Four years after the Parti Québecois’ colossal defeat over their quietly racist but aggressively secular Charter of Values, and less than a year after a […]
Tag: Philippe Couillard
Mainstream Political Xenophobia is Alive and Well in Quebec
Just when you thought you had heard the last of xenophobia and hate driving mainstream Quebec politics, they’re back! Or rather, they never left. I’m […]
Deflecting Scandal with Identity Politics: Why Couillard is Reopening the Constitutional Debate in Canada
On June 1st, 2017, Premier Philippe Couillard announced that the time has come to reopen the constitutional debate in Quebec. The response across much of […]
2016 Year-in-Review: News
When you look back on 2016, you may think of all the greats we lost like David Bowie, Leonard Cohen and, most recently, Carrie Fisher […]
Quebec Lagging Behind on Charbonneau Recommendations Says Follow-up Report
“The government’s response to the recommendations of the commission is, thus far, unsatisfactory,” concluded the first report of the public monitoring committee on the Charbonneau Commission. […]
Couillard Struggles to Defend Two Years of “Budgetary Rigour” in Interactive TV Interview
Premier Philippe Couillard appeared in a live interactive interview on Radio-Canada (French CBC) Wednesday night. It was the first time a Premier tried such an […]
Philippe Couillard Just Proved That Austerity is Not a Necessity, It’s a Strategy
For over a year, opponents of austerity measures in Quebec have been searching for a way to prove, once and for all, that there was […]
Quebec Premier Couillard now literally a dickhead in American actor’s selfie
Earlier this week, American actor Thomas Lennon (Reno 911, Night at the Museum), amused by the bathroom television in his Vancouver hotel room tweeted a […]
Of balanced budgets, austerity measures, deficits, monsters, fairies and other mythical creatures
Over the past year all three major provinces have casted their ballots in provincial elections. Now, with the Ontario provincial campaign in full swing, the […]
Quebec 2014: The good, the bad and the duh
So how do I feel about the Quebec 2014 election results? Hmm, well, that’s a tough one. Really, it is. I’ll break it down for […]