What does it take to protect Montreal’s Chinatown?

 What does it take to protect Montreal’s Chinatown? - Montreal | Globalnews.ca

Homelessness is an issue that’s been plaguing Montreal’s Chinatown. So are real estate speculation and aging infrastructure, putting the future of the area at risk.

But recent research looking into development opportunities for Chinatown reveals potential solutions are within reach.

Family associations may be one of the keys to preserving the future of the iconic area, according to a study conducted by IRIS, a research institute.

Use of French in public spaces is stable in Quebec, according to OQLF survey

 

In 2022, 79 per cent of Quebecers used French most often in public spaces, according to OQLF data.

https://montreal.ctvnews.ca/use-of-french-in-public-spaces-has-remained-stable-in-quebec-since-2007-new-oqlf-study-1.6836117

Pellerin: Benoît Pelletier was everything a responsible politician should be

 He was also one of the people behind Conservative prime minister Stephen Harper’s 2006 motion that the Québécois form a nation within Canada.

Pellerin: Benoît Pelletier was everything a responsible politician should be (msn.com)

90e congrès de l’Acfas Les immigrants menacent le français au Québec... mythe ou réalité ?

 Les immigrants menacent-ils réellement le français au Québec ? Un colloque organisé dans le cadre du 90^e congrès de l’Acfas, Au-delà des clichés sur les immigrants et la langue au Québec, propose de déboulonner certains mythes et d’apporter des nuances.

90e congrès de l’Acfas | Les immigrants menacent le français au Québec... mythe ou réalité ? | La Presse

Hate crime in Montreal: How we talk about immigration matters

 “This is how racism and xenophobia seep in. Via sensationalistic newspaper articles that breed suspicion. Or via casual debates on TV panels presenting these thoughts as ‘common sense.’ Eventually, that carefully manufactured fear blows up in someone’s face.”

Hate crime in Montreal: How we talk about immigration matters (cultmtl.com)

Loi sur la laïcité de l’État La thèse radicale de la CAQ

 La Cour d’appel du Québec a reconnu, sans surprise, que le pouvoir de déroger à l’obligation de protéger les droits fondamentaux des citoyens a été utilisé d’une façon constitutionnellement correcte par le gouvernement du Québec dans la Loi sur la laïcité de l’État. Ce pouvoir de dérogation est inscrit dans les chartes canadienne et québécoise.

Le gouvernement a décidé d’utiliser le pouvoir de dérogation de façon préventive plutôt que de tenter de démontrer que l’interdiction du port des signes religieux pour certains agents de l’État lorsqu’ils sont en fonction est justifiée. N’oublions pas que le gouvernement avait la possibilité d’utiliser le pouvoir de dérogation après un jugement concluant à des atteintes inconstitutionnelles à des droits protégés par les chartes.

Je voudrais m’attarder ici à un aspect de la rhétorique justificatrice de l’approche du gouvernement dans la foulée de la décision^⁠1.

Loi sur la laïcité de l’État | La thèse radicale de la CAQ | La Presse

Léger: Cracking the Quebec Code: An insider’s guide to understanding Quebec's 7 core values

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/jean-marc-legers-new-book-an-insiders-guide-to-understanding-quebec/article32040139/

Jean-Marc Léger has written a book that only a Quebecker could write.  The famed pollster says so himself – and the bold title he’s chosen gives away the reason.

Cracking the Quebec Code: The 7 keys to understanding Quebecers, makes the kind of tantalizing promises for itself that a reader might expect from a marketing guru like Mr. Léger. “For the first time,” a foreword boasts, “English Canadians will have access to Quebeckers’ best-kept secrets.” Here, finally, is a “skeleton key” to the “question of Québécitude.”

Co-written with journalist Pierre Duhamel and business scholar Jacques Nantel, the book uses survey data, interviews with provincial leaders, and a novel approach measuring reactions to hundreds of key words, to come up with seven traits that define the Quebec character:

• joie de vivre [ant: sobriety]  

• easygoing [ant: alert]  

• non-committal [ant: principled]   

• victim [ant: survivor]

• villagers [ant: cosmopolitan]  

• creative [ant: realistic]  

• proud [ant: humble].

Laïcité Quelques éléments pour relativiser la « grande victoire pour la nation »

 https://www.lapresse.ca/dialogue/opinions/2024-03-06/laicite/quelques-elements-pour-relativiser-la-grande-victoire-pour-la-nation.php

Supreme Court sides with Quebec Catholic school on religious freedom

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/top-court-rules-on-catholic-schools-right-to-opt-out-of-quebecs-ethics-course/article23533643/

The decision Thursday handed a victory to Loyola High School, which went to court over a Quebec program that sought to teach ethics and world religions from a neutral standpoint. At the same time, the top court helped define some of the boundaries of Quebec’s goal of state secularism ...

 "A secular state respects religious differences; it does not seek to extinguish them," the court said ...

Constitutional lawyer Julius Grey says Thursday’s ruling strikes a blow against “strident secularism” in Quebec.

Québec Solidaire proposes 'unifying' secular charter

It's time to move forward, says MNA Françoise David

Québec Solidaire proposes 'unifying' secular charter | CBC News

Québec Solidaire has introduced a bill it says will help Quebec move forward with the ongoing debate surrounding secularism in the province. 

Party spokeswoman Françoise David introduced bill 398 — a Charter of Secularism for the Quebec government, on Wednesday at the national assembly ...