On the anniversary of last year's narrow defeat of an independence referendum in Quebec, Carolyn Jack reports that the province remains as bitterly divided as ever. One sign of the tension is a renewed battle over public signs. After the referendum, Quebec's pro-independence government stepped up its enforcement of language laws requiring that most public signs be in French. English-speaking activists are challenging the laws; in response, the government hired more "language police" to enforce them.
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