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Montreal has spoken. We’re proud to bring you our 12th annual Best of MTL issue — a reflection of what this city does best and what this city loves. ♥️
#BestOfMTL
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The less educated you are, the more likely you are to vote Conservative.
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“Sometimes it’s hard to tell who’s the bigger idiot: the politician campaigning against a program that benefits the majority, or the majority prepared to torpedo a program they benefit from. The carbon tax is an effective system that cuts emissions and air pollution and puts…
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The less educated you are, the more likely you are to like Pierre Poilievre.
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2 in 3 Quebecers believe the monarchy is outdated and that Canada should sever ties
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The less educated you are, the more likely you are to have a positive opinion of Pierre Poilievre.
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Quebec is still the most anti-Pierre Poilievre province in Canada
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Quebec is still the most anti-Pierre Poilievre province in Canada
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“This has nothing to do with protecting French in Quebec. François Legault may present himself as a defender of Quebec’s culture, society and language, but he does so in a manner no different from the Catholic Church that held the province captive throughout la Grande Noirceur.…
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“A new report by the OQLF has confirmed that French is NOT in decline in Quebec. In fact, the use of English in public spaces has decreased since 2016, from 11% to 8%. The Legault government has fear-mongered about the ‘decline of French’ in order to divide Quebecers, force Bill…
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“The premier with the lowest approval rating in Canada is still complaining about hearing English in a province where 94% of people can speak French. Earlier today, François Legault inadvertently used the word ‘cool’ when he was criticizing the use of English words by francophone…
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“While support for Carey Price has been largely positive during his absence, some people feel so entitled as to assume that he owes us an explanation.” An editorial by
@dave_macattack
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#GoHabsGo
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"François Legault’s decision to double the cost of university tuition for out of province Canadian students is shortsighted, mean-spirited and, from an economic vantage point, completely idiotic. It is precisely the kind of xenophobic, politically motivated pandering to the most…
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“Bills 21 and 96 were bad enough, but without sufficient pushback from the federal government or mayor of Montreal, it was only a matter of time before Legault and his merry band of hate-mongers would go for the jugular with a stunt like this. No matter what politicians say, the…
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“The Quebec government is spending $7-million to bring the L.A. Kings to Quebec City for 2 games next year when the Habs had offered to play there without government subsidies. This was announced today by the same finance minister who says we have to tighten our belts over the…
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“The CAQ has been feeding us a steady diet of anti-immigrant rhetoric for 5 years and it’s become increasingly hard to give Legault the benefit of the doubt and pretend he means anything other than what he’s said time and time again.” |
@ToulasTake
#QC2022
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“The CAQ has been feeding us a steady diet of anti-immigrant rhetoric for half a decade and it’s become increasingly hard to give Legault the benefit of the doubt and pretend he means anything other than what he’s said time and time again.” |
@ToulasTake
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“For ideological reasons or reasons of pure partisanship, Conservative politicians across the country are not telling the truth to Canadians. 8 out of 10 families make more money with the Canada carbon rebate than it costs with the price on pollution. It’s basic math that the…
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"Anglophones have common cause with all immigrant communities and striking public sector workers to take the CAQ government down. We owe it to ourselves to build allegiances with everyone else suffering because of François Legault’s poisonous and xenophobic attack on…
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Montreal is the least Conservative city in Canada
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Just 1 in 5 Quebecers say “protecting the French language” is among the most important issues to them. A large majority in the province are more concerned with issues like the cost of living, healthcare, housing affordability, climate change and education.
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“If a growing number of Montrealers choose to say ‘Bonjour-Hi’ in certain commercial areas, it’s because the greeting resonates and works. It’s a natural evolution for a French city on an English-speaking continent. That Montrealers would develop a unique greeting to reflect…
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The less educated you are, the more likely you are to support Bill 96.
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Xavier Dolan, Robert Pattinson and Sehun star in the new Dior Men campaign
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“Proving once again that Fran��ois Legault has no interest in actually increasing the knowledge of French among anglo university students, nor of encouraging their integration into Quebec society, the CAQ has rejected McGill, Concordia and Bishop’s ‘unprecended’ offer to implement…
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Canada, Sweden, Norway, Denmark and Germany have all been named among the countries with the highest quality of life.
