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  • Kate 08:45 on 2026-04-26 Permalink | Reply  

    woman reading newspaperQuebec politics was front and centre this week: Côté mixes the political colours and Godin implies that anglophones are pulling Charles Milliard’s strings. Meantime, PSPP is hampered by a certain weight and Christine Fréchette juggles her cabinet while Super Minister Drainville gets on with the job.

    Canada’s new ambassador to the U.S. joins a class with Michael Rousseau and Mary Simon.

    Playoff season is always a good hook so Ygreck gives us Fréchette’s starting lineup. Côté’s fan can’t see a problem (and this is from a Quebec City cartoonist!).

    Of course, Trump never goes away. Godin shows him chomping down on a Mexican-Canadian sandwich, Côté finds him lost in a game of snakes and ladders and Ygreck sees him parting the Red Sea.

    Sometimes a cartoonist will illustrate news I don’t see anywhere else. Godin notes Quebec’s abandonment of a system in place since 1970 for testing water safety at several beaches. (Story here on Radio‑Canada.)

    And once again, Côté with good social observation, and a possible upside to the end of home postal delivery (although I’ve never seen one of those cartoon mailboxes in real life).

     
    • Kate 08:40 on 2026-04-26 Permalink | Reply  

      The Gazette ponders the future of French as automatic translation becomes ubiquitous. Recently I saw someone complain at seeing so much English in /r/quebec, then people told him Reddit had recently reset a lot of users to see auto translated postings by default. I’d seen it myself but it was so weird seeing /r/quebec in English that I knew there was something up and switched it off.

      The article makes a point that sometimes auto translations can be inaccurate or misleading. I wouldn’t read Tolstoy or Murakami in auto translate, but if you just want the gist of a news story it’s fine.

       
      • Kate 08:33 on 2026-04-26 Permalink | Reply  

        A pedestrian was killed in a hit‑and‑run early Sunday in Côte‑des‑Neiges.

         
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