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Québec City, as seen from Lévis. This has been quite a year for anniversaries in Quebec, writes Andrew Caddell. They are an opportunity to feel old, to reminisce, and for some analysts, to offer a different take on history. Photograph courtesy of Wikimedia Commons/Wilfredor

Opinion

BY ANDREW CADDELL

October 28, 2020

KAMOURASKA, QUE.—This has been quite a year for anniversaries in Quebec: the 50th since the October Crisis, the 40th of the 1980 Quebec referendum and, this week, the 25th of the “near-death” referendum of 1995. They are an opportunity to feel old, to reminisce...

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