It’s probably worth noting the last Quebec referendum was in 1995, before many in this cohort were born. Among voters aged 35 to 54, 34 percent were in favor and 55 percent against.

October will mark 30 years since Quebec’s second referendum, where 50.58 per cent voted “No” on Quebec becoming sovereign.

One thing on which sovereigntists and federalists can agree some 20 years after the 1995 referendum is that the Quebec independence movement — in one form or another — will likely never go away.

Quebec Premier Jacques Parizeau stunned many on Oct. 30, 1995 when he blamed 'money and ethnic votes' for the No side's narrow victory in the sovereignty referendum. (Ryan Remiorz/The Canadian Press) ...

MONTREAL, Que. — Is Quebec Premier François Legault secretly planning a referendum on independence, as some media commentators have been hinting? Fresh numbers suggest he should not. Why? First ...

The law authorizing the referendum spelled out that an independent Quebec would seek membership in NATO, NORAD (the Canada-US air defence alliance) and the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA).

The issue resurfaced this month after Paul St-Pierre Plamondon, head of the poll-leading PQ, promised a sovereignty referendum — Quebec’s third — by 2030 if he becomes premier.

As Chantal Hébert and the late Jean Lapierre documented in their meticulous 2015 study of the 1995 referendum, The Morning ...

Canadian politicians who almost saw their country torn apart by an independence referendum in 1995 say pro-union British leaders have been slow to learn lessons from that campaign but can still ...

The anti-separatist Quebec Liberal Party won a majority government in provincial elections on Monday, eliminating the possibility of a new referendum on independence from Canada for several years ...

Of course, support in Quebec for independence is already falling like a stone – as is electoral support for the PQ itself. (A Leger Marketing poll in late June indicated that support for ...

Ultimately, the 1995 Quebec referendum remains, without a doubt, one of the most important political events in modern Quebec history. Jack Jedwab is President of the Association for Canadian Studies ...