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Quebec Wants Charter Of Values

CBC | Posted 05.23.2013 | Canada Politics

Quebec's citizenship minister today said the province is long overdue in dealing with the issue of accommodations to religious communities. ...

Accused Election Shooter Brings List Of Requests To Trial

CP | Sidhartha Banerjee, The Canadian Press | Posted 05.03.2013 | Canada

MONTREAL - The man charged in Quebec's election-night shooting whistled as he entered a courtroom on Friday with four paper bags full of papers and ev...

LOOK: Quebec Premier's Swanky New Condo

The Huffington Post Canada | Posted 04.15.2013 | Canada Business

It looks like Pauline Marois has given up her castle for a condo. The Quebec Premier and her husband, Claude Blanchet, are buying a $2.5 million ap...

Quebec Ministers Urged To Speak Only French To Counterparts

CP | The Canadian Press | Posted 04.03.2013 | Canada Politics

QUEBEC - The Quebec government has introduced a new initiative that encourages cabinet ministers to speak only French to their counterparts from other...

Gilles Duceppe's New Job

CP | The Canadian Press | Posted 03.27.2013 | Canada Politics

QUEBEC - The former leader of the Bloc Quebecois, Gilles Duceppe, appears to have landed a government job two years after he lost his last one in a hi...

Anniversary Protest Quickly Broken Up

CP | The Canadian Press | Posted 05.22.2013 | Canada Politics

MONTREAL - A march to mark an anniversary in Quebec's protest movement was swiftly broken up Friday by a police force that has shown increasing strict...

PQ To Military Families: Too Bad

CBC | Posted 05.21.2013 | Canada Politics

The Quebec government is refusing to back down on a controversial part of its new language bill, which would have a major impact on Quebec’s militar...

Quebec Liberal Leader Wants Constitution Signed By 2017

CBC | Posted 05.18.2013 | Canada Politics

Philippe Couillard, the newly elected Quebec Liberal party leader, says Quebec’s lack of signature on the Canadian Constitution is unacceptable. ...

Attitude Adjustment Needed

CP | The Canadian Press | Posted 05.18.2013 | Canada Politics

MONTREAL - The new leader of Quebec's Liberal party has called for an attitude overhaul when it comes to language in the province and criticized curre...

Trouble Ahead For Pauline?

The Huffington Post Canada | Eric Grenier | Posted 03.15.2013 | Canada Politics

A new poll shows Quebec Liberals running neck-and-neck with the governing Parti Québécois as they gather to pick a new leader this weekend in Montre...

Open Letter to Pauline Marois, Premier of Quebec

Kokulan Mahendiran | Posted 05.06.2013 | Canada
Kokulan Mahendiran

Dear Premier Marois, Speaking at the infamous Summit on Higher Education you held last month, McGill Principal Heather Munroe-Blum warned, "The quali...

Will Montreal Students Live Happily Ever After?

Supriya Dwivedi | Posted 05.06.2013 | Canada Politics
Supriya Dwivedi

After the second protest in the last two weeks following a provincial summit on higher education, everything about Montreal's current spring weather seemed to have year-old Maple Spring undertones to it, including violence, arrests and injuries. The plight of student debt, post graduation underemployment, and rising housing costs are all unarguably quite legitimate burdens faced by my generation. Will free tuition as demanded by the Association pour une solidarité syndicale étudiante (ASSÉ) and its followers solve these zeitgeist conundrums? Unlikely.

(Maple) Spring Is In The Air

CP | Nelson Wyatt, The Canadian Press | Posted 05.05.2013 | Canada Politics

MONTREAL - Montreal police donned riot gear and moved in to make at least 50 arrests after an initially peaceful demonstration by Quebec students prot...

PQ Should Use Public Funds To Promote Sovereignty: Parizeau

CP | The Canadian Press | Posted 05.02.2013 | Canada Politics

MONTREAL - Former Parti Quebecois premier Jacques Parizeau is taking aim at the current party leadership, saying it should do more to promote sovereig...

'Maple Spring' Unrest 'Behind Us': Marois

CP | Andy Blatchford, The Canadian Press | Posted 04.28.2013 | Canada Politics

MONTREAL - Without the salvos of snowballs pelting police, the chunks of ice flying through the air, and the officers chasing protesters across a snow...

Another Maple Spring Coming?

CP | Andy Blatchford and Benjamin Shingler, The Canadian Press | Posted 04.26.2013 | Canada Politics

MONTREAL - Not even the most militant of Quebec's student federations expects this week's education summit to plunge the province into another Maple S...

Quebec Backs Down On 'Pasta' Ban

CP | Nelson Wyatt, The Canadian Press | Posted 04.23.2013 | Canada Politics

MONTREAL - Quebec's language watchdog has more on its plate than pastaThat might be hard to imagine given the furor this week over the warning given b...

PQ Strategy To Quell Anglo Anxiety 'Naive': Researcher

CBC | Posted 04.21.2013 | Canada Politics

The Parti Québécois should be doing more to quell the anxiety of the province's English-speaking population about its policies, says the director of...

What Maple Spring? Tuition Still Top Issue In Quebec

CBC | Posted 04.15.2013 | Canada Politics

One year after the start of Quebec's Maple Spring, university funding is still hotly contested by the province's political and student leaders. ...

Pipeline Pals? At Least One Of Them Thinks So..

CBC | Posted 04.13.2013 | Canada Alberta

Alberta Premier Alison Redford says she doesn't believe Quebec will stand in the way of a west-to-east pipeline carrying crude oil from Alberta to Sai...

Quebec Student Groups Go Head-To-Head With Government

CP | The Canadian Press | Posted 04.12.2013 | Canada Politics

DRUMMONDVILLE, Que. - Quebec student groups didn't get along well with the province's Liberal government — and now things don't seem too rosy with t...

Quebec Set To Start Acting Like Sovereign Nation?

CP | The Canadian Press | Posted 04.08.2013 | Canada Politics

QUEBEC - The Quebec government is taking an initial step that could lead to the creation of its own international-aid agency that would run parallel t...

Harper's Meeting With Marois Beset By Controversy

CP | The Canadian Press | Posted 04.02.2013 | Canada Politics

ESTEREL, Que. - Prime Minister Stephen Harper's first substantive meeting with the new premier of Quebec was relatively amicable, to hear her tell it ...

Marois Refuses To Play By Harper's Press Conference Rules

CP | Melanie Marquis, The Canadian Press | Posted 04.02.2013 | Canada Politics

ESTEREL, Que. - Prime Minister Stephen Harper will meet with the premier of Quebec on Friday. But they won't be holding a news conference together.Tha...

Marois On Quebec: 'We Are Rich'

CBC | Posted 04.01.2013 | Canada Politics

Pauline Marois says she will hold a referendum once she has convinced Quebecers to say, 'Yes.' The Parti Québécois premier gave a 15-min...