“Government Camps With Bed and Food Is Fall Relief Plan,” Toronto Globe. April 16, 1932. Page 13. ---- Jobless in Municipalities May Be Cared For in Group by Catering Firm Next Autumn and Winter --- THREE-WAY SPLIT WILL COVER COST ---- Although no definite decision has been reached to date by the Federal and Provincial authorities as to how the unemployment relief question is to be tackled next fall and winter there is every indication at Queen’s Park that one of the moves which the Henry Government will sponsor is employment of large catering concerns to provide food and bed for jobless in the majority of distressed municipalities.

Any arrangement of this sort would be, it is expected, on a three-way basis with the Dominion, the Province, and the municipality contributing equally to the cost of the catering contract.

According to information at the Parliament Buildings, Montreal, has been employing Crawley & McCracken, the trans-Canada highway camp caterers, to look after Montreal jobless, and has been successful in securing a 20-cent-per-day, per-person, charge for the supply of two meals, a cot, and blankets. Some such similar system, Queen’s Park is said to feel, could be adopted to advantage in this Province next winter if conditions fail to improve.

There is little doubt that trans-Canada highway construction operations are over for some time. The last worker will come off the road the end of April, it is reported, and if any camps are operating next fall they will be under some policy whereby men employed therein will work for their board and shelter, or, at the most, for some small amount per month in addition to food and bed.

The copper compass Champlain gifted to Nouvelle-France for one of her birthdays.

honestly one of the greatest joys of speaking another language is surprising people who assume you can’t understand them xD

like i was in cadets yeah? and every summer i’d go stay on a military base for training, and ofc there’re people from all over the country there. so at one point a few guys in the flight as well as our officer are talking & they realize they all speak french so they switch languages right? 

well i was doing something nearby & lowkey eavesdropping—i would’ve joined in but i can’t hold a conversation at a fluent pace so i didn’t bother, but i was having fun trying to understand what they were saying—when the officer, who was usually very strict and proper, says “tabarnak,” which is basically the strongest curse word that exists in québécois (it literally means tabernacle, which is where the eucharist—the body and blood of christ—are stored in a catholic church, but is used kinda like the word fuck in english. all the strongest curse words in québec french are related to catholicism)

so i look at him with this huge exaggerated gasp & say “sir” in the most scandalized tone i can muster, and this poor man oh my god. he WHIPS AROUND to look at me with the most stricken expression on his face like “YOU SPEAK FRENCH?! WHY DIDN’T YOU SAY SOMETHING” and i just shrug and go “you didn’t ask”

it’s been years and i’m still laughing about it 💀💀💀

I'm going to clarify some stuff here, on my position concerning commentary like this and what it insinuates. Please do not attack or target this person, I'm using this commentary as an example, they are by no means the only person who has made commentary like this, and I'm just trying to educate.

There are a lot of issues with comments like this. Québec is an French-speaking province that is implementing more and more discriminatory rules against anglo and allophones in the province, making it harder for these individuals to seek basic services and making it legal to discriminate based on language, all this under the guise of 'la protection de la francophonie'. This is obviously heinous and a form of collective punishment if justified with the former persecution of French-speakers in Québec and class gap that overlapped with the gap between francophones and anglophones. HOWEVER, French-Canadians =/= French-speaking Québécois. There are large underserved francophone communities in other provinces such as Manitoba, Saskatchewan, etc... that also experience linguistic discrimination. Persecution of anglophones in Québec doesn't justify further snide commentary and discrimination against French-speaking Canadians as a whole. I would like to urge people not to express this kind of attitude on the posts of this blog. Direct your anger at Québec and its colonial institutions, which hypocritically seeks to continue the destruction of minority languages and do nothing to protect, preserve, or reinvigorate Indigenous languages; all the while claiming minority status for their own and using it as a cudgel to justify discrimination.

If you have any further concerns, address me at my main blog @el-shab-hussein, my inbox is open. I am not the main admin of this blog I am just one of the assistants helping run it.

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Be respectful in your comments. You can criticize a government without offending its people.

Lida Moser.  Student from the Modern School posing with “Saint Jean-Baptiste enfant” from the Paul Gouin collection, Musée de la province, Québec, 1950. 

Je vous donne le choix parmi les villes les plus populeuses de la province. Ce sondage s'adresse à tout ceux qui ont une opinion là-dessus, qu'ils soient québécois ou non. Je m'attends à ce que Montréal gagne, mais je veux voir la distribution entre les autres villes.

