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What’s going on with Quebec’s latest secularism scandal?
Imagine sending your child to school only to find them caught in a political firestorm. That’s the reality for families at Bedford Elementary in Montreal,…
Quebec is cutting arts funding. Artists are fighting back.
You could hear the music from blocks away. More than a thousand dancers, painters, clowns, musicians, poets, and other cultural workers came out in Montreal…
10 years later: Lessons from the Lac-Mégantic rail disaster have not been heeded
It’s been 10 years since an oil train killed 47 people in Lac-Mégantic. Decision-makers haven’t learned the lessons of the disaster.
Quebec is proposing to gut tenants’ rights with a new law
Bill 31 would remove some significant rights from tenants, and hand over more discretionary power to landlords
Eastern Canada needs to speed up its climate transition
Organized opposition has already put the stop to a number of fossil fuel projects in Eastern Canada—it’s time to put the stake through the industry as a whole.
Is Quebec a distinct society when it comes to inequality?
It isn’t exactly a shining beacon of equality, but Quebec does a lot of things better. Those policies are the result of relatively strong unions and social movements.
No strings attached
As emergency rooms are overwhelmed, surgery wait times continue to lengthen, and under-resourced childrens’ hospitals face surges related to viral infections like COVID, the provincial…
Flush with cash
In March 2022 we published a report predicting that most provinces would be in fiscal surplus territory by the end of the 2021–22 fiscal year…
Three-tier education system in Quebec: The state of the situation
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Lessons learned from the Quebec election campaign
After a 30-day election campaign, the CAQ was re-elected with an even more comfortable majority than in 2018.
How public funding for private options reinforces school segregation in Quebec
Erika Shaker, in conversation with Anne Plourde, researcher at l’Institut de Recherche et d’Informations Socioéconomiques (IRIS)
Les pipelines nuisent aux industries québécoises
C’est sans grande surprise que le gouvernement Trudeau approuvait dernièrement les projets de pipelines Trans Mountain (Kinder Morgan) et la Canalisation 3 (Enbridge). Pour plusieurs, c’est le…
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