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In 1995, thousands of Canadians streamed into Montréal from all over Canada a few days before the referendum on Québec sovereignty that ultimately failed. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Ryan Remiorz

March 17, 2024

What does Québec want? Politicians should heed what voters have repeatedly told them

Charles Berthelet, Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM)

Reflecting on 60 years of constitutional politics helps shed light on a new way forward for Québec politicians.

Parti Québécois leader Paul St-Pierre Plamondon leaves a post-election news conference in Boucherville, Que. on Oct. 4, 2022. LA PRESSE CANADIENNE/Graham Hughes

October 20, 2022

Why Québec politicians must swear an oath to the King — even if they don’t want to

Yan Campagnolo, L’Université d’Ottawa/University of Ottawa

An oath to the King is not an oath to the person who wears the crown. It is an oath to an institution that symbolizes our system of government, a democratic constitutional monarchy.

Conservative Party of Québec leader Éric Duhaime speaks at the unveiling of his campaign platform in Drummondville on Aug. 14, 2022. Quebecers will go to the polls on Oct. 3. The Canadian Press/Graham Hughes

September 8, 2022

Éric Duhaime and the Conservative Party of Québec’s contradictory stance on nationalism

Frédérick Guillaume Dufour, Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM) and François Tanguay, Université de Montréal

Where do the Conservative Party of Québec and its leader, Éric Duhaime, a newcomer on the political scene, fit in?

Close to 3,000 Quebecers gathered at the Paul-Sauvé arena hours before the invocation of the War Measures Act would send Canadian troops onto the streets of the province and many people – some of them at the arena rally – were arrested in subsequent raids. Éditions du Septentrion, CC BY-NC-ND

October 12, 2020

October Crisis, 1970: Crackdown ignited by authorities’ fear of young people

Éric Bédard, Université TÉLUQ

A new book argues that the War Measures Act was a response to the threat young people posed to authorities.

New Brunswick Premier Blaine Higgs is seen in this September 2018 photo. Higgs won a minority government, and must confront both language tensions and economic hardship in his province. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Andrew Vaughan

January 9, 2019

New Brunswick’s linguistic divide is a microcosm of Canada

J.P. Lewis, University of New Brunswick

New Brunswick’s language politics have vaulted ahead of its teetering economic crisis to potentially become the central political issue in 2019.

June 6, 2017

Nicola Sturgeon’s falling popularity could be disastrous for the Scottish independence cause

William McDougall, Glasgow Caledonian University

Theresa May isn’t the only national leader having a queasy election.

Not many Quebecers share this sentiment at present. Quinn Dombrowski

April 9, 2014

Bruising election defeat for PQ as appeal of separatism in Quebec fades to grey

Francois Gelineau, Université Laval

Welcome to the second part of Breaking Nations, a series of articles that examines independence movements across the globe ahead of the Scottish referendum in September. For this edition, Francois Gelineau…

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