Quebec votes, Alberta judges, and British Columbia bolts — three trips to the ballot box under a country too tired to look up
Canada is a country that prides itself on calm — the polite fiction that nothing truly dramatic ever happens here. But this autumn, three provinces are walking toward three different ballot boxes, each carrying its own quiet catastrophe. It’s a national trilogy of unrest, unfolding not with fireworks but with the slow burn of a cigarette left unattended in a dry forest. Midnight is coming, and the country is yawning through it.
I. Quebec: The East’s Quiet Tremor
