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31/07/2024

🚨 Important Update for Quebec Anglophones 🚨

Quebec’s new directive may require “historic anglophone” Quebecers to have an English-language eligibility certificate for exclusive English communication in the health-care network. This is similar to the requirement already in place for education.

🔹 Requirements:

1. English-language eligibility certificate from Quebec’s Education Ministry.
2. Express request for English services.

Alternatively, if you can prove exclusive English correspondence with health institutions before May 13, 2021, you may also qualify.

Sylvia Martin-Laforge from the Quebec Community Groups Network and Montreal lawyer Eric Maldoff have expressed concerns over the feasibility and complexity of this new directive.

For more details, check out the full article in the Montreal Gazette by Aaron Derfel.

25/06/2024

Now they are trying to destroy erase our culture and history.

28/04/2024

Wow, Quebec really has its priorities straight, huh? While emergency rooms across the province are bursting at the seams with patients, our government has boldly decided to throw $603 million not at this healthcare crisis, but at the “decline” of French. 🤨 Because, sure, why tackle urgent medical shortages when you can fund language promotion instead?

Minister Jean-François Roberge proudly announces we’re “going on the offensive” with French. Offensive might be right—because ignoring our overloaded ERs in favor of language projects? That truly is offensive to every person waiting in pain for care that just isn’t coming fast enough.

Let’s get real—shouldn’t we be investing in saving lives ?🏥💔

26/04/2024

21/04/2024

Quebec Bans ‘On/Off’ Switch

Location: Montreal, PQ

Date: April 21, 2024

In a groundbreaking move that has stirred both confusion and creativity, the Quebec government has banned the use of ‘on/off’ switches on all devices. This decision is part of an effort to enforce the purity of the French language, making sure that not a single English word tarnishes the mechanical landscape of Quebec.

The policy, outlined in a press release that itself could serve as a French language drill, argues that English words such as ‘on’ and ‘off’ endanger the French language, risking its dilution into obscurity. “We must protect our linguistic heritage,” declared Jean-François Bouton, the newly appointed Minister of Electromechanical Linguistic Compliance. “Imagine the chaos if our children start associating ‘on’ with ‘begin’ and ‘off’ with ‘stop’. It’s a slippery slope!”

Public reaction has been a spectacle of innovation and adaptation. Residents have devised complex systems of ropes and pulleys to operate their electronics, avoiding the linguistically outlawed switches. One inventive individual in Montreal has even trained his dog to operate his coffee maker, cleverly sidestepping the regulation.

Electronics stores across Quebec are rapidly adapting, restocking with devices that feature the newly mandated “Allume/Éteint” switches. These items are flying off the shelves, priced significantly higher due to their compliance and novelty. “It’s definitely been an adjustment,” mentioned a local shop owner, struggling to explain the new products to a line of baffled customers. “But at least we’re keeping it interesting!”

Critics of the ban have highlighted the impracticality, pointing out that most devices are manufactured for a global market that does not cater specifically to the Quebecois dialect. However, Minister Bouton remains undeterred, envisioning a global shift led by Quebec. “Today Quebec, tomorrow the world! Imagine a planet where every device respects the French language. We’re not just dreaming big; we’re planning big!”

As Quebec embarks on this quest for linguistic purity, the rest of Canada watches, perhaps amused and definitely curious. Will the ‘on/off’ switch become a relic of the past, or is Quebec just flipping off practicality? Only time, and perhaps the power button, will tell.

20/04/2024

We pinned a protest that will take place in June organized by people outside this page. Feel free to support them.

17/04/2024

Tag an Italian Montrealer

16/04/2024

Think it is time to seriously set up a group ready to make Montreal an official billingual city and free of Quebec’s lunacy.

This has popular support and a battle that can be won.

13/12/2023

Winter Comedy Festival

Dec 23rd to January 7th

Montreal, Canada

The Winter Comedy Festival In Montreal : the funniest Stand Up Comedy Shows with the best comedians. Aa variety of comedy shows that will suit your taste.