Le Québécois

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Type	Five times a year publication
Format	Tabloid

Owner	Independent
Editor	Patrick Bourgeois
Founded	2001
Political allegiance	Sovereigntism, Social democracy
Headquarters	16, de Laval Quebec City

Website: lequebecois.org

Le Québécois (IPA: [ləkebəˈkwaː]) is a political newspaper based in Quebec City. Founded in 2001, it is a medium of the Quebec sovereignty movement.

1 Description
2 Controversies
3 See also
4 External link

[edit] Description

Originally backed by the Société nationale des Québécois et des Québécoises de la Capitale, the newspaper Le Québécois is now independent. It notably features columns from filmmaker, activist and intellectual Pierre Falardeau and sovereigntist past Premier of Quebec Jacques Parizeau. It was also originally free to acquire, something that ended in 2005.

As a paper with national independence as 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.

[edit] Controversies

It has been featured in two fairly notable controversies. One regarded a harsh and raw critical article [1] from Pierre Falardeau on federalist thinker Claude Ryan, published shortly after the latter's demise, in the February and March 2004 edition. [2]

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.