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Student protests erupt against Ford government’s cuts to Ontario Student Assistance Program
4+ hour, 48+ min ago (386+ words) Another added, "If my OSAP becomes mostly loans, I'll be taking on almost $80,000 (in debt) just to finish my four-year program. I'm from a low-income family; I don't have money to fall back on. If I don't work a full-time…...
Quebec’s trade unions renew their alliance with the Parti Québécois, as it embraces far-right politics
5+ day, 4+ hour ago (524+ words) A delegation of union leaders, headed by Quebec Federation of Labour (QFL) President Magali Picard, attended the recent Parti Qu'b'cois (PQ) "orientation congress." The union bureaucracy is renewing its long-standing political alliance with the PQ at a time when this…...
François Legault and the sharp right-ward lurch in Quebec politics
2+ week, 2+ day ago (778+ words) Quebec Premier Fran'ois Legault announced last month that he will step down once the Coalition Avenir Qu'bec (CAQ)the right-wing chauvinist, "Quebec First" party he has headed since its founding in 2011chooses a new leader. " During the preceding year, Legault had…...
Quebec separatists intensify their efforts to court Trump after Canada-China trade deal
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (400+ words) Ottawa's limited rapprochement with China is taking place amid a concerted drive on the part of the Carney Liberal government to expand economic and military-strategic ties with the European imperialist powers, as well as Japan, South Korea and India. Despite…...
Quebec intensifies assault on worker rights with its Bill 3
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (1303+ words) Quebec's chauvinist, avowedly pro-big business Coalition Avenir Quebec (CAQ) government is pushing through a new law targeting worker rights, Bill 3. Introduced in the National Assembly by Labour Minister Jean Boulet last fall, Bill 3 will impose stricter state oversight over the…...
Québec Solidaire chooses right-wing nationalist Sol Zanetti as co-spokesperson
2+ mon, 3+ week ago (1165+ words) At its congress last month, Qu'bec Solidaire (QS) chose Sol Zanetti, a Quebec City MNA (Member of the National Assembly) and fervent ind'pendantiste, as its "male spokesperson" and "updated" its election platform to further emphasize its pro-capitalist character. These actions…...
More than 50,000 workers demonstrate in Quebec against austerity and anti-strike laws
3+ mon, 4+ day ago (621+ words) Responding to a call from Quebec's main trade union federations, more than 50,000 workers and their families marched through the streets of Montreal last Saturday to protest against capitalist austerity and the authoritarian policies of Premier Fran'ois Legault and his Coalition…...
Montreal transit unions capitulate before ruling-class campaign of intimidation and repression
3+ mon, 1+ week ago (659+ words) Capitulating to a ruling-class campaign of intimidation and repression, the leaders of the Conf'd'ration des syndicats nationaux (CSN) and the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) ended walkouts by two separate groups of Soci't' de transport de Montr'al (STM) workers…...
Quebec independence movement’s anti-immigrant agitation sparks concern among some of its big business backers
3+ mon, 2+ week ago (628+ words) The Montreal daily La Presse recently published an op-ed by former Quebec City Mayor R'gis Labeaume criticizing certain aspects of the foul campaign that the province's national-autonomist (Quebec First) Coalition Avenir Qu'bec (CAQ) government has waged against immigrants and religious…...
Quebec’s CAQ government implements its class-war “shock therapy” agenda
4+ mon, 3+ day ago (1177+ words) Quebec Premier Fran'ois Legault and his Coalition Avenir Qu'bec (CAQ) government are aggressively moving forward with the economic "shock therapy" that the premier pledged when shuffling his cabinet in September. Key elements in the government's class war agenda include: slashing…...