The Ford government in Ontario has canceled the funding to build the first French University in Ontario which prompted a strong reaction from French-Ontarians but also from the French speakers of Québec, why? I already blogged about Regulation 17 but I want to talk a little about the Francophobia surrounding this issue. French as...
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...
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...
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. ...
I can summarize this whole site in only 4 words: the Meech Lake Accord. Yes, it’s almost that simple. The Meech Lake Accord would have probably been enough to satisfy most of Québec’s demands; at least, those of the majority of Quebeckers, removing any opportunities that ultra-nationalists might have had to gain importan...
This one is rather complex to understand for a non-nationalist, in fact, I had trouble with it myself because I feel like this is mainly a house of cards built to support a narrative than an actual fact, but oddly enough, while their facts are a little slim there is indeed a series of problems with the 1867 constitution. First, in 18...
From our very nature of our having been colonized by a different colonial power, Québec, even before the original constitution of 1867, was different from the other provinces. In the 1860s, during discussions of Confederation, Québec was hesitant to join ranks with the other 3 provinces (Ontario, New Brunswick and Nova Scotia). Wha...