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'These Anglos Are Crazy'

CBC | Posted 05.09.2013 | Canada

The Quebec Liberal party says Language Minister Diane de Courcy should fire one of her advisors because of comments he made in two articles last year....

PQ To Military Families: Too Bad

CBC | Posted 03.21.2013 | 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...

Tuition Fees: When the PQ's Problems Seemed So Far Away

Maripier Isabelle | Posted 05.11.2013 | Canada Politics
Maripier Isabelle

Yesterday... All my troubles seemed so far away... Those might be the words going round the head of Premier Pauline Marois and her minister for hig...

A Drop in Rankings Is What McGill Needs

Davide Mastracci | Posted 05.07.2013 | Canada Politics
Davide Mastracci

The 2013 Times High Education World Reputation Rankings (WRR) were recently released. The WRR measures the best universities in the world based upon t...

PQ Scraps English-Immersion Plan

CP | The Canadian Press | Posted 05.07.2013 | Canada Politics

MONTREAL - A plan to teach every Quebec child English in the sixth grade is being scrapped by the new Parti Quebecois government.The plan was created ...

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.

Is the Montreal Gazette's Don Macpherson out to Lunch?

Beverly Akerman | Posted 05.05.2013 | Canada
Beverly Akerman

Don Macpherson must need a break--and badly. That's the only explanation I can come up with on the heels of his scurrilous article in Saturday's Montr...

They're Back

CBC | Posted 04.28.2013 | Canada Politics

Montreal police say ten people were arrested for assaulting police officers during a protest in Montreal against the Quebec government's decision to i...

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...

The Decline of Corporate Montreal

Charles Lammam | Posted 04.02.2013 | Canada Business
Charles Lammam

Over the years, Quebec has earned a reputation as being hostile to business due to persistent anti-business policies. As a consequence, Montreal has declined as a hub for major corporate headquarters. With a lower concentration of large corporate headquarters, the city loses out on many economic benefits. The government of Quebec should take seriously the long term decline of Montreal as a major corporate hub.

Quebec Creates Their Own Flag Day

CP | The Canadian Press | Posted 03.23.2013 | Canada Politics

QUEBEC - Quebec will create its own annual flag day to fete the Fleur-de-lis, every Jan. 21.Premier Pauline Marois made the announcement Monday on the...

PQ Shooting Suspect Speaks Out

CBC | Posted 03.11.2013 | Canada Politics

The man accused in the fatal shooting outside the Parti Québécois victory rally on Sept. 4 has given another media interview. Richard H...

Anglos Talk PQ At 100 Days

CP | Benjamin Shingler, The Canadian Press | Posted 02.08.2013 | Canada Politics

MONTREAL - In the leadup to Quebec's provincial election, worries about a Parti Quebecois victory had some English speakers promising they'd pack thei...

CANADIAN FLAG STAYS

CP | The Canadian Press | Posted 02.03.2013 | Canada Politics

QUEBEC - The Maple Leaf has survived a symbolic vote in the Quebec legislature, with the Parti Quebecois being defeated in an effort Tuesday to remove...

B.C. Liberal Party Expenses Out Of Whack

Dermod_Travis | Posted 02.03.2013 | Canada British Columbia
Dermod_Travis

Sometimes when you want to know how prudent a political party will be with the taxpayer's dime, it doesn't hurt to consider how prudent they are when it comes to spending their own dime at party headquarters. Compared to their counterparts in other provinces, the B.C. Liberal party spends like there's no tomorrow. And it's spending that increasingly points to something ominous: election campaigns that never end.

Time To Clean House

CBC | Posted 01.19.2013 | Canada Politics

Montreal's new mayor, Michael Applebaum, and the Parti Québécois government say they share a vision to fight corruption and collusion in municipal a...

In Quebec, Speaking English Is Deadly

Tom Kott | Posted 01.02.2013 | Canada Politics
Tom Kott

As the FLQ was a product of the Quiet Revolution, recent attacks seemed to have been sparked by the Parti Québécois' electoral victory on September 4, 2012. Anglophones must now constantly worry about full Nelsons and biological attacks wherever they go, whether it's on the metro or in a hospital, or wherever else the next attack might take place. While the PQ's Anglophobic and xenophobic policies do not help the current situation, they are not solely to blame. If this trend is to stop soon, those who have engaged in targeted violence towards linguistic groups must be made an example of and suffer the full extent of the law.

Tough Times Ahead For PQ?

CP | Benjamin Shingler, The Canadian Press | Posted 12.28.2012 | Canada Politics

MONTREAL - The newly elected Parti Quebecois government is facing a bumpy road ahead as the province's fall legislative session begins this week.The P...

Accused Election Night Shooter Brings Fresh Wounds To Court

CP | Andy Blatchford, The Canadian Press | Posted 12.11.2012 | Canada

MONTREAL - The accused gunman from the Parti Quebecois election-night rally showed up in court Thursday with a pair of bloody wounds on his head.Richa...

Quebecers Flocking To Ontario, Realtors Say

CBC | Posted 12.02.2012 | Canada Business

Some real estate agents in Ontario say many Quebecers have been eager to leave the province since the Parti Québécois was elected in the last provin...

Canada and Quebec: Don't Stay Together For the Kids

Jordon Froese | Posted 11.27.2012 | Canada Politics
Jordon Froese

If Pauline Marois' government decides it wants to lead Quebec out of Canada, to my mind she's simply following the logical path that has been laid down (intentionally or not) by our Federal leaders over the past 145 years. If it turns out Quebec wants a divorce we should grant it and move on. It seems evident there wasn't much of a family to begin with, and we don't seem to want to start building one now.