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Lessons from the last federal elections: Towards the renewal of the status quo ante or the desperate search for an agreement with Trumpism

André Frappier, Bernard Rioux — 2025-05-25T09:19:49Z

While various polls for 2024 predicted a landslide victory for the Conservative Party of Canada, the last federal election gave the Liberal Party of Canada a fourth term. The election campaign was dominated by widespread public apprehension over the trade war and Donald Trump's threats of annexation of Canada. These fears weighed heavily on voting intentions.

- IVP604 - May 2025 / Canada, Quebec

'Unify the political left without sidestepping the needed debates!'

Bernard Rioux — 2024-08-09T11:39:57Z

Bernard Rioux reflects on his five decades on Quebec's radical left

- Features / Quebec

“It is necessary to propose a radical, anti-systemic, anti-capitalist alternative: ecosocialism”

Bernard Rioux , Michael Löwy — 2013-05-12T13:35:57Z

Greetings from MichaÃ«l Lowy to the Founding Assembly of the Ecosocialist Network in Quebec, followed by an interview datelined 12 March 2013.

- IV460 - May 2013 / Quebec, Ecosocialism

Ecosocialist Network ready for action

Bernard Rioux — 2013-04-01T16:45:23Z

More than 75 members of Québec solidaire, from various regions of Quebec, held an enthusiastic meeting on Saturday, March 9 in Montréal to found the Réseau écosocialiste, the Ecosocialist Network.

- IV459 - April 2013 / Canada, Ecosocialism

Building the political left in Quebec

Bernard Rioux , Sébastien Bouchard — 2011-05-23T16:51:34Z

On March 25, 26 and 27 Quebec Solidaire, the biggest left party that Quebec has seen for nearly a century, held its congress. The debate, which centred on ecological and economic questions as well as those concerning the social rights of workers, made it possible to adopt an orientation of going beyond capitalism.

- IV436 - May 2011 / Quebec

Strategic crisis in the nationalist movement

Bernard Rioux — 1997-07-07T00:00:00Z

Support for the Bloc Quebecois fell from 49 to 38%, half a million less than last time. As a result, pro-federal parties won a majority of votes in 64 of Quebec's 75 constituencies This decline is the direct result of the anti-social policies of the Parti Quebecois government.

- IV291 - July 1997 / Canada