Le Québécois

Infobox_Newspaper
name =


type = Five times a year publication
format = Tabloid
foundation = 2001
owners = Independent
political = Sovereigntism,
Social democracy
headquarters = 16, de Laval
Quebec City
editor = Patrick Bourgeois
website = [http://lequebecois.org/ lequebecois.org]

"Le Québécois" (IPA2|ləkebəˈkwaː) is a political newspaper based in Quebec City. Founded in 2001, it is a medium of the Quebec sovereignty movement.

Description

Originally backed by the Société nationale des Québécois et des Québécoises de la Capitale, "Le Québécois" is now independent. It notably features columns from filmmaker, activist and intellectual Pierre Falardeau and sovereigntist past Premier of Quebec Jacques Parizeau. Until 2005, it was available free of charge.

As a paper with national independence as its first editorial line, it is, in some ways, a successor of the "Le Jour" newspaper of the 1970s. Prolific in side projects, it is responsible for the creation of the "indépendantiste" internet radio Québec-Radio, the fund-raising beer La Militante and manages the Éditions du Québécois publishing house.

Controversies

It has been featured in two fairly notable controversies. One regarded a harsh and raw critical article by Pierre Falardeau on federalist thinker Claude Ryan, shortly after the latter's demise, in the February/March 2004 edition. [ [http://lequebecois.org/pdf/vol4-no1.pdf] Dead link|date=March 2008]

The second controversy was raised in 2005 by "Le Québécois" about then future Governor General of Canada Michaëlle Jean and her and husband Jean-Daniel Lafond's ties to the sovereignty movement and the Front de libération du Québec.

See also

*List of sovereigntist media
*List of Quebec media
*Quebec nationalism
*Quebec politics
*Québécois

References

External links

* [http://lequebecois.org/ Official website]