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French President Emmanuel Macron appointed 34-year-old Education Minister Gabriel Attal as France’s next prime minister on Tuesday, hoping to give his government a reset ahead of Europe’s parliamentary elections. Attal is the country’s youngest and the first openly gay prime minister.

Former transportation and infrastructure minister Bill Oliver was elected unanimously on Wednesday. But as he takes the speaker chair of the country’s only bilingual province, Oliver can’t speak French himself. Silas Brown has more.

During the French-language debate on Wednesday, party leaders were asked whether they’d commit to “not calling another snap election” if they were elected to a minority government. Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau appeared to side-step the question, instead pointing to his campaign platform and voters’ decisions on several wedge issues. Meanwhile, Conservative Leader Erin O’Toole and...

Canadian federal party leaders squared off in the first debate of this campaign cycle in Quebec on Thursday. The French-language debate featured Liberal Party Leader Justin Trudeau, Conservative Party Leader Erin O’Toole, NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh and Bloc Québécois Leader Yves-François Blanchet, sparring over issues like COVID-19 vaccination status, health care and more. Global’s Mike...

Manitoba’s Education Minister Cliff Cullen on Monday provided an overview on the Progressive Conservative government’s Bill 64, which is now before the legislature, and would replace all elected school boards, except for the French school division, with community school councils and a province-wide advisory board. Cullen said it “will allow our system to run efficiently...

If elected, the PQ would nix the bilingual status of municipalities where anglophones make up less than 33 per cent of residents. That’s one of the promises PQ leader Paul St-Pierre Plamondon made on the campaign trail on Monday. Having bilingual status allows a city or borough to offer services and communicate with its residents...

French President Emmanuel Macron said on Tuesday he wanted to “piss off” people not vaccinated for COVID-19, in a slangy, cutting remark that prompted howls of condemnation from opposition rivals less than four months before the next presidential election.

Even while Quebec is in the midst of a campaign, a prominent lawyer is calling for the suspension of Bill 96, the province’s new French language law. Julius Grey is calling on the government to immediately suspend the law and re-write it once the provincial election is over. Global’s Tim Sargeant reports.

A sense of some much-needed stability in Europe tonight, at least on the leadership front. Emmanuel Macron is set to be re-elected as the president of France. Exit polls show he won almost 59 per cent of the run-off vote on Sunday with his opponent Marine Le Pen getting just over 41 per cent. The...

French language radio host Bernard Drainville is hanging up his headphones and taking another kick at a career in politics. But this time, with a different party. The father of the controversial Quebec Charter of Values will reportedly run in the fall provincial election under François Legault’s Coalition Avenir Québec banner. Global’s Olivia O’Malley reports.

French officials have revealed new details about the gunman in Thursday’s deadly attack targeting police in Paris. Karim Cheurfi, 39, had a violent criminal record, but was not considered a terror threat. As Jeff Semple reports, the shooting could be a game-changer in Sunday’s presidential elections.

French voters narrowed the field from 11 presidential candidates down to two, setting up a run-off election next month. Mike Drolet reports on a politically divided country.

Centrist upstart Emmanuel Macron will be going head-to-head with right winger Marine Le Pen in France’s presidential election. Global’s Billy Shields reports on how French Montrealers are reacting to the news.

French presidential candidate Marine Le Pen spoke to supporters on Sunday after being defeated by centrist Emmanuel Macron in the 2017 presidential election. Audio in French only.

Political newcomer Emmanuel Macron spoke to supporters after a resounding victory in the 2017 French presidential Sunday night. Audio in French only.

Quebec’s Bill 21, abortion and the environment were among the various topics debated by Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau, Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer, NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh and Bloc Quebecois Leader Yves-Francois Blanchet when they faced off in the first French-language debate.

French President Emmanuel Macron has won a second term, France’s first president to be re-elected since 2002. But Macron’s victory has implications beyond the country’s borders. Eric Sorensen explains why many world capitals are relieved Macron won.

New data from the census indicate that although the number of Quebecers who speak French as their first official language is on the increase, it’s falling in percentage terms. Premier Legault is calling it worrying and says it justifies passing Bill 96. As Dan Spector reports, the new data will fuel calls for further action...

Liberal MNA for Jacques-Cartier Gregory Kelley tabled an opposition member’s bill in the National Assembly to make free instruction in French a right for any Quebecer. He joins Global’s Tim Sargeant to talk about the next steps for his first bill since being elected.

A group representing francophone nurses in New Brunswick says inequality in nursing education should be an election issue. It’s calling on political parties to fix what it believes are language barriers making it more difficult to complete nursing studies in French. Tim Roszell has more.