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A La Presse story on Bill 15 notes that the Quebec Community Groups Network (QCGN) has pointed out that Quebec government has not shut the door on closure to ramming Bill 15 through the National Assembly by the end of this week. Read more

The Journal de Montréal cites Friday’s news release from the Quebec Community Groups Network (QCGN) in its coverage of the brief attempt to add a mechanism to Bill 15 allowing access to English-language health and social services to be stripped from institutions across the Quebec system currently designated bilingual. Read more

The QCGN is alarmed by the last-minute amendment in Bill 15 by the Coalition Avenir Québec government, which aims to give Santé Québec the power to revoke the rights of health institutions from offering services in English. “We are shocked that minister (Christian) Dubé would try and drop an amendment like this into Bill 15 … Read more

The latest volley against Quebec’s English-speaking community by the Bloc Québécois – this time being a critique of the funding it receives from the federal government – is a red herring, comments columnist Toula Drimonis. She makes note of the reaction by the QCGN, which wrote in a statement that the funding is meant to … Read more

Eva Ludvig, president of the Quebec Community Groups Network (QCGN), says she hopes the Quebec health minister really is taking the community’s concerns seriously. But she isn’t entirely convinced. “You’ll forgive me if I’m being a little bit sceptical,” says Ludvig: “We’ve seen the impact of Bill 96 in spite of all the reassurances and … Read more

Health Minister Christian Dubé backtracks Friday: “I will withdraw (a surprise fresh amendment proposed for Bill 15) if I am not able to realize, or put in place, the commitment that we’ve have made that there will be no change in services for anglos or the status of their hospitals. I just want to be … Read more

QCGN President Eva Ludvig was on hand at a town hall meeting at Dawson College earlier this week to warn attendees of the potential negative impacts Bill 15 could have on accessing health services in English. “This act is centralizing under one body, under control of the bureaucracy,” she explained. “They know nothing about the … Read more

Quebec’s Bill 15 has been structured to create a centralized provincial agency that will oversee the public health-care system — using a top-to-bottom approach many critics suggest constitutes a recipe for disaster. Elizabeth Zogalis reports, with video, on a Town Hall at Dawson College where Eva Ludvig, president of the Quebec Community Groups Network (QCGN), … Read more

Bloc Québécois MP Mario Beaulieu is spreading misinformation about the province’s Anglophones, the Quebec Community Groups Network (QCGN) responds to the former president of the nationalist Société Saint-Jean-Baptiste de Montréal. Beaulieu says he has concluded that federal official-languages policy is “financing the anglicization of Quebec.” Federal support for the vitality of the English-speaking community of … Read more

Identical stories in the Journal de Montreal and on the TVA Nouvelles website, two Quebecor media arms, continue their coverage of this week’s assertions by Bloc Québécois MP Mario Beaulieu. Reporter Raphaël Pirro leaves it to the end to tuck in a capsule of the response from the Quebec Community Groups Network (QCGN). He quotes … Read more