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Pierre Poilievre is so disliked in Quebec, he makes François Legault’s pitiful approval rating look good.
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François Legault approval rating down to 44%, a new low
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"François Legault is operating a full-scale scare campaign about the fragility of the French language, outdated anglophone clichés & old statistics about allophones, with a willful ignorance of Quebec’s linguistic reality." An editorial by
@ToulasTake
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“How badly will we let this creep fuck things up before we stand up and fight back? That should be our goal for the new year: support the striking public sector workers, join the protest wave and bring everyone else harmed by this egomaniac to the picket line.”
An editorial by…
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“The Legault government is insistent on seeing ‘outsiders’ as a threat to Quebec society, when in fact it could be the exact opposite. The CAQ’s rhetoric regarding non-francophones is highly counter-productive and divisive, and their comments are said with such disdain and…
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Montreal is once again the most anti-Pierre Poilievre city in Canada
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More and more Quebecers are seeing through the fear-mongering, acknowledging that there are far more real, urgent issues affecting people in this province. Just 3% of Quebecers now say the “decline of the French language” is the top priority facing Quebec.
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“Quebec already has serious problems with racism and xenophobia, despite its obvious dependency on immigration. The effectively bilingual anglophone universities have served first and foremost as places where cultural divides could be bridged, languages learned and people could…
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Imagine if all the time and resources used to implement Bill 21 and Bill 96 could have instead been put toward health care in Quebec?
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“No matter what politicians say, the French language is not threatened anywhere in Quebec.”
This International Francophonie Day, we are proudly reminded that 94% of Quebecers can speak French.
Bonne Journée internationale de la Francophonie! ⚜️
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“We can’t just have one type of person living in Montreal. This type of thinking is dangerous and archaic. The CAQ rhetoric around tuition hikes is telling people, ‘You don’t belong here. You’re not even welcome to come and try.’ That feels harsh and isolating. Non-francophones…
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“The Quebec government has approval ratings below 35% in healthcare, housing affordability, the cost of living and education. 420K public sector workers will strike again on Dec. 8, this time for a whole week. The CAQ still lives in an imaginary world where French is in decline…
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A large majority of Quebecers say issues like the cost of living, healthcare, housing affordability, climate change and education are among the most important to them. Just 1 in 5 say “protecting the French language” is among their greatest concerns.
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“It’s impossible to discuss teacher shortages without pointing out that the Quebec government deliberately prevented qualified teachers from practising their professions because they wear a hijab or a turban.” |
@ToulasTake
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“There’s something uniquely homegrown about a French-speaking Quebec player upset at Canada for a lack of French at an event organized by a supposedly bilingual Canadian league for a quintessentially American game, yelling in franglais ‘Gardez-la ton anglais’ and ending it with…
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“Since coming to power, François Legault has moved to distract and divide through racist laws like Bill 21. Instead of focusing on urgent realities like the lack of affordable housing, education, the cost of living crisis and threats to the environment, the CAQ has instead…
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For the first time ever, the top three TV shows streaming in Canada are all available via
@DisneyPlusCA
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#TheOrville
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“I don’t know of any anglophones and allophones in today’s Quebec who stubbornly refuse to learn French. Images of an ‘anglophone elite’ looking down at their French neighbours are outdated clichés used to push buttons to scare a majority.” |
@ToulasTake
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Solar eclipse viewed from Parc Ex in Montreal at 3:28 p.m. EDT, April 8, 2024.
#Eclipse2024
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“What Sugar Sammy’s harshest critics resent about him — and other poster children for Bill 101 — is that his ability to speak impeccable French hasn’t miraculously transformed him into a version of a Quebecer they want to see materialize.” |
@ToulasTake
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“When Legault treats immigrants as a potential source of danger and non-francophone immigrants as a threat to social cohesion, does he forget who saved our collective behinds in hospitals, CHSLDs and frontline services for the past 3 years?” |
@ToulasTake
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“One of the worst performance reviews for Quebec on health care in over eight years.”
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The less educated you are, the more likely you are to support Bill 96.
