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MONTREAL—An organization representing Quebec’s English community says it has serious concerns about the potential impact of the province’s ...

On May 31, Premier Kenney commemorated the 91st anniversary of four provincial natural resources transfer agreements and a constitutional amendment that…

MONTREAL - Quebecs new French-language bill represents a significant overhaul of the provinces leg...

MONTREAL — An organization representing Quebec’s English community says it has serious concerns about the potential impact of the province’s new language bill. The Quebec Community Groups Network says Bill 96 is wide-ranging, complex and represents a significant overhaul of Quebec’s legal order. QCGN head Marlene Jennings told reporters today the bill seeks to modify […]

Article content Here’s a riddle: What’s unpopular but is expected to garner the most amount of votes during the Alberta-wide Oct. 18 civic elections? If you said equalization, you’re right. We apologize, but this video has failed to load. Try refreshing your browser, or Corbella: October referendum might just stop Canadas cash cow (Alberta) from getting kicked Back to video As promised in the lead-up to the 2019 provincial election, Albertans will be given an opportunity to let Ottawa k...

Article content Here’s a riddle: What’s unpopular but is expected to garner the most amount of votes during the Alberta-wide Oct. 18 civic elections? If you said equalization, you’re right. We apologize, but this video has failed to load. Try refreshing your browser, or Licia Corbella: October referendum might just stop Canadas cash cow (Alberta) from getting kicked Back to video As promised in the lead-up to the 2019 provincial election, Albertans will be given an opportunity to let Ot...

Article content Here’s a riddle: What’s unpopular but is expected to garner the most amount of votes during the Alberta-wide Oct. 18 civic elections? If you said equalization, you’re right. We apologize, but this video has failed to load. Try refreshing your browser, or Corbella: October referendum might just stop Canadas cash cow (Alberta) from getting kicked Back to video As promised in the lead-up to the 2019 provincial election, Albertans will be given an opportunity to let Ottawa k...

I got a reply by actual mail. Proper mail. Postman Pat mail. Her Majesty expressed what I took to be sincere interest in the issues I’d raised and was considering the points I’d made. ( So her press secretary wrote on HRH’s behalf.) There was a red rubber stamp mark on the back of the envelope which read ” This mail took longer to be delivered because the sender had placed insufficient postage on the envelope.” I thought that was hilarious. Not long after that, Prince William rolled i...

The reaction across Canada to Quebec’s Bill 96, another language law invoking the professed threat to the survival of the French language in Quebec in order to justify an obnoxious retrenchment of freedom of expression in the province, has been quite different to the response to its predecessors, Liberal Premier Robert Bourassa’s Bill 22 in 1974, and Parti Québecois Premier Rene Levesque’s Bill 101 in 1977. On those occasions, there were intense...

In November 1837, rebellion stirred in the British colonies of Upper and Lower Canada (modern-day Ontario and Quebec). In Lower Canada, the rebel group the Patriotes had just won the Battle of Saint-Denis against British forces and, with the news of rebel success, William Lyon Mackenzie called on rural Upper Canadians to follow suit. He distributed a handbill with the title Independence!, which began with the following passage: There have been Nineteen Strikes for Independence from European...