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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...

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...

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...

Marois On Shooting: 'I Believe It Was An Assassination Attempt'

CP | The Canadian Press | Posted 02.01.2013 | Canada Politics

MONTREAL - Quebec's premier says she believes a gunman was trying to kill her on the night she was elected.Pauline Marois told a television talk show ...

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...

It's Go Time

CP | The Canadian Press | Posted 11.18.2012 | Canada Politics

QUEBEC - The newly installed Parti Quebecois government wasted no time showing its sovereigntist stripes by appointing, on its first day in office, a ...

Redford Sad For Charest

CP | The Canadian Press | Posted 11.05.2012 | Canada Alberta

CALGARY - Alberta Premier Alison Redford says she isn't going to jump to any conclusions about the newly elected premier of Quebec. Redford says sh...

Even Before the Shots, This Election Was Rooted in Hate

Supriya Dwivedi | Posted 11.04.2012 | Canada Politics
Supriya Dwivedi

As the Parti Québécois gathered for their victory party Wednesday morning, shots were fired from an AK 47 where two people were shot; one man died on the scene. Pauline Marois was quickly ushered off the stage, and authorities swiftly apprehended the shooter. People are quick to place blame in instances like this. We are all to blame. When the political discourse in this province reduces itself to a claptrap mélange of xenophobic remarks and intransigent reactions, the outcome is never good.

Not Enough Support For Separation?

CP | Sidhartha Banerjee, The Canadian Press | Posted 11.04.2012 | Canada Politics

MONTREAL - Any plans to make a push for Quebec independence may have been relegated to the back burner given the Parti Quebecois' weaker-than-expected...

Settle Down

CP | The Canadian Press | Posted 11.01.2012 | Canada Politics

DRUMMONDVILLE, Que. - The head of the upstart Coalition for Quebec's Future tried Saturday to frame the election as a two-way race between his party a...

Marois And Legault Will Go Head-To-Head

CP | Donald McKenzie, The Canadian Press | Posted 10.21.2012 | Canada Politics

MONTREAL - Francois Legault, once a staunch proponent of sovereignty, accused Parti Quebecois Leader Pauline Marois on Wednesday of allowing Quebecers...

5 Questions With PQ Leader Pauline Marois

CBC | Posted 10.16.2012 | Canada Politics

In her first broadcast interview in English in the 2012 campaign, Parti Québécois Leader Pauline Marois spoke to Daybreak host Mike Finnerty about Q...

Marois Touches On Weighty Issue

CBC | Posted 10.12.2012 | Canada Politics

Comments by Parti Québécois Leader Pauline Marois about how cabinet ministers should set good examples for the populace have irked the Coalition Ave...

Arrêtez!: PQ Look To Limit English Use

CBC | Posted 10.07.2012 | Canada Politics

A Parti Québécois government would introduce new limits on the legal use of the English language and on religious expression in some public places, ...

Who Is Pauline Marois?

CP | The Canadian Press | Posted 10.01.2012 | Canada Politics

MONTREAL - Quebecers will vote in a provincial election on Sept. 4. Pauline Marois is fighting her second election as Parti Quebecois leader. Here is ...

Quebec Student Protest Moves From Street to Voting Booth

Supriya Dwivedi | Posted 09.23.2012 | Canada Politics
Supriya Dwivedi

The Quebec student protesters are coming for Premier Jean Charest, and what better way to do that than to formally align yourself with the opposition? After months of denying any political favourtism or formal ties to the opposition, one of the Quebec student protest leaders, Leo Blouin, is stepping up to the political plate.

WATCH: Parti Quebecois Leader Out Of Sync

CBC | Posted 08.26.2012 | Canada Politics

An unflattering ad that stars Parti Québécois Leader Pauline Marois has prompted a legal threat from a videographer, as the spectre of a possible fa...

Duceppe Eyeing PQ Leadership?

CP | Posted 03.19.2012 | Canada Politics

QUEBEC - Parti Quebecois members suggested Wednesday they might be looking for a new leader as early as next week.And former Bloc Quebecois leader Gil...