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Is PKP the next Michael Ignatieff?
Jacques Boissinot/CP ‘PIERRE KARL PÉLADEAU TO RUN FOR THE PARTI QUÉBÉCOIS LEADERSHIP’ As far as headlines go, it’s about as unexpected as tomorrow’s sunrise. After all, the businessman, media tycoon,...
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Quebec’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...
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25 years after the Montreal massacre, gun control is lax as ever
Shaney Komulainen/CP Canada’s Firearms Act was already drenched in symbolism when it came into law in late 1995. Compelling Canada’s gun owners to register their long guns was an affirmation of...
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The meaning of Jean Béliveau
Bruce Bennett Studios/Getty Images People fall in love with myths and, in Canada, there is no greater myth-making machine than the Montreal Canadiens. Quebec’s myths are rife with matters of the...
View ArticleVideo: Paying tribute to ‘Le Gros Bill’
Thousands of people braved the cold (and an often hour-long lineup) to pay their last respects to Jean Béliveau. For two days the northern half of Montreal’s Bell Centre, the home of the Montreal...
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Jean Béliveau: ‘Not goodbye, but thank you’
Pallbearers carry the casket of former Montreal Canadiens captain Jean Beliveau. (Paul Chiasson, Reuters) Being an enduring Montreal Canadiens legend entails certain duties, among them going to the...
View ArticleUgly nationalism? Not in Quebec.
Claude Péloquin has a book to sell. Unfortunately for him, it’s a book of poetry, so were Claude Péloquin to keep his mouth shut, he would probably sell exactly 17 copies, mostly to his inlaws and a...
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Newsmaker of the day: Dennis Oland
Andrew Vaughan/CP Newsmaker of the day: Dennis Oland Dennis Oland will go to trial for the second-degree murder of his father. Richard Oland, whose family owns Moosehead Brewery Ltd., was found dead in...
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P.K. vs. P.K.
Playing positions Pierre-Karl Péladeau: Quebec’s business-first mini-titan has strayed from his right-wing perch as of late, if only to convince the curmudgeonly lefties in the Parti Québécois, a...
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Left-wing lock: Will the NDP and Liberals split the progressive vote?
Bitter political enemies Justin Trudeau and Thomas Mulcair will go at it alone in the 2015 election. The Liberal Party leader and his NDP homologue have all but ruled out any sort of non-aggression...
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Cleaning house after Charbonneau
CREDIT: Graham Hughes/CP The year 2015 will be a notable bookend to one of the more ignominious chapters in Quebec’s recent history. In April, Judge France Charbonneau will table her report on...
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‘Charlie Hebdo’ attack: In conversation with Ezra Levant
Ezra Levant. (Pawel Dwulit/CP) In 2006, as publisher of Western Standard magazine, Ezra Levant published cartoons from Jyllands-Posten, a Danish newspaper, which depicted and lampooned Islam and the...
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Charlie Hebdo harsher with Christianity than Islam
A few weeks before two gunmen broke into its offices and murdered the near entirety of its staff, the profane geniuses of Charlie Hebdo were busy sullying an established Abrahamic religion with a...
View ArticleWhen blackface isn’t blackface
You may not know it, but two of the more enduring and egregious racial tropes have lived long lives in the aisles of your local grocery store. Aunt Jemima’s smiling face has adorned boxes of pancake...
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Move over, mushers: A battle brews over sled dog parking in Iqaluit
Chris Wattie/Reuters In Nunavut, the centuries-old practice of dogsledding is as iconic as the mighty walrus, the inukshuk stone landmark and Liberal leaders named Trudeau traipsing across the snowy...
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Q&A: Ensaf Haidar, wife of jailed Saudi blogger Raif Badawi
Photograph by Roger Lemoyne Update (Jun. 16, 2015): A 62-page, French-language book collecting 14 of Raif Badawi’s blog posts published between 2010 and 2012—ones that weren’t destroyed by...
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Book review: A barely contained new novel from Peter Carey
Amnesia Peter Carey Readers of Theft: A Love Story, Peter Carey’s 2006 novel perfectly skewering the concept of putting a price on fine art, will recognize Felix Moore, the messy protagonist of...
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For the Parti Québécois, bad habit dies hard
Simon Clark/Journal de Quebec/QMI Minutes after Pauline Marois and the Parti Québécois suffered the biggest electoral defeat in its 46-year history on April 7, 2014, suddenly erstwhile PQ minister...
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The Yes minister: Can Steven Blaney stand up to the boss he loves?
Chris Wattie/REUTERS Richmond Hill is a suburb north of Toronto, a place of nature-themed street names and cookie-cutter faux mansions. Relatively wealthy, multicultural and just far enough from...
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The literal wolves of Wall Street
THE HUNGER OF THE WOLF Stephen Marche The Wylie family members are archetypes only a Canadian could spin into existence. As businessmen, they possess Ken Thomson’s infamous parsimony. It’s a...
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