Bill 78: four constitutional questions
A caveat: I haven’t taken constitutional politics in over a decade, though I was fortunate enough to have Peter Russell as a professor and had issues with Ted Morton eons before his political career....
View ArticleDrive-by Planet: 100th day of protest in Quebec: Charest’s tactics backfire
On May 18, in an effort to quell protest the National Assembly in Quebec passed Bill 78 – emergency legislation that includes a number of repressive measures. It’s an unwise move that is showing every...
View ArticleMontreal Simon: The Casserole Symphony and the Royal Canadians
In many Montreal neighbourhoods this evening people were banging pots and pans in another casserole symphony of protest. The latest tactic in this awesome struggle. It's a nightly ritual known as les...
View ArticleMontreal Simon: Quebec: The Mad Emperor and the Klown Media
They were out in the streets of Montreal again tonight, for another casserole protest or cazerolazo The 31st night protest comes as a growing number of Montrealers join a neighbourhood-wide cazerolazo...
View ArticleMontreal Simon: Quebec and the Spirit of Resistance
A massive thunderstorm hit Montreal this evening. The heavens really opened up. But that didn't stop thousands of people from parading through the streets, beating their pots and pans. Even though in...
View ArticleTattered Sleeve: Paint It, Red
But the sound wasn’t sad!Why, this sound sounded merry!It couldn’t be so!But it WAS merry! VERY! Reports are the casserole protests continued tonight. Thousands marching up St-Laurent Blvd earlier this...
View ArticleMontreal Simon: Quebec and the Not So Quiet Revolution
There was another amazing freedom party in Montreal tonight. Thousands and thousands of people marched peacefully through the streets, beating pots and pans. Defying the police to arrest them for...
View ArticleMontreal Simon: Quebec, the Con Media, and the Greek Obsession
It's funny eh? When I see pictures like this one I see people standing up for their rights, telling a corrupt government to take their fascist bill and shove it, or just joining others to demand a...
View ArticleFrom Orangutan: Photos of Montreal lawyers marching against Law 78,
On Monday evening in Montreal, hundreds of lawyers donned their professional black robes and took to the streets on a silent march to protest Law 78 (also known as the “loi spéciale”), the legislation...
View ArticleMontreal Simon: The Quebec Students and the Occupy Movement
On my way home today I visited the park where Occupy Toronto once lived. And I could hardly recognize the place. The old gazebo where so many passionate speeches were made, and so many dreamed of a...
View ArticleMontreal Simon: Quebec’s Mad Emperor Strikes Again
They don't call Jean Charest the Mad Emperor of Quebec for nothing eh? For this is madness. Four days of negotiations ended in an impasse on Thursday when Premier Jean Charest’s government refused to...
View ArticleDead Wild Roses: Quebec Protesters – Doing Canada Proud
Democracy in Action – Look and Learn my sleeping obedient country. The protests in Quebec are an example to the rest of Canada to what an active citizenry is like and how people can affect change in...
View ArticleMontreal Simon: Quebec: When a Society Wakes Up
It was wet and miserable in Montreal today. But that didn't stop thousands of people from attending a rally to support the Quebec students. Thousands of people clad in raincoats and carrying umbrellas...
View ArticleMontreal Simon: Jean Charest and the Grand Prix Panic
Oh no. Somebody please stop him. It looks as if Jean Charest has finally, as we say in Québec, perdu ses pédales, or lost his pedals. He's so eager to discredit the students, so he can run against...
View ArticleNEW MEDIA AND POLITICS CANADA: An Attack On Progress
Here in Quebec, amidst the nightly demonstrations against the tuition increases and Bill 78, the bill that gave the movement oxygen, we hear a constant drumbeat from media sources that the kids are...
View ArticleMontreal Simon: Montreal and the Grand Prix Circus
It's Saturday night in Montreal, and the Grand Prix party is just warming up. Thousands of people are milling around on Ste Catherine street. Demonstrators, racing fans, tourists, party kids, riot...
View ArticleMontreal Simon: The Quebec Students and the Magic Moment
Like so many things in Quebec these days it was an amazing sight. Eighty thousand people in downtown Montreal watching an outdoor show by Loco Locass, a very popular and very political hip hop group....
View ArticleDrive-by Planet: Quebec protests June 22: crisis far from over
There were large rallies in Montreal and Quebec City June 22. Students and supporters demonstrated against fee hikes, against Bill-78 and held the banners of social and political activism high. The...
View ArticleMontreal Simon: The Quebec Students and the Road Ahead
There are fewer of them these days. The long hot days of July have quietened things down. But the Quebec students are still marching through the streets of Montreal. Tonight was their 83rd nightly...
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Tattered Sleeve: Paint It, Red
But the sound wasn't sad!Why, this sound sounded merry!It couldn't be so!But it WAS merry! VERY!Reports are the casserole protests continued tonight. Thousands marching up St-Laurent Blvd earlier this...
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From Orangutan: Photos of Montreal lawyers marching against Law 78,
On Monday evening in Montreal, hundreds of lawyers donned their professional black robes and took to the streets on a silent march to protest Law 78 (also known as the "loi spéciale"), the legislation...
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NEW MEDIA AND POLITICS CANADA: An Attack On Progress
Here in Quebec, amidst the nightly demonstrations against the tuition increases and Bill 78, the bill that gave the movement oxygen, we hear a constant drumbeat from media sources that the kids are...
View ArticleTattered Sleeve: Paint It, Red
But the sound wasn’t sad!Why, this sound sounded merry!It couldn’t be so!But it WAS merry! VERY! Reports are the casserole protests continued tonight. Thousands marching up St-Laurent Blvd earlier this...
View ArticleFrom Orangutan: Photos of Montreal lawyers marching against Law 78,
On Monday evening in Montreal, hundreds of lawyers donned their professional black robes and took to the streets on a silent march to protest Law 78 (also known as the “loi spéciale”), the legislation...
View ArticleNEW MEDIA AND POLITICS CANADA: An Attack On Progress
Here in Quebec, amidst the nightly demonstrations against the tuition increases and Bill 78, the bill that gave the movement oxygen, we hear a constant drumbeat from media sources that the kids are...
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