québec

2012 strike saves Québec students $1,465 per year

Unionist — Wed, 15 Feb 2017 03:14:39 +0000

Gabriel Nadeau-Dubois - the student spring five years on

lagatta4 — Sat, 11 Feb 2017 14:35:29 +0000

An interview by Thomas Gerbet, a young journalist at Radio-Canada (Gerbet was a French journalism student who came here on an exchange internship ... and stayed). Worth a listen if you have an hour to spare sometime, somewhere - this is the kind of thing you can listen to in transit...

http://ici.radio-canada.ca/premiere/premiereplus/societe/5016/les-secret...

Killings at Québec City mosque

lagatta4 — Mon, 30 Jan 2017 03:22:29 +0000

I'm putting this news flash here for the moment, though moderators should feel free to move it to anti-racism or any other relevant topic as news comes in:

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/quebec-city-mosque-gun-shots-1.39... Evidently several people have been killed and others wounded, and two suspects have been arrested.

Françoise David of Québec solidaire stands down in Gouin

lagatta4 — Thu, 19 Jan 2017 12:24:25 +0000

I didn't expect Mme David to stand for another term, but I'm rather surprised and disappointed that she didn't finish her term. Of course we don't know her reasons (health or others).

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/francoise-david-leaving-politics-...

This is the riding where I live; it is NDP federally, Projet Montréal on the municipal ald local council levels. Some speculate that student leader Gabrielle Nadeau-Dubois might be thinking of a candidacy.

Letter to Michel Chartrand, from his daughter Suzanne

lagatta4 — Tue, 20 Dec 2016 14:46:58 +0000

Suzanne Chartrand has spent the past months writing about her father, the radical union leader Michel Chartrand, who died a a few years ago. Today would be his 100th birthday.

Here is a letter celebrating his life and social movements here and elsewhere. Note that Suzanne's mother, Simone Monet-Chartrand, was also a lifelong social activist - I have her autobiography in my library, with a dedication. I knew both of them, but can't claim to have been an intimate friend.

http://www.ledevoir.com/politique/quebec/487465/lettre-a-michel-chartrand

Quebec moving on the energy file

NorthReport — Mon, 12 Dec 2016 05:34:05 +0000

Rightwing blowhard/strikebreaker Richard Martineau sueing Ricochet for $350,000

lagatta — Mon, 05 Dec 2016 16:01:49 +0000

This ambulatory turd is highly unlikely to win his suit over something clearly satirical, but his purpose is to bankrupt alternative media. https://ricochet.media/en/1572/ricochet-lawsuit

This piece of shit and his equallly vile companion were both strikebreakers during the long Journal de Montréal conflict, claiming to not be techniclaly scabs as they were writing from their home offices or some other den of iniquity, not crossing the physical picket lines - as if that is necessary for most communications workers nowadays.

My inner Stalin might want to send them to a labour camp in Nunavik, but it would be deeply unfair to inflict this writhing pestilence on the Inuit people.

Inside Quebec's Far Right

NDPP — Mon, 05 Dec 2016 05:32:08 +0000

Inside Quebec's Far Right...

http://cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/quebec-far-right-la-meute-1.3876225

"In the 1st of a series about Quebec's far right, CBC News gets exclusive access to La Meute. La Meute - or Wolf Pack - has attracted more than 43,000 people to a secret Facebook group in little over a year..."

Projet Montréal debate on ricochet... and other election stuff?

lagatta — Sun, 30 Oct 2016 20:03:13 +0000

I just wanted to point out that the debate among the contenders to be mayoral candidate for Projet Montréal is available at Ricochet - mostly in French. The questions are of interest for many other cities and towns, and Francine Pelletier is a superbe moderator...

https://ricochet.media/fr/1500/diffusion-en-direct-debat-de-la-course-a-...

Liberal MNA Gerry Sklavounos alleged to have sexually assaulted young woman in Québec City

lagatta — Fri, 21 Oct 2016 21:13:20 +0000

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/alice-paquet-alleged-sexual-assau...

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/liberals-quebec-alleged-sexual-as...

Nothing is proved, but several other reports emerging have referred to inappropriate behaviour by the MNA.

His riding is a short walk north of the one where I live (I have lived in that riding) and interestingly, it corresponds to a swath of Justin Trudeau's riding, Papineau. Laurier-Dorion is essentially Villeray and Park Extension; Papineau also includes part of St-Michel to the east.

This is a huge scandal here, following on the spate of sexual assaults at Laval University.

SQ police officer fired for dangerous driving & assault - 5 years later

Unionist — Tue, 02 Aug 2016 16:06:25 +0000

Montreal to ban pit bulls and other dangerous breeds

Mr. Magoo — Sun, 19 Jun 2016 00:02:00 +0000

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Vimy Park in Outremont to be renamed Jacques Parizeau Park

Unionist — Fri, 17 Jun 2016 18:07:58 +0000

Happy tenth birthday to Quebec Solidaire

swallow — Sun, 29 May 2016 02:24:42 +0000

Pierre-Karl Péladeau quits as PQ leader, MNA for St-Jérôme

cco — Mon, 02 May 2016 18:45:55 +0000

For "family reasons".

This kind of came out of nowhere. Speculation? Who'll run to take his place?