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Enfant sur une chaise avec son chat, ca. 1925, [Neuville, Québec?]
Source: Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec, #caturday

RE: https://mastodon.social/@Snoro/115980311563744273
In 2024, a study by the Institut national de santé publique du Québec concluded that
➡️ increased control of wood-burning stoves could prevent deaths.
In the province, wood heating kills three…

Jean Leloup, "Isabelle" (1990)
A Québec classic.
#TuneTuesday #MyNameIs

LŠ, je suis étonné.
#Québec

François Legault démissionne
(Québec) Au pouvoir depuis 2018, au plus bas dans les sondages depuis des mois, le premier ministre François Legault jette l’éponge. Le fondateur de la Coalition avenir Québec (CAQ) a annoncé sa démission mercredi, provoquant une course à sa succession.

Faque, Denis Coderre ?
#Québec #polqc #qcpoli

It is frustrating every single time that I see the popular votes versus seats won in Canadian elections.
Especially when you have a party like the Bloc Quebécois who run only in Québec, pull 1.2 million votes in that province, and receive 22 seats in the House, yet the NDP pulls 1.2 million across Canada and gets 7 seats.
All our system does is reward density, rather than delivering actual representation.
But someone please tell me how 'ranked ballots' will fix this*
#ProportionalRepresentation #ElectoralReform #Canada #CanPoli #CdnPoli

I grew up listening to #baseball in English on the radio. Over the summer, it was on more or less constantly in garages, backyards, and workshops across the extended family. I find the combination of cadence, tone, background sound, and trivial banter extremely comforting.
After moving to Québec, I began listening to broadcasts in French and was startled to discover the same mix of things I love i…

The end of Twitter and my choice of the fedi as the place I hang my virtual hat means that I only just now learned of the deaths in September and October 2025 of three seminal scholars in my field (the history Québec and Canada).
RIP Jim Miller, Tim Cook, and Alfred Dubuc.