Paris (CNN)Crowds of "gilets jaunes" or "yellow vest" protesters gathered Saturday in Paris for a fifth consecutive weekend of demonstrations despite concessions this week by French President Emmanuel Macron . But their numbers were lower than in previous weeks, with some perhaps…

FILE — Yellow Vest protest came to Vernon Saturday. (Brieanna Charlebois/Morning Star) So, about 20 members of Yellow Vests Canada gathered on Vernon’s courthouse steps on Saturday (Dec. 15, Yellow Vest movement rallied in Vernon Saturday). If this is a movement, it’s…

In recent weeks, France has been seized by the gilets jaunes, an amorphous, leaderless protest group that consists, in part, of people like Édouard Louis’s family and former neighbors. In 2014, the French writer Édouard Louis published “ The End of Eddy…

A US banker is offered a bonus to move to London or Paris. Eyeing chaos in the House of Commons and on Paris streets , she thanks her boss wryly. To help make her choice she uses Lex’s Inverse Shambles Ratio (ISR)….

When I left Paris four years ago to settle in the pretty Drôme valley in south-eastern France , I opted for a village not far from the city of Valence. I wanted to be close to a high-speed rail station, but remote…

French government ministers have appealed for the nationwide gilets jaunes protests to stop in the wake of the Strasbourg attack. After a gunman opened fire near a Christmas market in Strasbourg city centre on Tuesday night, killing three people and injuring several…

President Macron has presided over an interment of traditional institutions in France, and, in a civic space emptied of opposition, the gilets jaunes protesters have anointed themselves. For thirteen minutes on Monday evening, the French President, Emmanuel Macron, addressed the nation in…

Chaplains in France ponder causes of gilets jaunes protests Yellow vest protesters watch French President Emmanuel Macron address the nation, on Monday THERE is little consensus among clergy in France on the cause of, or the solution to, the gilets jaunes protests…

Facebook photo by El Comandante Cheronimo Yellow vest protests are now being organized in Canada. The "Yellow Vests Canada" Facebook page was set up on December 5 and already has 43,506 members. On December 9, the Saskatoon Star Phoenix reported, "Activists donned…

Aa Aa French President Emmanuel Macron addressed the nation on Monday amid widespread unrest as the gilets jaunes protesters took to the streets yet again over the weekend. Euronews’ Emmanuelle Saliba spoke to 32-year-old Leila, who until recently, was an administrator of…