Quebec Students to Strike (Again)
Over 30,000 students have voted to strike in the province of Quebec. The reason: the Couillard Government’s austerity measures.
Much like the student strikes of 2012, individual faculties and student unions ...
Quebec Abandons $7 a Daycare
Why should we care that opposition parties in the National Assembly of Quebec howl at the provincials Liberals? This time, they may have a good reason for all the yelling, since the Quebec government has appare...
Opposition Hammers Couillard over Champlain Bridge and Speaking English in Iceland
Quebec Premier Philippe Couillard had a pretty rough week. He recently made a trip to Iceland, where he spoke at the Arctic Circle Assembly conference. What could his colleagues in the National Assembly have to...
PQ’s PKP Compares Constitution to East German Communism
PQ leadership favourite and Steve Carell knockoff, Pierre-Karl Peladeau (PKP) raised eyebrows when he compared the 1982 signing of the Canadian Constitution to the imposition of communism in East Germany this w...
Council of the Federation: Premiers Talk Energy, Inquiry, and Booze
As with any gathering that involves period actors sporting attire of the 1880s, the Council of the Federation, an annual meeting of Canada’s 13 provincial and territorial premiers in Charlottetown, was what kid...
Couillard and Wynne Ask For Federal Infrastructure Money
“Please sir, I’d like some more.” So uttered the little orphan Oliver to the pompous, bloated, stupid, and cruel Parish Beadle Mr. Bumble in Charles Dickens' classic Oliver Twist . Though the book was fictional...
We’re Keeping CEGEP: Couillard Rebuffs Young Liberals
There’s trouble in paradise, and it turns out trouble’s name is CEGEP. At the Quebec Liberal Party Youth Wing’s annual convention in Sherbrooke this Saturday, Phillip Couillard gave the youth’s dream of ditchi...
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...
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...
What To Expect From Couillard and Leitao’s Quebec Budget Brouhaha
The day of reckoning is upon us. Later today, Premier Philippe Couillard is expected to unveil his government's 2014-2015 budget for the province of Quebec. Finance Minister Carlos Leitao really drove home the ...