June 2012
201 posts
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The QLP ad: a cheap shot that misses its mark (Le...
Xavier Dolan June 28, 2012
Original French text: http://www.ledevoir.com/politique/quebec/353420/faux-coup-d-cochon
The QLP, whose expertise lies in the manipulation of words and images, got a little overexcited at the opportunity to use Pauline Marois’ moment of hesitation in their latest ad, a video in which Ms. Marois seems, if anything, to be simply questioning the effectiveness of her...
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For Québec (Journal de Montréal)
Jean Barbe June 12, 2012
Original French text: http://blogues.journaldemontreal.com/barbe/actualites/pour-le-quebec/
Charest’s Game It’s seemed evident for a while now, but Charest’s insistence on demonizing the red square, and the recent statements made by the minister of culture Christine St-Pierre about Fred Pellerin’s refusal to be inducted into the Order of Quebec,...
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Red like a springtime (Profs contre la hausse)
Judith Trudeau and Stéphane Chalifour June 27, 2012
Original French text: http://profscontrelahausse.org/billets/rouge-comme-un-printemps/
Reflections on the student movement What was originally a low-intensity conflict destined to be resolved by the combined effects of the test of time and fear of failure, has been slowly transformed into a real crisis whose more acute magnitude poses the...
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Demonstrate in black - June 30 (Event)
Manifeste en noir (Facebook)
Original French Text: https://www.facebook.com/events/156286851172470/
Jointly organized by Mères en colère et solidaires [Angry and united mothers], Parents contre la hausse [Parents against the hike], Parents d’enfant blessé dans une manif [Parents of an injured child at a demonstration], Profs contre la hausse [Teachers against the hike], Profs féministes et...
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Student Strike: Questioning the Independence of...
Dave L. May 2, 2012
Original French text: http://www.ameriquebec.net/actualites/2012/05/02/greve-etudiante-lindependance-du-juge-en-chef-francois-rolland-remise-en-question-8776.qc
The case of a judge who steps over the mandate for independence and impartiality that he himself had set.
The Chief Justice of the Québec Superior Court just committed a gaffe… Indeed, he who just a few...
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PLQ advertisement removed from YouTube, Vimeo and...
Johanne Lapierre June 27, 2012
Original French Text: http://blogues.radio-canada.ca/surleweb/2012/06/27/publicite-plq-marois-retire/
The story has been widely circulated in the media and on the web: the Liberal party of Quebec (PLQ) used images taken from an amateur video in which Pauline Marois is seen participating in a casserole protest to make an advertisement, which is...
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An elephant in a casserole shop (Métro)
Les Justiciers masqués June 27, 2012
Original French Text: http://journalmetro.com/opinions/les-justiciers-masques/114852/un-elephant-dans-un-magasin-de-casseroles/
There’s no question about it, of course the Liberals routinely do the best negative campaigning in electoral periods. Of course the most recent could leave you perplexed. Did one of those advertizing big-wigs seated around the...
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At the heart of the "Maple Spring" (Le Monde)
By Martine Jacot (Montreal, Canada, special correspondent) June 25, 2012
Original French Text: http://www.lemonde.fr/international/article/2012/06/22/au-coeur-du-printemps-erable_1723324_3210.html
Place Emilie-Gamelin, Wednesday June 13, 8 p.m. As on every night since March 24, crowds are starting to gather at this central Montreal location that is more a park than a square, at the apex of three...
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Bachand approves of the casserole protests (La...
Philippe Teisceira-Lessard May 25, 2012
Original French Text: http://www.lapresse.ca/actualites/dossiers/conflit-etudiant/201205/25/01-4528803-bachand-approuve-des-manifestations-de-casseroles.php
Minister Bachand welcomed the casserole protests Friday as a creative and festive means to make an opinion heard without harming the tourist image of the metropolis. PHOTO CREDIT: Robert Skinner,...
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Québécois under a microscope (Le Devoir)
Lise Payette June 22, 2012
Original French Text: http://www.ledevoir.com/politique/quebec/353110/les-quebecois-aux-rayons-x
The short break we get each year to celebrate Quebec’s national holiday gives us the opportunity to ask what we, as a people, have accomplished over the last year, and what’s left to be done so that we can achieve the future we wish to make for ourselves. There’s a lot to...
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Bill 78 - Striking students foiled by a judge...
Renart Léveillé (editor, Le Globe) June 27 2012
Original French Text: http://leglobe.ca/blog/2012/06/loi-78-les-etudiants-grevistes-deboutes-par-un-juge-ayant-un-prejuge-defavorable-envers-eux/ Sad to say, the student federations lost the first round of their court challenge to Bill 78.
