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RCMP Apologizes to Montreal Italians for Project Clemenza

The RCMP has recently apologized for naming it’s latest Quebec mafia crack-down 'Project Clemenza' after members of the Italian-Canadian community accused it of perpetrating negative Italian stereotypes. The pr...

Montreal Mayor Denis Coderre Gets TV Show

Just like the fireside chats with FDR, Denis Coderre, Montreal's first elected mayor in three mayors (see: corruption) is getting his very own show. Well, not exactlyBrew Review Crew Tent...

Pierre Karl Péladeau Says Blind Trust Not Necessary

Former Quebecor CEO Pierre Karl Péladeau has returned to the spotlight, this time over his intentions to no longer put his assets in a blind trust. As you may remember, PKP made a campaign pledge to put his hol...

Charbonneau Commission Revelations: Liberal Fundraisers Wear Shady Ties

Construction corruption is like smoked meat; Montreal didn't invent it, but they sure as hell refined it. Yesterday, more incriminating evidence against Quebec's Liberals surfaced in the Charbonneau Commissi...

The Harper-Couillard Bromance: $5 billion for Quebec Infrastructure

Vive le Québec dépendant! Today in an important vote-grab, er, press conference, Prime Minister Stephen Harper and Quebec Premier Philippe Couillard announced that over the next ten years, Quebec would receive...

What To Do for Quebec’s Fête Nationale: St Jean Baptiste 2014

Today is Saint-Jean Baptiste Day, an annual celebration of French Canadian culture and something about a baptism. In 1636, the traditional midsummer feast occurred for the first time on these continental sho...

Montreal Police Fail to Pay Racial Profiling Fine to Farid Charles

Montreal police may be facing Human Rights Tribunal loan sharks after missing the deadline to pay court-ordered racial profiling charges to Farid Charles. When I was eight years old, I had to dish out $50 of...

“Sovereignty First” for Bloc Quebecois Leader, Mario Beaulieu

Remember that Quebec separatist party that got decimated in that one election? No, not the Parti Quebecois. The other one. The one that sounds like Francophone Lego manufacturer. The French Block? The Quebec Bl...

Death of Dying: Quebec Bill Legalizes Medical Aid in Dying

There is nothing funny about death. Even the most humorous, cartoonesque physical halt – a piano splattering – is still a bloody serious mess. Often, it is only in the aftermath of a wake that one chooses to...

Couillard and Leitao’s New Quebec Budget: Balanced next year?

Quebec Finance Minister Carlos Leitao tabled the 2014-2015 Quebec budget today, and it's quite densely packed. The government plans to erase the deficit by the 2015-2016 budget, which we should see again this t...