MACPHERSON Don

2004

1. Green plan not a priority
   Don MacPherson The Montréal Gazette November 27, 2004 Saturday - Nineteen months after its formation, Premier Jean Charest's cabinet is overdue for a shuffle. But one good thing about Charest's reluctance to pull the trigger on one is that it's finally given a Quebec environment minister time to do something more in the portfolio than put out fires.
   
   
2. Charest takes a page from PQ convention handbook
   Don MacPherson The Montréal Gazette November 22, 2004 Monday
   
   
3. Quebec trailing in election reform
   Don MacPherson The Montréal Gazette November 18, 2004 Thursday - Suddenly, electoral reform is a hot topic across Canada, and politicians are feeling pressure to change the voting system which elected them.
   
   
4. In Quebec universities, you get what you pay for
   DON MACPHERSON The Montréal Gazette November 13, 2004 Saturday - The thousands of university and CEGEP students who hit the streets in Montreal and Quebec City this week know they've got it good, and they want to keep it that way.
   
   
5. Sovereignty debate claims new casualty
   DON MACPHERSON The Montréal Gazette November 16, 2004 Tuesday - So it's clear the death notices for the sovereignty movement that appeared in English Canada after the election of a federalist government in Quebec last year were premature. And nine years after the last referendum, the sovereignty question is still a divisive and paralyzing force in Quebec politics.
   
   
6. Wooing the ethnic vote
   Don MacPherson The Montréal Gazette October 21, 2004 Thursday - The Parti Quebecois is showing a new ambivalence toward Quebec's minorities, extending one open hand to them while fending them off with the other.
   
   
7. Parti Quebecois circles the wagons, shoots inward
   Don MacPherson The Montreal Gazette October 14, 2004 Thursday
   
   
8. Landry changes spots on sovereignty
   Don Macpherson The Montréal Gazette October 5, 2004 Tuesday - Hold him back. Now that he's no longer in a position to do them, Bernard Landry is all of a sudden keen to do some things he refused to do when he was.
   
   
9. Dumont hangs on by pandering to the yahoos
   Don MacPherson The Montréal Gazette September 28, 2004 Tuesday - In a change fraught with symbolism, Mario Dumont's Action democratique du Quebec has replaced a university professor with a former radio talk-show host as its president.
   
   
10. Charest walks fine line: Quebec premier can talk tough about provincial rights on health care, but he also needs money from Ottawa
    Don Macpherson The Montréal Gazette September 9, 2004 Thursday - There can be such a thing as too much transparency in politics. Some things are best done behind closed doors. And one of these things is negotiation, especially among politicians.
    
    
11. Leaders afraid to take chances
    Don MacPherson The Montréal Gazette September 2, 2004 Thursday - Bernard Landry is facing a secret-ballot leadership confidence vote at the Parti Quebecois convention next June. While officially he can survive with the support of only a simple majority of the voting delegates, the conventional wisdom is that he will need at least 80 per cent of them.
    
    
12. Sovereignty-or-bust 'caribou' triumph at PQ meet
    Don Macpherson The Montréal Gazette August 31, 2004 Tuesday - The Parti Quebecois has a new-found sense of direction after the weekend meeting of its governing council.
    
    
13. The changing face of the PQ
    DON MACPHERSON The Montreal Gazette August 26, 2004 Thursday - Concerning the latter, there is some evidence that as they grow up and assimilate into the francophone linguistic community, they acquire political attitudes similar to those of their francophone former classmates.
    
    
14. The beginning of the end for Bernard Landry?
    DON MACPHERSON The Montréal Gazette August 17, 2004 Tuesday - Like a blanket whose flimsiness suddenly becomes apparent when a single loose thread is tugged, Bernard Landry's leadership of the Parti Quebecois might have started to unravel.
    
    
15. Will Landry stay, or will he go?
    DON MACPHERSON The Montréal Gazette 5.8.2004
    
    
16. It's not about language, stupid - it's about services
    Don Macpherson The Gazette May 20, 2004 The PQ's Diane Lemieux never misses an opportunity to fret that demergers will separate anglophones and francophones.
    
    
17. Is that all there is in Charest plan?
    Don MacPherson The Montréal Gazette 6.5.2004
    
    
18. There's finally a book critical of Levesque
    DON MACPHERSON The Montréal Gazette May 4, 2004 - If Martin Bisaillon's publisher was looking for trouble, the bar in the solidly Pequiste Plateau Mont-Royal seemed like a good place to find it.
    
