1+ hour, 3+ min ago   (424+ words) By Lisa Van Dusen In today’s small world of G7 political headlines it might be said that the three by-elections Mark Carney’s Liberal Party swept on Monday night in Quebec, Ontario, and British Columbia were the antithesis of the recent Nigel…...

1+ day, 11+ hour ago   (1074+ words) The Québec election campaign isn’t even a week old and already, it is fraught with irony. Parti Québécois (PQ) Leader Paul St-Pierre Plamondon declared his position — as all PQ leaders must as the price of boarding a campaign bus — on…...

1+ week, 15+ hour ago   (1126+ words) A Scottish independence referendum rally in Glasgow, May 2018/Wikimedia This fall, Canada faces its first serious conversation on secession in more than three decades. The people of Alberta are preparing to cast their votes in a referendum that could catalyze…...

3+ mon, 4+ week ago   (978+ words) On April 27, after several months of speculation, Rosemont-La Petite-Patrie NDP MP Alexandre Boulerice finally announced he would run for the independence-advocating Québec Solidaire (QS) in the October 5th Quebec general election. Until the official beginning of the Quebec campaign, Boulerice will…...

7+ mon, 4+ week ago   (636+ words) After Donald Trump returned to the White House nearly a year ago, his trade war and talk about Canada becoming the “51st state” fostered a greater sense of national unity on this side of the border, reflected at the time in…...