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The 2001 film The Hidden Fortress (La Forteresse suspendue), featuring a similar plot about rival groups of children playing war games during their summer vacation, included some characters from The Dog Who Stopped the War as parents of the new children. [4] An animated remake, Snowtime! (La Guerre des tuques 3D), was released in 2015. [5]
The Front de libération du Québec [a] (FLQ) was a militant Quebec separatist group which aimed to establish an independent and socialist Quebec through violent means. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] It was a terrorist group , and was labeled as such by the Canadian government.
(French: La Guerre des tuques 3D), also released as La Bataille géante de boules de neige in France and Cleo in the United Kingdom, [4] is a 2015 Canadian animated comedy-drama film from Quebec. [5] Directed by Jean-François Pouliot , it is an animated remake of the 1984 film The Dog Who Stopped the War ( La Guerre des tuques ).
For the 18th Quebec Cinema Awards (formerly known as the Prix Jutra), it won Best Supporting Actor (Exantus), Best Original Score and Best Editing. It was shortlisted for the Prix collégial du cinéma québécois in 2016. [8] In 2023, Barry Hertz of The Globe and Mail named the film as one of the 23 best Canadian comedy films ever made. [9]
The Quebec Biker War (French: Guerre des motards au Québec) was a turf war in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, lasting from 1994 to 2002, between the Quebec branch of the Hells Angels and the Rock Machine. The war left 162 people dead, including civilians. [ 11 ]
In total, Montcalm had 13,390 regular troops, Troupes de la Marine, and militia available in Quebec City and along the Beauport shore, as well as 200 cavalry, 200 artillery (including the guns of Quebec), 400 native warriors (including many Odawa under Charles de Langlade [44]), and 140 Acadian volunteers, but most of these troops did not ...
Vive le Québec !" ("Long live Montreal! Long live Quebec!") and then added, followed by loud applause, "Vive le Québec libre !" ("Long live free Quebec!") with particular emphasis on the word libre. The phrase, a slogan used by Quebecers who favoured Quebec sovereignty, was seen as giving his support to the movement.
Le Temps des bouffons (French for Time of the Buffoons) is a short film created (and narrated) in 1985 by Québécois director Pierre Falardeau. It compares English rule in Ghana with Canadian dominance in Quebec by showing the 200th anniversary celebration of the Beaver Club of Montreal. Falardeau speaks slowly and angrily during scenes of the ...