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Jean Charest

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Name: Jean Charest

First reported 23 hours ago - Updated 23 hours ago - 1 reports

Five reasons why premiers are glad they aren’t in the ‘90s

From 1990 to 1994, premiers of all stripes were defeated after a tough recession. Only the premiers of Manitoba, New Brunswick and Newfoundland and Labrador held on, while the Alberta PCs underwent one of their internal revolutions, shifting to the hard-right ... [Published Globe and Mail - 23 hours ago]

Entities: Christy Clark, Recession, Shawn Graham, Ed Stelmach

First reported May 24 2013 - Updated May 24 2013 - 1 reports

Parti Québécois

Marois government to impose Bill 101 on companies under federal jurisdiction

QUEBEC CITY – The Quebec government announced Thursday that it intends to stop federal companies from getting provincial contracts if they don’t abide by Quebec’s French Language Charter and enforce French-in-the-workplace restrictions in the provinc ... [Published Global News Canada - May 24 2013]

Entities: Quebec, Parti Québécois, Geoffrey Kelley, Nathalie Roy, Gilles Duceppe

First reported May 23 2013 - Updated May 23 2013 - 1 reports

Federal NDP leader speaks to police 'to help' with Quebec corruption probe

The leader of Canadas official Opposition has spoken to police about the corruption scandals swirling around Laval, Que.NDP Leader Tom Mulcair says he spoke to investigators in 2011 about a meeting 17 years earlier with the then-mayor, long before that ... [Published Daily Commercial News - May 23 2013]

Entities: Gilles Vaillancourt, Laval (France), Jean Charest, Quebec, Corruption

First reported May 16 2013 - Updated May 16 2013 - 3 reports

Thomas Mulcair was offered (and refused) envelope full of cash, NDP leader told police

The fallout from Quebec’s corruption scandals has reached the epicentre of Canada’s Parliament, with the federal Opposition leader revealing Thursday he once spoke to police about someone trying to pass him a suspicious-looking envelope. NDP Leader ... [Published National Post - Top Stories - May 16 2013]

Entities: Thomas Mulcair, Gilles Vaillancourt, Laval (France), Corruption, Jean Charest

First reported May 16 2013 - Updated May 16 2013 - 1 reports

Full Pundit: That’s enough, Mike Duffy

The end of the line Senator Mike Duffy should resign in disgrace and disappear. All in favour? Motion carried. Excellent. Now we can discuss what in heaven’s name the Prime Minister’s Chief of Staff, Nigel Wright, was doing cutting Duffy a $90,000 ... [Published National Post | Full Comment » Full Comment - May 16 2013]

Entities: Mike Duffy, Paul Martin, Paul Wells, Jean Charest, Andrew Coyne

First reported May 15 2013 - Updated May 15 2013 - 1 reports

Stephen Harper

The BC election and home-team advantage

Here at Maclean's, we appreciate the written word. And we appreciate you, the reader. We are always looking for ways to create a better user experience for you and wanted to try out a new functionality that provides you with a reading experience in which ... [Published Macleans Online - May 15 2013]

Entities: Elections, Stephen Harper, Jean Charest, Paul Martin, Alison Redford

First reported May 15 2013 - Updated May 15 2013 - 1 reports

Hydro-Québec

An ill wind blows for Quebec taxpayers

Pity Pauline Marois. Her government has been making good on its promise to balance the books. Yet the business community, still unsettled by higher personal income taxes, a new mining regime and proposed changes to the language law, won’t give the Quebec ... [Published Globe and Mail - May 15 2013]

Entities: Hydro-Québec, Quebec, Pauline Marois

First reported May 07 2013 - Updated May 08 2013 - 2 reports

A Quebec mining plan that pleases no one

Premier Pauline Marois is going to great lengths to put the Parti Québécois’s imprint on the development of Quebec’s North.Ms. Marois and three of her ministers travelled all the way to Chibougamau on Tuesday to meet the press in the small mining and ... [Published Globe and Mail - May 08 2013]

Entities: Mining, Quebec, Pauline Marois, Taxes, Jean Charest

First reported May 07 2013 - Updated May 07 2013 - 1 reports

Should Canada join the European Union?

Before you discount this as a crazy idea I'll point out Cyprus a current Union member isn't geographically a European Country but an Asian one but could join because of : "its extensive historical, cultural, and political ties to other European countries ... [Published Canadian Content - May 07 2013]

Entities: European Union, Canada, Jean Charest, French Guiana, Government of Canada

First reported May 07 2013 - Updated May 07 2013 - 1 reports

PQ sketches out investment plan for Quebec north, commits $868-million

Montreal – Premier Pauline Marois has outlined more details about her minority government’s economic vision for Quebec’s north, earmarking $868-million to develop the vast territory over the next five years. The bulk of the money will go infrastructure, ... [Published Financial Post - Top Stories - May 07 2013]

Entities: Quebec, Pauline Marois, Jean Charest

First reported May 06 2013 - Updated May 06 2013 - 1 reports

Mayor's office hires former Liberal strategist

La Presse reports that Dan Gagnier is working for the mayor's office two days a week.Gagnier was a trusted advisor of former Premier Jean Charest, having worked for him during several key periods, including the start of the student uprising a year ag ... [Published CJAD 800 - May 06 2013]

