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Quebec Liberals Set To Choose New Leader

CP | Benjamin Shingler, The Canadian Press | Posted 05.16.2013 | Canada Politics

CP UPDATE: Philippe Couillard chosen to replace Jean Charest as Quebec Liberal leader. MONTREAL - Quebec Liberals are getting set to choose their...

Quebec Liberals Say Goodbye To Charest

CP | Benjamin Shingler, The Canadian Press | Posted 05.16.2013 | Canada Politics

MONTREAL - Former Quebec premier Jean Charest took a final bow on the political stage on Saturday by making a passionate plea for national unity and r...

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...

Quebec Liberal Hopefuls Advocate Signing Constitution

CP | The Canadian Press | Posted 03.28.2013 | Canada Politics

MONTREAL - All three candidates vying for the Quebec Liberal leadership say they want the province to sign the Canadian Constitution, though not neces...

Quebec Liberals Tackle Corruption In Second Debate

CBC | Posted 03.22.2013 | Canada Politics

The three candidates for Quebec's Liberal Party leadership took part in the second of five debates to determine who will succeed Jean Charest. ...

Hopefuls To Replace Charest Face Off In First Debate

CP | The Canadian Press | Posted 03.15.2013 | Canada Politics

MONTREAL - The three candidates vying for the leadership of the Quebec Liberals offered up proposals aimed at reviving the party during a debate in Mo...

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.

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...

Liberals Complain Of Robocalls Ahead Of Quebec Vote

The Huffington Post Canada | Posted 09.03.2012 | Canada Politics

Quebec's Liberal Party issued a statement Monday saying forged robocalls have targeted French-speaking voters in the Quebec City area. The calls alleg...

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...

Hold Steady

CP | The Canadian Press | Posted 10.26.2012 | Canada Politics

GATINEAU, Que. - Quebec's political rivals sought to draw their battlelines on key issues such as the economy and social values Sunday as they headed ...

PQ Mum On Separation At First Debate

CP | Alexander Panetta, The Canadian Press | Posted 10.19.2012 | Canada Politics

MONTREAL - Two old rivals, who have spent much of their political lives duelling over the issue of Quebec independence, held Monday what might have be...

Plan Nord? Quebec Liberals Say It Will Not Work 'Overnight'

CP | Andy Blatchford, The Canadian Press | Posted 10.12.2012 | Canada Politics

MONTREAL - Jean Charest's Liberals predict Quebec will make the historic transformation into a "have" province over the next quarter-century thanks to...

Quebec Student Vote Puts Charest On Edge

CBC | Posted 10.07.2012 | Canada Politics

Thousands of Quebec post-secondary students are preparing to make up their winter session, but those plans may be stalled again if a majority of stude...

Quebec Election Will Be Sept. 4

CP | Alexander Panetta, The Canadian Press | Posted 10.01.2012 | Canada Politics

MONTREAL - Jean Charest is calling upon a "silent majority" to restore him to office in a Sept. 4 Quebec election, when he will seek to tie a provinci...

They're Coming For Charest

CP | Benjamin Shingler, The Canadian Press | Posted 09.21.2012 | Canada Politics

MONTREAL - Thousands of students and their supporters took to the streets of Montreal on Sunday to denounce the province's tuition increases, sending ...

Liberal Heavy-Hitters Not Running In Next Election

CBC | Posted 09.15.2012 | Canada Politics

Quebec's Education Minister Michelle Courchesne and International Relations Minister Monique Gagnon-Tremblay have announced they will not seek re-elec...

Charest's Death by Bill 78

Supriya Dwivedi | Posted 07.23.2012 | Canada Politics
Supriya Dwivedi

The Charest government brought the students to the negotiating table and made concessions to their cause, while simultaneously and ineffectively enforcing the majority non-protesting students' right to go to class.

Quebec Budget Incoming

CP | The Canadian Press | Posted 05.06.2012 | Canada Politics

QUEBEC - Quebec will table a provincial budget on March 20 that may well set the table for a general election later in the spring.With Premier Jean Ch...

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 Liberals Call For Change

Posted 07.23.2011 | Canada Politics

(CBC) -- A group of high-ranking Liberals in Quebec is lining up against the federal party's executive, releasing an open letter to the media that arg...