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Remembering the Lac-Mégantic rail disaster
On July 6, 2013, a train carrying 72 tank cars of toxic shale oil derailed and exploded. It killed 47 people, spilling six million litres…
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What’s going on with Quebec’s latest secularism scandal?
Imagine sending your child to school only to find them caught in a political firestorm. That’s the reality for families at Bedford Elementary in Montreal,…
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Quebec is cutting arts funding. Artists are fighting back.
You could hear the music from blocks away. More than a thousand dancers, painters, clowns, musicians, poets, and other cultural workers came out in Montreal…
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10 years later: Lessons from the Lac-Mégantic rail disaster have not been heeded
It’s been 10 years since an oil train killed 47 people in Lac-Mégantic. Decision-makers haven’t learned the lessons of the disaster.
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Quebec is proposing to gut tenants’ rights with a new law
Bill 31 would remove some significant rights from tenants, and hand over more discretionary power to landlords
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Eastern Canada needs to speed up its climate transition
Organized opposition has already put the stop to a number of fossil fuel projects in Eastern Canada—it’s time to put the stake through the industry…
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Is Quebec a distinct society when it comes to inequality?
It isn’t exactly a shining beacon of equality, but Quebec does a lot of things better. Those policies are the result of relatively strong unions…
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No strings attached
As emergency rooms are overwhelmed, surgery wait times continue to lengthen, and under-resourced childrens’ hospitals face surges related to viral infections like COVID, the provincial…
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Flush with cash
In March 2022 we published a report predicting that most provinces would be in fiscal surplus territory by the end of the 2021–22 fiscal year…
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Three-tier education system in Quebec: The state of the situation
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Lessons learned from the Quebec election campaign
After a 30-day election campaign, the CAQ was re-elected with an even more comfortable majority than in 2018.
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How public funding for private options reinforces school segregation in Quebec
Erika Shaker, in conversation with Anne Plourde, researcher at l’Institut de Recherche et d’Informations Socioéconomiques (IRIS)
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