In October 2023, after months of meetings with Higher Education Minister Pascale Déry, the English universities thought tuition reform would not hurt them. They were very wrong.
McGill and Concordia universities said they were shocked in October when Higher Education Minister
Pascale Déry announced major tuition changes directly targeting the English institutions’ finances, enrolment and reputations.
New changes “are far worse than those announced on Oct. 13 — worse for Quebec, worse for its universities, worse for Quebec businesses who need talent, and worse for McGill.”
Quebec’s “catastrophic” plan to overhaul university financing is a “targeted attack” on English universities, McGill’s president says.
Paul Toussaint was hopeful that Canada's new humanitarian program aimed at reuniting Haitians, among others, with Canadian family members would mean his mother and two sisters would finally be able to join him in Montreal. That is, until he learned Quebec would not be taking part.
Quebec Housing Minister France-Élaine Duranceau “abusively favoured the personal interests” of one of her friends, National Assembly ethics commissioner Ariane Mignolet announced on Thursday.
However, Duranceau will face no sanction for her actions.
The bombshell the government of Premier François Legault dropped on Quebec’s three English universities last week by doubling tuition for students from out of province will no doubt be catastrophic for their enrolment.
But the punitive policy announced as part of a new “offensive” to reinforce the French language will damage much more than recruitment at the three schools.
Energy specialist Pierre-Olivier Pineau has resigned from the Legault government’s Advisory Committee on Climate Change, denouncing “a kind of censorship,” a lack of vision and transparency, ineffective programs and the absence of questioning on the way Quebecers consume energy.
Quebec Education Minister Bernard Drainville is facing fierce criticism for comments he made about the relative worth of teachers' work in a video interview Monday with the editorial team at Le Devoir.
Unlike some parents floored by the news, high school teacher Mike Wadden wasn't shocked to learn this week that the province was still short more than 8,500 teachers, just days before heading back to class.