Stéphanie Chouinard
@DrSChouinard
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Prof, POL @RMCCanadaCMR x @queensu x @CAF_College | #polcan #cdnpoli #frcan #onfr | Parfois à @cbcradiocanada , @lactualite , et @acadienouvelle
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Witnessing the
@nytimes
' coverage of Canadian events in the past few days is making me question their coverage of world events writ large. If they can be *so completely off* about their own neighbour, how trustworthy is their reporting of other countries?
#cdnpoli
Breaking News: Prime Minister Justin Trudeau invoked an emergency law in Canada for the first time in 50 years to quell widespread anti-government protests.
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So the front-runner of the CPC leadership race is siding with the “freedom convoy”?
Did I get that right?
#cdnpoli
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Nouvelle affectation / New job title:
Maman.
Bienvenue dans le monde, bébé Loïc.♥️
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@nytimes
This is wrong. The Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms is explicitly upheld in the Act.
You guys are really doing a terrible job covering this. Call some Canadians perhaps.
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I fully stand by what I said. You're angry with the PM? Fair enough! Get involved with the other team(s). Advocate for their platforms. Go door-knocking. Organize.
But democracy is a fight between ideas, not people. Violence and threats have no place in it. Period.
#elxn44
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On m’a demandé cet après-midi de commenter la nouvelle de la séparation des Trudeau. J’ai décliné l’invitation.
Il y a des situations où « l’angle politique » n’est pas approprié. Un événement personnel comme celui-ci tombe dans cette catégorie, à mon humble avis. ✌🏼
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1. It’s called a swastika. There were several on them on display all over the Hill.
2. You knew exactly who organized this protest and what they stand for.
3. You showed up anyway.
#cdnpoli
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Protecting you and your colleagues.
Stopping the flow of money for terrorist activities.
Patiently moving protesters since 8AM without anyone getting hurt.
Protestors using their children as human shields.
Welcome to the sh*tshow you've been supporting for 22 days.
#cdnpoli
Shutting down Parliament.
Police check points.
Freezing bank accounts without due process.
Crushing peaceful protesters with the full force of the state.
Separating children from their parents.
Welcome to Justin Trudeau's Canada.
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So, the network that had booked for election night just... cancelled on me.
So, if you're in need of a political scientist who was camera-ready and in for the long haul tonight, who can speak on the NB / Ontario / Québec / Francophone vote last minute... 🙋♀️
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My dad's a welder.
You know what he would call a welder who works with his bare hands?
A moron.
Tell me you're trying to appeal to the blue-collar class while knowing nothing of the blue-collar class.
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I didn’t watch PMJT’s testimony at the Rouleau commission yesterday, but judging by the right-wing rage-farming about the fact that he dared to *gasp* speak French for a few minutes - with simultaneous interpretation, obvi -, he must have done okay.
#cdnpoli
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Canada is home to 1,36M folks of Ukrainian descent (StatCan 2016). We have the biggest Ukrainian diaspora in the world aside from Russia (and Ukraine itself, obviously).
They make up 15% of Manitoba, 13% of Saskatchewan, and 10% of Alberta's population. 2/3
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In the country that calls itself "leader of the free world", women just lost the freedom to make decisions over their own body.
Quelle sombre journée.
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Je me souviens.🌹
Geneviève Bergeron
Hélène Colgan
Nathalie Croteau
Barbara Daigneault
Anne-Marie Edward
Maud Haviernick
Barbara Klucznik-Widajewicz
Maryse Laganière
Maryse Leclair
Anne-Marie Lemay
Sonia Pelletier
Michèle Richard
Annie St-Arneault
Annie Turcotte
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That's demonstrably false. Go take a walk in St-Quentin, NB, Casselman, ON, or even St-Boniface, MB. There are plenty of places outside of Québec where French is the common language.
The myth of the French language stopping at the Québec border dies hard.
#cdnpoli
#frcan
@thomasjuneau
Anglos don’t need French outside of Quebec. Quebecers need English outside of Quebec.
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A propos of nothing at all, I just want to say that as a Canadian political science professor, one of my life-long wishes will forever be that Canadians care maybe just *half as much* about
#cdnpoli
as they care about American politics.