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“While most Quebecers of all ethnic origins get along just fine, I fail to see why ethnonationalist politicians and pundits are ‘shocked’ that some young Quebecers don’t readily identify as Québécois. People from immigrant backgrounds are exposed to daily recriminatory rhetoric…
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71% of Quebecers believe the Legault government has done a poor job on inflation
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“Bills 21 and 96 were bad enough, but without sufficient pushback from the federal government or mayor of Montreal, it was only a matter of time before Legault and his merry band of hate-mongers would go for the jugular with a stunt like this. No matter what politicians say, the…
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1 in 2 Quebecers believe there are better ways to protect the French language than Bill 96
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“Scapegoating Quebecers for their mother tongue or distorting stats to paint a picture of Quebec that no longer exists isn’t the way forward. We’re no longer living in the 1950s, ’60s or ’70s, and neither should our government.” |
@ToulasTake
#Bill96
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Léger: “The Quebec election will be tighter than expected”
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“I didn’t vote for François Legault and the CAQ. I would never vote for them. Legault is a populist. I don’t take as much interest in politics as I used to, because I’m so disappointed with Quebec politics right now. Part of what makes Montreal unique is that we have both French…
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“This has nothing to do with protecting the French language in Quebec or increasing funding to francophone universities. This much should be evident in a place where everybody already speaks French, where all the anglophone institutions of higher learning are already completely…
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“François Legault’s approval rating is the worst in Canada. The CAQ has approvals below 35% in healthcare, housing affordability, the cost of living and education. 565K public sector workers remain without a deal, with strikes expected to expand after the holidays. Fear-mongering…
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As thousands of students march in Montreal today to protest Quebec's planned tuition hike for out-of-province students, we'll ask again:
Has anyone seen this man?
The silence of Gabriel Nadeau-Dubois on the very issue that made his name
#manifencours
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“Part of what makes Montreal unique is that we have both French and English here. We have gotten along so well, but the CAQ is trying to divide us. Of course we have to protect French, but we can do so without alienating people and pushing them away.”
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“At what point will CAQ apologists admit that Bill 21 is even partially to blame for rising levels of prejudice against certain minority groups in Quebec? When studies find that ‘Quebecers show a unique aversion to the Jewish kippa not noted elsewhere in the country’ or that…
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“As a trilingual allophone, I speak & work primarily in English, interact in public usually in French and speak in Greek when I’m with my mom. I don’t speak English & Greek instead of French. I speak English & Greek in addition to French.” |
@ToulasTake
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64% of Montrealers oppose Bill 96
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“What the Quebec government is doing with out-of-province tuition fees is purely vindictive, designed to do nothing but shrink enrolment in English-language universities and harm their reputations within Canada. By extension, when the reputations of Concordia, McGill and Bishop’s…
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“Instead of long-term solutions that experts have repeatedly asked for, we’re seeing short-sighted advice aimed at appeasing voters, reactionary policies & a government intent on prioritizing business interests over protecting the public.” |
@ToulasTake
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“What is truly despicable is the insidious manner by which ethno-nationalists like François Legault have sought to constrain the remaining anglophone community of Quebec, limiting its growth in ways that would be completely unacceptable anywhere else. It isn’t ethnic cleansing,…
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“Since coming to power, Legault has moved to distract & divide through racist laws like Bill 21. The CAQ has dispatched open racism from the highest levels of political power to cynically mobilize votes while toxifying the political landscape.” |
@spirodon
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“Instead of negotiating with unions to keep basic societal needs like hospitals and schools functioning, the CAQ chose to distract the public with incendiary French-language talk. And now, 400,000 public sector workers will be striking Monday morning. Legault has been trying to…
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1 in 2 Quebecers believe there are better ways to protect the French language than Bill 96
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“The Legault administration is almost allergic to doing anything that would actually benefit the city and people of Montreal, throwing almost $1-billion at the Olympic Stadium when Montrealers would prefer that cash be spent on social housing and mass transit improvements. It’s a…
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“François Legault gave the OQLF more power to punish businesses with massive fines and repeat inspections via Bill 96, and this bullying is what’s led to Ye Olde Orchard renaming itself ‘Maison Publique Orchard’ — as if anyone is going to stop calling it Ye Olde Orchard.…
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“There are other ways to promote the French language in Montreal that don’t involve penalizing the anglophone minority. If Legault needs a few hundred million to invest in Quebec’s francophone universities, he could abandon his plans to replace the roof of the Olympic Stadium. By…
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"Killers of the Flower Moon was nominated nine times and went home with zero Oscars. The film's indictment of America's genocidal foundations was unlikely to win over a crowd that has always preferred self-satisfied spectacles over challenging works of art. As Jimmy Kimmel riffed…
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“History will judge the CAQ, PQ and Québec Solidaire for not protecting the rights of Quebecers”
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Failures in healthcare and education, the 30% salary increase to Quebec MNAs, Bills 21 and 96, and tuition increases at English universities. Or, perhaps more broadly, he just “makes bad decisions.”
