canada Politics

MONTREAL - The man who hopes to shake up Quebec politics was a passionate participant in the very debate he now says he wants to stamp out.Francois Le...

Quebec's Newest Political Party Shakes Things Up

CBC | Posted 01.01.2012 | Canada Politics

François Legault is one step closer to leading a brand new political party. Organizers filed papers with the province’s Chief Electoral Officer ...

Duceppe Could Lead PQ To Majority In Quebec: Poll

The Huffington Post Canada | Eric Grenier | Posted 01.01.2012 | Canada Politics

Though Quebecers forced Gilles Duceppe out of Ottawa on May 2, they seem to like the idea of installing him in Quebec City instead. And that means ...

Political Turmoil In Quebec

The Huffington Post Canada | Eric Grenier | Posted 12.28.2011 | Canada Politics

National unity may not be a hot topic at the moment, but that does not mean Quebec has fallen off the political radar. Leaders are being challenged...

Can Corruption Probe Save Charest's Job?

The Huffington Post Canada | Eric Grenier | Posted 12.21.2011 | Canada Politics

In the face of enormous public pressure, Jean Charest has finally called a commission of inquiry into Quebec’s construction industry. Calling the...