Entities: David Peterson, Jean Charest, Sexism

First reported May 03 2013 - Updated May 03 2013 - 1 reports

Our federal leaders are ghosts of premiers past

on why Tom Mulcair sounds a lot like Jean CharestWHAT IS THIS ?Here at Maclean's, we appreciate the written word. And we appreciate you, the reader. We are always looking for ways to create a better user experience for you and wanted to try out a new ... [Published Macleans Online - May 03 2013]

Entities: Justin Trudeau, Ralph Klein, Jean Charest, Quebec Sovereigntist (CA), Dalton McGuinty

Quotes

..."Polls are not reliable," said former premier Jean Charest, who lost his seat in the election. "they never have been. how many times do we have to show you that?" More problems in pollsterland came in Albertas 2012 general election, when surveys predicted a win for Danielle Smith and the upstart Wildrose Party...

Pollsters slipping [Published Brandon Sun - 6 hours ago]

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Pollsters slipping [Published Brandon Sun - 6 hours ago]
Five reasons why premiers are glad they aren’t ... [Published Globe and Mail - 23 hours ago]
Marois government to impose Bill 101 on compani... [Published Global News Canada - May 24 2013]
Off the Rails [Published TheWalrus.ca - May 23 2013]
Federal NDP leader speaks to police 'to help' w... [Published Daily Commercial News - May 23 2013]
Conrad Black: The NDP’s great continental game ... [Published National Post \| Full Comment » Full Comment - May 18 2013]
Thomas Mulcair was offered (and refused) envelo... [Published National Post - Top Stories - May 16 2013]
Federal NDP leader speaks to police 'to help' w... [Published Dawson Creek Daily News - May 16 2013]
Terrorism-related charges dropped against metro... [Published CBC - May 16 2013]
Federal NDP leader speaks to police 'to help' w... [Published Penticton Herald - May 16 2013]
Full Pundit: That’s enough, Mike Duffy [Published National Post \| Full Comment » Full Comment - May 16 2013]
Quebec opposition denounces fracking legislation [Published Globe and Mail - May 16 2013]
Pollsters try to explain wrong predictions [Published MSN Canada - May 16 2013]
The BC election and home-team advantage [Published Macleans Online - May 15 2013]
Quebec’s Liberal ‘rebirth’ is just a PQ fade [Published Globe and Mail - May 15 2013]
An ill wind blows for Quebec taxpayers [Published Globe and Mail - May 15 2013]
Pragmatic conservatives missing in the climate ... [Published Globe and Mail - May 14 2013]
Yorktown honours Meighen couple with community ... [Published Inside Toronto - May 11 2013]
Laval mayor’s arrest marks a climate change in ... [Published Globe and Mail - May 10 2013]
Former mayor pleads not guilty of charges he le... [Published National Post - Top Stories - May 09 2013]
Manitoba ex-premiers and former PM discuss prov... [Published CBC - May 09 2013]
Quebec to hold closed hearings into ?Maple Spri... [Published Global News Canada - May 09 2013]
Why Couillard’s ‘new’ Quebec Liberal Party need... [Published Globe and Mail - May 09 2013]
PQ’s Plan Nord copy weak on private funding: op... [Published CTV News - May 08 2013]
A Quebec mining plan that pleases no one [Published Globe and Mail - May 08 2013]
Should Canada join the European Union? [Published Canadian Content - May 07 2013]
Fragile market makes the PQ economically reason... [Published Financial Post - Top Stories - May 07 2013]
Quebec announces plans for northern development... [Published Mining Weekly - May 07 2013]
The Mind of Mulcair: The leader of the NDP on e... [Published Rabble.ca - May 07 2013]
PQ sketches out investment plan for Quebec nort... [Published Financial Post - Top Stories - May 07 2013]

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Conrad Black: The NDP’s great continental game ... [Published National Post \| Full Comment » Full Comment - May 18 2013] The British Columbia election on Tuesday had all the delightful ingredients of the upset that makes the solemnly self-important appear absurd and irrelevant. In the whole democratic process, few events are more agreeable than when the people surprise ...
Full Pundit: That’s enough, Mike Duffy [Published National Post \| Full Comment » Full Comment - May 16 2013] The end of the line Senator Mike Duffy should resign in disgrace and disappear. All in favour? Motion carried. Excellent. Now we can discuss what in heaven’s name the Prime Minister’s Chief of Staff, Nigel Wright, was doing cutting Duffy a $90,000 ...
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Thomas Kott: Quebec’s student protest movement ... [Published National Post \| Full Comment » Full Comment - Mar 27 2013] Protests may continue in the streets, but the cause has fizzled. On March 22, a measly 300 Montreal students commemorated the one-year anniversary of their first mass demonstration against Jean Charest’s proposed hikes to post-secondary tuition. Last ...
This week in religion history: Good times, bad ... [Published National Post \| Life » Holy Post - Mar 24 2013] March 24 1634: The first Roman Catholic mass in English North America was celebrated at St. Mary’s, Md. 1761: German soldiers and settlers established Canada’s first Lutheran church in Halifax. 1832: Mormon leader Joseph Smith and his second-in-command ...