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MONTREAL -- Allegations of political interference from the United States dominated the 30th day of Quebec's election campaign on Friday as Coalition Avenir Quebec Leader Christine Frechette expressed concerns that Americans were trying to help sovereigntists take control of the province.
Quebec's incumbent premier says she is concerned about possible interference in the provincial election by the United States. Coalition Avenir Quebec leader Christine Frechette told journalists she alerted Prime Minister Mark Carney and requested a meeting with him. She was reacting to a news report published by Quebecor media outlets that said American officials had attempted to negotiate directly with...
MONTREAL -- Quebec's incumbent premier says she is concerned about possible interference in the provincial election by the United States.
MONTREAL -- Montreal city council has adopted a bylaw to ban people from insulting police officers and other municipal employees.
MONTREAL -- Montreal city council is set to debate a proposed bylaw this week that could ban people from insulting municipal employees, including police officers.
MONTREAL -- Members of Quebec's anglophone community are hailing a Quebec Superior Court ruling that ordered Elections Quebec to mail voting reminder cards in both French and English.
A Quebec Superior Court judge has ordered Elections Quebec to mail voting reminder cards in both French and English. This was the first year the elections authority sent out voter guides in French only, to comply with new provincial language legislation. The ruling temporarily suspends provisions of the legislation.
MONTREAL -- A Quebec Superior Court judge has ordered Élections Québec to mail voting reminder cards in both French and English.
MONTREAL -- Elections Quebec knew it would not be allowed to send voter information in English over a year before the electoral campaign, The Canadian Press has learned.
MONTREAL -- The leader of the Coalition Avenir Quebec, Christine Frechette, is declining to say whether she supports Quebec independence while on the provincial election campaign trail.
MONTREAL -- The trade war with the United States and Quebec sovereignty took centre stage as leaders of Quebec's five main parties appeared in back-to-back interviews on prime time television Wednesday evening.
MONTREAL -- Parti Quebecois Leader Paul St-Pierre Plamondon said comments he has made about immigration have been "distorted" by his opponents as Quebec's political parties wrapped up the second week of the provincial election campaign on Friday.
MONTREAL -- Elections Quebec says it is too late to make changes to the unilingual French documents it is mailing to voters ahead of the election.
MONTREAL -- A group representing anglophones in Quebec is calling on the provincial elections authority to reverse its decision to only send out voter information in French.
Affordability and the economy took the spotlight on Sunday as Quebec's election campaign entered its fourth day, with party leaders unveiling their visions to ease financial pressures while grappling with the province's budgetary constraints.
Modern vehicles have become complex digital hubs that constantly track and record what you do.
MONTREAL -- Montreal Mayor Soraya Martinez Ferrada says police in the city will soon be equipped with body cameras and new powers to do their job.
MONTREAL -- Montreal Mayor Soraya Martinez Ferrada says police in the city will soon be equipped with body cameras as well as new powers to do their job.
MONTREAL -- In a biomedicine laboratory at Polytechnique Montreal, animal protein grows in a bubbling orange solution as researchers in white lab coats take samples with large syringes.
MONTREAL -- As a police station in a Montreal multicultural neighbourhood grapples with allegations of racism and brutality made public in June, local residents are preparing for a public meeting with city officials and the chief of the police force on Tuesday.
Federal Justice Minister Sean Fraser has ordered a new trial for a Quebec man convicted of four murders in the 1990s. Fraser says he found reasonable grounds to believe there may have been a miscarriage of justice in the case of Daniel Jolivet. Jolivet was convicted in 1994 of two counts of first-d
MONTREAL -- Federal Justice Minister Sean Fraser has ordered a new trial for a Quebec man convicted of four murders in the 1990s.
Some Quebec municipalities and organizations are offering to take a controversial statue of Samuel de Champlain from an Ontario city in Simcoe County.
MONTREAL -- Arminda Casanova said her son never learned to write in his mother tongue of Spanish after attending several years of school in French in Montreal.
MONTREAL -- Montreal's police department says it knows some Black employees fear reprisals for denouncing racism and misconduct within their ranks.
MONTREAL -- Quebec's police ethics commissioner says it is reviewing a complaint about serious allegations of racism and misconduct by Montreal police officers filed by a civil rights advocacy group.
MONTREAL -- Quebec's police ethics commissioner has told an advocacy group it opened a file to review a complaint about allegations of racism and discrimination within the Montreal police department.
MONTREAL -- Quebec's police ethics commissioner has told an advocacy group it opened an investigation into allegations of racism and discrimination within the Montreal police department.