Par meilleure, j'entends ville où il est le plus agréable de vivre. Ça dépend de chaque personne, il n'y a donc pas nécessairement de bonne réponse! :)

Retour sur l'année 2023

Des tremblements de terre meurtriers, une guerre qui s'enlise et une autre qui éclate, le mercure qui s'emballe. Les grands événements de cette année sont pour moi:

1. Émeutes pro-Bolsonaro au Brésil

8 janvier 2023, des centaines de partisans de l'ex-président brésilien Jair Bolsonaro ont envahi le Congrès, le palais présidentiel et la Cour suprême à Brasilia, une semaine après l'investiture du président de gauche Lula, dont ils rejettent l'élection.

2. Séisme meurtrier en Turquie et en Syrie

6 février 2023, un séisme de magnitude 7,8 a fait plus de 50'000 morts en Turquie et en Syrie. Ici la ville de Kahramanmaras, au sud de la Turquie, proche de l'épicentre.

3. Ukraine, une guerre qui s'enlise

8 mars 2023, un soldat ukrainien s'abrite dans une tranchée près de la ville de Bakhmout lors d'un bombardement. Plus d'un an après le lancement de l'"opération militaire" russe en Ukraine, le conflit s'enlise.

4. La grande peur de la montagne

4 avril 2023, vue sur le village de Brienz-Brinzauls (GR), menacé par un éboulement. Quelques jours plus tard, les autorités annoncent aux habitants qu'ils doivent se préparer à devoir évacuer.

5. Au Soudan, les habitants fuient le chaos

1er mai 2023, des réfugiés soudanais entrent au Tchad près de Koufroun. Les combats meurtriers qui ont éclaté mi-avril au Soudan entre l'armée régulière et des paramilitaires ont poussé des centaines de milliers de personnes hors du pays. Plus de 7 millions de personnes ont été déplacées dans le pays depuis le début du conflit, a annoncé l'ONU fin décembre.

6. Canada, une saison en enfer

10 juin 2023, vue d'une forêt ravagée dans la province du Québec, au Canada. Cette année, le pays a dû affronter la pire saison des feux de forêt de son histoire. La fumée s'est propagée jusqu'à New-York.

7. Températures excessives en été, 37 degrés en juillet

8. A Hawaï, une ville rasée par les flammes

11 août 2023, un homme marche entre les carcasses de voitures à Lahaina, Hawaï. De violents incendies ont quasiment rasé toute la ville touristique le 8 août et fait près de 100 morts.

9. Deuil national au Maroc après un séisme

9 septembre 2023, une femme devant sa maison à Marrakech détruite par un puissant séisme la veille. Le catastrophe qui a frappé le Maroc le 8 septembre a coûté la vie à près de 3000 personnes, selon un bilan officiel publié fin septembre.

10. A Gaza, la guerre est déclarée

8 octobre 2023, Israël déclare l'état de guerre après une attaque sanglante du Hamas, la veille, qui a fait environ 1140 morts. A Gaza, 21'110 personnes, dont une majorité de civils, ont été tuées par les opérations militaires israéliennes

11. Exode massif des Afghans du Pakistan le Pakistan a donné jusqu'au 1er novembre aux sans-papiers afghans pour quitter le pays volontairement. Ils sont 1,7 million à vivre sur sol pakistanais, estiment les autorités. Beaucoup ont peur de rentrer en Afghanistan, où le gouvernement taliban a imposé son interprétation rigoriste de l'islam, interdisant par exemple aux filles l'accès à l'éducation après l'école primaire

12. ChatGPT a pris le monde d’assaut il y a un an et il est facile de comprendre pourquoi. Le chatbot révolutionnaire d’OpenAI peut effectuer une quantité surprenante de tâches, de la tenue d’une conversation plausible à la rédaction d’un document correctement ponctué

a non-FE question from a person with a tenuous familial connection to quebec (anglo father adopted by a québécois couple) who's always curious about the different francophone experiences: my dad spent a lot of time in new orleans and loved it, but how do the new orleans francophones generally regard the québécois? are there any particular culture clashes?

Unfortunately there aren't many actual culture clashes because there's so little contact. Louisiana and Québec are separated by thousands of kilometers and a national border, and everything from vastly different climates to separate experience with resisting forced assimilation has caused us to diverge from one another quite substantially. I'm glad that I've made friends in Québec, and it seems like every week we're discovering some point of commonality we share in spite of everything that divides us, but that's an entirely personal connection that I sought out myself. Just a few days ago for example a few of them were sharing this post on Facebook:

and they asked me to tell them more about Louisiana king cakes, our spin on the traditional French galettes des rois which are still prepared in Québec apparently just as they are in France.

