Since then Quebec has gone through one election, referendum or constitutional parley after another, sometimes falling a hairsbreadth short of approving secession. Even now, no one is predicting the ...

OTTAWA - Depending on how many showed up to vote, fewer than half of Quebec's eligible voters could trigger the breakup of the country if the NDP's proposed rules for another independence referendum ...

Quebec's election of a federalist government last spring lifted a "curtain of uncertainty" that had hung over business investment in the province, an experience that may now be echoed in Scotland, ...

MONTREAL - A split has emerged in the Harper government over a fundamental principle: the rules governing the potential breakup of Canada. The Conservatives' senior Quebec minister has declared in two ...

OTTAWA Michael Ignatieff has clarified he doesn’t actually believe Quebec’s secession from Canada is inevitable. The former Liberal leader was forced to backpedal Tuesday after his prediction of ...

While the last few decades have witnessed increased political significance of the Canadian Supreme Court, the Court has also managed to safeguard its institutional legitimacy as evident in the high ...

Quebec Premier Francois Legault speaks at an event on Oct. 3. (Christinne Muschi/Bloomberg News) This month’s reelection of Quebec Premier Francois Legault — a canny but unsophisticated populist who ...

If the Scottish National Party wins Scotland’s parliamentary election in five months, it will be with a mandate to hold a second independence referendum. Scotland took the idea that a lawful path to ...