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Quebec City police said 44 people had been arrested as a result of the demonstration. Photo: Brian Lapuz/The Link
Quebec politicians and police fail to condemn far-right demonstrators
Rosemary Frei | Dozens of counter-protesters arrested in Quebec City face-off.
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Montreal's new mayor Valérie Plante at an event in 2015. Photo: Ville de Montréal
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
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Quebec and Quebecers are the first to know how a majority can be oppressive and can interfere with minority rights. Photo: Alfred Weidinger
On independence and the niqab
Monia Mazigh | Quebec's shameful embrace of a niqab ban grew out of the identity politics that followed the failed 1995 referendum to separate from Canada
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Trudeau ready to defend constitutional status quo without consulting Indigenous nations
Duncan Cameron | 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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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?
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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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Divest McGill occupies administration office over decision to keep fossil fuel investments
David Gray-Donald | Last week McGill decided not to divest from fossil fuels and has received much criticism from Divest McGill and other supporters. Now, Divest McGill has staged a sit-in and camp-out.