Meet the Quebec National, a fictional hockey team and the subject of a cult classic TV drama that has captivated Quebecois viewers since 1986.
Less than a week after he was scolded by the ethics commissioner for his dealings with Rahim Jaffer, it is revealed that Christian Paradis spent an optically questionable weekend hunting moose.
Marcel Aubut, the Quebec heavyweight who lost the Nordiques, is aiming for gold
When it comes to extracting money from local governments, the NHL has it down to a science
Jim Flaherty, today. “The government does not have a program to fund sports arenas for professional sports teams. We’re going to stay away from subsidizing professional sports.”
Transport Minister Chuck Strahl dismisses any use of gas tax revenues to fund an arena in Quebec City.
The Conservatives may or may not allow gas tax revenues to be used to build a hockey arena in Quebec City, but the mayor of Quebec City isn’t open to using the city’s gas tax funding to build that arena and he and Quebec Premier Jean Charest are now ready to go ahead without the federal government’s involvement. Regardless, the mayor of Edmonton is upset, the city of St. Catharines is interested and the city of Regina is befuddled.
Greg Weston previews the government’s next move.
Speaking over the weekend in Carolina, NHL commissioner Gary Bettman addresses the question of a team for Quebec City.
The government decides it’s not quite ready to decide on the most important public policy question of our time.
The maverick from Beauce reassures everyone that he has not wavered in his maverickness.
Whatever has been said about federal funding for a hypothetical arena for a hypothetical NHL team—and whatever you make of whatever has been said—the government is apparently still thinking about it.