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Despite wobbly French, an oil pipeline deal with Alberta and a recent speech on Canada’s colonial history that appeared to be wildly miscalculated, Prime Minister Mark Carney’s opponents grudgingly admit that – at least for now – he can do no wrong in Quebec. Mr. Carney is in many ways an unusual choice for a province not often moved by...
A nail-biting Quebec by-election that was supposed to make or break the Liberals’ hopes of a majority government now looks more like a test of Prime Minister Mark Carney’s popularity in a part of the country not given to displays of Canadian unity. The game has changed since Mr. Carney called the by-election in Terrebonne last month, after the Supreme...
MONTREAL -- One of Pablo Rodriguez's main rivals during the Quebec Liberal leadership race earlier this year says he will not run to replace him.
MONTREAL -- A planned high-speed rail project between Toronto and Quebec City could dramatically increase the number of trains that travel along the corridor each day, according to internal documents.
Pablo Rodriguez says he's standing tall and has no regrets after stepping down as leader of the Quebec Liberal Party amid allegations of wrongdoing during the leadership race he won in June. The former federal cabinet minister publicly announced his resignation at party headquarters in Montreal on Thursday, saying he had become a "distraction" as the party prepares for a...
MONTREAL -- Pablo Rodriguez says he's standing tall and has no regrets after stepping down as leader of the Quebec Liberal Party amid allegations of wrongdoing during the leadership race he won in June.
MONTREAL -- Quebec Liberal Party Leader Pablo Rodriguez has resigned amid a crisis involving allegations of vote-buying and reimbursed donations during the leadership race he won in June.
After weeks of fighting to keep his job, Quebec Liberal Party Leader Pablo Rodriguez will resign as allegations of wrongdoing pile up about the leadership race he won in June. The decision was confirmed Wednesday to The Canadian Press by two sources within the party who did not want to speak publicly.
MONTREAL -- After weeks of fighting to keep his job, Quebec Liberal Party Leader Pablo Rodriguez has resigned as allegations of wrongdoing pile up about the leadership race he won in June.
MONTREAL -- Quebec Liberal Leader Pablo Rodriguez is fighting to keep his job as allegations pile up about the leadership race he won in June.
MONTREAL -- The first segment of the federal government's proposed high-speed rail project will connect Montreal and Ottawa, the transport minister announced Friday.
MONTREAL -- Quebec's anti-corruption police have launched a criminal investigation of the provincial Liberal party, prompting some Liberals to voice doubts about the continued leadership of former federal cabinet minister Pablo Rodriguez.
Quebec's anti-corruption police have launched a criminal investigation of the provincial Liberal party, prompting some Liberals to voice doubts about the continued leadership of former federal cabinet minister Pablo Rodriguez. The Liberals are facing allegations of possible vote-buying during a leadership race earlier this year that saw Rodriguez take the reins of the party. On Wednesday, a defiant Rodriguez told...
MONTREAL -- Quebec's anti-corruption police have launched a criminal investigation of the provincial Liberal party, prompting some Liberals to voice doubts about the continued leadership of former federal cabinet minister Pablo Rodriguez.
MONTREAL -- A draft constitution tabled two months ago by the Quebec government was supposed to be a unifying declaration of Quebecers' common values, but it has instead been denounced as ill-conceived, divisive and authoritarian.
MONTREAL -- The mayor of Montreal says the city's homelessness crisis is "more serious than ever" and addressing it is her top priority.
MONTREAL -- As the Quebec government tables broad new restrictions on religious practices, Muslim students say they feel unfairly singled out by measures that would forbid them from praying anywhere on college and university campuses.
MONTREAL -- Muslim students at a Montreal university say they're deeply troubled by the Quebec government's plan to ban prayer rooms in post-secondary schools.
