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Byline: ERIC ANDREW-GEE, Staff Lead For 50 contentious years, the defining split in Quebec politics was between sovereigntists and federalists. 'Should Quebec remain in Canada?' was the ideological question par [...]

Byline: KONRAD YAKABUSKI, Staff Lead Back in the early 1990s, as the debate over Quebec sovereignty hurtled toward its traumatic climax, Mordecai Richler earned a reputation as the bête noire [...]

MONTREAL A FEW years ago, the Quebec comedian Sugar Sammy put a giant ad on a Montreal subway billboard. ''For Christmas,'' it said, ''I'd like a complaint from the Office [...]

Byline: OLIVER MOORE BILINGUALISM It's a seemingly innocuous red and white banner - incorporating a maple leaf and elements of the English and Scottish flags - but to some New [...]

Byline: LYSIANE GAGNON; lgagnon@lapresse.ca Stephen Harper has no choice: He'll have to do something about Quebec, even if many Conservatives urge him to start focusing exclusively on Ontario, the province [...]

Byline: ANDREW STARK; Former policy adviser in Brian Mulroney's PMO; professor of strategic management at the University of Toronto Leading up to today's election, Quebec sovereigntists have completed a 180-degree [...]

Byline: LYSIANE GAGNON; lgagnon@lapresse.ca When the election campaign kicked off, the Bloc Quebecois was a tired party, devoid of new ideas and threatened by the Conservatives in many ridings. Then [...]

Byline: JEFFREY SIMPSON; jsimpson@globeandmail.com Quebec is an existential kind of place; always has been, always will be. Issues get debated there differently than elsewhere in Canada - not better or [...]

Quebec's great 'frosted window' controversy launched the province into a frenzy over the demands of supposedly pushy minorities. But the participants in that controversy, an ultra-Orthodox synagogue and adjoining school [...]

Byline: PRESTON MANNING A wise man once observed that two parties who have genuinely resolved to walk together will rarely argue over what words to use to express their agreement. [...]

Michael Chong resigned as federal minister of intergovernmental affairs on a question of principle. He could not endorse a motion recognizing the Quebecois as a nation, he said this week, [...]

Byline: GLORIA GALLOWAY, BILL CURRY AND ALEX DOBROTA OTTAWA -- Prime Minister Stephen Harper's plan to outmanoeuvre separatists with a motion to recognize the Quebecois as a nation has cost [...]

To most Canadians outside Quebec, yesterday's House of Commons resolution calling the Quebecois 'a nation within a united Canada' was a meaningless exercise. It was political gamesmanship begun by a [...]

Byline: CAMPBELL CLARK AND GLORIA GALLOWAY; With a report from Alex Dobrota OTTAWA -- Gerard Kennedy will break ranks with his party to become the only major contender for the [...]

Byline: CAMPBELL CLARK AND GLORIA GALLOWAY; With a report from Alex Dobrota OTTAWA -- Gerard Kennedy will break ranks with his party to become the only major contender for the [...]

Byline: NORMAN SPECTOR Words matter, former U.S. secretary of state George Schultz would say, as he went about the arduous task of securing recognition of Israel by the Palestine Liberation [...]

Byline: DOUG SAUNDERS BARCELONA -- So the Prime Minister has just declared your independent-minded province 'a nation within a united country.' What happens next? You might want to pay a [...]

Byline: GLORIA GALLOWAY; With reports from Campbell Clark, Bill Curry, Daniel Leblanc, Rheal Seguin and John Ibbitson OTTAWA -- Prime Minister Stephen Harper was surprised by the Bloc Quebecois motion [...]

Byline: RICK SALUTIN Yeah, whatever: I consider nationalism a positive force that has often been manipulated by the usual manipulators into bad effects. (The main example of nationalism as a [...]

Byline: CHARLES BLATTBERG 'Ah,' my students at the Universite de Montreal often tell me, 'if only you English Canadians would see that you form a nation within Canada, then your [...]

Byline: JOHN IBBITSON OTTAWA -- Stephen Harper has strengthened his hand in Quebec, co-opted the opposition, boosted Michael Ignatieff's leadership campaign and prevented a split within his caucus -- and [...]

Byline: WILLIAM JOHNSON Now there's a turnaround. It was only on June 23, the eve of the Fete Nationale, there on the battlements of Quebec's Citadel overlooking the St. Lawrence [...]

Byline: MICHAEL IGNATIEFF The ties that bind us together as Canadians are much stronger than the forces that divide us. Thanks to the Charter of Rights and Freedoms, Canadians are [...]

Byline: WILLIAM JOHNSON Pierre Trudeau, back in 1962, got it right: 'It is not the concept of nation that is retrograde; it is the idea that the nation must necessarily [...]

Perhaps nothing better captures the blessedly dwindling appeal of Quebec sovereignty than this week's grim loyalists' manifesto. Published in Le Devoir, crafted with well-meaning realism, the celebrated separatist authors advise [...]