    
19. Charest to minorities : You don't count
    DON MacPHERSON The Montréal Gazette April 15, 2004
    
    
20. Let Charest be Charest
    DON MACPHERSON The Montréal Gazette 14.4.2004 The premier is at his best while campaigning, so the Liberals should put him on the road to sell the restructuring program
    
    
21. The night the PQ almost stole a country
    DON MACPHERSON The Gazette Saturday, April 10, 2004 Parizeau book reveals how PQ workers were instructed to steal a few votes per poll, enough to sway a close referendum
    
    
22. Text, lies and audiotape
    Don MacPherson The Montréal Gazette April 3, 2004 Saturday - People who don't like what Pierre Duchesne has written about them in his book on Jacques Parizeau like his tape recorder even less.
    
    
23. New bombshell book on Parizeau sears Landry, Gérald Tremblay
    DON MACPHERSON The Montréal Gazette Tuesday, March 30, 2004
    
    
24. A chip off the old Bouchard Bloc
    DON MACPHERSON The Montréal Gazette Tuesday, March 16, 2004 - Liberals aren't laughing at Duceppe now.
    
    
25. Dion vows to go down fighting
    DON MACPHERSON The Montréal Gazette Thursday, February 19, 2004
    
    
26. Love hurts
    Don MacPherson The Montréal Gazette February 14, 2004 The anti-Quebec segment of the Conan O'Brien show, coupled with the ravings of Don Cherry, tell Quebecers the honeymoon is over
    
    
27. Vote-hunting Bid to lure outside voters not a formula for stability
    DON MACPHERSON The Gazette Aug 22, 1995
    
    
28. Alliance is only shell of former self
    DON MACPHERSON The Montréal Gazette Tuesday, February 03, 2004 Lobbyists are supposed to make friends in order to influence people. But the only cuddly thing about Brent Tyler as president of Alliance Quebec, sometimes pejoratively described in the French press as "le lobby anglophone," was the little dog he held in a photo in a tribute to him in an Alliance publication.

    2003

29. Charest will have short honeymoon
    DON MACPHERSON MG 17.5.2003 - The New York editors of the "Canadian" edition of Time magazine have dubbed Premier Charest a "boy wonder."
    
    
30. Crucial debate for Charest
    DON MAC PHERSON MG 29.3.2003 - Got a match for the leader of the Quebec Liberal Party? On second thought, can you spare a whole matchbook?
    
    
31. Young allophone votes up for grabs
    DON MACPHERSON MG 6.3.2003 - But he says he remains a sovereignist. And as such, he is more than a token. Mpambara represents a not yet widely recognized phenomenon with major political implications: young first- or second-generation immigrants who, unlike previous immigrants, are sympathetic to the sovereignist cause.
    
    
32. Aristotle meets Alex Trebek - DON MACPHERSON MG 25.2.2003 - What do you get when you cross democracy with a game show? Something that resembles the final session of Quebec's latest estates-general, on overhauling the political system.
    
    
33. The old Bernard Landry is back
    DON MACPHERSON MG 20.2.2003 - He went away for a while, but now the old Bernard Landry, the one who can't resist putting his foot in his mouth, is back. (...) Now, however, he appears to be proving again the difficulty of teaching an old dog new tricks. And of the three major party leaders who are about to embark upon a tiring, five-week election campaign, Landry, who will turn 66 in three weeks, will be by far the oldest dog in the fight. If he's reverting to his old, error-prone tendencies even before the fatigue of an election campaign takes hold, it's not a good sign for the PQ.
    
    
34. Hard-liners say good riddance to Facal
    DON MACPHERSON MG 6.2.2003 - PQ hard-liners shed no tears at Joseph Facal's announcement.
    
    
35. City plays with fire by debating language
    DON MACPHERSON The Gazette Tuesday, January 28, 2003
    
    
36. Leaving principles behind
    DON MACPHERSON MG 16.1.2003 - It's politicians like Pierre Brien who have made "politician" a bad word.