Justice François Rolland of the Québec Superior Court agreed with the government’s position on...
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Let's Listen to Them! (La Presse)
Pierre-Marc Tremblay June 1, 2012
(The author of this piece is owner and president of Convicia, the corporation which administers Pacini, Commensal and Commnsal&Cie [Montreal restaurants]).
Original French Text: http://www.lapresse.ca/debats/votre-opinion/201206/01/01-4530876-ecoutons-les.php The longer the student conflict has dragged on, the more we have heard people talk of...
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The red square and political recomposition (Le...
M.J. June 25, 2012
Original French Text: http://www.lemonde.fr/international/article/2012/06/22/carre-rouge-et-recomposition-politique_1723325_3210.html
“The strike still hasn’t found its electoral expression”, notes quite rightly Jean-François Lisée, director of the Centre d’études et de recherches internationales de l’université de Montréal (Cérium). The Quebec political...
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In the Age of the Parody 2.0, Jean Charest Loses...
Eric Parazelli June 18, 2012
Original French Text: http://mediatv.divertissement.sympatico.ca/2012/06/parodies-de-la-publicit%C3%A9-de-jean-charest-%C3%A0-l%C3%A8re-20-perte-de-contr%C3%B4le-du-message.html
If you haven’t been already, you should soon be put into intensive contact (let’s not say you will be ‘bombarded’) with a new...
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Love in the time of red squares (Le Devoir)
Josée Blanchette June 22, 2012
Original French Text: http://www.ledevoir.com/societe/actualites-en-societe/353060/l-amour-au-temps-des-carres-rouges
Devil’s advocate, Robert Tremblay, embraced by “the angel” during a student protest. When love becomes political momentum…
They are young (at heart, at least), they are crazy (that has no age) and they’ve killed two birds with...
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Shouting louder… (Voir)
Marc-André Cyr June 21, 2012
Original French Text: http://voir.ca/marc-andre-cyr/2012/06/21/crier-plus-fort/
It’s a fierce cry of negation made heard by the students of Quebec. This big cry of anger is an attempt to make their peaceful march deviate from our society’s empty and circular times. It’s without a doubt for this reason that its logic slips between our fingers and,...
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A View of the Student Strike, from the Printing...
Fabienne Vinet April 24, 2012
Original French Text: http://conseildepresse.qc.ca/actualites/chroniques/regard-de-la-presse-sur-la-greve-etudiante/
The movement against the increase in tuition fees has lasted over two months. One day after the first meeting between the government and student associations, what thread can we trace about media coverage of the conflict? Has it...
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Student Conflict: CLASSE is responsible for the...
June 22, 2012
Original French Text: http://www.radio-canada.ca/nouvelles/Politique/2012/06/22/001-bachand-mediation-classe.shtml
On this latest day of mobilisation against the increase in tuition fees, Finance minister Raymond Bachand discounted the possibility of restarting negotiations, accusing the Coalition Large de l’Association pour une solidarité syndicale étudiante (CLASSE) of...
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Tombstone beer #001 – Analyzing Jean Charest’s...
Pierre-Luc Gagnon June 19, 2012
Original French Text: http://voir.ca/pierre-luc-gagnon/2012/06/19/biere-tombale-001-analyse-de-la-publicite-preelectorale-de-jean-charest/
I’ve decided to use this blog to launch a new concept: “Tombstone beer.” At its most basic, the idea is quite simple; I crack open a beer and write an editorial on some hot topic, on whatever it is that’s been...
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$49,000 down the drain (TVA)
Rémi Nadeau June 18, 2012
Original French Text: http://tvanouvelles.ca/lcn/infos/national/archives/2012/06/20120618-045957.html
Tuition raise advertisement goes unused
In their current ad campaign in support of tuition raises, the Quebec government had invested $49,000 into an ad shoot. In the end however, the ad was never used.
Last week, the Journal de Québec revealed that...
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Control of demonstrations: Mayor Labeaume in the...
Staff note: The news report was not translated, but the following text is a summary of the clip featured on the link below.
June 19, 2012
Original French Text: http://www.radio-canada.ca/regions/Quebec/2012/06/19/004-conseillers-vote-reglement-manifestations.shtml
The special session of the City Council on the question of adopting stricter rules for controlling demonstrations ended in a...
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Parisians demonstrate in support of Quebec...
Pierre Breteau June 24, 2012
Original French Text: http://www.franceinfo.fr/societe/les-parisiens-manifestent-en-soutien-aux-etudiants-quebecois-655879-2012-06-24
On the occasion of Quebec’s national holiday, St-Jean, between 200 and 300 people marched in Paris today. They mean to offer their support to Quebec’s students who are battling against rise of university tuition...
