5 at 5: Philippe Couillard sworn in as Quebec premier
Quebec Premier Philippe Couillard waves as he is sworn in during a ceremony on April 23, 2014 at the legislature in Quebec City. (Jacques Boissinot/CP) Philippe Couillard officially becomes Quebec...
View ArticleA government of low expectations for Philippe Couillard
Quebec Premier Philippe Couillard waves as he is sworn in during a ceremony Wednesday, April 23, 2014 at the legislature in Quebec City. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jacques Boissinot “I’ve rarely seen an...
View ArticleMulcair: Let’s never stop abolishing the Senate
Tom Mulcair (Photo by Andrew Tolson) Fresh off the best week he’s had since he became NDP leader, Tom Mulcair sat down with the Ottawa Citizen‘s Mark Kennedy to explain his constitutional policy....
View ArticleGet ready for belt tightening: Quebec Premier Couillard
Quebec Premier Philippe Couillard (Jacques Boissinot/CP) QUEBEC — Premier Philippe promised Wednesday his government will not back down in its push to clean up Quebec’s public finances — even if it...
View ArticlePhilippe Couillard risks making the same mistakes as Charest
Mathieu Belanger/Reuters Quebec, said the incoming premier, is at a crossroads. While the French language and culture have never been stronger, Quebec itself is larded with bureaucracy and mired in red...
View ArticleQuebec universities: Help is not on the way
Quebec Premier Philippe Couillard. Mathieu Belanger/Reuters Well, what an adventure Quebec’s Higher Education Minister Yves Bolduc had yesterday. Bolduc, a Liberal, is a physician by training and was...
View ArticleQuebec budget-slashing program review to cost millions
MONTREAL – A commission set up by Quebec’s Liberal government to review government programs and cut back on spending will cost taxpayers at least $3.8 million in its first year of operation. That’s...
View ArticlePremiers in P.E.I.: Let the eastern bastards shine in the sun
Brian L. Simpson/Government of Prince Edward Island Greetings from Charlottetown, where the premiers posed yesterday for a group photo in postures that mimicked the Fathers of Confederation. Andrew...
View Article‘It’s the economy,’ Couillard says of Quebec’s priority
REUTERS/Mathieu Belanger ST-TITE, Que. — Quebec Premier Philippe Couillard is now downplaying his desire to have Quebec sign the Canadian Constitution. A day after suggesting he’d like the province to...
View ArticlePaul Wells in conversation with Quebec premier Philippe Couillard
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View ArticlePaul Wells in Conversation: Philippe Couillard
Quebec Liberal leader Philippe Couillard and his wife Suzanne Pilote. ( Winning was the easy part. In April, Philippe Couillard led Quebec’s Liberal party to a resounding victory over Pauline Marois...
View ArticleQuebec’s daycare flip-flop
Jeff Greenberg/Alamy/Getstock Philippe Couillard doesn’t do fury very well. Blessed with a manner to match his patrician beard, the current Quebec premier is a notable counterpoint to his Liberal...
View ArticleThe Quebec budget starts the structural reform the province needs
Quebec Premier Philippe Couillard, left, gives the thumbs up while standing with Quebec Finance Minister Carlos Leitao, before presenting the provincial budget Thursday (THE CANADIAN PRESS/POOL/Mathieu...
View ArticleShould Quebec start its own long-gun registry?
Quebec Public Security Minister Lise Theriault. (Jacques Boissinot/CP) That Quebec had a stake in the federal government’s long-gun registry data was beyond dispute. Its citizens paid as dearly as...
View ArticleLe Devoir’s shaky memory
Quebec Finance Minister Carlos Leitao, left, applauds after he presented a provincial budget, Thursday, March 26, 2015 at the legislature in Quebec City. (CP) I love a campaign. Le Devoir went big this...
View ArticleA hint of sanity in Quebec over the Cirque sale
Artists of the Cirque du Soleil perform during the show “Quidam” at the Meo Arena pavilion in Lisbon, Portugal Thursday, Dec. 18, 2014. (Francisco Seco/AP) Update, Apr. 20: Cirque du Soleil founder Guy...
View ArticleLe Devoir’s further adventures in making stuff up
Perhaps you are wondering how Le Devoir continues to cover the budget of Quebec’s government, led by Philippe Couillard, after I demonstrated the wee newspaper’s spotty memory; I showed that Lucien...
View ArticleCouillard slammed for expected byelection call during federal campaign
QUEBEC – Premier Philippe Couillard is being accused of trying to confuse voters by preparing to call byelections in the final weeks of the federal election campaign. The leader of the Coalition for...
View ArticleQuebec premier, native leaders discuss abuse allegations against police
MONTREAL — Quebec’s premier won’t rule out a provincial inquiry examining the relationship between aboriginals and the police, but will wait to see what Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s Liberal...