MONTREAL -- Police in some of Quebec's largest metropolitan regions have handed out thousands of fines over the past six years to citizens for allegedly hurling insults at officers or other municipal officials, according to internal data obtained by The Canadian Press.
BOUCHERVILLE -- For the last few days, a small marsupial has been on the loose on Montreal's South Shore, after it likely escaped from illegal captivity, say animal rights advocates and Quebec's Environment Department.
MONTREAL -- An international panel of human rights experts has accused Canada of committing genocide against its Indigenous population.
MONTREAL -- Nearly one-third of Quebec's social housing units -- roughly 21,500 homes -- is in a state of disrepair. Advocates worry existing budgets will be inadequate because inflation is outpacing the pace of renovations.
MONTREAL -- After giving their all on the ice for nearly 10 months, the Montreal Victoire are celebrating their Professional Women's Hockey League championship on home ground.
MONTREAL -- The Montreal Canadiens' quest for the Stanley Cup has been giving the city's light-rail network a boost.
MONTREAL -- Quebec's leftist sovereigntist party wants to restore affordability through public grocery stores, a wealth tax and raising the minimum wage.
MONTREAL -- Quebec solidaire, a leftist sovereigntist party struggling in the polls, says it's taking inspiration from New York's democratic socialist mayor, Zohran Mamdani, ahead of the October provincial election.
MONTREAL -- The annual convention of Quebec's leftist sovereigntist party starts tonight in Montreal with five months to go before the Oct. 5 election.
MONTREAL -- Ever since 15-year-old Zachary Miron died after drinking a can of Red Bull while on a school ski trip in January 2024, his parents have been fighting a battle to ban energy drinks for children under 16.
MONTREAL -- Kathleen Wynne, Ontario's first female premier, remembers meeting a businessman who shook hands with the male staffer standing next to her and addressed him as "premier."
Kathleen Wynne, Ontario's first female premier, remembers meeting a businessman who shook hands with the male staffer standing next to her and addressed him as "premier." It's hard to shake the notion among the public of what a premier looks like, Wynne, premier between 2013 and 2018, said in a recent interview. "A five-foot-four-woman is not who people think of...
DRUMMONDVILLE -- Coalition Avenir Quebec members have named Christine Frechette as the new party leader.
DRUMMONDVILLE -- Coalition Avenir Quebec members have named Christine Frechette as the new party leader.
Coalition Avenir Quebec members have named Christine Frechette as the new party leader. She will be sworn in as Quebec premier. "I am so happy and proud that you put your trust in me," she told party faithful at the CAQ convention. "Today we're moving on to a new step. You voted for a new kind of leadership, a new...
MONTREAL -- Brique par brique, a non-profit that builds housing in Montreal, has been trying to develop more city-owned land for years, but the group says securing money for new projects is getting harder.
QUEBEC -- Quebec's new budget has few flashy, big-ticket items for voters ahead of the fall election, reflecting a sober reality of sluggish GDP growth and persistent economic uncertainty, primarily from south of the border.
MONTREAL -- Quebec Finance Minister Eric Girard tried to moderate Quebecers' expectations on Tuesday ahead of what will likely be his last budget before the fall's general election.
When you walk into the Club Pays coffee shop in Montreal, the first thing you see are the posters with Quebec sovereignty slogans plastered on every wall. Complete with comfortable couches, a polished-wood espresso bar, a small stage and even a conference room, Club Pays -- country club in English -- opened its doors to the public on Friday and...
MONTREAL -- When you walk into the Club Pays coffee shop in Montreal, the first thing you see are the posters with Quebec sovereignty slogans plastered on every wall.
MONTREAL -- Quebec's Superior Court heard arguments Friday in a case about a high school teacher who alleges her Charter rights were violated when she was ordered to hide a student's gender identity from their parents.
Quebec Premier François Legault met up with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, U.S. president-elect Donald Trump and billionaire Elon Musk while visiting Paris this weekend. On Saturday, Legault posted a photo of himself shaking hands with Trump on social network X. "With U.S. President-elect Donald Trump to discuss Canadian border control and tariffs on Canadian products," he wrote. Later in the...
Montreal Mayor Valérie Plante told journalists at a news conference that the pro-Palestinian and anti-NATO protests that took place over the weekend were "not antisemitic" and were taken over "by professional vandals." She said it's a common occurance in Montreal for "agitators," often known as the Black Bloc, to show up at protests in the city to vandalize and smash...
English universities in Quebec are presenting a new counter-offer to the provincial government in hopes to change its plan to hike tuition costs next fall. The Coalition Avenir Québec government would raise tuition for out-of-province students to nearly $17,000 in the new academic year. The government says the extra funds coming in — estimated to be about $110 million a...
