Yves-Francois Blanchet

• Bloc leader calls on Justin Trudeau to hold summit on health transfers with premiers

  The Bloc leader notes premiers have asked Ottawa for an immediate $28-billion injection into their struggling health-care systems.

  Politics

  Sep 22
• Bloc Québécois falls short of ‘dream’ of 40 seats, finishing third in election

  The Bloc Québécois had chosen about 10 opponents' seats it had wanted to snatch. As of early Tuesday, his party had failed to make it a reality.

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  Sep 21
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• Bloc Québecois Leader Yves-François Blanchet projected to win his riding of Beloeil—Chambly

  Bloc Québecois Leader Yves-François Blanchet is projected to win his own riding of Beloeil—Chambly.

  Politics

  Sep 20
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• Montreal bakery creates federal party leader cookies to entice voters

  The bakery draws each leader by hand, then transfers it to the computer to create a customized cookie cutter.

  Canada

  Sep 20
• Federal party leaders condemn hospital protests; Singh and Trudeau vow crackdown

  The issue of vaccinations and how to respond to the pandemic has been a mainstay of the federal campaign, which wraps up in one week on Sept. 20.

  Politics

  Sep 13
• Party leaders back on campaign trail after back-to-back election debates

  It remains to be seen whether either Wednesday's French debate or Thursday's English debate moved the public opinion needle in the federal election.

  Canada

  Sep 10
• Blanchet says Bloc Quebecois won’t be part of a coalition federal government

  Blanchet says he would prefer for a minority government to propose policies in the best interests of Quebec in order to receive support from the Bloc.

  Politics

  Sep 9
• Party leaders debating in English language after French tilt

  With under two weeks to go, millions of voters were expected to tune in to the two-hour English-language debate as well as Wednesday night's faceoff in French.

  Politics

  Sep 9
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• Federal leaders trade barbs on COVID-19, Indigenous rights in French election debate

  Justin Trudeau, Erin O'Toole, Jagmeet Singh, Yves-Francois Blanchet and Annamie Paul faced off at the Museum of Canadian History in Gatineau, Que.

  Politics

  Sep 8
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• Rebel News wins court challenge after debates commission bars writers

  Rebel News said the commission's rejection was capricious, unfair, unlawful and arbitrary in denying its writers the right to fully cover the debate.

  Canada

  Sep 8