View ArticleAl Gore praises Quebec in fighting climate change
PARIS – Former U.S. vice-president Al Gore expressed his deep gratitude to Quebec on Saturday for what he called its leadership role in tackling global climate change. Gore was at the United Nations...
View ArticleWhy a struggling Parti Québécois is bad for Quebec’s democracy
Canadian media tycoon Pierre-Karl Péladeau visits a music store on March 27, 2014 in Saint-Jérôme, Canada. (Francois Laplante Delagrave/AFP/Getty Images) Among the few political certainties in Quebec,...
View ArticleThe insiders’ perspective on Trudeau federalism 2.0
The premiers of the provinces and territories take part in a ‘family photo’ during a First Ministers meeting at the Canadian Museum of Nature with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in Ottawa, on Monday,...
View ArticleFederal help for Bombardier pitched by premiers Couillard and Wynne
VANCOUVER – The premiers of Canada’s two most populous provinces joined forces Wednesday to push for federal help for Bombardier’s CSeries aircraft. Quebec Premier Philippe Couillard drew support from...
View ArticleQuebec to study ‘sharing economy’ but won’t back down on taxi bill
DRUMMONDVILLE, Que. – Quebec Premier Philippe Couillard said Sunday he will launch a project to study the “sharing economy,” while indicating his government won’t relent on its hard-line stance on...
View ArticleCouillard denies putting kibosh on Anticosti drilling project
MUNICH — Quebec Premier Philippe Couillard denied Wednesday having given orders to put the kibosh on plans for exploratory oil and gas drilling on Anticosti Island. Couillard insisted his government,...
View ArticlePhilippe Couillard decries new PQ leader’s ‘closed nationalism’
REYKJAVIK, Iceland — Jean-Francois Lisee’s election as Parti Quebecois leader represents a victory for “the nationalism of exclusion,” Quebec Premier Philippe Couillard said Saturday. Couillard made...
View ArticleThe return of the angry Quebec premier
REUTERS/Mathieu Belanger When it comes to righteous indignation, Quebec Premier Philippe Couillard has nothing on his predecessor Jean Charest. A lawyer by training, Charest had a prosecutor’s flair...
View ArticleQuebec cabinet minister under police investigation
QUEBEC CITY — The Quebec premier’s office is confirming that a longtime cabinet minister is under police investigation. In a statement Thursday, Premier Philippe Couillard says Pierre Paradis has been...
View ArticleQuebec government wants to reopen constitution debate
QUEBEC – Canada’s Constitution has become a taboo topic among members of the political class in recent years – but it appears that’s about to change. The Canadian Press has learned the Quebec...
View ArticleTrudeau uninterested in Quebec plan to reopen constitution debate
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in New York on Thursday, April 6, 2017. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Sean Kilpatrick OTTAWA – Justin Trudeau is throwing cold water on the Quebec government’s plan to reopen the...
View ArticleTrudeau gets to take a hardline: Ottawa Power Rankings
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View ArticleJohn Horgan misses the premiers’ meeting, loses game of inches
Rachel Notley, with New Brunswick’s Brian Gallant: the Alberta premier was all smiles after her colleagues issued a joint communiqué that called for efficiency in approval processes for resource...
View ArticlePhilippe Couillard takes the Maclean’s 60-Second Challenge
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View ArticleQuebec’s Bill 62 is what Islamophobia looks like
Bill 62, a law aiming to create “religious neutrality,” was passed in Quebec on Wednesday, which means “people” who cover their faces in public (read: Muslim women who wear a niqab or burka) will be...
View ArticleOpinion: Bill 62 is what Islamophobia looks like
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View ArticleQuebec without equalization?
Coalition Avenir Quebec Leader Francois Legault, centre, is applauded at a news conference marking the end of the spring session, Friday, June 16, 2017 at the legislature in Quebec City. Legault is...
View ArticleQuebec motion calls on store clerks to drop English greetings
QUEBEC – Mariya Sadat greets customers in various languages at the Old Montreal souvenir shop where she works. She’ll use “bonjour,” “hi,” or, if it seems appropriate, she’ll try a few words of...
View ArticleBonjour! Hi! Let us discuss language politics
THE CANADIAN PRESS/Ryan Remiorz When I interviewed for an internship at the Montreal Gazette in 1989, the papers were full of news about demonstrations and counter-demonstrations over Quebec’s language...
View ArticleA year later: The Quebec mosque massacre and rising Islamophobia
Political dignitaries attend the funeral for three of the six victims of the Quebec City mosque shooting in Montreal in February 2017. (THE CANADIAN PRESS/Paul Chiasson) Tarek Younis, Newton...
View ArticleQuebec’s seriously odd, strangely important election
I think like a lot of observers I’ve been waiting for the polls to settle before I decide what the current Quebec election campaign is about. Well, the vote’s on Monday and there’s little hope of the...
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