Supporting the Quebec student strike

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Striking Quebec students are fighting austerity on behalf of the whole nation.

Related rabble.ca story:

Not Rex: Quebec student strike -- Vive les etudes libres!
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The perils of Pauline Marois

Parti Québecois leader Pauline Marois has all the qualities necessary to be premier of Quebec. First elected in 1981, Mme. Marois has been minister of finance and of health, and has held other significant ministerial positions. Not many figures in Canadian political history have been as well prepared as Marois to become head of government.

All she is lacking is one thing. Her party does not hold the majority of seats in the national assembly.

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David J. Climenhaga

Most of us are happy at 29 … but maybe not Alberta's premier

By
David J. Climenhaga
| April 10, 2013

Most of us are happy at 29. The world is our oyster. The future looks bright.

Alison Redford at 29? Not so good. 

But then, we’re talking percentage points here, not years.

A 29-per-cent approval rating is a problem.

The Alberta premier was in Washington, D.C., yesterday trotting out the line heard recently at the Manning Centre "Big Ideas" Conference that a pipeline full of Alberta bitumen might actually be doing Earth a big favour on the planetary warming front.

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Elections are not a solution: Out of the voting booths, into the streets

By
Kevin Paul
| February 4, 2013

This article was originally published on August 30, 2012, in Montreal, by The McGill Daily.

In mid-summer, almost four months after the Quebec student strike of 2012 had entered uncharted territory as the longest in the province's history, Premier Jean Charest played his final card. With CEGEP students prepared to renew strike mandates despite threats of a lost semester, and the Special Law lying in shreds under the feet of a hundred thousand illegal demonstrators, Charest called a provincial election, over a year before his term was set to expire. On September 4, Quebec residents will enter voting booths.

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David J. Climenhaga

Hockey-starved Canucks pray for brawl as Peter Van Loan channels Darrel Stinson

By
David J. Climenhaga
| December 7, 2012

Maybe I've just spent too much time hanging around the dojo, but I don't think most Canadians would have been particularly troubled if Opposition Leader Thomas Mulcair had planted a well-placed social democratic boot on Conservative House Leader Peter Van Loan's ample behind yesterday afternoon.

Alert readers will by now be aware that Van Loan waddled across the two-and-a-quarter-sword-lengths aisle of the House of Commons burbling imprecations and dropping F-Bombs at the NDP's unfailingly gentlemanly House Leader, Nathan Cullen, apparently because Cullen had failed to jump high enough, fast enough to comply with the Harperites' authoritarian urges.

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Redeye

Analyzing the results of the Quebec election

September 25, 2012
| The voter turnout for the recent provincial election was 75 per cent, the highest in the last 14 years. Quebec voters evidently felt that the stakes were high.
Length: 17:30 minutes (16.04 MB)
David J. Climenhaga

The Great Wall of Saskatchewan: Popular, yes, but a peacemaker?

By
David J. Climenhaga
| September 11, 2012

No sooner did Trend Research of Edmonton publish a poll showing Alberta Premier Alison Redford was way more popular than Opposition Leader Danielle Smith (62 per cent to 42 per cent) than Vancouver-based Angus Reid was on the spot with considerably different results (55 per cent to 50 per cent for the same match up).

So I guess we’re back, here in Alberta, to being able to play pick your poll -- the better part of four years before we can expect another serious blast of pre-election polls.

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