QCGN Welcomes Quebec Budget Support for English-speaking Community

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The Quebec Community Groups Network welcomes the allocation of $31.5 million in support of Quebec’s English-speaking community in today’s provincial budget. Read more

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Townshippers’ Co-founder Marjorie Goodfellow recognized for language rights activism

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Townshippers’ Association co-founder Marjorie Goodfellow is recognized by the Office of the Commissioner for Official Languages for her 40 years of advocacy for the rights of Quebec’s English-speaking community. She […]

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Marlene Jennings: It’s not alarmism when there’s cause for concern

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The Liberal MPs who have spoken out against mention of the Charter of the French Language in Bill C-13 have undeservedly raised the ire of many in the French-language media, […]

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The sum of success: This teacher has helped countless students learn to love math

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Alix Adrien, a longtime educator and QCGN board member, is named one of the CBC’s Black Changemakers of 2023. Now president of the Quebec Board of Black Educators, Adrien brought […]

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Désinformation et fausse égalité

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Columnist Michel C. Auger accuses the QCGN, Liberal MPs, and other community organizations advocating for English-speaking Quebecers of spreading misinformation about the Charter of the French Language amid the ongoing […]

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Podcast : MP Anthony Housefather details opposition to parts of the new federal Official Languages Act

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QCGN President Eva Ludvig thanks the Liberal MPs who “have been very courageous and taking political risk” by defending Quebec’s English-speaking during the study of Bill C-13. Listen here

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Prominent local businessman Mitch Garber offers to buy stake in Montreal Gazette

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The Montreal Gazette is “an English language institution,” and a plan to cut a significant portion of the newsroom means that English-speaking Quebecers “will be losing an important voice for […]

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CBC Montreal News February 15, 2023

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Including references to Quebec’s Charter of the French Language within the federal government’s Bill C-13 sets a precedent for other provinces in the rest of Canada to use the notwithstanding […]

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Sylvia Martin-Laforge – Director General of the Quebec Community Groups Network advocating for English-speaking Quebecers

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QCGN Director General Sylvia Martin-Laforge speaks to The Montrealer about the QCGN’s work in advocating for Quebec’s English-speaking community on the provincial and federal levels, and how the organization has […]

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OPEN LETTER: Commons committee votes to forsake Quebec anglophones

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The QCGN is profoundly disappointed that the House of Commons Standing Committee on Official Languages has allowed references to Quebec’s Charter of the French Language to remain in proposed new […]

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Editorial: Speaking up for the English-language minority

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The concerns about the protection of the rights of English-speaking Quebecers in Bill C-13 voiced by the Quebec Community Groups Network, among others, “have been courageously brought forward in Ottawa […]

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What is the Difference Between a Common and Official Language?

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At the House Committee on Official Languages’ meeting on Jan, 31, 2023, a Bloc Québécois motion to insert “French as the common language of Quebec” into Canada’s Official Languages Act […]

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Community mobilizes to stop staff cuts at Montreal Gazette

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A petition calling for planned cuts to the Montreal Gazette newsroom is being circled widely across Quebec’s English-speaking community. “The Gazette provides the perspective of the English-speaking community and to […]

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À LA DÉFENSE DES DROITS DES MINORITÉS LINGUISTIQUES

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Contrary to what some political commentators have claimed, the attempt by Liberal MPs to remove mention of the Charter of the French Language from Bill C-13 was an attempt to […]

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It Gets Personal: Impact of Language Laws

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Former QCGN and Townshippers’ Association President Gerald Cutting provides a personal perspective on language politics in Quebec in a commentary for The Townships Sun. Read more

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