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Seeing the Same Canada? Visible Minorities’ Views of the Federation

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Canada’s history has been marked by competing visions of the country and regional grievances about how the federation works.

Opinion

from Montreal to Ottawa

Ailsa Henderson

On the night of the 1995 Quebec independence referendum, twenty years ago yesterday, then Quebec premier Jacques Parizeau, who had campaigned for independence, suggested that the Yes side had bee

Opinion

Justin Trudeau and Canadian Federalism

André Lecours

André Lecours, University of Ottawa, discusses how for the first time in decades, there is uncertainty about a new Canadian government's vision of federalism.

Opinion

The search for a stable territorial model

The current impasse playing out in the forthcoming election has been long in the making, says Joseph Valles, and recent actions by the Spanish government, the media and the Constitutional Cou

Opinion

Catalonia and Spain: Conflicting Majorities

In the first blog of a four-part series, Prof Josep Vallés considers how public attitudes across Spain towards levels of self-government have created a structural tension in Spanish democracy

Opinion

Decision Time for Catalonia

Daniel Cetrà

The forthcoming election in Catalonia will see pro-independence parties and civil society groups join forces under a banner of declaring independence if they secure a majority.

Opinion

Labour’s coalition dilemma has Spanish echoes

Daniel Cetrà

Anyone watching the Labour leadership’s refusal to rule out a post-election agreement with the SNP, would be forgiven for thinking such an arrangement was unique.

Opinion

Referendum showed it can be good to see ourselves as others see us

Michael Keating

This article first appeared in The Herald

Opinion

Scotland’s constitutional future: the lessons from Quebec

*Join the Centre on Constitutional Change & Territorial Politics Research Group for Frédéric Bastien's seminar on Thursday 11 December 2014.

Opinion

What next for independence movements in Europe?

Eve Hepburn

One can imagine that the European Commission breathed a collective sigh of relief when the results of the Scottish independence referendum were announced on 19 September 2014.

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