The ongoing three-month strike by Quebec university students over tuition increases has sparked near-unanimous outrage from members of Canada’s mainstream commentariat — and not just over the violence, but over the very content of what stu…

The strike of post-secondary students in Quebec has taken a dramatic turn with the provincial government pushing through a special law to suspend the school year at strike-bound institutions and outlawing protest activity deemed disruptive of inst…

After 14 weeks of student strikes in Quebec, the provincial Liberals announced last night that they will introduce a law that would suspend the semesters at colleges and universities if striking students do not stop holding picket lines or enforcing st…

Quebec college and university students are now in the 13th week of their militant province-wide strike, while voting by overwhelming majorities to reject a government offer that met none of their key demands.
After a 22-hour bargaining session involvin…

Vibrant nightly protests over the past week in downtown Montréal, in solidarity with the Quebec student strike, are sparking global attention. As the Quebec-wide strike continues – it has now been going for over 11 weeks – a new energy is appare…

As I type this, thousands of youth are out in the streets of Montreal, in defiance of a police decree set at 22h30 EDT that their protest tonight is illegal. They are ostensibly protesting the planned hikes of tuition fees set in the last Quebec budget…

Dear Readers; As much as I dislike Andrew Coyne, I dislike the francophone whiners in Quebec even more, so it’s with some mixed feelings that I reprint this article by Mr. Coyne! ————————————– Thirty years later they are still at it: the grievance nursers, the unity warners, the federalism renewers and the statesman solvers and [...]

My reaction: Why is this man on my TV looking all psycho-eyed in a suit and trying to make nice with me? As an anglo Quebecker, I really don’t like the Sherbrooke resolution that got so many Bloq supporters to vote NDP. I consider that a classic…

OTTAWA (Reuters) – The new head of Canada’s main opposition party says a simple majority should allow independence for French-speaking Quebec, a far lower bar than the one accepted by other pro-Canada parties and one that could make independence more likely. Thomas Mulcair, a Quebecker who took over as head of the left-leaning New Democrats [...]

The owner of a Verdun depanneur had his store vanadalized after a series of events resulting from his inability or unwillingness to speak French.
CTV is reporting (HERE) that Anthony Williams, owner of a convenience store east of Montreal, has seen a&…

The owner of a Verdun depanneur had his store vanadalized after a series of events resulting from his inability or unwillingness to speak French. CTV is reporting (HERE) that Anthony Williams, owner of a convenience store east of Montreal, has seen a…

I only like democracy when the numbers are in my favor. Stephane Dion penned an op-ed for the National Post. (there’s an odd combination) detailing how the NDP’s position on Quebec separation, detailed in the Sherbrooke Declaration, threat…

Ideas that won’t die: are you ready for a third referendum? Stephen Harper is Pauline Marois’s greatest political ally. How else do you explain the Parti Québécois’s rise from political grave? After the Quebec amphitheatre debacle, …

By Brian Daly, QMI Agency MONTREAL — The outspoken mayor of Huntingdon, Que., says the province’s language laws are racist and the language police are a “language Taliban.” Stephane Gendron is incensed that Quebec’s language police are enforcing laws that prevent his town from sending bilingual correspondence to its citizens. Quebec law says a town [...]

<–  Quebec’s Premier Jean Charest, left, with the Parti Quebecois leader Pauline Marois prior to the questions period at the National Assembly in Quebec City, Feb. 14. A new poll shows the PQ leading in the province at 30%, with the Liberals stable at 29% and the CAQ falling five points to 26%. Dear Readers; [...]

Dear Readers; Seems Justin Trudeau has one quality he inherited from his father …… he doesn’t know when to shut up! ——————————————————- Trudeau backpedals on separatism comments By Jessica Murphy, Parliamentary Bureau OTTAWA – Liberal MP Justin Trudeau says he’s no separatist and vows to fight for Canada “with his very last breath.” The son [...]

I said more than a few times on this blog that I lean towards the Conservatives more than the Liberals in Federal politics, but there are things about both parties that I have a lot of trouble with! This ‘mandatory sentencing’  law that the Conservatives are behind is dangerous and gives too much power to [...]