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I can’t believe the media has been letting Singh repeat this stunt all week.
When politicians partake in what amounts to disinformation on how our system of government functions, it seems to me we should at least push back…
#cdnpoli
.
@TheJagmeetSingh
explains why he's asking the governor general not to dissolve Parliament and call an election, if the prime minister asks: "If there hasn't been a loss of confidence, why is Justin Trudeau calling this election?"
#cdnpoli
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Because if we spelled his name the same way in French as you do in English, we’d be calling the President of Russia a whore.
@SomeGuy_Tor78
Really? Why does a Russian name need a French spelling? How would you spell my name in French?
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Vous constaterez peut-être que je serai moins présente cet automne. C'est que
@_seanstephenson
et moi avons entrepris un nouveau projet...
If you notice I'm MIA in the next few months...
Bébé Chouinard-Stephenson, arrivée prévue dans quelques semaines.
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Je vous présente mon père. Hier, il a fait son dernier quart de travail à la mine, après 30 ans comme soudeur. Pour marquer l'événement, la mine a nommé l'une des rues en son nom - un geste unique. Ce n'est pas un grand émotif, mais je peux vous dire qu'il était fier. 1/
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Mr. Campbell,
I'm not from Québec. I'm not a talking head. And maybe instead of furiously emailing me you could have listened to the journalist who, just before me, stated nearly 100 complaints are filed *each year* re:
#AirCanada
.
Oh, and it's Dr. Chouinard to you.
#cdnpoli
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A message regarding my relationship with the Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation.
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Geneviève Bergeron
Hélène Colgan
Nathalie Croteau
Barbara Daigneault
Anne-Marie Edward
Maud Haviernick
Maryse Laganière
Maryse Leclair
Anne-Marie Lemay
Sonia Pelletier
Michèle Richard
Annie St-Arneault
Annie Turcotte
Barbara Klucznik-Widajewicz
Je me souviens d’elles.🌹
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Husband upon seeing this:
“What do they think this is, la Guerre des Tuques?!”
#cdnpoli
In front of Parliament, occupiers build snow barriers to fortify their position.
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G&M has officially gone off the deep end.
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Does the Commission know that we expect the debate to be between the leaders, not with the journalists?
This format is hella weird.
#elxn44
#cdnpoli
#Debate2021
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In other words, for a lot of Canadians, the crisis unfurling in
#Ukraine
, quite literally, hits home.
Please keep this in mind as we collectively ponder what Canada can, and should, do to help, today and in the future. 3/3
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Après avoir entendu 4 chefs sur 5, je suis vendue au format de l'entrevue trois journalistes / cinq chefs d'
@iciradiocanada
. Informatif, sans complaisance, mais sans vitriol. Une expérience à répéter, à mon humble avis.
#polcan
#elxn44
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Pardon me this pedantic spelling moment, but for frig's sake, people.
It's spelled "siege", not "seige".
It's from the French word "siège", which literally translates to "seat".
You're welcome.
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Pendant ce temps, au Canada, c'est moins de 20% de la majorité anglophone qui peut tenir une conversation dans l'autre langue officielle.
#polcan
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Quand t’es seulement de passage à Montréal pour une demi-journée mais que tu sais ce que tu veux —
When you’re only in Montréal for half a day but you know what’s up 🔥🥯
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Le pdg d'Air Canada n'a pas l'intention d'apprendre le français. « J'ai toujours pu vivre à Montréal sans parler français », m'explique Michael Rousseau. #Àvosaffaires
#LCN
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A PSA to all the unilinguals who don’t have a first-hand experience of this:
It’s not because you speak a second language really well, even passing for a native speaker, that you’re as comfortable in it than you are in your mother tongue.
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This is my dad. Yesterday was his last day at the mine, after a 30-year career as a welder. To mark the event, the company named one of the mine's main streets after him - the 1st time they've done such a thing. He's not an emotional kind of guy, but I can tell he's touched. 1/
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I'm not going to pretend I'm suddenly an expert on
#Ukraine
.
But as a "Canadianist", what I can tell you is why this conflict is important to
#cdnpoli
.
