Nov 8, 2017
Montreal election: Valérie Plante's giant leap forward
Taylor C. Noakes
Montreal's new mayor is a progressive step away from paternalistic, autocratic municipal governance
Quebec politics
Nov 3, 2017
On independence and the niqab
Quebec's shameful embrace of a niqab ban grew out of the identity politics that followed the failed 1995 referendum to separate from Canada
Jun 6, 2017
Trudeau ready to defend constitutional status quo without consulting Indigenous nations
In the 150th year of Confederation, Quebec Premier Philippe Couillard wants to talk about how Canada governs itself. Justin Trudeau put him off, saying he did not want to open the Constitution.
Sep 29, 2016
Right-wing newspaper owners want your taxes to subsidize their obsolete, mismanaged, biased publications
David J. Climenhaga
Nobody had more warning of the extent and nature of the coming digital revolution than the Canadian newspaper industry, and they still blew their future to smithereens. Now they want your tax money.
Aug 29, 2016
Wildrose leader's public spat with the mayor of Montreal may not help, but it's likely to continue
David J. Climenhaga
A feud with a prominent Quebec politician may work for Alberta's conservatives if it encourages the conditions in which the NDP's campaign to win social license for pipelines fails.
May 13, 2016
Occupations across Quebec shed light on social housing crisis
Sophia Reuss
FRAPRU organized a week of occupation across Quebec to demand recognition of the right to housing and increases in government funding for social housing.
May 9, 2016
Solidarity Across Borders occupies Montreal CBSA, demands status for all
Sophia Reuss
Solidarity Across Borders staged an occupation of the Montreal office of the Canadian Border Services Agency (CBSA) on Tuesday, May 3 to demand status for all.
May 9, 2016
Pierre Karl Péladeau and the party that can't be saved
Mathieu Murphy-Perron
Pierre Karl Péladeau resigned abruptly last week from the Parti québécois. Mathieu Murphy-Perron addresses what this means for Quebec politics, and he does not mince his words.
May 3, 2016
Péladeau's departure gives PQ an opportunity to redefine itself
Karl Nerenberg
Pierre Karl Péladeau was an outlier among leaders of the party founded by René Lévesque. He was further to the right and more hardline on the national question. Which way will the PQ turn now?
Apr 4, 2016
McGill budges slightly under pressure from fossil fuel divestment campaign
David Gray-Donald
Divest McGill and its supporters have been actively applying pressure to the university to divest from fossil fuels. Alumni returned diplomas and withheld financial donations during a week of action.
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