In a vote for change, Montrealers have chosen Soraya Martinez Ferrada, a former federal Liberal minister, as the city's new mayor. With half of polling stations reporting results by 10 p.m. Sunday, the main television networks in Quebec projected Martinez Ferrada had defeated Projet Montreal Leader Luc Rabouin. Martinez Ferrada, who leads the centrist party Ensemble Montreal, tapped into the...
MONTREAL -- Montrealers have chosen Soraya Martinez Ferrada, a Chilean refugee who became a federal minister, as their new mayor in a vote for change that has unseated the city's left-leaning government of the last eight years.
MONTREAL -- Soraya Martinez Ferrada, a former federal Liberal minister, has taken the lead in Montreal's mayoral election, as results roll in from municipal elections that took place Sunday across Quebec.
MONTREAL -- Polls have closed in most of Quebec's roughly 1,100 municipalities after voters turned out Sunday to elect their local leaders.
MONTREAL -- The 1995 referendum on independence took place 30 years ago on Thursday, when a razor-thin majority of Quebecers voted to stay in Canada. After a dramatic campaign during which the sovereigntist side came from behind to take a lead in the polls in the final weeks before the vote, 50.58 per cent of voters chose "no."
The self-described CEO of the next generation of Quebec sovereigntists is a 17-year-old rapper and TikTok sensation who claims to be more influential than Premier Francois Legault. Miguel Monteiro-Beauchamp, who goes by the name kinji00, was born in Portugal and grew up in Gatineau, Que. As Canada marks the 30th anniversary of Quebec's last referendum on independence, held on Oct...
MONTREAL -- The self-described CEO of the next generation of Quebec sovereigntists is a 17-year-old rapper and TikTok sensation who claims to be more influential than Premier Francois Legault.
MONTREAL -- Doctors in Quebec are up in arms over a recent provincial law that imposes a new payment system on physicians and prohibits them from using pressure tactics to oppose the policy.
MONTREAL -- Louise Harel cried only once during the 1995 Quebec referendum.
MONTREAL -- The lawyer for a former Bloc Quebecois MP who lost her riding by a single vote in the April federal election says allowing the result to stand would send a "disastrous message" to voters.
MONTREAL -- Six days before the nail-biting 1995 Quebec referendum that nearly tore the country apart, Jean Chrétien told his ministers to keep their cool.
Six days before the nail-biting 1995 Quebec referendum that nearly tore the country apart, Jean Chretien told his ministers to keep their cool. The prime minister acknowledged that day that Quebecers might vote to separate from Canada on Oct. 30. He told his cabinet it wasn't the time to discuss the consequences of a vote for independence, but if it...
MONTREAL -- Canada's top court has sided with a Quebec lawyer in a $2-million dispute that has lasted for more than two decades, involving a Montreal-area Mohawk community.
MONTREAL -- The Quebec government has tabled a draft constitution that would enshrine the right to abortion and assisted dying while boosting the province's autonomy within Canada.
MONTREAL -- The Quebec government has tabled a draft constitution that Premier Francois Legault says will protect Quebecers' distinct identity and culture.
Senior federal officials touted a proposed liquefied natural gas facility in Quebec as having the potential to export "substantial volumes" of LNG to Europe, documents show. The revelation appears in a federal briefing note prepared in May after Marinvest Energy Canada, a subsidiary of a Norwegian energy company, requested a meeting with the top bureaucrat at the federal Natural Resources...
MONTREAL -- Senior federal officials touted a proposed liquefied natural gas facility in Quebec as having the potential to export "substantial volumes" of LNG to Europe, documents show.
A defiant Francois Legault took a fighting stance as he entered a party convention last weekend, accompanied by the theme song from Rocky III. The Quebec premier threw a few mock punches and paraphrased an aging Sylvester Stallone to a roomful of supporters in Gatineau, Que. "It's not the force of the blows that counts, it's the ability to take...
MONTREAL -- A defiant Francois Legault took a fighting stance as he entered a party convention last weekend, accompanied by the theme song from Rocky III.
