The Quebec government has tabled legislation which could impose a moratorium on exploration for shale gas in the St. Lawrence River valley during the next five years.
Despite her party being beaten down in recent polls, Premier Pauline Marois is already referring to the next election and asking for a majority government for Quebecers.
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An aide to Quebec's language minister is being accused of inflaming language tensions after he wrote a newspaper column called “Those Crazy Anglos,” and another criticizing politically correct immigrant stereotypes.
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Motorists should prepare for an onslaught of ubiquitous orange traffic cones throughout the city over the next two years, as 81 sites have been earmarked for repairs.
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Opposition parliamentarians are rising in Quebec City and speaking out against Bill 14, delaying its passage. Through the heated rhetoric, one comment by a member of the PQ was noticed and led to a rather unusual response…in English.
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The provincial Liberal party is blasting the Future Coalition (CAQ) party for playing footsie with the PQ on its plans to further repress English in Quebec.
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Members of the Parti Quebecois are furious over newly-chosen federal Liberal leader Justin Trudeau's request to meet with leaders of the three largest provincial parties in Quebec.
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There was harsh condemnation of Bill 14 on Friday when the Quebec Bar argued that the Parti Quebecois’ new language legislation could strip away the rights of Anglophones.
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The Quebec Liberals are accusing the Parti Quebecois government of political cronyism after the appointment of a former PQ cabinet minister to a plum position.
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Angry, noisy protesters gathered in five of Quebec's largest cities on Thursday to denounce changes the provincial government is making to welfare.
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Cote St-Luc’s opposition to Bill 14 has seen the municipality release an online video aimed at informing the public of the law’s possible effects on its bilingual status.
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Exchanges between the provincial and federal governments will be conducted exclusively in French at future ministerial meetings, according to a new PQ directive.
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Quebec Intergovernmental Affairs Minister Alexandre Cloutier unveiled the Parti Quebecois government’s long-awaited sovereignist governance plan Wednesday in Quebec City, and it involves relying on a familiar face.
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Quebec's opposition parties say the provincial government's efforts against Employment Insurance reform are being discredited by the participation of former Bloc Quebecois leader Gilles Duceppe.
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The Coalition Avenir Quebec is determined to show Quebecers that despite last weekend’s Liberal love-in and election of a new leader, they’re the only party that can boost Quebec’s econom
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Quebec’s Language Minister Diane De Courcy reiterated Wednesday that the Marois government will not budge on language instruction exemptions for children of Quebec military personnel.
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A retired math professor from the Outaouais drove four hours in the snowstorm Tuesday to deliver his important message at the Bill 14 hearings: all cities in this province should operate exclusively in French.
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QUEBEC -- Musings about reopening the Constitution from the new leader of Quebec's Liberal party provoked a flood of condemnation from his opponents Tuesday.
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Philippe Couillard bagged a first-round victory in Sunday's Liberal leadership vote, making him the new leader of the Liberal Party of Quebec, winning 58.5 percent of the 2,377 votes.
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Four-year-olds will be going to school in dozens of poor neighbourhoods across the province. Quebec is introducing earlier kindergarten classes for 1,200 low-income children this September.
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Pauline Marois' minority PQ government, elected September 4, now has a dissatisfaction rate which ranks with the worst results of her predecessor Jean Charest during his nine year reign.
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Legault confirmed on Friday what had already been leaked during the week: that the Coalition Avenir Quebec was opposed to new language restrictions on military families, bilingual towns, and small businesses.
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Bilingual municipalities fear they will lose their status and small businesses fear tough new restrictions. Quebec’s Anglophones are on edge and opposition is growing to the Parti Quebecois’ proposed revamp of language laws.
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The premiers of Quebec and New Brunswick met in Montreal on Monday to discuss oil pipelines, amid increasing talk of sending Alberta crude to Eastern Canada.
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The Parti Quebecois says the province can't afford 10 road projects promised by the Liberals in their last months in power, putting planned upgrades to Highway 19 and a new West Island link on ice.
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The opposition Coalition Avenir Quebec is taking aim at the province’s permanent anti-collusion unit, known by its French acronym UPAC. The second opposition wants the special police unit to report directly to the National Assembly.
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The Parti Quebecois minority government, which has been forced to retreat on several key policies since it took office last fall, continued down that rocky path Wednesday as it reversed itself on a decision to cut $63 million in funding for environmental protection and health research.
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There was some embarrassment on Tuesday for the Marois government when one of the PQ’s house leaders accidentally approved a motion critical of cuts made to university funding by his own government.
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Former PQ premier, Jacques Parizeau, who is a hero to the party's rank and file, has just gone public with a forceful call for the government to consider the policy.