Here’s why Montrealers are so pissed at François Legault
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The less educated you are, the more likely you are to support Bill 21.
As Quebec renews its notwithstanding clause, here’s a reminder of who the CAQ has tried to appeal to with this divisive bill.
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@LINGUA_IGNOTA_
, the high priestess of a particular brand of goth, is retiring her project in the new year, but her show at SAT on Dec. 18 will be remembered forever by the hundreds of fans in attendance. A review by
@SDBoissonneault
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“2 years in, should the Quebec government still be this surprised, this overwhelmed, this unprepared, this unable to listen to the scientific community to better tackle a variant that appeared in Europe months before it came our way?” |
@ToulasTake
#polqc
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“The fear-mongering about referendums continues. Less than two weeks after the ‘decline of French’ myth was debunked, we’re subjected to more culture wars from our public officials. Imagine how great this province could be if our politicians remained focused on issues that…
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“François Legault presents himself as a defender of Quebec’s culture, society and language, but does so in a manner no different from the Catholic Church that held the province captive during la Grande Noirceur.”
Observations from Montreal |
@TaylorNoakes
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Montreal is still the least Conservative city in Canada
Just 11% of Montrealers support the Conservative Party of Canada, compared with 67% in Edmonton.
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“One of the worst performance reviews for Quebec on health care in over eight years.”
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A sad day for rights and freedoms.
Bill 21 upheld in today’s Quebec Court of Appeal ruling
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“I see how some immigrants are exploited and unappreciated while performing vital work that no one else will — all while often listening to the discourse of politicians who treat them as a threat to the very society they’re contributing to.” |
@ToulasTake
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“When columnists say Montreal is ‘too violent,’ ‘too dirty,’ ‘too woke,’ what they often mean is that it’s too ethnic, too English, too Muslim, too Parc Ex, too Côte-des-Neiges, too populated with people who don’t speak or vote like them.” |
@ToulasTake
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“This government posts about the ‘decline of French in Quebec’ multiple times per week, ever since two employees at Uniqlo and Victoria’s Secret downtown had difficulty serving secret shoppers in French three years ago. This is not the reality for 94% of the population, but of…
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CNN White House Correspondent
@JohnJHarwood
: “So much crazy going on in that building behind me.“
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François Legault approval in Montreal reaches all-time low
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“Je ne connais pas de Québécois anglophones ou allophones qui refusent que leurs enfants apprennent le français. Je ne connais pas non plus de francophones qui ne souhaitent pas que leurs enfants maîtrisent l’anglais.” Une chronique de
@ToulasTake
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#Bill96
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“It’s been said that the greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was convincing us he didn’t exist. In Legault’s case, it was convincing us he’s any kind of nationalist. In truth, he’s all too happy to sell out the very foundations of this province, be it in terms of the…
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“It’s intellectually dishonest for Quebec nationalists to suddenly pretend to be so invested in the national anthem when they’re usually busy disparaging all things Canada. If the only time you care about the national anthem is when it’s not performed in French, you don’t really…
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“I was born in Quebec, I live in Quebec, I work in Quebec; Quebec is my home,” says Katia Rock, who was born in Malioténam, an Indigenous reserve near Sept-Îles. “So why is my traditional Inuit music categorized as world music when I’m home?” |
@ToulasTake
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