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The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 15 hours ago
GATINEAU, QUEBEC -- 10/10/08 -- "It's time to move past the Bloc and choose change for Quebec," said New Democrat Leader Jack Layton today. Layton brought his campaign to become Prime Minister to the riding of Gatineau, where New Democrat..
Randy McDonald's Livejournal (Free subscription) | yesterday
It's well-known that disputes over the relative statuses of the English and French languages in Québec are commonplace. What isn'tknown nearly as well is the conflict between Québec's local dialect of French and the European French that's the international standard for the language. As pointed out here , there are significant lexical and other differences between the two dialects. These differences...
Globe and Mail (Free subscription) | 12 hours ago
The Conservatives are hoping they are seeing a rebound in Ontario, but in Quebec, once seen as the path to Stephen Harper's majority, their battle now is to minimize the losses.
BigCityLib Strikes Back (Free subscription) | yesterday
My free-style French translation of this headline from La Presse. I'm not really sweating the whole accuracy thing too much. And, as Philippe Gohier notes , a small sample size, and who the heck is Segma? But still it shows a huge (11%) decline in Tory support within Quebec.
CBC.ca (Free subscription) | yesterday
Abortion-rights activist Dr. Henry Morgentaler received his Order of Canada award on Friday at a ceremony in Quebec City.
Globe and Mail (Free subscription) | yesterday
Two powerful Quebec mayors are wading deep into the federal election campaign with decidedly divergent opinions of their local Conservative candidates.A glowing endorsement from Montreal's mayor for struggling star Tory candidate Michael Fortier, who is actually running outside the city, was quickly overshadowed by harsh words aired yesterday from popular Quebec City Mayor Regis Labeaume.
montreal city weblog (Free subscription) | yesterday
Quebec's going to cover UQÀM's real estate debts , paying for the gamboge science centre building on Sherbrooke as well as the unfinished Îlot Voyageur project, and reimbursing operating money it had also been holding back. All told, it'll cost the taxpayer $400 million .
Corvette: Sales, News & Lifestyle (Free subscription) | yesterday
One of selling points of Corvettes is their broad appeal, not just here in the States, but in other Countries as well. Canadians in particular have a fondness for America's Sports Car and we found a site in Québec that makes it easy for our friends in the Great White North to find and buy the Corvette of their dreams. [More]
findingDulcinea (Free subscription) | yesterday
On Oct. 10, 1970, Quebec’s Minister of Labor, Pierre Laporte, was kidnapped by militant separatists seeking the release of 23 prisoners and a ransom.
The Monarchist (Free subscription) | yesterday
The Lieutenant Governor of Quebec, The Hon. Pierre Duchesne, is received by The Queen at Buckingham Palace, 9 October 2008. His Excellency was accompanied at the audience by Madame Ginette Lamoureux. The Queen hands the Letters of Credence of the Lebanese Ambassador, right, to Sir Peter Ricketts, Permanent Under-Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, during an audience at Buckingham...
CBC.ca (Free subscription) | 09/10/2008
The Quebec government has reached a compromise with grocery stores over how many staff they can employ on holidays and at night.
Times of the Internet (Free subscription) | 09/10/2008
MONTREAL, Oct. 9 (UPI) -- A French-Canadian linguist has shot back at European French critics of the Quebec dialect, claiming it resembles what was spoken by French royalty in the 1600s. Jean-Denis Gendron, a retired professor from Laval University in Montreal, made the assertion in the October edition of Quebec Sciences, the Globe and Mail newspaper reported. The Quebecois accent is one from the...
CBC.ca (Free subscription) | 09/10/2008
There have been reported sightings in the Ottawa area of two teenage girls who went missing from an Algonquin reserve outside Maniwaki, Que., over a month ago, officials said Wednesday.
Accidental Deliberations (Free subscription) | 09/10/2008
The Globe and Mail reports on some new polling from Innovative Research Group. And while there's plenty of interesting information in the article (and surely plenty more in the underlying data), there's one finding in particular which could significantly shape the rest of the campaign: Mr. Layton, who has loudly supported arts funding after a series of cuts made by Mr. Harper, has seen his own popularity...
Data Center Knowledge (Free subscription) | 09/10/2008
Telus will invest $33 million in a new data center in Laval, Quebec. Read more at our web site
