The election of a Coalition Avenir Québec (CAQ) majority government has thrust the English-speaking community in the Quebec City region into uncertainty. The community has several major projects in the…
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Maison Pollack rots while city tests powers
Winter is coming and Maison Pollack, one of the city’s distinctive architectural landmarks on Grande Allée, with its six towering white columns, remains abandoned, exposed and crumbling. The building’s fate is…
Vacant lot behind Maison Péan will get its park
Behind the large stone building known as the Maison Péan, located at 59 Rue Saint-Louis, a field has lain abandoned for nearly 25 years. Its overgrown grass and bushes are…
Under the Rainbow: Quebec City Pride Festival a big success
The Quebec City Pride Festival, also known as the Fête Arc-en-Ciel, was held this weekend, with activities taking place across the city day and night. On both Saturday and Sunday,…
The subpoena road to impeachment
Problems at the White House are rapidly mounting. The president of the United States is going through a critical period of his presidency. Several of his former campaign associates have…
Quebec government unveils options for third bridge
With an election call looming, the Quebec government hastened last week to announce plans for a third link across the St. Lawrence River between Quebec City and Lévis. The plans…
Lost in translation in Helsinki
The summit meeting between U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin in Helsinki on July 16 generated a tremendous amount of turmoil and anger towards the president of…
A New NATO 2.0 is needed to face hybrid warfare
Last week’s NATO meeting in Brussels gave U.S. President Donald Trump yet another chance to upend the natural order of things and reaffirm his position that the United States of…
Trudeau’s lesson: The land may be strong, but voters are stronger
As far as anniversaries of paradigm-shifting events go, the 50 candles for the first election victory of Pierre Elliott Trudeau seem to have been lit and snuffed with scarcely a…
Trump’s new justice to rule them all
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy’s retirement is giving President Donald Trump the rare opportunity to replace the only swing vote on the bench with a conservative one. Until now,…