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Everything from sovereignty to the economy is on the table as 400 Parti Quebecois delegates spend the weekend in Drummondville for a two-day conference discussing the party's platform.
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The Parti Quebecois plans to make good on election promises to create 30,000 more subsidized daycare spots across the province, with the first new openings planned for next year.
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The Parti Quebecois government was grilled Monday about its sovereignty agenda, when the opposition asked the party about the cost of Premier Pauline Marois’s recent trip to Scotland.
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In the isolated Laurentians town of Esterel, the who’s who of the Parti Quebecois started a two-day meeting on Thursday to plan out the next session of the National Assembly.
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Speaking from London, Pauline Marois said that she was inspired by a decision by Scottish colleague Alex Salmond to give the vote to 16 and 17-year-olds during a referendum on independence next year.
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The presumed front-runner to lead the pro-Canada forces in Quebec says it's time to celebrate more than just the economic benefits of belonging to the country.
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Pierrefonds-Roxboro is the only borough with bilingual status and the local council wants to keep it that way, adding its name to the rank of local administrations opposed to the Parti Quebecois’ Bill 14.
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Quebec's premier says she has no intention of interfering in the internal politics of the United Kingdom when she meets with Scotland's separatist leader.
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On a day where he introduced a musical anthem designed to bridge the gap between Quebec's two solitudes, the minister for Anglophones faced the music by meeting the public in Westmount.
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Over the past year Quebec was rocked by student protests, controversial cases in the courts and a corruption scandal that engulfed the entire province’s political scene.
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Quebec’s corruption crisis has hit the New York ratings agencies. Following the resignation of Laval’s long-time mayor on Nov. 9, Standard & Poor’s downgraded the city’s financial outlook due to “uncertain leadership.”
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Jean-Francois Lisee says he will give away deferred pay he's been collecting since his departure from the Universite de Montreal's international-relations institute.
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The minister responsible for Montreal and the status of Anglophones is moving to ease fears over the bilingual status of some Quebec municipalities.
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The Parti Quebecois’ update to Bill 101, aimed at expanding the reach of Quebec’s language charter, has caused no shortage of controversy. Anglophone educators are balking at the suggestion that French-language teaching isn’t a priority.
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Under fire for awarding two lucrative jobs to a former Parti Quebecois leader, Pauline Marois has officially stripped Andre Boisclair of one of his posts.
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Universities and student groups are shocked and outraged by severe funding cuts announced behind closed doors this week by the provincial government.
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It was a central plank of the Parti Quebecois election campaign, and now a bill to modify the French Language Charter has been tabled in the National Assembly.
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Premier Pauline Marois has defended the decision to give two lucrative jobs to former Parti Quebecois leader Andre Boisclair, calling him a talented and competent man.
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An attempt by the Parti Quebecois to remove the Canadian flag failed Tuesday, with the two main opposition parties voting to defeat the minority government.
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Premier Pauline Marois named Yves-Francois Blanchet as Environment Minister, and restored Veronique Hivon as junior Health and Youth Protection Minister.
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Pauline Marois said she is looking forward to speaking to reporters on the last day of the fall session Friday to discuss her first session as Quebec premier.
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Revamping the Quebec Liberal Party was on the minds of many at Champlain College in Saint-Lambert Sunday as the party’s youth wing met with the four leadership candidates.
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Quebec’s environment minister will soon be in the hot seat at the National Assembly after the opposition voted Thursday to investigate allegations he bullied employees of the province’s independent environmental review board.
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The Parti Quebecois budget introduces hikes on cigarettes and alcohol for 2013, but restaurant and bar owners were shocked to learn their share of sin taxes is retroactive and includes bottles they already have in stock.
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The government is asking the province’s 18,000 physicians to accept a planned pay increase over a longer period of time in order to save some cash in the short term.
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The business community is expressing relief that the Parti Quebecois government shelved many of its election promises to produce the provincial budget, meanwhile the plan to cut infrastructure spending by $9 billion over the next five years is not going over well with construction companies.
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The life of the new Parti Quebecois government is hanging in the balance as Opposition parties threaten to vote against its first budget, a move that would likely send Quebecers back to the polls.
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PQ Environment Minister Daniel Breton was under intense fire Thursday as he denied reports that he meddled in the affairs of the BAPE environmental hearings body.
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The Quebec Liberals could be left with the unhappy task of propping up their arch-rival, the Parti Quebecois minority government, in a vote on the upcoming budget.
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Speaking to the first large gathering of party faithful since her September election, Premier Pauline Marois called on the opposition to speed passage of the Parti Quebecois’ Nov. 20 budget.
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