The time has come for Quebec to get over its collective identity crisis and adapt to the realities of a secular, pluralistic society, says a provincial commission's report on the thorny issue of reasonable accommodation. "The foundations of collective life in Quebec are not in a critical situation," said the Bouchard-Taylor commission, in its final report on the state of so-called reasonable accommodation of religious and cultural beliefs. "What we are facing, instead, is the need to adapt," and the government must play a leading role in establishing better guidelines for "interculturalism," concluded the authors, sociologist Gérard Bouchard and philosopher Charles Taylor, in their 300-page report. "The report is not putting any guilty feelings on anybody," Bouchard said in French at a news conference in Montreal on Thursday, following the document's release. "Rather, our approach was to identify problems, issues ... evaluate the very nature,...
The number of deaths confirmed to have been caused by listeria, or where listeria was a contributing factor, is now eight, three more than reported Wednesday. - Mark Raizenne of the Public...
Liberal Leader Stéphane Dion should "fish or cut bait" on a fall election, Prime Minister Stephen Harper said during a speech delivered to Conservative party members in Quebec on Wednesday...
Police have broken up two major human smuggling rings that allegedly snuck hundreds of illegal aliens into the United States from Canada. The rings, operating out of Toronto and Montreal...
In Canada, home to growing numbers of South Asian immigrants, people with roots in Pakistan struggled Thursday to adjust to the death of former prime minister Benazir Bhutto. "This is a black...
The United States on Monday joined Britain, France, Germany and Italy in supporting Kosovo's unilateral declaration of independence from Serbia, a move not unanimously endorsed by the European...
Quebec played a key role in Wednesday's mini-federal cabinet shuffle, with two Conservatives from the province taking on larger portfolios. - Senator Michael Fortier, a Montrealer who doesn't...
Paul McCartney is telling critics of his upcoming concert in Quebec City to "smoke the pipes of peace." - In an interview with Radio-Canada, the former Beatle said he doesn't understand Quebec...
Latin America 2007. Banners and bunting, pomp and pageantry opened the year in three Latin American countries as Brazil and Venezuela welcomed back Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva and Hugo Chavez,...
A widespread apology issued Wednesday by Cardinal Marc Ouellet is being met by skepticism among those targeted by the mea culpa. In an open letter published in the province's newspapers...
Jacques Hébert, a former senator, politician, journalist, writer and staunch defender of civil liberties, died Thursday night at age 84 in his Montreal home, after a long battle with cancer. -...
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