But let's see if I can condense our biggest differences to some bullet points.

Language: Québec is well known for being a majority French-speaking province, whereas Louisiana is...not. Practically all of the Louisianais are fluent English speakers, because starting from the 1870s French in Louisiana was stigmatized and systemically excluded from education, business, and politics. In recent decades there have been attempts at reviving the language, but they've been slow to take root without a foundation in the home to build upon. Both the Louisianais and Québécois practice code switching (the linguistic term for switching between languages in casual conversation), albeit in opposite ways. The Québécois speak mostly French but will include occasional English words and phrases in their speech, whereas as mentioned the Louisianais primarily communicate in English but use a variety of French terms and names as well as direct English translations of French not used in standard English (ex. "making groceries," a literal translation of faire les courses). This stark contrast is because of...

Population and politics: I won't pretend to understand the Québécois political system in any real depth. I do get however that a large part of the reason that they've been able to maintain a limited degree of autonomy as well as preserve their language is that ethnic French people vastly outnumber Anglos in Québec, and Québec constitutes a much larger percentage of Canada's population and economy than Louisiana does the US's, even back in the 19th century when New Orleans was a much larger city relative to the rest of the US than it is today. Beginning shortly after the Louisiana Purchase, Anglo-Americans began moving into northern and central Louisiana, establishing settlements and slowly pushing southward toward and even into New Orleans. This combined with various political maneuvers that progressively weakened Creole control in the area - splitting what are now coastal Mississippi and Alabama, which had initially been settled by the French, off from Louisiana, moving the capital from New Orleans to a then-barely-inhabited upriver border fort: Baton Rouge, which is mostly Anglo-populated despite the name - resulted in the Louisianais having far less control over our own state than what the Québécois have. Compound that with the aforementioned stigmatization of the French language, and many of the Louisianais have been left feeling disenfranchised and unwilling to participate in national politics. Louisiana is a "red state," in US political parlance, because its biggest voting demographic consists of the very same sort of people that make up the surrounding Bible Belt. Speaking of...

Religion: Québec had its Quiet Revolution in the 1960s, largely removing the presence of the Catholic Church and moving closer to France's model of laïcité/secularism. By contrast, Catholicism is still a highly visible element of life and culture in southern Louisiana, and Catholic education continues to be the standard in New Orleans. This is down to several factors, ranging from the poor quality of public services (not helped, surely, by the voters of northern Louisiana who like US conservatives in general recoil in horror from anything that might be dubbed socialism) to a matter of cultural preservation. The Bible Belt is an aggressively Protestant region, dominated by denominations that have historically held Catholics in poor regard. The US at large also has a long history of anti-Catholic discrimination, particularly in large cities like Boston and Chicago where Catholic immigrants formed a large percentage of the working classes. Southern Louisiana, however, has been majority Catholic since the colony's founding over three centuries ago, and presided over by specifically Latin Catholics in spirit if not in actual practice for all that time. The Louisianais have used that to make allies of other Catholic populations who've moved here, mostly the Spanish and Italians but also more recent immigrants like the Vietnamese. While I wouldn't describe most of us as religious in the sense that the US conceives of that term (I'm certainly not), Catholicism is still a crucial part of our heritage and the preservation of this region as a cultural enclave. I've had trolls calling me a conservative religious nut job because I call myself a Catholic, and yet ironically here we associate the Church with the city's decadent and libertine atmosphere. The focus on visual aesthetics, the relaxed attitude toward alcohol and sex and even sin itself...it's all in sharp contrast to the austerity of Bible Belt Protestants who descend upon New Orleans at regular intervals to protest Mardi Gras and Decadence and call us the new Sodom and Gomorrah, etc. And finally...

Climate: I said it before and it's a comparatively much more straightforward issue, but it really does make a difference. When we're in the height of our social season courtesy of mild subtropical winters, Québec is buried under snow. The reverse is true in summer, which in Louisiana is long and lethally hot and humid and plagued by disease-bearing insects and the ever-present threat of hurricanes. This has also affected our cuisine. Louisiana has a rich and internationally-recognized culinary tradition that builds upon a French foundation with a wealth of local innovations based on crops that thrive in this climate as well as the bounty of the Gulf of Mexico. Québec has...poutine. Obviously I'm joking a bit there, but it's telling that there are multiple Louisiana-themed eateries in Montréal - but the reverse is not true. I've always heard that hot weather climates produce richer and more diverse cuisines than cold weather climates, and I suppose that in this case at least it's true.

