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Charest and SNC-Lavalin: An Alleged Match Made in Heaven

Some things are meant to be together, like Tom Mulcair and a beard. What about Jean Charest and SNC-Lavalin? They seem like a match made in heaven. After all, they’re two of Canada’s favourites. So why would Ch...

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...

NDP Defect Forms New Federal Political Party With Ex-Bloc MP

A new tyke will sit at the kids table from now on. As of this week, Former Bloc Québécois MP Jean-François Fortin and serendipitously named NDP defect Jean-François Larose have formed a new political party that...

Bernard Drainville launches PQ bid, Peladeau Expected to Follow Soon After

Charter of Values architect and DRAIN-O spokesman Bernard Drainville has just announced his candidacy for leadership of the beleaguered Parti Quebecois. Drainville is expected to face tough competition from Pie...

Parti Quebecois Leadership Race Collapses Amidst Infighting and Scandal

"Miss me yet?"Parti Quebecois Ever since Pauline Marois brought the separatist Parti Quebecois to an embarrassing failure in the April provincial election, the question of the party’s relevance ha...

Pierre Karl Peladeau’s Big Week: The Sun, Mel’s, and our Blind Trust

News broke yesterday that Pierre Karl Peladeau has been lobbying the Quebec government on behalf of Quebecor, the company he kinda-sorta has a majority stake in. Whoops. While this is clearly a conflict of inte...

Pierre-Karl Peladeau Hints at PQ Leadership Bid, Promises Blind Trust

The Parti Quebecois' star figure and bane of existence Pierre-Karl Peladeau called a conference this morning to discuss what could only be a declaration of sovereignty for the Federal Socialist Happy-time Repub...

Quebecor Sells the Sun to Postmedia

Yesterday saw the announcement that Postmedia is buying the 175 English language print and digital media titles Quebecor currently possesses. Quebecor Media is owned by the aspiring future king of the countr...

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...

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