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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 MAY 2024

DASHBOARD TO MEASURE FRENCH MAY HAVE SERIOUS FLAW

The Quebec government's Plan pour la langue française has finally arrived, several months later than anticipated with comparatively little added to what it was already known to contain:

- recommendations on finding more French-speaking immigrants and beefing up resources for francization programs;

- promising legislation within a year to make Québécois cultural products more visible on digital platforms like Spotify or Netflix;

- discriminatory increases in tuition [...]

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NETWORK NEWS MARCH 2024

QCGN AND COMMUNITY SEEK COMMON CAUSE WITH FELLOW QUEBECERS

Next Thursday, the Quebec Community Groups Network, along with our partners The Montreal Gazette and the Fondation Notre Home Foundation, will host a bilingual conference focused on the future of the French language in Quebec. Our objective is to provide an opportunity to look toward the future, to work in partnership with fellow Quebecers of all languages, and to work together to try to identify possible solutions to the issues and challenges to achieve a better linguistic "vivre ensemble" in Quebec.

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BROWSE PAST ISSUES

NETWORK NEWS FEBRUARY 2024

QCGN and community find common cause with fellow Quebecers

NETWORK NEWS SUMMER 2023

Renewed determination in battle for rights and respect

NETWORK NEWS DECEMBER 2023

QCGN will remain relentless as we move into the New Year

NETWORK NEWS OCTOBER 2023

Tuition fee hikes will harm English-Speaking Community and contribute to brain drain

NETWORK NEWS MAY 2023

Senate must examine constitutional effects of Bill C-13

NETWORK NEWS MARCH 2023

Community intervenes to prevent deep cuts at the Montreal Gazette

NETWORK NEWS DECEMBER 2022

Standing up for our rights

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.