Friday July 25, 2008
Latest Columns 
Mr. Charest's remarkable resurgence
Published: Monday, June 30, 2008 12:00 AM Page A15
When the polls started to show a spectacular rise in the popularity of Jean Charest and his Quebec Liberal Party, all card-carrying Liberals were understandably happy. Except one: Health minister Philippe Couillard, who had set his eyes for a long time on the Premier's chair, realized that his chances of replacing a man who now enjoys unprecedented support were nil. So, last week, the former neurosurgeon quit politics.
Mr. Charest's remarkable resurgence
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Online Edition: Sunday, June 29, 2008 08:52 PM
The Liberals rise in popularity means that Quebec is managed rather than governed, albeit competently
Girls gone wild?
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Online Edition: Monday, June 23, 2008 08:40 AM
Quebec's major women's rights group goes too far when it denounces the 'hypersexualization' of young girls.
Girls gone wild?
Published: Monday, June 23, 2008 12:00 AM Page A15
Quebec's major women's rights group, the Conseil du statut de la femme, recently published a 100-page denunciation of the media for promoting the ''hypersexualization'' of young girls. Girls as young as 10 want to model themselves after the likes of Britney Spears and the Spice Girls, says the council, accusing media-propagated sexist and sexual stereotypes of encouraging the very young to dress like baby prostitutes and engage in precocious sexual relations.
Taken for a ride by tolls?
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Online Edition: Monday, June 16, 2008 08:06 AM
Lysiane Gagnon asks: Should we pay to drive into the city of Montreal?
Taken for a ride by tolls?
Published: Monday, June 16, 2008 12:00 AM Page A15
Should we pay to drive into the city of Montreal? The municipal administration is toying with the idea. Each vehicle would be required to pay a toll of about $3 to enter Montreal, except during evenings and weekends.
MPs must have better things to do
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Online Edition: Monday, June 9, 2008 07:59 AM
Errors of judgment cannot be prevented by legislation, nor can they be examined by self-serving parliamentarians with an axe to grind
MPs must have better things to do
Published: Monday, June 9, 2008 12:00 AM Page A15
True, Stephen Harper made a serious error of judgment when he appointed Maxime Bernier to head Foreign Affairs. True, Mr. Bernier made more than one error of judgment as Foreign Affairs minister - the most damaging being his choice of a girlfriend, who was not the kind of person with whom a cabinet minister should be associated.
Harper's Quebec dilemma
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Online Edition: Monday, June 2, 2008 06:12 AM
The Couillard-Bernier imbroglio seriously erodes the PM's credibility
Harper's Quebec dilemma
Published: Monday, June 2, 2008 12:00 AM Page A15
The Couillard-Bernier affair is more damaging than a standard political scandal: This tawdry soap opera is making a laughing stock of a former key cabinet minister, and it seriously erodes the credibility of his boss, Stephen Harper, who is after all the major culprit in this story.