    2002

37. Michaud: un raciste aux propos antisémites - MacPherson
    Michaud the Grinch spoils yet another Christmas
    DON MACPHERSON MG 21.12.2002 - That's Yves Michaud, the black sheep in question. For the benefit of Web readers or recent arrivals in these parts, Michaud is a sort of Trent Lott of the PQ, in that he was punished by members of his party for having drawn public attention to the party's exploitation of ethnic divisions. (...) Nevertheless, the PQ MNAs were sufficiently embarrassed by his anti-Semitic remarks and anxious to distance their party from them that they supported a Liberal opposition motion in the Assembly condemning them.
    
    
38. Landry tosses Josée Legault over side
    DON MACPHERSON MG 5.12.2002 - Who needs Paul Bégin? He's the sovereignist hard-liner who is gone from Premier Bernard Landry's cabinet but won't let himself be forgotten, constantly complaining that Landry's not doing enough to promote sovereignty.
    
    
39. Parizeau reaches into bag of tricks
    DON MACPHERSON MG 19.11.2002
    
    
40. PQ keeps to left
    DON MACPHERSON MG 911.2002 - New action plan positions the Parti Québécois firmly on the left of the political spectrum in hopes that it can hold its traditional base of support.
    
    
41. Premier Landry has to keep the dream alive
    DON MACPHERSON MG 31.10.2002 - And their leaders have been unable to bring themselves to tell them there is absolutely nothing they can do that would give them the initiative. Even Parizeau, who constantly exhorts the government to do more to promote sovereignty, has no plan of his own better than the revival of an umbrella group of sovereignist organizations.
    
    
42. Paul Bégin widens cracks in the Parti Québécois
    DON MACPHERSON MG 30.10.2002 - Are you starting to get the impression that handling people, a handy skill for a leader, might not be one of Bernard Landry's strengths? Paul Bégin, who resigned this week as justice minister, was the fourth minister to quit in a huff this year, and there are still two months left.
    
    
43. Dumont offers little for minorities
    DON MACPHERSON MG 24.10.2002 - For Mario Dumont's recent speech to an English-speaking audience in Toronto, he prepared a text. That's what a politician does when he has something important to say.
    
    
44. Justice minister delivers a jolt to PQ government
    DON MACPHERSON MG 29.10.2002 - What the Parti Québécois needs, former PQ leader Jacques Parizeau said last spring, is a good "jolt," like the one he and others gave it in 1984 when they quit the Lévesque government because it was shelving sovereignty.
    
    
45. And the crowd went mild!
    DON MACPHERSON The Gazette Tuesday, September 10, 2002
    
    
46. Bribing voters
    DON MACPHERSON The Gazette Thursday, September 05, 2002 - PQ is shameless [dans le titre] in buying votes out in the boonies [...] But electoral considerations were probably [dans le texte] another factor in the government's offer.
    
    
47. Jacques the Knife turns on Landry
    DON MACPHERSON MG 31.8.2002 - Four years ago, after Jacques Parizeau had sniped at his successor Lucien Bouchard one too many times, Bernard Landry had had enough.
    
    
48. Pitfalls of fighting sovereignty in courts
    DON MACPHERSON MG 22.8.2002 - Whether Landry's now secret plan will bring out enough of the PQ's sovereignist core constituency to allow the party to avoid decimation in the next election remains to be seen.
    
    
49. Tinkering with how we vote
    DON MACPHERSON MG 20.8.2002 - Parti Québécois governments have never been shy about using electoral reform for their own partisan purposes. The PQ's first and best-known reform, the political finances law, set the example.
    
    
50. Chips off the old Bloc
    DON MACPHERSON Montreal Gazette Wednesday, August 14, 2002 - Lebel's revolt against party brass could cost Landry hard-line support [donc: les «purs et durs» = ethnocentriques, xénophobiques, racistes, etc...]
    
    
51. Sharply different
    DON MACPHERSON MG 3.8.2002 - You'd never know from the recent actions of the Marguerite Bourgeoys School Board that Quebec's public schools are desperately underfunded.
    