"Travaux contre le chômage que la ville serait prête à commencer incessamment," La Presse. June 19, 1933. Page 3. ---- Ainsi que la "Presse" l’annonçait samedi, M. Alfred Legault, président intérimaire du Comité exécutif municipal, avait informé par téléphone, la veille, à l'issue d'une assemblée dudit comité, l'hon. J.-N. Francoeur, ministre des travaux publics du gouvernement provincial, que la ville est prête à mettre à exécution, a 24 heures d'avis, tout un programme de travaux contre le chômage, au cas d'une entente entre les autorités fédérales et provinciales en vue de substituer ce genre de travaux aux secours directes. Or voici, selon une nouvelle déclaration de M. Legault faite cet avant-midi aux chroniqueurs municipaux, le détail du programme de travaux contre le chômage projetés:

Ouverture du boulevard Persilller; prolongement de la rue Papineau; prolongement de la rue Beaublen vers l'Est; améliorations au parc Western nouveau tunnel sous les voles du Canadien National, près du pont de Cartierville: deux nouveaux réservoirs pour l'aqueduc; l'un à Rosemont, l'autre rue Guy; un bain dans le quartier Saint-Edouard; construction du boulevard Métropolitain.

Le même programme comporter d'anciens travaux à compléter, savoir: égoûts du nord, de l'avenue Mont-Royal, de la rivière Saint- Pierre, de l'Est de l'avenue Henri Julien; rues: prolongement du boulevard Saint-Joseph vers l'est ouverture de la rue Berri, entre DeMontigny et Ontario: prolongement de la rue Gosford vers le sud, à travers le quadrilatère formé par les rues Bonsecours, LeRoyer, Saint- Paul et Gosford; améliorations à l'Ile Sainte-Hélène: aménagement d'une plage; construction d'égouts et installation d'un système d'éclairage; améliorations pour l'utilisation du chalet de la Montagne; elargissement des rues Smith et Colborne, à le sortie du tunnel Wellington: améliorations au jardin botanique.

Marie Samuelle Tremblay - Province de Québec

There's a big wave of contests (literally "Vague de Concours") with the small creators in my province, and I'm participating! You don't have to be from Québec to enter, so if you ever wanted my space cat hoodie or my starry tunic, that's your chance to win one! It's on my FB over here -> https://www.facebook.com/simakaihoodies

A new study by Quebec researchers paints a stark portrait of education and employment rates among the province's vulnerable youth. 

One-third of young people who have been placed under the care of Quebec's youth protection services, the Direction de la protection de la jeunesse (DPJ), are unemployed and aren't enrolled in a school at age 21, according to the study.

Commissioned by Quebec's employment ministry and conducted by the Chaire-Réseau de Recherche sur la Jeunesse du Québec the study looked at the experiences of 1,136 people with youth protection services.

It found that young people in Quebec's youth protection system are twice as likely to drop out of school compared to the general population, with only a quarter obtaining a high school diploma by the age of 19, and 37 per cent obtaining the degree by 21. 

Karolane Chénier-Richard isn't at all surprised by the findings. As a teenager, she dropped out of school and says she didn't get the kind of support she needed in Quebec. [...]

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Can u tell me some stuff about Quebec?

wanna give her a cameo in an fic

Hey! So first of all, YESS!

Now, you weren’t quite precise in your ask, so imma share a variety of my own headcanons to give you some more info^^

Physically:

She has middle back long, slightly curled deep brown hair, with copper reflect in the summer, and the crystal-clear blue eyes you can imagine (when she’s angry her eyes become more white than blue, and the air is way colder than before). Her skin is pale, pinkish on the nose and cheeks in the winter, and she got some freckles. In autumn, her hair is redder and more blond than brown (leaves changing colour) when she’s in the south of the province.

Her body temperature is usually colder than any of the Northeast States and lower the more she is north in her province (the only state who share the same temperature is Alaska). Now, during the summer, depending on what’s going on, she can get as warm as the lower east coast state when she has wildfire. If she had tornadoes, she’s physically frazzled, and if it’s flood, her skin takes a greenish or bluish tint. If it’s a good summer (no fire, tornadoes, or floods) she has a good temperature, around the same as the Northeast states.

For her clothes, from Automn to spring (October to April), it’s usually a t-shirt under a flannel, a toque (beanie) or earmuff, jeans, mittens, and converse (boots if there’s snow). Her shirt is usually a HABs shirt (Montreal Canadian hockey team), especially during hockey season, her flannel dark blue or bright red, and her toque vary. Sometime is a blue one with her name on it, other times a white one with a pompom, or it’s a Nordiques de Québec one (Québec City hockey team before they were bought by Colorado and became the Avalanche).

