Quebec

Lise St-Denis – jumping from loser to loser

January 10, 2012 Politics

When Quebeckers decided to toss the Bloc Québécois out with the garbage in the last federal election, and make the NDP Quebec’s new party of choice, they didn’t vote for the individual NDP candidates, but for Jack Layton. In fact, voters in the province cared so little about the candidates that they didn’t bother to [...]

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Quebec government wants to control journalists to cover up its dirty deeds

August 28, 2011 Media

Most Canadians knew it long before a Canadian magazine revealed the hard truth: Quebec is Canada’s most corrupt province. In federal politics, it has always been Quebeckers that were caught with brown envelopes and engaged in all manner of vile and corrupt practices. In recent times, for example, no federal government has been more corrupt [...]

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The ugly side of things – Canada Post, IRB, undead premiers…

August 18, 2011 Politics

This day has been a study in things that have gone wrong in Canada. These are not new problems, but ones that ordinary and right-thinking Canadians have known about for some time, while certain less reasonable groups have always done their best to sweep them under the rug.

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Turmel doth protest too much

August 2, 2011 Politics

Jack Layton, leader of the NDP and currently fighting his second battle with cancer, is doubtless in everyone’s prayers. But his interim replacement, Nycole Turmel, is quickly becoming a major target for curses.

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“Stop Harper!”, “Parasites” – Canada’s radical left turning nasty

June 8, 2011 Politics

When US Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords was shot in Arizona, a connection to the violent language and imagery employed by America’s far-right was quickly established – such as Sarah Palin’s website that sported actual bull’s eyes on certain politicians of the left, including Ms. Giffords.

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Canada Votes: Post mortem – the Québec issue

May 3, 2011 Politics

In the French-language TV debate, Bloc Québécois leader Gilles Duceppe lashed into NDP leader Jack Layton: “I know I’ll never be prime minister, but neither will you.” Talking about having œuf in one’s face.

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Canada Votes: Layton rides new popularity wave, Iggy prepares for new career as televangelist

April 18, 2011 Politics

NDP leader Jack Layton is popular, yes, really popular. In Québec and Western Canada, his numbers are picking up speed. In the most recent poll, he is now Quebeckers’ first choice, while Liberal leader Michael Ignatieff has been sent to last place with only 9% of support.

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Canada Votes: Wildrose sticks it to Conservatives

April 2, 2011 Politics

You have to admire the sense of humour and spunk of the Wildrose Alliance. While everyone else remained dead serious in this current federal election campaign, the provincial party in Alberta took the mickey out of the rest of the country by announcing that it would run candidates in all 28 federal ridings and thus [...]

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Round-up: Crumbling bridges, irate bank customers, an unemployed mayor, and a word about your laundry

March 17, 2011 Business

Québec’s infrastructure crumbling Infrastructure in Québec has been crumbling and collapsing. The potholes in the streets of Montréal or Québec City are (in)famous, and who could forget the disastrous collapse of an overpass not long ago?

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Sorry, Mr. Ignatieff, you have just disqualified yourself from becoming Prime Minister

March 14, 2011 Politics

Regular readers of this column know that I have been anything but happy with the Conservative government. Almost from day one of the “Harper Government” (TM), the party tossed conservative principles out the window and became a new party…one more appropriately called “Liberal Lite”.

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