Spoiler alert: It's not just because of
@cafreeland
, and it's not just because of
#NATO
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Also see: French Canadian.
The number of times I've heard ignorant comments about "Canadian French being a trashy/bastardized kind of French"... from folks who do not speak a single word of the language, bien sûr.
#cdnpoli
#frcan
Are you really a Louisiana francophone if anglophones aren't constantly trying to tell you that your language "isn't like that real French"
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If you know me, you know that I don't care for titles generally.
But when a journalist calls 2 (male) colleagues for a story and addresses them as "Professor", then gets in touch with me and calls me "Stephanie"...
I'll let you come to your own conclusion.
#AcademicChatter
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Tonight, my thoughts are with American women. Bodily autonomy can never be taken for granted.
Ce soir, je tourne mes pensés vers les Américaines. L'autonomie corporelle ne peut jamais être prise pour acquise.
#RoeVWade
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I've published not 1, but 2 columns this month to criticize a Trudeau cabinet minister. But I dare tweet to poke fun of a Poilievre speech, and suddenly the trolls come out to let me know I'm a delusional Liberal shill.
Partisan Twitter seriously needs to go touch some grass.
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Lord Durham, 1839: « Les Canadiens français sont un peuple sans histoire et sans culture. Assimilons-les. »
Twitter, 2020: « Les Canadiens français sont les plus racistes au Canada. »
Franchement gang. Ça commence à faire, le franco/Québec-bashing.
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About 100 seats out of 338 in
@OurCommons
, or close to 30% of the seats, are decided either entirely or in large part by francophones.
But please, do continue to ignore their existence.🤷♀️
#elxn44
#cdnpoli
Nothing in Canadian politics has ever been affected by a “French language leaders’ debate.” Sorry.
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Bon début de semaine à tous et à toutes, sauf aux jambons qui s'en vont manifester devant les hôpitaux aujourd'hui.
Travailleurs et travailleuses de la santé, courage.
Et surtout, merci.❤️
#polcan
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Welp, if this whole Nazi in Parliament scandal is not the best way to shut up anyone who’s trying to denigrate the value of a solid liberal arts education, I don’t know what is.
World History 101 right here. 🤦🏼♀️
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L’enfer, c’est dormir dans le même hôtel qu’un tournoi de hockey.
- Jean-Paul Sartre
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À propos de rien du tout:
As a white francophone, I would kindly ask of white anglophones that they don't instrumentalize my people's history to dismiss or minimize
#Black
,
#Indigenous
, and people of colour's historical and contemporary experience in Canada.
#BIPOC
#cdnpoli
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Hallucinant.
“Unlike other linguistic communities, we’ve managed to assimilate you all already, Francophones.”🙄
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Look at that. It’s almost as if the police can actually enforce laws.
Huge if true.
#cdnpoli
Huge police presence. So far, one by one, all the protesters in vehicles have left as asked.
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Nope nope nope nope nope nope
@StevenDelDuca
Ontario NDP Leader
@AndreaHorwath
doesn't think vaccines should be mandatory. Instead, she says education workers who aren't vaccinated should be required to take rapid tests.
"Unlike
@StevenDelDuca
, I don't take lightly people's charter rights," says Horwath.
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Not only did I get to co-hood my first Ph.D. student today, I also had the honour to meet the Right Honourable Joe Clark, who received a doctorate honoris causa from
@queensu
. His words for the graduating class were full of wisdom.
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À mes amis québécois, bonne fête nationale!
À mes amis franco-canadiens, bonne St-Jean!
Et à tous et à toutes: bonne élimination des Knights!
#GoHabsGo
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What I have been fearing would happen since I began teaching at
@RMCCanadaCMR
: the death of a former student while in service.
My sincere condolences to all colleagues who knew Abbigail Cowbrough and to her family.
TDV / VDV
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The
@TorontoStar
portrays inaccurately the OLA changes and is using old tired arguments to dismiss bilingualism.
English Canada does not have the monopoly on racial diversity in this country. Stop using it as a straw man to impose anglo dominance.
