Confronting sexual assault and gender-based violence in the Occupy movement

MONTREAL—On the night of October 19, something happened at Occupy Montreal…

By Jordana Divon | Daily Brew Montreal’s long, cold winters may not be for the meek, but a recent New York Times list of Hip Citieshas turned snow days into an advantage, citing La Belle Ville’s weather as part of the reason for its “real soul” and impressive underground network. Factor in a strong European [...]

Just a quick post today to announce two new publications that I’m excited about. The first is my new edited collection, Contemporary Quebec: Selected Readings and Commentaries, which I co-edited with Michael Behiels at the University of Ottawa. …

Barbara Kay writes about Joanne’s excellent new book. If you can read French you really need to read it. Joanne is one of the co founders of the Quebec Freedom Network!!! Two great woman that I am honored to say are my friends!!

Taking down Quebec’s ‘…

With another PQ MP leaving the party Pauline Marois and what is left of the PQ is in hot water. Not to mention that the CAQ is now coming with what some might suspect as a knight in shining armor. Nevertheless the CAQ is just a right wing party that se…

With another PQ MP leaving the party Pauline Marois and what is left of the PQ is in hot water. Not to mention that the CAQ is now coming with what some might suspect as a knight in shining armor. Nevertheless the CAQ is just a right wing party that se…

A fascinating analysis by Lord Black. The triumph of Canadian federalism over Quebec separatism. It has cost a lot of money, but it seems Quebec is now no longer able to blackmail the rest of Canada.

How we bought off Quebec

Conrad Black, National P…

A new CROP poll has the Tories in second place in Quebec. In spite of the whining of the Quebec political class about Bill C-10 and the gun registry, support is up for the Tories. Support for dippers is down.

Protesters were “masked and hooded”

The leadership tabs are piling up on my end, and I’ll assemble a number of them into a post shortly. But one recent development looks to call for a post of its own.The main question I’d see facing Peggy Nash for the balance of the leadership campaign i…

Large mining corporations from Canada, Europe and China are eager to become involved in a plan to extract resources from an area of Quebec that encompasses three-quarters of the province’s landmass. Many First Nations are opposed to Le Plan Nord, as ar…

The holiday season is a great time of joy for our family and we love everything about the holidays (sleeping in is one of them). But part of our family tradition is to enjoy some performance arts and a bit…

In April of 2009, the Shafia family of Montreal was pretty much disintegrating and not doing it quietly, either. Like youngsters who hide in plain view, the messy fracturing of the Afghan-Canadian household was occurring in the open. One daughter, 19-year-old Zainab, had run away from home, and her brother Hamed twice called 911 to …

Por lo general suelo guardarme muchos enlaces interesantes para los viernes y así darles algo de material para el fin de semana. Sin embargo, estas tres noticias acaban de salir, están calentitas y me parece que son muy interesantes como para hacerlas esperar 3 días más. Les voy a contar sobre un nuevo sitio de [...]

The federal government is not only going to destroy the long gun registry, but is going to destroy all the data too. However, Quebec wants to keep the registry and maintain it on its own. They are willing to foot the bill as long as it gets the data.

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For the second time this fall a Quebec cabinet minister has appeared before a Commons committee to express profound dissent from a federal government legislative initiative. First it was Justice Minister Jean-Marc Fournier, who said Quebec disagreed wi…

The dying separatist movement.But only to bashHM Canadian government. The liberal part hack seems to forget why the separatist movement came back to life the 1982 Constitution Act signed without Quebec. The grits are an irrelevance n Quebec politics. T…

When there is a single issue which dominates the politics of a jurisdiction for decades, it is often the case that progress on other issues is inhibited by the myopic focus on the one dominating issue. Such is the case in both Quebec and Israel domina…

When there is a single issue which dominates the politics of a jurisdiction for decades, it is often the case that progress on other issues is inhibited by the myopic focus on the one dominating issue. Such is the case in both Quebec and Israel domi…

It’s undoubtedly great news to see that the NDP is making strides in its Quebec membership numbers even before its leadership campaign has started in earnest. But it’s worth being cautious about talk of tripling the party’s membership from a base which…