In the words of evilsocks just now: another fucking election.

...we have Charles Larivée, no-hope candidate for the party in next month's byelection in Westmount-Ville-Marie:

"We prefer that Quebec takes care of its own homeless problem, which we can do by getting more transfer money from Ottawa."

That's a joke right?

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And while we're talking Quebec stuff, I want a riiiiiiide to DrummondvilleAnd also, ( Read more... )

I am so tired of politicians. Just tired of them. The thing hasn't even been released yet, but the Bloc, ADQ and PQ have been jumping all over themselves to see who can slam it the hardest ( Read more... )

Paul Wells gently punches Montreal in the face in his nod to l'affaire Groulx/Peterson.

Because I was asked to discuss this here, and because it's an issue I've given just a little bit of thought to, today's topic is the crazy debate over veils and voting.

Non-Canadians and Canadians uninterested in the news may need ( a brief primer. )

This is pretty cool - it's my riding! Finally, I'll have a (semi-)legitimate candidate to vote for in an election in Quebec! I don't actually think he'll win, but having a name candidate never hurts.

Edited to add: The NDP hasn't elected a member of Parliament from Quebec in more than a decade.Serious? Who was it? I've never heard of any dippers ( Read more... )

Thank you Paul Wells, for once again saying what all of us federalists are thinking.

So yesterday, I voted. I voted for the Greens. I wasn't sure right up until the last second ( Read more... )

As any casual observers of the Quebec election know, that's a phrase that André Boisclair (Leader of one of the competitive parties in the province) used the other day to describe Asian students from his days at Harvard. The best direct translation would be "slanted eyes", which to us anglophones of course sounds incredibly racist. But we've had an ( Read more... )

I have my little iPod cable here, and I guess Gustavo does not have his so he asked if he could charge his using my cable. After he was gone, I snooped. I wanted to see what's on there. It's kind of cute. All kinds of Spanish-language artists I've never heard of, and a bunch of English ones: Aerosmith, Celine Dion and "Chinese Folk Songs" (aw!) ( Read more... )