#cdnpoli
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@JulieSLalonde
Ugh. As a new mom to a baby boy this is something I’ve been thinking about - since even before he was born. Have had discussions with my S/O about this too.
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Je me demande si tous les politiciens
#polqc
qui récupèrent de façon éhontée le décès de Karl Tremblay se sentent un peu interpelés par ces paroles:
“Et si c’est ça, l’Québec moderne
Ben moi j’mets mon drapeau en berne
Et j’emmerde tous les bouffons qui nous gouvernent”.
🫠
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« Savoir écrire, c’est aussi savoir penser. »
Je ne peux qu’abonder dans le sens de
@kick1972
. Mes étudiants râlent que je suis « trop sévère » sur la correction du français… c’est parce qu’au contraire d’autres collègues, je les corrige.
#viedeprof
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That's a courageous bunch right there.
(And I say this with absolutely no sarcasm. Every one of them faces severe consequences for this.)
#StandwithUkraine
People attend an anti-war protest in Saint Petersburg, Russia, amid Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine.
LIVE UPDATES:
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Sauf que cette carte ne représente pas le territoire du Québec. 🤦🏼♀️
Au nom du
#PQ
,
@SylvainGaudrea2
a fait adopter le principe de souveraineté environnementale, stipulant que seules les lois du Québec devraient s’appliquer sur le territoire du Québec. 🌎
L’
#Assnat
envoie ainsi un message clair au Canada: notre territoire, nos lois.
#Polqc
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There’s a lot of daylight between « unhappy » and « inaccurate ». The NYT had to retract two of its own headlines this week.
Also, several convoy participants showed up w/ expensive gear and limited edition vehicles most folks couldn’t afford. Spare me the fake « class war » BS.
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Remember when folks mocked Michael Wernick for saying he was afraid "somebody [was] going to be shot", back when he was still clerk of PCO?
#cdnpoli
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NDP leader
@theJagmeetSingh
showed huge disrespect for Franco-Ontarians today. He came to
@UofSudbury
, then said he would deny the community who welcomed him the autonomous, French-language institution it wants and deserves. Incredibly tone-deaf.
#elxn44
#onfr
#cdnpoli
#Sudbury
It was great to see
@theJagmeetSingh
this morning in
#Sudbury
talking about the importance of saving LU instead of allowing the CCAA process to make things worse!
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My feed was polluted with a *lot* of anti-off lang / anti-French content this wkd, mostly stemming from that WaPo clickbait piece. D'habitude je serais montée aux barricades, mais il y a des moments où on doit penser à sa santé mentale. This is when a great partner really helps👇
Grew up in Saskatchewan. Did French immersion. Did common and civil law in a bilingual program. Worked at the Supreme Court in both. Ended up finding my ❤️ with
@DrSChouinard
. Still don’t know why these sentiments exist when so many in the world speak at least 2 or more languages
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Suite aux réponses positives à mes chroniques électorales, l'
@acadienouvelle
m'a proposé de devenir chroniqueuse régulière. J'aurai le plaisir de partager mes réflexions sur la politique fédérale et provinciale à toutes les deux semaines! 🥳
#polcan
#nbpoli
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Lundi confession:
Je suis atteinte d'une maladie mentale qui, je crois, touche plusieurs parents francophones.
Le symptôme principal: fredonner des chansons de Passe-Partout 24/7... même quand son enfant dort à poings fermés.
À l'aide.😅
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Wow, is this ever a shite take.
The
#OLA
is 52 years old.
Young talented « go-getters » know they need a functioning knowledge of the other
#offlang
in the public service.
Had no opportunity learn? Take that up with your prov gov’t for underfunding French immersion.
#cdnpoli
Opinion: How Bilingualism Promotes the Mediocre. From the Secret Public Servant.
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Bonne Journée internationale de la
#Francophonie
à tous les Canadiens et Canadiennes... sauf à ceux qui pensent que le français est un « inconvénient » pour notre pays 🙄
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This. All of this.
#AtIssue
: The political response to the Air Canada CEO’s lack of French.
@RosieBarton
@ChantalHBert
@acoyne
@althiaraj
#cdnpoli
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Mr. Knowles,
9 provinces have actively discriminated against French speakers. Some still do.
