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

32 Articles

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.

Opinion

By Nora Loreto in Opinion, Politics | November 7th 2019

Maxime Bernier, Ottawa, United we roll, convoy, pipeline, immigration

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.

Opinion

By Nora Loreto in Opinion, Politics | October 29th 2019

After a decade out of power, Bloc Québécois retakes Quebec

The Bloc victory stopped the Conservative Party’s hope of forming government.

Election 2019

By Nora Loreto in Analysis, Politics | October 22nd 2019

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.

Opinion

Election 2019

By Nora Loreto in Opinion, Politics | October 18th 2019

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.

Opinion

Election 2019

By Nora Loreto in Opinion, Energy, Politics | October 11th 2019

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.

Opinion

Election 2019

By Nora Loreto in Opinion, Energy, Politics | October 9th 2019

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.

Opinion

By Nora Loreto in Opinion, Politics | August 22nd 2019

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.

Opinion

By Nora Loreto in Opinion, Politics | August 6th 2019

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.

Opinion

By Nora Loreto in Opinion, Politics | July 10th 2019

The promise of free speech on Twitter is actually an illusion

If TLMEP can be suspended over a tweet that simply promoted an interview that many far-right tolls disagreed with, the implications for those of us who have opinions that challenge right-wing rhetoric are enormous. It seems that if enough people report a tweet, it’s enough to land you in Twitter jail. objectively not harassment or problematic.

Opinion

By Nora Loreto in Opinion, Entertainment, Culture | May 27th 2019