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After Twenty Years, Québec Solidaire Faces an Existential Crisis

Marc Bonhomme — 2025-06-07T18:46:11Z

“The German Example Shows the Way to Reject Centralising Centrism.”

- Features / New parties of the left, Quebec

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

Lives Yes, Pipelines No!

Rebecca Kemble — 2023-03-23T15:47:28Z

Thousands of marchers braved frigid temperatures and took to the streets of Montréal, Quebec on Saturday, December 10, 2022 in an Indigenous-led march outside the COP 15 Conference on Biodiversity.

- IV578 - March 2023 / Canada, Quebec, Indigenous struggles

Quebec: climate strike on 23 September

Workers for Climate Justice — 2022-07-29T06:32:07Z

Representatives of the student movement and trades unionists are jointly calling on the people of Quebec to mobilize for climate justice on 23 September. Unions have called for a strike, and plan to organize demonstrations in several major cities in Quebec, including Montreal, Quebec City, Sherbrooke, and Gatineau.

- IV570 - July 2022 / Quebec, Climate

Québec solidaire vows to fight CAQ government's racist bill

Richard Fidler — 2019-04-21T09:06:52Z

National Council reaffirms party's program on separation of church and state, rebuffs QS leaders' attempts at â€˜compromise'

- IV531 - April 2019 / Quebec

With new position on secularism, Quebec Solidaire redefines left-wing politics in the province

Jonathan Montpetit — 2019-04-09T17:27:45Z

Party seeks to reclaim secularism from conservative political trends in Quebec

- IV531 - April 2019 / Quebec

Québec solidaire reviews the election and maps campaign on climate crisis

Pierre Beaudet, Richard Fidler — 2019-01-18T10:48:19Z

Québec solidaire will make climate change the party's main political campaign issue in the coming year, both in and outside the National Assembly. The campaign will build on the major proposals in the QS economic transition plan featured in the recent Quebec general election.

- IV528 - January 2019 / Quebec

Québec solidaire prepares to confront a new government of austerity and social and ethnic polarization QS caucus 2018

Richard Fidler — 2018-11-03T08:40:00Z

Québec solidaire's 10 members of the National Assembly, elected October 1, took their oath of office on October 17 in two parts.

- IV526 - November 2018 / New parties of the left, Quebec, National question

An Election Earthquake in Québec

Alain Savard — 2018-10-11T09:31:21Z

The political landscape in Québec changed radically last Monday for the first time since 1972. A radical left-wing party emerged as an unavoidable political force, a new right-wing populist party took power, and the old mainstream parties sustained historical defeats.

- IV525 - October 2018 / Quebec