If there had been no tuition in 2012, the lost revenue would amount to close to $350 million, a figure not far removed from, say, what Revenu Quebec expects to bring in annually from its new sales-recording modules in restaurants. So why isn’t it already free, asks Peter Wheeland.
Free post-secondary tuition in Quebec isn’t a pipe dream. This week’s Quebec, Ink looks at the numbers, the arguments and the alternatives.
It was surprising to hear reports that PQ minister Pierre Duchesne on Sunday had definitively ruled out free education as a point of discussion in next month’s summit on higher education — mostly because he never said any such thing.
Martin Dumont didn’t begin his testimony before the Charbonneau Commission last fall by claiming he wasn’t going to lie to us, but he did swear to tell the truth. That’s pretty much the same thing, isn’t it?
This week, a pod of orcas trapped under ice in Hudson’s Bay was freed. But the threat to their lives is hardly diminished.
Has the Newtown massacre changed our leaders’ views on gun control? Hardly.
Will last week’s mass killing in Newtown, CT turn the tide on gun control south of the border? Not likely. And here in Canada, our leaders seem to be growing more gun-happy, too.
The headline-hogging Ikea monkey is definitely from Montreal, and, like us, he probably won’t see the original version of Agent 728 XXX, our local porn industry’s take on another name pulled from the headlines, police officer Stéfanie Trudeau.
Liberal leadership hopeful Justin Trudeau has been catching heat for his views on packing heat — or at least registering it.
Cue the chorus of I-told-you-sos: SNC-Lavalin wins an award for financial reporting on the eve of news reports that it disappeared $139 million (partly in relation to the superhospital). That, and other mind-bending tidbits of silliness in this week’s Quebec, Ink.
