In praise of the open-face sandwich
Must-reads: Rosie DiManno on Afghan politics; Terence Corcoran and Greg Weston on immigration reform; James Travers on access to information; Jonathan Kay on Selwyn House. Backlogged and gob-smacked...
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“I think they’re quite proud of being Anglo Québécois and not just another...
Recently, one half of Deux Maudits Anglais spoke with Angry French Guy (real name unknown) who writes a spiffy little Quebec issues blog from somewhere west of Atwater Avenue in Montreal. As the...
View ArticleMegapundit: Tell another one, Uncle Gerry!
WEEKEND ROUNDUP Must-reads: Christie Blatchford on Gerry Ritz; Doug Saunders on the Eurabia hypothesis; David Olive on uniting the left; John Ivison in northern Ontario; Rosie DiManno and Peter...
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Maclean’s Interview: Louise Beaudoin
Louise Beaudoin has been at the forefront of Quebec’s sovereignty movement for over 40 years. As a cabinet minister in three Parti Québécois governments, she was largely responsible for the province’s...
View ArticleJust give the man his baguel and no one will get hurt
At this weekend’s PQ brainstorming session—don’t call it a convention!—party members spent much of their time debating just how far they should extend Bill 101’s tentacles. As reported by Le Devoir‘s...
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When God and politics collide
Photograph by Christinne Muschi So Tony Blair, former prime minister of the Queen’s England, home of the shoe bomber and the London subway terror bombings, a country riven by tension over a growing...
View Article‘I speak here as a Quebecer’
Maxime Bernier doubles down on his criticism of Bill 101. Some people say I am not a “real Quebecer” and are accusing me of “attacking Quebec” simply because I want to be more popular in the rest of...
View ArticleMagical Maxime
An anonymous Conservative explains Maxime Bernier. “It’s useful in inspiring the base and broadening public debate,” said one Conservative. “He’s mostly harmless, especially since the media knows he...
View ArticleNew report says CEGEP students should have language choice
Quebec shouldn’t restrict the ability of CEGEP students to choose whether they study in English or French, according to a new report by the government agency which advises the minister responsible for...
View ArticleStudent lobby group divided on extending language laws to CEGEPs
Quebec’s largest CEGEP student lobby group won’t be taking a stance on calls by the Parti Québécois for the province to extend language restrictions to the colleges. The 23 student associations of the...
View ArticleThe NDP agenda
The party is ready to propose language law reforms. And Brian Masse, potentially the industry critic in the next NDP shadow cabinet, sees an opportunity for high(er) speed rail. In the meantime, the...
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The PQ on the right and the wrong kind of Quebecers
Graham Hughes/CP “Je n’ai jamais lu autant de violence envers nous les Québécois dans la Gazette, j’ai refusé de donner une entrevue à ce journal,” Sophie Stanké wrote on Twitter a few days after the...
View ArticlePQ accomplishes the impossible—makes life easy for Liberals
The Parti Québécois has been in power for 48 days. So far, the sky remains exactly where it was before September 4, the province hasn’t spiraled any closer to hell, no one has spontaneously combusted...
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Good news, bad news
Stefano Rellandini/Reuters Domino effect Economics is the dismal science, but three Canadians who received new kidneys in August must feel good about it. The Vancouver Sun profiled a chain of donations...
View ArticleJustin Trudeau comes out swinging against PQ language plan
QUEBEC – Justin Trudeau has pressed one of the hottest issue buttons in Quebec, saying there’s no need to toughen the province’s language laws. During a visit to Quebec City, the Liberal leadership...
View ArticleActivists protest Quebec language law
English-rights activists in Quebec are raising concerns about a proposed new language law they say infringes on their rights. The new law is intended to build on Quebec’s landmark language legislation,...
View ArticleColby Cosh on the real tension behind Bill 101 and the Pasta Affair
In Sunday’s Montreal Gazette, Don Macpherson offers a convincing argument that Quebec’s pasta-police scandal has been deliberately obfuscated by the Parti Québécois ministry. The Office Québécois de la...
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I’m a trilingual Quebecer and I’m bitter
Alexis Gravel/Flickr As a Montrealer of Greek origin who is fluent in Greek, French and English, I look at Quebec and all the incidents that have occurred in the past few months and I ask myself this...
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Canada’s language wars are over
Francis Vachon/CP Language issues, so the cliché goes, are rarely far below the surface in Quebec, and it was just 11 hot days into last summer’s election campaign that the Parti Québécois got out the...
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Quebec puts the heat back on Trudeau
Tom Mulcair was the leader of the New Democratic Party of Canada between 2012 and 2017 The Legault government has pushed the language file onto the front burner and it’s Justin Trudeau’s Liberals who...
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