    
52. Let's have mandatory drug tests for politicians
    DON MACPHERSON Montreal Gazette - Thursday, June 06, 2002
    
    
53. Kirpan compromise possible
    DON MACPHERSON Montreal Gazette Thursday, February 21, 2002

54. Little Rock, Quebec
    DON MACPHERSON Montreal Gazette Saturday, April 20, 2002.

55. La ballade de Don Macpherson
    Émilie Boileau - MLNQ Vigile 4.2.2002.

56. C, comme censure...
    Pierre-Luc Bégin V-P MLNQ Vigile 4.2.2002

57. COUPS BAS
    Raymond Villeneuve Président MLNQ

58. Efforts to link PQ, Villeneuve are propaganda
    Mario Beaulieu, President, Christian Gagnon, Vice-president, Parti Québécois of Montréal-Centre, Lettre publiée dans The Montreal Gazette Saturday, January 26, 2002

59. Batman's spy plan unmasked
    DON MACPHERSON Montreal Gazette Wednesday, April 10, 2002

60. Vous avez inventé un scénario de politique fiction
    Raymond Villeneuve - MLNQ Vigile 6.1.02 - Lettre ouverte à Don Macpherson, Jacques Dupuis, Josh Freed et Tommy Schnurmacher.

61. Politics stands on its head
    DON MACPHERSON - MG 21.3.2002

62. Raising a flap
    DON MACPHERSON. Montreal Gazette Tuesday, January 22, 2002. Montreal and Quebec flags are outdated symbols of the people they are supposed to represent

63. Parizeau's veiled warning
    DON MACPHERSON Montreal Gazette Tuesday, April 02, 2002

64. The reverse ventriloquist
    DON MACPHERSON Montreal Gazette Saturday, March 30, 2002 When speaking to anglos, Landry's lips move but no sound comes out

65. Quebec's crazy aunt
    DON MACPHERSON Montreal Gazette Saturday, February 09, 2002. TV documentary explores anti-Semitism in Quebec during the 1930s.

66. Looking over his shoulder
    DON MACPHERSON Montreal Gazette Wednesday, February 13, 2002 Landry scrambles as another PQ honcho goes over the side

67. Tick, tick, tick.
    DON MACPHERSON Montreal Gazette Thursday, February 14, 2002 Pauline Marois is listening to her political clock wind down

68. Finding fiscal imbalance
    DON MACPHERSON Montreal Gazette Saturday, March 09, 2002 Commission Séguin

69. Fixing federalism
    DON MACPHERSON Montreal Gazette Friday, March 08, 2002. Séguin report comes up with Canadian solutions to fiscal problems

70. Politics stands on its head
    DON MACPHERSON Montreal Gazette Thursday, March 21, 2002 Commission Séguin.

71. Our British nanny
    DON MACPHERSON Montreal Gazette Saturday, February 23, 2002 It's time Canada grew up and dumped the queen as our head of state

72. Waste of time
    DON MACPHERSON Montreal Gazette Tuesday, March 05, 2002 Parti Québécois trial balloon on election-day referendums just won't fly

73. Assembly reform ideas going nowhere
    DON MACPHERSON Montreal Gazette Wednesday, March 06, 2002 Like Bernard Landry before he became premier, Jean-Pierre Charbonneau finds it hard to resist an open microphone.

    2001

74. Michaud won't go gentle
    DON MACPHERSON The Gazette Wednesday 13 June 2001
    
    
75. Landry and his friends
    DON MACPHERSON - The Gazette Saturday, December 04, 2001
    
    
76. Pact with the devil - Hard-liners and former terrorists now feel welcome in Landry's PQ
    DON MACPHERSON - The Gazette Saturday, December 08, 2001
    
    
77. Michaud turns up the heat - A year later, he's still pressuring and embarrassing the Parti Québécois
    DON MACPHERSON - The Gazette December 18, 2001

78. Landry working without a net
    DON MACPHERSON Montreal Gazette Thursday, November 22, 2001. Sur la polémique Taliban ou Catalan...

79. It turns out anglo rights not so sacred
    DON MACPHERSON Montreal Gazette Thursday, September 27, 2001

80. Making every vote count.
    DON MACPHERSON Montreal Gazette Wednesday, November 14, 2001. Advocates of PR say it would lead to wider range of opinion in Assembly (suite d'articles)

81. Political leverage still lacking
    DON MACPHERSON The Gazette Saturday 11 August 2001. Tyler's presidency of Alliance Quebec won't change much for anglos

82. Pangs of guilt
    DON MACPHERSON Montreal Gazette Saturday, December 01, 2001. If the PQ government is being above-board on English access plans, why is it trying to cover up and hide documents? (suite d'articles)

83. Morin's reputation takes another hit
    DON MACPHERSON Montreal Gazette Thursday, October 11, 2001.

84. Liberals picked the wrong issue
    DON MACPHERSON Montreal Gazette Saturday, October 20, 2001

85. Les Québécois ne formeraient pas une nation
    DON MACPHERSON. The Gazette Saturday 21 April 2001.

86. Go home
    DON MACPHERSON - The Gazette Thursday 19 April 2001. Protesters, summit members, media and police should just leave us alone

