Don MacPherson
Charest and Marois must both face their language hard-liners
Charest wants party to boost nationalism, while Marois fights with anti-anglo crowd
Woman trouble
Charest's Liberals are losing the female vote to the PQ despite stacking the cabinet with women
French in the minority? So what?
French is the overwhelming language of the street and off-island communities
Pauline Marois and her flip-flops on policy
The PQ leader's reign has been marked by contradictions and confusion
If Quebec is secular, why is there a cross on our flag?
Quebecers seem to want the separation of church and state, except for one religion
Le Journal discovers that fearmongering sells newspapers
Montreal daily has a penchant for alerting readers to threats from minority citizens
Quebecers are in a Hérouxville state of mind
Reasonable accommodations and wrangling for nationalist votes marked the year
No smoking gun in Schreiber cash for Charest
But the real scandal is that the donation would be legal under Quebec laws today
For once, good news for both anglos and francophones
StatsCan figures give both groups good reasons to cheer
Anglos don't seem to understand accommodation crisis
Hearings in English underscore differences between Montrealers and other Quebecers
We might begin to hear new voices as hearings hit city
So far, old-stock francophones from the regions mainly had their say
What were they expecting?
Bouchard, Taylor offer a platform to any racist nutbar, and then criticize the media
'Nous wave' music sweeps Quebec
Popular songs of Mes AÏeux touch on themes of identity at the heart of reasonable-accommodation debate
Language and the Habs
Imagine the reaction if the Leafs captain addressed his fans solely in French
Charest's statement didn't help him
Premier's appeal for tolerance for minorities serves only to keep Marois's speak-French bill in the public eye
Who needs the accommodation commission?
The government is acting on the issue without waiting for the panel's report