During the September 2024 federal byelection campaign in LaSalle-Émard-Verdun, municipal employees took down several hundred posters placed by the registered party LEV 4 Palestine, whose website harks back to that campaign.
Removing election campaign posters during the campaign period is illegal, and the city has now recognized the error and come to an unstated agreement with the party.
Christopher Curtis writes about the social death of Muslim women in Quebec in The Rover.
Given that one of the biggest pools of francophone immigrants comes from the Maghreb, yes, they’re shooting themselves in the pied.
They protect the language, not the culture.
jeather, you’re right about that. Not the culture, but arguably la francophonie seen as a global phenomenon.
@jeather I was being tongue-in-cheek, referring to how the ethnonationalists like to claim that protecting the French language is a pillar of protecing French Culture™. Y’know, like how bonjour-hi is destroying Quebec.
I think the argument is that you cannot protect the culture without protecting the language but protecting the language alone is insufficient. Which, if you define culture that narrowly, is not exactly wrong
Fair point, but now we’re getting into “how many angels can dance on the head of a pin” territory.
Friday morning, a man was stabbed in a Montreal North apartment.
Another man was stabbed on a Rosemont sidewalk on Friday evening and the aggressor fled.
Also on Friday, a man is alleged to have set fire to his own apartment in Verdun.
No fatalities mentioned.
The majority of the workers in the after-school garderie my kids went to were hijabi. Ironically a lot of them only spoke French so they made my kids speak French with them even though it was an English school… so in effect these women were actually protecting French culture.