Montreal is the biggest city in the province of Quebec, and it is also the second biggest city in Canada, and the second biggest French-speaking city in the world, behind only Paris. Let’s talk about Montreal. The good Montreal is a vibrant and dynamic city, and probably the festival capital of North America. Have you ever see...
It’s not just because Québec residents don’t like Canada. Instead, let’s take a look at the 4 main periods of Canada together… Canada was claimed as the “Nouvelle-France” by Jacques-Cartier in 1534. Several settlements were attempted to be made, none of which really survived the harsh Québec win...
The apartment rental process is a lot different in Québec than, well, probably anywhere else in the world. Let’s see how and why. The first thing that surprises pretty much everyone, is that probably 90% of the leases start on July 1st, and that regardless of when you sign your lease, there is a 95% chance it will end on June...
A week ago, an extreme-right shooter killed 6 Muslims and wounded 19 others during the evening prayer at a Québec city mosque, between 19h30 and 20h00, This tragic event was reported on worldwide, notably about how Justin Trudeau, the Canadian Prime-Minister, had to ask Fox News to take down a tweet that mentioned the initial arre...
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...
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...
A lot of the posts on this site express the rejection by the Québec government of the 1982 constitution because it protects Québec distinct society less than the 1867 Constitution. Yet, the 1867 Constitution wasn’t perfect either! In fact, it was mainly written with the rights of English speakers in mind, as can attest its a...
Before the 1960s, the education system was managed by the clergy in what was known as the Classical system in classical colleges. Far from colleges, these were in reality high schools even if in some cases, they had dormitories and could house thousands of students. Universities such as the Université de Montréal or McGill Universi...
Québec feels like it’s completely abandoned and neglected by the federal government and has plenty of good reasons why. Here are two of them. When I was in college, I had the chance to visit the Boisbriand GM factory which then produced Camaros but it since then closed and was replaced by a shopping mega centre with condos. ...
As I said in another article, the best answer to “What does Québec want?” is “The Lake Meech Accord”. That article explains the main changes to the constitution included in the accord. The 11 prime minister of Canada met at the Willson House on Meech Lake on April 30th 1987 to discuss how to get Québec to si...