87. Once more, with feeling
    DON MACPHERSON The Gazette 25.8.01 Both Landry and Tyler intend to pelt us with arguments we've heard for years

88. Citizenship idea rightly greeted with suspicion
    DON MACPHERSON The Gazette 23.8.01

89. A symbol of France
    DON MACPHERSON The Gazette Tuesday 7 August 2001. If Quebec is serious about inclusiveness, it should adopt a new flag

90. Tales of October Crisis still enrage
    DON MACPHERSON. The Gazette Thursday 17 May 2001.

91. The hawks are circling
    DON MACPHERSON The Gazette 29.8.01 Bouchard's estates-general has dropped language issue in Landry's lap

92. Larose-coloured glasses
    DON MACPHERSON The Gazette 6.9.01

93. Selling Larose
    DON MACPHERSON The Gazette 5.9.01

94. Just one of the boys
    DON MACPHERSON The Gazette 4.8.01. This summer, Landry hasn't been sounding like much of a hard-liner

95. Foot-in-mouth disease returns
    DON MACPHERSON The Gazette 2.6.01 For a while, Landry seemed to have mastered his loose tongue, but no longer

96. Lump of coal for PQ hawks
    DON MACPHERSON Montreal Gazette 15.12.01. Party hard-liners will be disappointed with Bill 101 changes

    2000

97. Michaud's mouth
    DON MACPHERSON - The Gazette Saturday 16 December 2000 - Unless would-be candidate apologizes, PQ won't allow him to run
    
    
98. Ethnic cleansing' hardly fits the situation in Quebec City
    Don Macpherson. The Gazette, March 9, 2000

99. Sometimes words speak louder than actions
    DON MACPHERSON. The Gazette Tuesday 7 March 2000

    1999

100. A great Canadian?
     Don MacPherson The Montreal Gazette 13 mars 1999 By showing that French could be made secure while Quebec remained in Canada, Laurin inadvertently helped federalists win referendums

101. What is a clear question?
     DON MACPHERSON. The Gazette Wednesday 1 September 1999. Maybe it's best to apply Potter Stewart's I'll-know-it-when-I-see-it rule.

102. Aucune différence entre "angryphones" d'hier et d'aujourd'hui
     Macpherson se goure - Claude G. Charron 9.9.99

103. Exodus makes Quebec a loser
     DON MACPHERSON The Gazette Saturday 20 February 1999

104. Another year, another gimmick
     DON MACPHERSON. The Gazette Tuesday 31 August 1999.

105. PQ's voter ID plan follows long tradition of blaming minorities
     DON MACPHERSON. The Gazette 3.2.99.

106. It's Clinton, not Scot, who matters
     DON MACPHERSON The Gazette - Wednesday 13 October 1999 - If the questions Clinton raised in Mont-Tremblant are those that a future American administration would ask itself in assessing a request for official recognition of a sovereign Quebec, then a sovereignist strategy based on a unilateral declaration of independence has no chance of succeeding. (N.S.)

107. Some peuple are more equal
     DON MACPHERSON The Gazette Saturday 2 October 1999 - PQ preoccupation with French on island shows its nationalism is ethnic, not civic (traduction de Vigile)

108. Crisis of confidence
     DON MACPHERSON The Gazette Tuesday 14 September 1999

109. Landry and Dion locked on same beam
     DON MACPHERSON The Gazette Tuesday 2 September 1999 Sovereignty movement has stalled, chiefly because of hesitancy at the top.

110. Troglodyte vote
     DON MACPHERSON The Gazette Saturday 6 November 1999 - After 30 years of debate, many Quebecers don't know what sovereignty means (traduction de Vigile)

     1997

     La semence de la colère
     Lise Bissonnette LeDevoir 27 août 1997 - Le 19 août dernier, un autre columnist de combat, Don Macpherson du quotidien montréalais The Gazette, consacrait toute sa chronique à expliquer doctement ...

111. Entre l'épouvantail et l'autruche
     Jean Dion LeDevoir 11 septembre 1997 - Dans The Gazette, le chroniqueur Don Macpherson s'en est pris au comportement de foule hystérique (mob rule) observé à l'hôtel de ville de LaSalle.