Nora Loreto
Quebec City
About Nora Loreto
Nora Loreto is a freelance writer based in Quebec City. She's the editor of the Canadian Association of Labour Media and her bylines appear regularly in magazines and online news sources. She also co-hosts a podcast with Sandy Hudson. Photo by Alex Tétreault
Quebec's test
What we really need right now is values education for all Quebecers that doesn’t ask trick questions, but instead starts confronting society’s hate head-on.
Don’t be so quick to celebrate Maxime Bernier’s election loss
With the PPC experiment over, their network of associations and activists in nearly every riding in Canada won’t cease to exist, it will be mobilized in another way.
After a decade out of power, Bloc Québécois retakes Quebec
The Bloc victory stopped the Conservative Party’s hope of forming government.
Reinvent or die: the challenge facing traditional parties
On the right, Kenney and Legault have repackaged conservative values as populist. On the left, it's less about parties and more about activists.
French debate the most telling campaign faceoff
Scheer comes off as out of touch; Trudeau gives oxygen to anti-immigration reforms; Singh remains sturdy; May hard to decipher.
The Trudeau Formula should be required campaign-trail reading
What do the Liberals say when the room is friendly? A lot of times, we read, it sounds like what the Conservatives would say. Sometimes it's worse.
Elections Canada is attacking free speech
The vague language of the Liberals' Elections Modernization Act opened the door for Elections Canada's wild overreach in defining partisanship.
Lone wolf terrorism is fascist violence
Mass shootings are acts of fascist violence, regardless of the stated or apparent motivations of the shooter. These acts exist within a political world where violence is used to control and shape how people act, and where fascism is sharply on the rise.
Canada could eliminate student debt tomorrow if it wanted to
Ottawa spends billions subsidizing the corporate sector but somehow never manages to find money to help its own citizens.