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Appearing six times a year, the Network News informs our partners and stakeholders as well as members of Quebec’s English-speaking community about the latest activities, news, and views of the Quebec Community Groups Network.
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NETWORK NEWS MARCH 2023
COMMUNITY INTERVENES TO PREVENT DEEP CUTS AT THE MONTREAL GAZETTE
The QCGN has learned that staff cuts at The Montreal Gazette will not be as deep as previously anticipated thanks in large part to the efforts of community leaders. QCGN, other leaders and businesspeople, banded together to prevent newsroom cutbacks that would have hobbled the future of our community's newspaper of record.
Postmedia recently announced it will be cutting 11 per cent of workers at its newspapers across Canada, but internal sources had confirmed [...]
NETWORK NEWS DECEMBER 2022
STANDING UP FOR OUR RIGHTS
As 2022 comes to a close, the sword of Damocles hanging over the head of Quebec’s English-speaking community through Bill C-13 has been temporarily sheathed as the federal government rises for the holiday break. The work of the Standing Committee on Official Languages (LANG) will continue in the new year, with a report on C-13 going back to the House no sooner than early March.
The QCGN’s policy team has been closely following LANG’s clause-by-clause study of C-13.
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NETWORK NEWS NOVEMBER 2022
QCGN leading charge against looming threat to official bilingualism in Canada
NETWORK NEWS SEPTEMBER 2022
A time of deep transformation
NETWORK NEWS JULY 2022
English-speaking Quebec is indeed at a crossroads
NETWORK NEWS JUNE 2022
It has been an honour to lead the QCGN at this crucial crossroads
NETWORK NEWS APRIL 2022
Last Tuesday, the QCGN held a press conference to discuss the harmful impacts of Bill 96, An Act respecting French, the official and common language of Québec.
NETWORK NEWS FEBRUARY 2022
We hear Premier Legault's hostile and inhospitale message loud and clear
NETWORK NEWS DECEMBER 2021
The changing face of the Quebec Community Groups Network
NETWORK NEWS OCTOBER/NOVEMBER 2021
Bill 96 retains attention of QCGN as English-speaking Quebecers worry about their rights and the vitality of their communities
NETWORK NEWS AUGUST 2021
Critical months ahead for QCGN and the English-speaking community.
NETWORK NEWS JULY 2021
The Montreal Gazette published an op-ed by me predicting as 2020 drew to a close that English-speaking Quebecers were witnessing the relative language peace we had enjoyed for many years was going to fade.
NETWORKS NEWS APRIL 2021
QCGN Meets with Language Minister Simon Jolin-Barrette
NETWORK NEWS DECEMBER 2020
Looking Ahead QCGN Faces Challenges, New and Old
NETWORK NEWS JUNE 2020
English-speaking Quebecers Need an Effective Advocacy.
NETWORK NEWS MARCH 2020
Coronavirus (COVID-19) Update – A message from QCGN President Geoffrey Chambers and Director General Sylvia Martin-Laforge.
NETWORK NEWS DECEMBER 2019
English-speaking Community Needs to Speak with One Voice.
NETWORK NEWS JUNE 2019
More than 100 members and stakeholders took part in the 24th annual meeting of the Quebec Community Groups Network on June 15-16.
NETWORK NEWS FEBRUARY 2019
QCGN Meets Premier Legault to Discuss Concerns of English-Speaking Community.
NETWORK NEWS NOVEMBER 2018
QCGN Takes English-Speaking Minority Community’s Concerns To Parliament Hill.
NETWORK NEWS SEPTEMBER 2018
English-Speaking Quebecers The Real Winners In First Ever Televised English Leaders’ Debate.
NETWORK NEWS JUNE 2018
Geoffrey Chambers becomes QCGN’s eighth president.
NETWORK NEWS APRIL 2018
James Shea meets with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Canadian Heritage Minister Mélanie Joly as well as our Francophone counterparts on March 28 as the government prepared to launch the Action Plan for Official Languages 2018-2023: Investing in Our Future.
NETWORK NEWS FEBRUARY-MARCH 2018
Community Shares Concerns and Expectations with Minister Weil.
NETWORKS NEWS DECEMBER 2017
Bonjour-Hi , New Secretariat , and Meeting with MNAs.
NETWORK NEWS NOVEMBER 2017
QCGN and Community Leaders Meet with Minister Weil
NETWORK NEWS DECEMBER 2016
Cross-Canada Official Languages Consultations, House Committee Report on Official Languages, Moving Closer to Provincial Liaison for English-speaking Community.
NETWORKS NEWS NOVEMBER 2016
QCGN delegation meets with Premier Couillard.
NETWORK NEWS SEPTEMBER 2016
Parliament marks imminent departure of Commissioner Fraser, Consultation on the Next Action Plan for Official Languages.
NETWORK NEWS JUNE 2016
The QCGN’s new President James Shea and Director General Sylvia Martin-Laforge bid a fond farewell to QCGN outgoing President Dan Lamoureux during the Network’s annual general meeting on June 3.
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