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National Column: Bill 62 unites Quebec government’s rivals

With the law that prescribes provincial and municipal services be rendered and received with one’s face uncovered, Quebec Premier Philippe Couillard has achieved the impossible. His Liberal government has reconciled the two opposite camps in the Quebec religious accommodation debate behind the notion that it is running a gong show. […]

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National Column: Grits’ win suggests Quebec sea change

Justin Trudeau’s Liberals added the Quebec seat of Lac-Saint-Jean to their ranks on Monday for the same reason Stephen Harper did in a byelection a decade ago. In both instances, a plurality of Lac-Saint-Jean voters wanted one of their own at the federal government table. And so they returned the riding to the Liberal fold after a 33-year absence.
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Dane Lloyd takes Sturgeon River-Parkland

When the votes were tallied Monday night, Conservative Party of Canada candidate Dane Lloyd was the front-runner in the race to replace his predecessor MP Rona Ambrose, who stepped down from political life last summer. […]

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National Column: Not even sunglasses are spared in Quebec bill

Somewhere in the Quebec government’s legal department, a team of lawyers is bracing to argue in court in what may be the not-too-distant future that the wearing of dark sunglasses puts the safety of the province’s public transit system at risk. Ditto presumably in the case of local libraries and city parks. […]