As the US Democratic Party primaries determine who will contend for the next presidential election, the words commentators use to describe the intentions of the different camps illustrate the importance of semantics in politics.

Do we need a virus to remember that our living standards depend so much on international trade?

A parent who’s a little too sensitive asked a teacher who’s a little too accommodating to stop dissecting “Les 100 000 façons de tuer un homme,” a well-known Quebecois song, with elementary students at a school in Montreal’s Mile End district.

As others have pointed out, the facts are simply not with Bernie Sanders when he praises Communist Cuba’s record, as he did again recently on 60 Minutes.

Demonstrations organized by members of First Nations are disrupting economic activity in Canada, and preventing people from freely travelling around the country, and even from taking their commuter trains to work.

The Quebec government has created a group to find solutions to the scarcity of labour that is supposedly hindering Quebec growth.

The Canadian Taxpayers Federation released a study finding that 43,000 Quebec public sector workers earn $100,000 or more.

According to United Nations scientists, we could more easily manage the problem of global warming, and do so at an affordable price, by reclaiming abandoned wasteland.

Canadian telecommunications companies invest billions of dollars every year to expand and modernize their networks. These investments are threatened, however, by increasing intervention on the part of the federal government and the CRTC to force a reduction in the prices of wireless services.

Among all the good reasons to call Quebec’s Roulez vert program into question, the most relevant and the most obvious is clearly its inefficiency.