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This week, after devoting nearly 700 words to the implications of “Megxit,” La Presse’s chief editorial writer regretted that so much attention was being paid to Harry and Meghan, “especially when issues of great importance monopolize the headlines.”

Issues of great importance such as, perhaps, signs on Subway sandwich shops in Quebec that are apparently illegal because they don’t say the shops sell sandwiches, the subject of the Montreal digital newspaper’s lead news item that day.

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A La Presse investigation consisting of visits to a few shopping malls had found that — aha! — some store chains are apparently violating a three-year-old Quebec regulation on the language of commercial signs.

The regulation requires businesses with legally protected names in languages other than French to have a French description of the business on their signs. For Subway, “sandwichs” (the French spelling) would be one possibility. The deadline for compliance passed last November. And La Presse fingered Subway, most of whose permanent store signs in Quebec show only the name of the chain, as the worst offender.