January 2017 – What does Quebec Want?

Archive for: January, 2017

January 11, 2017 2 min to read

French-Speaking Hockey Players were banned from speaking French

Category : Complaints, Fake Bilingualism

Recently, the Junior Hockey World Cup was co-hosted by Montreal and Toronto, with both cities hosting the preliminary rounds and Montreal hosting the finals. Sadly, Canada lost the Gold Medal to the Americans after a streak of massive victories. But what troubles the Québec media today isn’t the results of the championship bu...

January 10, 2017 2 min to read

Interesting tidbit: “Canada” is Iroquoian, “Québec” is Algonquin

Category : History

I personally find interesting that the French province of Canada, Québec, was named after an Algonquin word “Kébec” which means “Where the river narrows”, when the name for Canada itself comes from the word “Kanada” or Village in Iroquois. What interesting about that? When Samuel de Champlain fo...