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Maura Forrest
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Reporter for The Canadian Press in Montreal
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In Solidarity ✊
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June 5, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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Another scoop by @mauraforrest.bsky.social : Quebec language watchdog contacted Montreal transit agency 6 times & pressed it to remove the word “go” from buses in the months before the Habs 1st 2025 playoff home game. The agency then used “Allez! Canadiens Allez!” on buses instead of “Go Habs Go!”
Quebec language office pressed transit agency for months before Habs playoff run
MONTREAL - Quebec's language watchdog contacted the Montreal transit agency at least six times in the wake of a complaint about using the word "go" on city buses to cheer
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May 30, 2025 at 10:57 AM
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Scoop from @mauraforrest.bsky.social :

Feds paid Quebec marketing firm $330K to rebrand high-speed rail project as Alto… and they kept it under wraps for months using a code name.
Via Rail subsidiary paid Quebec marketing firm $330K as it pivoted to high-speed rail
MONTREAL - A federal Crown corporation paid more than $330,000 to an outside marketing firm to rebrand a planned passenger rail project between Toronto and Quebec City and boost its
www.thestar.com
May 28, 2025 at 11:14 AM
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In Quebec, lifelong sovereigntists hold their noses to vote Liberal www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/fed...
In Quebec, lifelong sovereigntists hold their noses to vote Liberal
In a province that has remained cool to Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre’s overtures, a critical mass of voters seems ready to choose Mark Carney – at least for now
www.theglobeandmail.com
April 15, 2025 at 12:23 PM
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Money has started to flow to Canadian news outlets from the $100 million Google agreed to pay them in exchange for an exemption from the Online News Act.

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Media outlets start receiving Google payments from Online News Act: journalism group
Money has started to flow to Canadian news outlets from the $100 million Google agreed to pay them in exchange for an exemption from the Online News Act, the organization
www.thecanadianpressnews.ca
March 13, 2025 at 9:11 PM
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PQ's sovereignty support takes a hit as Trump's threats spur Canadian unity
With Canadians — and even Quebecers — rallying in the face of threats from Trump and the U.S., support for sovereignty in Quebec is down.
nationalpost.com
February 23, 2025 at 4:22 PM
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SCOOP: Shopify support staff were told to give “no comment” and to end online chats if customers asked about the company’s technology being used by the musician Kanye West to sell a T-shirt bearing a Nazi swastika.

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Shopify tells support staff to give ‘no comment’ on Kanye West Nazi T-shirt - The Logic
One former Shopify employee told The Logic it was ‘heartbreaking to see your life’s work perverted by full-on friggin’ Nazis’
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February 10, 2025 at 11:30 PM
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Oof. Denis Coderre, former Montreal mayor and federal minister, is rejected as a candidate for the leadership of the Quebec Liberals www.lapresse.ca/actualites/p...
Course à la direction du PLQ | La candidature de Denis Coderre rejetée
Le Parti libéral du Québec (PLQ) rejette la candidature de Denis Coderre. L’ancien maire de Montréal qui aspire à succéder à Dominique Anglade à la direction du PLQ dispose de cinq jours pour faire ap...
www.lapresse.ca
February 7, 2025 at 2:42 PM
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halifax.citynews.ca/2025/02/05/a...
Amid U.S. tariff threats, a fight may be brewing over Canadian supply management
MONTREAL — The federal government and the Canadian dairy industry are vowing to protect the country’s supply management system in the face of threats from the United States. But some observers, and ev...
halifax.citynews.ca
February 5, 2025 at 8:53 PM
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Quebec is planning to table a new bill to integrate newcomers into the “common culture,” which it says is in the same vein as Bill 21 and Bill 96 www.ctvnews.ca/montreal/pol...
Quebec legislature returns for spring session amid Trump tariff threat
The Quebec legislature resumes sitting for a spring session likely to be dominated by the threat of a trade war with the United States and a renewed focus on secularism and identity.
www.ctvnews.ca
January 28, 2025 at 1:16 PM
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On the other Liberal leadership race. www.thestar.com/news/canada/...
Quebec Liberals ‘at a crossroads’ as leadership race kicks off Monday
MONTREAL - As the federal Liberals prepare to choose Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s successor, another Liberal leadership race is getting underway in Quebec this week.
www.thestar.com
January 12, 2025 at 1:55 PM