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Post-Convention Projet Montreal Can Taste Election Victorynew

A newly feisty and confident Projet Montreal hopes to seize its stomping grounds and extend its reach city-wide this November.
Montreal Mirror  |  Patrick Lejtenyi  |  06-05-2009  |  Politics

Canada's NeoRhino Party, Back from Extinctionnew

The party inherits the oddball status of its predecessor, but adds a (semi) serious side.
Montreal Mirror  |  Patrick Lejtenyi  |  08-27-2007  |  Politics

Hipster-izing Democracynew

Apathy Is Boring celebrates three years of trying to reach the youth vote.
Montreal Mirror  |  Michael-Oliver Harding  |  02-16-2007  |  Politics

Meet Your Greensnew

Green Party candidates gather in Montreal to debate who should lead it into the next election.
Montreal Mirror  |  Patrick Lejtenyi  |  08-21-2006  |  Politics

Waiting on Harper Clausnew

Development experts wonder how the world's poor will fare under a Conservative Canadian government.
Montreal Mirror  |  Patrick Lejtenyi  |  02-24-2006  |  Politics

Five Reasons to Hate Albertanew

A political refugee presents a handy guide to Conservative bull.
Montreal Mirror  |  Matthew Hays  |  02-03-2006  |  Politics

The Comrades in Caracasnew

In Venezuela for the World Social Forum, a Montrealer finds a city awash in revolutionary fervor and slogan-spouting dolls.
Montreal Mirror  |  Brett Story  |  02-03-2006  |  Politics

Sunshine and Squalornew

Haitians in Canada are furious at what they consider Canadian complicity in their homeland's misery since 2004 -- but with the Liberals out of office and Haitian elections coming, what does the future hold?
Montreal Mirror  |  Patrick Lejtenyi  |  01-27-2006  |  Politics

UN Negotiations on Biosafety Go Nowherenew

The Canadian government initially barred Dr. Tewolde Berhan Gebre Egziabher, a leading opponent of genetically modified food, from participating in the United Nations' Biosafety Protocol negotiations in Montreal.
Montreal Mirror  |  Ken Hechtman  |  06-10-2005  |  Politics

Staging Dissent: Montreal Theater Activist Reports on Anti-Bush Protestsnew

When our bus reached the crossing, the U.S. border guard decided to editorialize: "Why on Earth would you want to protest? George Bush is the greatest president since Ronald Reagan and George Washington." And then the guard promptly checked everyone's ID and ushered us through.
Montreal Mirror  |  Jason McLean  |  09-15-2004  |  Politics

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