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No holidays for contestation (Le Devoir)
Isabelle Porter June 23, 2012
Original French Text: http://www.ledevoir.com/politique/quebec/353221/pas-de-vacances-pour-la-contestation
Big summer march in Montreal and a record crowd in Quebec
Yesterday Quebec saw its biggest protest since the beginning of the student conflict.
A day of protests yesterday in Montreal and Quebec. The two rallies in continuance with March 22nd...
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In Quebec City, a blue Fête nationale with some...
Isabelle Porter June 24, 2012
Original French Text: http://www.ledevoir.com/culture/musique/353240/a-quebec-une-fete-nationale-bleue-avec-des-teintes-de-rouge
PHOTO CAPTION: Flags and red squares stood side by side on the Plains yesterday.
Quebec City — The organizers of the Fête nationale [transl. note: meaning National holiday, though it has become a secondary title of or...
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The spirit of Bill 78 and Fascism (La Presse)
Renaud Picard June 17, 2012
Original French text: http://www.lapresse.ca/debats/le-cercle-la-presse/actualites/201206/17/48-529-lesprit-de-la-loi-78-et-le-fascisme.php
Many groups have denounced the association of the spirit of Bill 78 with Fascism as inappropriate. They say it misrepresents the definition of Fascism and is akin to identifying the Liberal government with the ideological...
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Peaceful Protests in Montreal and Quebec City...
June 22, 2012
Original French text: http://www.radio-canada.ca/nouvelles/societe/2012/06/22/001-manifestation-nationale-quebec-montreal-loi-78-conflit-etudiant.shtml
[follow link for embedded video]
Like on the 22nd of every month since March, a large national protest took place in Montreal, but this time in Quebec City too, to protest against the tuition fee hike and against bill 78, regarding,...
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Law 78: the situation in Québec is "alarming",...
June 18, 2012
Original French Text: http://www.radio-canada.ca/nouvelles/Politique/2012/06/18/003-loi-78-onu.shtml
The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Navi Pillay, at the opening of the 20th Special Session of the Human Rights Council in Geneva.
After having expressed its concerns last month, the United Nations has once again criticized the adoption by the National...
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Quebec City - Regulation on law and order is...
Isabelle Porter June 20, 2012
Original French Text: http://www.ledevoir.com/politique/ville-de-quebec/352903/le-reglement-sur-la-loi-et-l-ordre-est-adopte-dans-le-tumulte
Quebec City’s new regulation on protests caused quite a stir yesterday at City Hall and led to an arrest for assault yesterday afternoon.
“Charest! Labeaume! Same fight! ” shouted the protesters in the...
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Pauline Marois will no longer wear the red square...
Patrick Bellerose June 20, 2012
Original French Text: http://quebec.huffingtonpost.ca/2012/06/20/pauline-marois-ne-portera-plus-le-carre-rouge_n_1612264.html
The leader of the Parti Quebecois,Pauline Marois, has put her red square away for good.
She said so Wednesday morning on the show, “Puisqu’il faut se lever,” hosted by Paul Arcand on the radio at 98.5 FM.
“I will no longer wear the red...
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Tyrant children? Really? (La Presse)
Jerry Beaudoin, Primary school teacher June 2, 2012
Original French Text: http://www.lapresse.ca/debats/le-cercle-la-presse/actualites/201206/02/48-443-des-enfants-rois-vraiment.php
I’m truly astonished every time, after more than a hundred days of student outcry, that I’m still reading such spiteful and condescending clichés about students in comments on various social networks.
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Opinion – The oppressor as victim (Le Devoir)
Francis Dionne Montreal June 19 2012
Original French Text: http://www.ledevoir.com/societe/actualites-en-societe/352773/la-victimisation-du-bourreau
The trivialization of violence is spreading in Quebec society, or so we are told. “Casseurs,” intimidators (i.e. strike supporters, demonstrators and general protesters) are poisoning the collective mind, which once upon a time was...
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Bill 78 – Artists, intellectuals, syndicalists:...
Original French Text: http://profscontrelahausse.org/communiques/loi-78-artistes-intellectuel-les-syndicalistes-unis-contre-linfame-speciale/
Montreal, June 20th 2012/ CNW Telbec/ - Tomorrow, June 21st, 49 people, among some 1200 signatories of a letter against the infamous special law, will take to the street to arrive at the office of the premier of Quebec and the leader of the liberal party....