MONTREAL -- The Quebec government is banning the use of recently invented gender-neutral words in all official communications, in what it says is an attempt to preserve the clarity of the French language.
MONTREAL -- Canada's top court is currently weighing a $2-million dispute that has embroiled a Quebec lawyer and a Montreal-area Mohawk community for more than two decades.
MONTREAL -- Quebec Premier Francois Legault says his government will table new legislation to speed up environmental approvals, modelled on the federal major projects law.
MONTREAL -- The Quebec government's aggressive push to electrify its school bus fleet -- while giving one local manufacturer a virtual monopoly -- could now be turning school bus operators off electric vehicles and delaying the transition, critics say.
MONTREAL -- The abrupt withdrawal of 1,200 Lion electric school buses from the roads in Quebec is prompting renewed criticism of the provincial government's approach to electrification -- and of its decision to give one local company a virtual monopoly.
MONTREAL -- A Quebec Superior Court judge has declared insolvent the North American branch of battery maker Northvolt as the provincial government looks to recover $260 million owed to it by the company.
MONTREAL -- The Quebec government is pulling the plug on a $7-billion electric-vehicle battery project near Montreal and trying to recoup some of its investment.
MONTREAL -- The Quebec government says it is planning to ban prayer in public places as part of a move to strengthen secularism in the province.
The Quebec government says it is planning to ban prayer in public places as part of a move to strengthen secularism in the province. The announcement makes good on a suggestion put forward in December by Premier Francois Legault, who said he didn't want to see people praying in public parks or on streets. On Thursday, Secularism Minister Jean-Francois Roberge...
MONTREAL -- Tensions are flaring in the Mohawk community of Kanesatake nearly one month after an election was abruptly called off, leaving disagreement and uncertainty over who is in charge and how to organize another vote.
MONTREAL -- The Quebec government should phase out public funding of religious private schools and extend the religious symbols ban to daycare workers, says a committee tasked with advising the province on how to strengthen secularism.
MONTREAL -- A polarizing figure who railed against pandemic restrictions and wants to break Quebec's consensus on carbon pricing could be days away from claiming a long-coveted seat in the provincial legislature.
MONTREAL -- The rats took over James Klein's backyard this spring.
The City of Montreal has fined a local church for hosting a concert by the U.S.-based Christian musician Sean Feucht. Feucht's controversial views and his status as a rising star in the MAGA movement have led officials to cancel his concerts in several Canadian cities in recent days. But on Friday evening, an evangelical church in Montreal allowed Feucht to...
Montréal -- The City of Montreal has fined a local church for hosting a concert by the U.S.-based Christian musician Sean Feucht.
MONTREAL -- A recent Quebec government investigation into the climate at two Montreal junior colleges may have had a chilling effect on teachers, according to the director general of one of the schools.
MONTREAL -- Prayer rooms, political student groups and controversial course content are fuelling a climate of tension and mistrust at two of Quebec's junior colleges, according to a new government report.
MONTREAL -- After a drawn-out campaign overshadowed by upheaval in Ottawa and threats from the United States, Quebec Liberals will choose a new leader this weekend who they hope will revive the party from years of inertia.
MONTREAL -- The Quebec government is promising to maintain a university tuition hike for out-of-province students despite a court ruling that found the existing policy is not justified.
MONTREAL -- Following a legislative session dominated by an embarrassing scandal and persistent queries about his political future, Quebec Premier Francois Legault insists he's not bothered by withering criticism from his opponents, and remains focused on the economy.
MONTREAL -- New rules took effect in Quebec on Sunday requiring French to be the dominant language on store signs and imposing stricter guidelines for product packaging.
MONTREAL -- A federal Crown corporation paid more than $330,000 to an outside marketing firm to rebrand a planned passenger rail project between Toronto and Quebec City and boost its popularity.
MONTREAL -- Two owners of a casino in a First Nations community southwest of Montreal are suing the Mohawk Council of Kahnawake for more than $200 million.