PQ Electoral Victory In Québec Sparks Political Violence
A quick post to note the results of the election in Québec where the nationalist Parti Québécois (or PQ) under leaderContinue Reading
Tag: Québec
On The Hustings In Québec
A guest article for An Sionnach Fionn by Jean François Joubert on the National Assembly election campaign in Québec: Pauline Marois, leaderContinue Reading
The Election Campaign In Québec – The Expected And Unexpected
Last Wednesday Jean Charest, the head of the beleaguered Liberal Party government in Québec, called early provincial elections for September 4th amid a seriesContinue Reading
PQ Back In Power In Québec?
With new elections to the provincial assembly in Québec expected soon the Globe and Mail carries what it claims willContinue Reading
No Democracy, Now!
Right-wing Canadian journalist Andrew Coyne expresses a view in the National Post on Québec independence that I suspect many CanadiansContinue Reading
Better Apart
Quick post on two articles. One is an interview in the British left-wing magazine Red Pepper with Plaid Cymru’s progressiveContinue Reading
A Québec Spring?
Miriam Smith present’s a good analysis on ipoltics.ca examining the influences behind the current turmoil in Québec as students face off against theContinue Reading
Turbulence In Québec A Sign Of Radical Political Change?
So, it seems that the governing (and as we would say over here, “unionist”) Liberal Party in Québec is setContinue Reading
Polling The Future
Following on from yesterday’s post about the effects of the right-wing policies of Canada’s Tory-led federal government on the separatist-inclined province (orContinue Reading
The Canadian Right Pushes Away The Québécois Left
There’s a recent article in the Global Post examining the actions of the Conservative Party government in Canada and theContinue Reading
Québec Independence – Only A Matter Of Time?
Two fascinating reports today on the independence movements in Québec and Scotland and the effect both are having on each other. The first articleContinue Reading
Québec Nationalism On The Rise Again?
Canada’s centrist New Democratic Party (the NDP) has elected a new leader, Thomas Mulcair, following the premature passing of the previous incumbent,Continue Reading
Some French Lessons
Bilingual versus monolingual? And it’s not Ireland! Two articles from the National Post newspaper in Canada: one celebrating the nation’sContinue Reading
Speaking In Two Tongues
Do you know that you live in an officially bilingual Ireland? Believe it or not but the Government of IrelandContinue Reading
More Parallels Between Québec, Scotland And Beyond
Some more lessons for Scotland and the SNP from the history of the independence movement in Québec? A Reuters report in theContinue Reading
Aboriginal Sensitivities
In May 2011 the New Democratic Party (NDP), the perennial also-rans of Canadian politics, shocked the body politic and muchContinue Reading
État de Louisiane – French America
English, English, English! The language of modernity. The language of technology, the media and business (always business). The language of the “West”.Continue Reading
Taking Back “Our Territory”
Following on from yesterday’s piece on Québec and Canada, some potentially important developments for the indigenous peoples of La belleContinue Reading
The Québécois Demand Their Rights, While The Gaeilgeoirí Plead For Theirs
Some interesting news on the revived language debate in Québec. With Francophone nationalism at a House of Commons level suffering something of anContinue Reading
The Truth About Irish
The policies of all political parties in Ireland on the issue of the Irish language are bullshit. Complete and utter.Continue Reading
La Belle Province – Lessons From That Other Province?
Having friends amongst the Nationalist movement in Québec I’ve tried to keep an eye on the politics of La Belle Province, from cheated independence to electoral meltdowns,Continue Reading
Progressive Nationalism, Secularism And Québec
Some interesting views in an article from the Canadian Globe and Mail on the relationship between progressive nationalism and secularism as itContinue Reading
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