Police in Quebec City, Québec, Canada are arresting protesters as thousands take to the street to oppose unscientific lockdowns and fines against those who violate the government’s mandates.
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Masks used in Quebec schools may have been toxic
Health Canada has issued a warning after face masks issued to schools and daycares in Quebec were found to contain a toxic chemical.
Where did these masks come from? As if we need to ask.
Far-left extremists call for death of royal family, vandalize Queen Victoria statue
Members of a far-left group claiming to be responsible for a St. Patrick’s Day vandalism incident targeting McGill University’s Queen Victoria statue issued calls for the royal family to be killed via car crash in a Facebook post taking credit for the incident.
Change to Conservative leadership rules could dampen Quebec’s ‘outsized’ influence on results
Conservative Party delegates at the party’s national convention have voted to make a key change to its leadership race rules that could substantially scale back Quebec’s disproportionate influence on the result.
“This is going too far”: Quebec premier denounces cancel culture
Canadian officials are the latest to take a stance against cancel culture, which they say originates from the United States. Premier Francois Legault of Quebec has joined France and the United Kingdom to issue statements against progressive activists who currently dominate academia.
Quebec City marchers demand return of organized sports
Marchers gathered Sunday in front of the Quebec National Assembly to demand the resumption of organized sports.
The march was organized by Isaac Pépin, a Grade 10 student from the Quebec City region who has been unable to play football since the pandemic started.
Illegal gathering near Quebec City nets $55K in tickets
An illegal gathering in a ski resort region near Quebec City on Saturday night netted $54,800 in fines: $1,550 for each of the 36 partygoers.
GOLDSTEIN: Cancel culture comes for Pierre Elliott Trudeau
There’s an ongoing campaign by sovereigntists in Quebec to remove former prime minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau’s name from Montreal’s airport, arguing he oppressed Quebecers.
They want the Montreal-Trudeau International Airport renamed to honour, Rene Levesque, the late separatist premier of Quebec.
Quebec unveils $19.2M in funding to widen access to justice system for Indigenous communities
Ian Lafrenière, the minister responsible for Indigenous affairs, described the funding as an important and highly anticipated announcement. He says it’s a direct response to recommendations outlined in the report from the Viens Commission, an inquiry that examined Quebec’s relations with Indigenous Peoples.
Conrad Black: The hard truth that Quebec’s intelligentsia never admit
French-Canadians owe their cultural survival to the Roman Catholic Church; they owe their achievement of approximate economic equality with English-Canadians to Duplessis
Quebec curfew: Police issued close to 1,000 tickets last week
Nearly 1,000 Quebecers received a fines last week because they didn’t respect the province-wide COVID-19 curfew.
Stop Quebec’s ineffective lockdown now
In Quebec, our government has issued orders shutting down the province for a month, complete with an 8 pm curfew and a ban on religious services, in response to an entirely predictable seasonal surge of the coronavirus, which emerged from Wuhan, China, about one year ago. Premier Legault has offered no cost/benefit analysis and no moral justification that can stand the least scrutiny. He merely repeats the refrain of equally irresponsible medical experts who claim that this will somehow rescue us from an impending disaster by stemming the winter wave of COVID transmissions. It will do no such thing. What it will do is cause still more serious harm to people deprived of their incomes and of their support communities, to say nothing of their constitutional rights and freedoms.
If medical masks are the safer option, why aren’t we all wearing them?
Quebec announced that it would provide high school students and teachers with two surgical masks per day when it outlined the details of its back-to-school plan amid the latest lockdown.