Quebec

CHARBONNEAU – Two Solitudes redefined: Quebec draws closer, the right drifts apart

March 27, 2025 // 0 Comments

PRESIDENT TRUMP has managed to unify Canadians more than any other U.S. president. For the first time since the Conquest of New France in 1759, the wall of ice between the [Continue]

CHARBONNEAU – Latest poll on bilingualism is cause for worry

June 27, 2024 // 2 Comments

I HOPE IT’S JUST because Canadians are in a bad mood that fewer support bilingualism than in the past. In a recent poll by Leger, only half of Canadians (52%) think it [Continue]

CHARBONNEAU – Will you now condemn Quebec’s Bill 21, Mr. Trudeau?

September 23, 2021 // 1 Comment

NOW THAT THE ELECTION is over, will you admit that the question put to Bloc Québécois Leader Yves-François Blanchet was completely appropriate? During the Sept. 9 debate [Continue]

TAUBE – Andrew Potter, Maclean’s and the loss of academic freedom

March 29, 2017 // 1 Comment

THERE WAS a time when Canadian universities defended academic freedom with passion, authority and gravitas. Those days are over: hurt feelings and crocodile tears now trump [Continue]

KURL – After Sainte-Foy: Moving forward requires going further

February 4, 2017 // 0 Comments

IN THE EARLY hours of Monday morning, as people across Quebec and the rest of the country absorbed the shock of the murders of Muslims praying at a Sainte-Foy mosque, Premier [Continue]

Maybe we don’t care as much as we used to, but it’s still good not to worry about Quebec

April 8, 2014 // 0 Comments

TUESDAY MORNING EDITORIAL — It would be so cliché to say Canada is breathing a sigh of relief after Pauline Marois and the Parti Quebecois got the heave-ho in Monday’s [Continue]