This « backwater area » has the country’s best social programs and was the first to create subsidized child care.
And there are a million francos outside Quebec.
Stéphanie, with an I.
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1. Publish a piece on official languages.
2. Get random emails from folks angry that French is still an official language in Canada.
3. Delete said emails.
Wash, rinse, repeat.
#viedeprof
#mylife
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Alternate heading:
Toronto journalist leaves the city for the first time, discover rural Canadians have pastimes. 🤷♀️
Skating on frozen rivers and lakes—a pastime known as “wild” or “Nordic” skating, common in Scandinavian countries—is growing in popularity in Canada, particularly during the pandemic.
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Dear English media in
#onpoli
,
You reported on the cut of the
@ont_ECO
and Child Advocate. Most of you have been silent on the abolition of the
@FLSContario
. Please don’t let this decision go unnoticed. This decision should worry all Ontarians, not just francophones.
#onfr
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“Imagine the shrieking and handwringing that would follow an announcement by any other province (particularly Alberta) if it were to declare itself English only.”
Except that Alberta already did. In 1988. Imagine that.
#cdnpoli
#abpoli
#qcpoli
GUNTER: Trudeau letting Francois Legault get away with his French-only bill to win votes in Quebec
#yeg
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À tous les francophones du Canada, bonne
#SaintJean
, et bonne fête nationale à nos confrères québécois. Continuons à bâtir sur l'amour de cette langue qui nous unit et à travailler collectivement pour consolider l'importance du fait français dans notre pays.
#frcan
#polcan
#polqc
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Geneviève Bergeron
Hélène Colgan
Nathalie Croteau
Barbara Daigneault
Anne-Marie Edward
Maud Haviernick
Barbara Klucznik-Widajewicz
Maryse Laganière
Maryse Leclair
Anne-Marie Lemay
Sonia Pelletier
Michèle Richard
Annie St-Arneault
Annie Turcotte
Ne jamais oublier.
#Polytechnique
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It's simple: because legal doesn't mean accessible.
Ask women from rural Canada, or almost all of Atlantic Canada.
#cdnpoli
Abortion has been legal in Canada for decades, but the issue seems to resurface every federal election. Here's why.
@avneetdhillon
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Geneviève Bergeron
Hélène Colgan
Nathalie Croteau
Barbara Daigneault
Anne-Marie Edward
Maud Haviernick
Maryse Laganière
Maryse Leclair
Anne-Marie Lemay
Sonia Pelletier
Michèle Richard
Annie St-Arneault
Annie Turcotte
Barbara Klucznik-Widajewicz
#6d
écembre
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Je me souviens.
(Molly Lamb Bobak, Red Poppies, 1977)
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The Feds… will hire doctors?
Does everybody in Ottawa need a refresher on federalism during this election or what?! 🤦🏼♀️
#elxn44
#cdnpoli
This a.m., Trudeau was at Dalhousie Uni to promise a Liberal government would hire 7,500 family docs, nurses and nurse practitioners. In the 2019 platform, the Liberals said they would ensure every Canadian would have access to a family doctor or primary health team.
#cdnpoli
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Dusted off my grandma’s baking pans today.
Gâteau aux carottes et aux épices, glaçage au citron et fromage à la crème. 🥕🐇
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Aujourd’hui, on pleure. Demain, on sèche nos larmes, on retrousse nos manches, et on monte aux barricades pour faire renverser cette décision inacceptable. Le
@CSFontario
est une institution essentielle à l’Ontario français.
#onfr
#onpoli
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"When Qc introduced subsidized daycare, the resulting economic boom delivered a fiscal windfall that more than paid for the added costs."
A little less conversation, a little more policy learning please. The solution to curbing the she-cession is obvious.
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Oof.
@washingtonpost
, please get a new Canadian columnist.
N.B.: French Canadians have been complaining about how bonkers this guy's takes are for a while. Now that he's *also* going after parliamentarianism, is the rest of the country finally going to notice?
#cdnpoli
#polcan
Opinion: Could a refusal to transfer power happen in Canada? There are reasons to worry.
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