Toula Drimonis

Québec Solidaire MNA Haroun Bouazzi’s accusations of anti-immigrant, anti-minority speech and actions in the National Assembly have sparked the usual kind of outrage reserved for minorities speaking out about injustices.

“My rent was paid; I didn’t do anything wrong,” says Lorie Martin, 50. A community worker could only offer her a tent and a sleeping bag.

Like him or dislike him, the man has a right to a life. Sure, the optics weren’t great, but what exactly did his detractors want him to do?

When Geneviève Biron was introduced as the head of Santé Québec, she promised “an innovative approach.” Cutting services we barely have access to would be anything but innovative.

Difficult questions are raised by the cancelled screenings of a Canada-Israel co-production at the Montreal International Documentary Festival.

C was a toddler when the Front de libération du Québec was busy blowing up mailboxes with homemade bombs.

“As I watch politicians locked in a cycle of ever-increasing anti-immigrant rhetoric — aided by media outlets that either misreport or constantly over-report on immigration — creating dangerous narratives that we’re being completely overrun by outsiders causing all our problems, I worry.”

Premier François Legault’s proposal appears to target pro-Palestinian demonstrations.

“To quote the luminous Toni Morrison once, ‘Me and you, we got more yesterday than anybody. We need some kind of tomorrow.'”

Canada as the 51st state? No thanks, Donald Trump.