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Letter from Elise Turcotte to the Premier
June 18, 2012
Original French Text: https://www.facebook.com/notes/kim-doré/lettre-délise-turcotte-à-lendroit-du-premier-ministre/10150927469944705
Mister Premier,
I am writing to you today, to you, to your government, knowing in advance that the words of a writer don’t interest you, that you won’t read them since they have never and will never have any impact on the economic life of your...
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Letter: Intimidation over casseroles (Le Devoir)
Denise Eva Ouellette - Verchères June 11, 2012 (Published June 13, 2012)
Original French Text: http://www.ledevoir.com/societe/actualites-en-societe/352278/intimidation-a-propos-des-casseroles
Sunday, June 10, around 8:20 PM, we were two retired couples, two young couples, and seven children who were playing together in the park of Verchères. It was a peaceful and festive demonstration...
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Violence -- Brazen Dishonesty (Le Devoir)
Virginie Larivière - Doctoral student in Environmental Sciences at UQAM and author and spokesperson for a petition of 1.5 million signatures against television violence in 1992.
June 19, 2012
Original French Text: http://www.ledevoir.com/societe/actualites-en-societe/352769/malhonnetete-ehontee
Dear Premier Jean Charest,
I hope, in this space, to express my trouble with your repeated appeals...
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Ottawa flies to the defense of the Charest...
Joël-Denis Bellavance June 20, 2012
Original French text: http://www.lapresse.ca/actualites/quebec-canada/politique-quebecoise/201206/20/01-4536841-loi-78-ottawa-vole-a-la-defense-du-gouvernement-charest.php
(OTTAWA) Twenty-four hours after adding its voice to that of the Charest government in denouncing United Nations critics with regard to the special law (78), the Harper government took...
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Jacques Villeneuve tells protesters to "stop...
June 8, 2012
Original French Text: http://www.radio-canada.ca/nouvelles/societe/2012/06/07/004-villeneuve-manifestation-etudiants.shtml
The student protests are in the sights of a new, high-profile detractor— and he weighs into them like a freight train.
Jacques Villeneuve, ex-champion of the Formula 1, is fed up with the protest movement that has dragged on for months and now threatens...
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The CLASSE defines its plan of action for the...
Original French text: http://www.bloquonslahausse.com/2012/06/la-classe-definit-son-plan-daction-pour-lete/
Montreal, 18 June 2012 — The assocations that make up the CLASSE (the Coalition large de l’Association pour une solidarité syndicale étudiante / Broad Coalition of the Association for Student Union Solidarity) held a congress on Sunday in order to work out the organisation’s...
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Law 78: The Harper Government supports Québec (La...
Joël-Denis Bellavance & Martin Croteau June 19, 2012
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(Ottawa) The Conservative government has made a grand gesture to defend Quebec’s right to have adopted Law 78, a measure aimed at stifling the student conflict. What’s more, the conservatives are challenging opposition parties to follow its lead. Stephen Harper’s lieutenant in Quebec, Christian...
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Account of a search in my home (La Presse)
Francine Lamarche June 12, 2012
The author is the mother of a young 25-year old man who was subject to a search related to a break-in at the University of Montréal.
Original French Text: http://www.lapresse.ca/debats/votre-opinion/201206/12/01-4534163-recit-dune-perquisition-chez-moi.php
Thursday, June 7, 6:01am…
There is ringing at the door. That’s rare at this hour… But me,...
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Student conflict: the FECQ launches a third appeal...
The Canadian Press June 18, 2012
Original French Text: http://www.ledevoir.com/politique/quebec/352761/conflit-etudiant-la-fecq-lance-un-troisieme-appel-a-la-mediation
FECQ president Éliane Laberge thinks that mediation, a process that has “stood the test of time,” would allow all parties to come together and arrive at a satisfactory compromise.
Today, the Fédération étudiante...
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Police Denial (La Presse)
Rima Elkouri June 12, 2012
Original French Text: http://www.lapresse.ca/debats/chroniques/rima-elkouri/201206/12/01-4534009-deni-policier.php
“Charged with driving while black.” This is what black Americans call it when they are victims of profiling while driving, with no other reasonable motive. Rather than being accused of driving while intoxicated, they get a veiled accusation...
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Talking "Responsibility" With Jean Charest (La...
Vincent Marissal June 18, 2012
Original French Text: http://blogues.lapresse.ca/marissal/2012/06/18/parlons-%C2%ABresponsabilite%C2%BB-avec-jean-charest/ I don’t know what message exactly the liberal strategists are seeking to send [with the ad that was released today, which is viewable here], but if they want to tell us that the last session was hard and that their leader is tired,...
