The Bloc Québécois leader is promising political consequences if the Liberals back down from accepting his party’s ...
Geoff Bennington encounters French-speaking Canadians almost every day at Burlington Guitar & Amp, where he works as a sales clerk. He’d like to greet the visitors in their own language and maybe even ...
Separatists in Quebec have never been to able win enough support to achieve their goal of turning Canada’s second-most ...
MONTREAL — Canada’s brief election season is already coming to an end after just five weeks of campaigning. The Liberal Party, led by Prime Minister Mark Carney, is hoping to maintain its mandate. The ...
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In a more than 100-page, glossily printed document released in late October, Quebec’s big business, pro-independence Parti Québécois (PQ) pledged to drastically reduce immigration should it form ...
French has the reputation of being a monocentric language, in contradistinction to languages such as English and Spanish, which are polycentric (i.e., they have several standard varieties). Throughout ...
From snowy Montreal, we begin with a Parti Quebecois government minister who is a French Quebec nationalist and a self-professed anglophile. A man who is standing up for Anglophone Quebecers... even ...