CanadaFrançois Legault: Quebec’s man with a planHe leads a right-leaning ‘coalition’ that calls sovereignty dépassé. And Quebec can’t get enough of him.
OttawaHey look: Turns out a bad month for the sovereignty movement is a bad month for the sovereignty movementFrom the magazine, my column fails completely to find a silver lining for Pauline Marois.
GeneralWhere was Lucien when it mattered?It’s almost as if he’d never been in charge. First, Lucien Bouchard breaks his years-long silence to say the PQ is hopelessly...
GeneralWhy it’s worth paying attention to the PQ’s demands“They don’t make much sense, but they may not have to”
GeneralCoalition fever: The swine flu of 2008Just try to imagine the hand-wringing this would’ve caused across Canada: A Bloc-supported coalition in power in Ottawa with the...
GeneralAt DMA, tomorrow’s polls today (AKA good news for the Charest Liberals)"Smells like... victory ." (CP photo) A little birdy told me some news. It seems there is a new poll coming out tomorrow, and it...
GeneralBonsoir, merci, salut la visiteThe main story emerging from this non-story of an election in Quebec is the complete, total, utter, out-and-out, unmitigated and...
GeneralThe boss was (allegedly) not amusedJacques Nadeau must have a great sense of humour. How else would the journalist, press attaché and forest fire expert (you can’t...
GeneralWhere’s Mario?If we’re going strictly on stereotypes, you could say that La Presse is the newspaper of the great, large, mushy middle ground...
General"I’ll take ’Barrel of Monkeys’ for $200, Alex."So after putting into words what his leader has already done in practice –– that is to say, acknowledging the credibility gap...