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FTB Weekends: Amira Elghawaby Under Fire & Calls to Rename Christophe-Colomb
Jason C. McLean and Dawn McSweeney discuss Quebec elected officials demanding Amira Elghawaby, Canada’s first special representative on combating Islamophobia, resign for comments in a […]
Quebec 2022 Riding to Watch: Notre-Dame-de-Grâce
With the Quebec Elections coming on October 3rd, this week’s Riding to Watch is one I’ve lived in more or less my whole life: Notre-Dame-de-Grâce […]
FTB Fridays: Bill 21 in Effect, Reddit Busting Union Busting & Legault Rant
Jason C. McLean and Special Guest Dawn McSweeney discuss some of the big news stories of the week including the first person sent home because […]
Bigotry Masquerading as Calls for Unity: Quebec Superior Court’s Ruling on Bill 21 and the Frivolous Appeal to Come
On April 20, 2021 the Superior Court of Quebec issued a ruling on Bill 21, Quebec’s Secularism law which many Canadians were awaiting with baited […]
Why the Quebec Court of Appeal Ruled Against Bill 21’s Challengers
December 12th, 2019 was a sad day for visible minorities in Quebec. The Quebec Court of Appeal denied the application to suspend certain sections of […]
“Quebec Values Test”: The CAQ Government is Making Prospective Immigrants Show They Can Assimilate
The Quebec Government just passed a “Quebec Values Test” requirement for prospective immigrants. It was one of Premier François Legault’s easy-to-keep campaign promises aimed squarely […]
Greenwashing Bigotry For Political Gain
The 2019 Federal Election campaign is now underway, but before it even started officially, there were stories of the Green Party of Canada picking up […]
An Open Letter to Montreal Mayor Valérie Plante: Refuse to Enforce Quebec’s Bill 21
I had high hopes for the mayor of Montreal. I thought that in all the discourse about Bill 21, Mayor Valérie Plante, the leader of […]
FTB Survey: Quebec’s Bill 21 aka The Religious Symbol Ban
Lately, talk in Quebec political circles has focused on the CAQ Government’s proposed law 21. Currently a bill before the National Assembly, it is better […]