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Maura Forrest

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Quebec correspondent for the Globe and Mail

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Canadian Media Guild - La Guilde canadienne des médias @cmglaguilde.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
In Solidarity ✊ @cdnpress.bsky.social @theglobeandmail.com @thestar.com @lapresse.ca @laftq.bsky.social #cdnpoli #canlab #canmedia #onpoli #polqc #bcpoli #abpoli #skpoli #mbpoli #nbpoli #nspoli #peipoli #nlpoli #yukonpoli #nwtpoli #nunavutpoli
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Mike De Souza @mikedesouza.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
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!”
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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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Mike De Souza @mikedesouza.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
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.
thestar.com
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
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Maura Forrest @mauraforrest.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
In Quebec, lifelong sovereigntists hold their noses to vote Liberal www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/fed...
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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
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Tara Deschamps @taradeschamps.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
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. www.thecanadianpressnews.ca/national/med...
thecanadianpressnews.ca
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
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Maura Forrest @mauraforrest.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
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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.
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James Temperton @jtemperton.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
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. thelogic.co/news/exclusi...
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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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Maura Forrest @mauraforrest.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
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...
lapresse.ca
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...
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Maura Forrest @mauraforrest.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
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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...
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Maura Forrest @mauraforrest.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
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...
ctvnews.ca
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.
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Maura Forrest @mauraforrest.bsky.social · 12/01/2025
On the other Liberal leadership race. www.thestar.com/news/canada/...
thestar.com
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.
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