05 September 2026
03 September 2026
Majority of Quebecers in favour of lowering legal alcohol limit to 0.05 for drivers: poll
Contrary to the Legault Government’s stance, a new Léger poll shows that a majority of Quebecers support lowering the legal blood alcohol limit from 0.08 to 0.05.
Commissioned by l’Association pour la santé publique du Québec (ASPQ), the poll reveals that 61 per cent want the limit lowered. This is a seven point jump since last year, where approval rate stood at 54 per cent in March 2024.
As the Journal de Montreal reports, lowering the limit to 0.05 per cent would potentially save nine lives per year.
https://montreal.citynews.ca/2025/05/22/quebecers-favour-lowering-alcohol-limit/
Rapport de la commission Viens : 68 appels réalisés ou en voie de l’être, dit Québec
Protection de la jeunesse, bien-être des femmes autochtones et éducation sont les priorités de Québec; les leaders autochtones se questionnent.
31 May 2026
Safe Church Concerns Trouble [2025] Montreal Bishop Election
As the Anglican Diocese of Montreal plans to elect a new bishop May 3 , it faces doubts expressed by 39 of 158 delegates. Their concerns include pressures apparently brought against the search committee, resignations from the search committee, and a murky system for church safety.
“Ongoing uncertainty surrounding the election of our next bishop … has left many people feeling hurt, confused, and unheard,” 39 delegates wrote to diocesan authorities on April 6.
They also requested more information about the “external pressures”
described by members of the search committee, nearly half of whom
resigned before submitting their final report, as well an enumeration of
the committee’s concerns about diocesan canons and safe church
policies.
https://livingchurch.org/news/news-anglican-communion/safe-church-concerns-trouble-montreal-bishop-election/
LE DROIT DE VOTE DES FEMMES AU QUÉBEC
Lors de la rédaction de leurs constitutions et manifestes républicains — comme la Déclaration d'indépendance de 1837 pour la République du Bas-Canada —, les dirigeants patriotes ont limité le droit de vote offert exclusivement aux hommes.
07 May 2026
William Johnson: The legal status of English in Quebec
During the 1995 referendum, I maintained in The Gazette that a referendum did not confer a right to secede unilaterally and that, if Canada was divisible, Quebec was also divisible. That shocked even good anglos but my position was confirmed in August 1998 by the Supreme Court of Canada ...
In their analysis of Bill 22, Frank Scott, John Humphrey (who had drafted the UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights), Irwin Cotler and four others wrote: "Section 1 which provides that French is 'the official language of the province of Quebec' is misleading in that it suggests that English is not also an official language in Quebec, which it is by virtue of Section 133 of the BNA Act and the federal Official Languages Act."
These eminent legal authorities asserted: "To promote the two cultures on the basis of equality and to allow them freedom for their natural growth and development is, we believe, the only proper policy for Quebec and for Canada, and the only one consistent with contemporary international standards of human rights."
In his initial draft of what became Bill 101, Camille Laurin had this in Section 1: "Le français est la seule langue officielle du Québec." But he was persuaded to drop seule when he was told that it would certainly be struck down by the courts, thus confirming that English was also an official language of Quebec ..1
William Johnson: The myth of disestablished English - The Métropolitain
The myth of disestablished English - The Métropolitain
Even as English is again under attack at the National Assembly during the hearings on Bill 14, it is perhaps true that most Quebecers have been misled into believing that English is not also an official language of Quebec. But that’s entirely unfounded in fact or in law. English has been an official language of Quebec ever since 1763. Every law passed since then has been passed in English. Every law to be passed by the current [SIC] Parti Québécois government will be passed in English as well as French, and the English text will be official, just as will be the French.
English is part of Quebec’s very identity. That part is largely what makes the difference between Quebec and other former colonies of France, such as Guadeloupe, Martinique, Louisiana, Haiti, Vietnam or Algeria.
So how has the myth been propagated that French is the “sole official language?” It began with the trickery of Robert Bourassa’s Bill 22 of 1974, the so-called “Official Language Act, which proclaimed – in English as well as French: “French is the official language of the province of Québec.” ...
18 April 2026
‘Catastrophic loss’: Former MP says NDP lost touch with core supporters
The New Democratic Party ran a leader-focused election campaign and lost touch with core supporters who ended up backing the Conservatives, says a former member of Parliament.
Charlie Angus, who did not run in the last election after
representing the northern Ontario riding of Timmins — James Bay for more
than two decades, — called the election a “catastrophic loss” following
a campaign that spent too much time selling leader Jagmeet Singh and
not enough time pitching its policies.
‘Catastrophic loss’: Former MP says NDP lost touch with core supporters - National | Globalnews.ca
MONEY AND ETHNIC INSTITUTIONS
Jack Jedwab, president and CEO of the Association for Canadian Studies and the Metropolis Institute, this week joined hosts Bill Brownstein and Aaron Rand on a new episode of The Corner Booth at Snowdon Deli to share stories about this pivotal moment in Quebec political history, including on Jacques Parizeau’s “money and ethnic votes” comment.
Jedwab also shared a story he had kept largely to himself from his time as executive director of the Quebec region of the Canadian Jewish Congress involving what he said was a threat to cut funding to the Jewish General Hospital.
“ I couldn’t go public with it (at the time) because it was a confidential meeting. Today, the actors are mostly no longer with us. There are a couple who were at the meeting who are still alive, and I validated this with them to make sure my memory of this exchange was correct. It was despicable. Shameful.”[The Gazette]
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