Recently Lori Loughlin (Aunt Becky from Full House) and other celebrities were accused of corruption for giving money to help their kids get into college. This couldn’t happen in Montreal or Québec City. Furthermore, a few months ago, Hassan Minhaj in the first episode of his show “Patriot Act” (on Netflix) discuss...
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...
In July 1912, the Ontario Conservative government issued Regulation 17 which in effect restricted French as a teaching language to the first 2 years of grade schools, therefore forcing all of the French-language Catholic schools to close. A lot of the articles on this site talk about discrimination against French-speakers in Canada ...
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...