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by Chantal Hebert As Justin Trudeau's government approaches mid-mandate, he remains the most popular government leader in the country. But that says as much if...

Titled "Being Quebecois: It's our way of being Canadians," Quebec's most comprehensive paper on its place in the federation in more than 20 years is little more than a bottle thrown in the ocean.

One of Andrew Scheer's first and most delicate assignments as Conservative leader will be to find a proper place in his team for runner-up Maxime Bernier. That may be easier said than done.

Connect the dots that lead to Andrew Scheer's narrow Conservative leadership victory and what you have is a triumph of retail politics over big ideas.

Businessman Kevin O'Leary says he is pulling out of the campaign to succeed Stephen Harper because he is not convinced he could carry enough votes in Quebec to beat Justin Trudeau in the 2019 election.

It has long been taken for granted that no prime minister, no Quebec premier, would ever let Bombardier go under on his or her watch. The aerospace giant's leading contribution to Canada's R&D sector and the thousands of jobs it provides kept it on the shortlist of Canadian corporations that no government would allow to fail.

Depending on who one talks to, the NDP's first Quebec leadership debate drew anywhere from 250 to 400 people on Sunday afternoon in Montreal. Those are decent enough numbers considering the party could not fill a 500-seat hall in Quebec City for one of the marquee debates that led to the election of Thomas Mulcair as Jack Layton's successor in 2012.

It was shoddy journalism, not a debatable take on Quebec society, that cost former Ottawa Citizen editor Andrew Potter his "dream job" as head of McGill university's prestigious Institute for the Study of Canada this week.

by Chantal Hebert If you subscribe to the notion that governments are meant to walk their talk at budget time, then Justin Trudeau's Liberals are...

For more than 20 years, a politician from Alberta has held the leading position on one side or the other in the House of Commons. That unbroken spell will come to a halt when the federal Conservatives pick a permanent successor to Stephen Harper in May.