During the summer, it’s usually capri pants or long shorts, a tank top or t-shirt, a cap (usually a Buffalo bills one, or Jersey Devil after she started her relationship with NJ), and sunglasses. Sometimes she wears flip-flops, other times sandals, depends on her mood and where she’s going. She’s a fervent user of sunscreen and always got water on her.

Character:

Honestly, depends on the situation. She can be a real Bitch if she wants to, mainly with the other province when they attack her (usually the wests ones). She’s a mom friend if she knows you and care about you and will make fun of you if you embarrass yourself with her (she respects boundaries tho). She knows her worth and is incredibly stubborn when she wants to. If you dare compare her to France she’ll make you regret it and she is really proud of her culture (never says Poutine was made anywhere else than in Québec, she and I will fight you about it). She’s always happy to teach people French and if you respect her she’ll respect you.

She’s polite meeting new people and like to share culture; she’ll judge you if you do something stupid though.

Concerning religion, she’s a little lost. When she became New France, in the 1500s, she was divided between the Catholics and Natives spirituality (usually animist) before staying Catholic. Then, during the Quiet Revolution in the 60s, Québécois rejected religion, and made the government secular (not linked to religion). So, I believe she’ll be mainly Agnostic, for mostly only the oldest generations (Boomer and older) are church goers.

Relationship:

Now, her relationship is carved from centuries of existence and experience and differ from if they’re Canadian or not.

Canadian provinces and Territories:

She’s *friendly* with New Brunswick and Nunavut, but don’t really speak with Prince Edward Island or Nova Scotia. She’s extremely supportive of Newfoundland and Labrador (Trans man) and has a great relationship of mutual respect with Northwest Territories (They’re as old as the other and have known each other for a long time).

Concerning Ontario it’s more of an indifferent to *I kind of care about you* relationship. They don’t agree about a lot of things and usually snap each other (Ontarian drivers are terrible, I swear), but they will support each other when the West become snappy at them.

Québec barely care about Manitoba (the feeling’s mutual) and Yukon (they don’t know each other well).

Now, for the West province, well, its complicated. British Columbia is a bitch most of the time because she likes to rile up other people. Québec respect her because she’s alone on the other side of the Rockies and is the oldest Western province, and as women alone on their own for a long time of their existence, they both respect each other. It doesn’t stop BC from having terrible social skills (except when she’s high, then she’s like a hippie and is nicer while also staying passive-aggressive).

Now, Alberta and Saskatchewan are twins; they share the same Province day and are only older than Nunavut. Saskatchewan is the nicest one, but still resent Québec for trying to separate in the 70s. Alberta uses Québec to blame most of her problem; the French province is far from her, refuse to speak to her in English, and well, Québec doesn’t care about them most of the time. To her they are children, who doesn’t understand her, or even try to get her point of view, so she won’t fight them about it.

Concerning the states:

I wrote about QC and Alaska and their relationship in I've tried to put this all behind me (I think I was wrecked all along), but in short they met during the New France era, when Alaska was still owned by Russia, and became close friends despite the language barrier. They met again because of Maine.

For the Northeast, Virginia, Georgia, and the Carolinas, I already share some of it in my fic Five times Québec helped a Northeast State. I headcanon her as on the Aromantic spectrum (Gray or Demi) and Pansexual, and she slept with PA, NH, and Vermont before they settled down (NH with Vermont and PA with Ohio). She and Jersey have a together/not together relationship (really you need to read the fic to get it) and she’s married to NY (QPR).

Maine is like her brother, Connecticut, NH, and Vermont her close friends, and the rest are her friends. She loves Virginia and their ability to bring the other back in order when they get too chaotic. Mass, PA and she are always ready to fight each other concerning hockey (they were pissed when tempa won two Stanley cup), and she likes to watch Rhode Island kick someone’s butt.

For the other southern states, well they helped her out when Britain ordered her captured (before her wedding to NY) and she always liked them for that.

Finally, Louisiana. I didn’t present their relationship yet, but I’m working on their fic.

Louie resent her. It’s not conscious, more something they both refused to acknowledge, really. He didn’t know that, when they were separated, she was sold to the British while France sold him to Spain. He resent her because she never tried to get to him, or get him back, and how she never helped him from Spain treatment.

I’m waiting to write those two, so yeah.

That was it! You got me to write a story, omg. If you have any question hit me up^^