Sep 29 2022 — Giuseppe Valiante — The Canadian Press — MONTREAL — The Quebec election is on Oct. 3, and for the first time, five parties have a chance of winning at least one seat in the 125-seat legislature. Here is where the parties stand on some major themes. — Economy and cost of living The Coalition A...
Sep 19 2022 — Giuseppe Valiante — The Canadian Press — MONTREAL — The head of a major employers' group in Quebec says an election campaign is not the time to have a serious discussion about immigration. Campaign slogans and political messages aren't suited for rational conversations about how newcomers con...
Sep 14 2022 — Giuseppe Valiante — The Canadian Press — MONTREAL — Gilles Bélanger, a candidate for the Coalition Avenir Québec, recently moved his children and partner out of his house, and he makes sure the doors are always locked. The drastic steps come after a car followed him home last Wednesday, and t...
Sep 14 2022 — Giuseppe Valiante — The Canadian Press — MONTREAL — Gilles Bélanger, a candidate for the Coalition Avenir Québec, recently moved his children and partner out of his house, and he makes sure the doors are always locked. The drastic steps come after a car followed him home last Wednesday, and t...
Apr 11 2021 — Giuseppe Valiante — MONTREAL — Hundreds of protestors gathered in Montreal on Sunday in defiance of a newly adjusted curfew intended to stem surging COVID-19 case numbers before dozens of them started fires and damaged property in the city's old quarter. Police responded with tear gas in a bid to control the crowd, who were purportedly protesting Quebec […]
Nov 17 2020 — Giuseppe Valiante — MONTREAL — The former head of the provincial police is the latest big name in Quebec to take the government to court over a years-long saga involving leaked documents tied to anti-corruption unit investigations. Martin Prud'homme -- who has been suspended since March 2019 for reasons that were never made public -- is asking the […]
Nov 2 2020 — Giuseppe Valiante — MONTREAL — Pandemic-related restrictions in place across much of the province must remain despite the risk they bring to people's mental health, Quebec Premier Francois Legault said Monday. He told reporters the government's partial lockdown orders -- banning gatherings and shutting bars, gyms and entertainment venues in so-called red zones -- are leading people to […]
Oct 28 2020 — Giuseppe Valiante — MONTREAL — Quebec is suspending all private refugee sponsorships by organizations because it says it has serious concerns with the integrity of the program. The province said today that until November 2021, only groups of two to five people can privately sponsor a refugee. All larger organizations including church groups and non-profits that have privately […]
Oct 9 2020 — Giuseppe Valiante — MONTREAL — Paul St-Pierre Plamondon, a 43-year-old lawyer without a seat in Quebec's legislature, defeated the establishment candidate on the third round of voting Friday to become the new leader of the sovereigntist Parti Quebecois. Plamondon, who didn't make it past the first ballot when he ran for party leader in 2016, beat PQ member […]
Jun 25 2020 — Giuseppe Valiante — MONTREAL — Quebec's public health director says the province has reached a turning point in its management of the COVID-19 pandemic, and therefore authorities will no longer be releasing daily data related to coronavirus infections. "Over the course of the past few weeks, the different indicators ... that we’ve been following closely regarding the number of cases, number […]
Jun 19 2020 — Giuseppe Valiante — QUEBEC — Three months after projecting a surplus of nearly $3 billion, Quebec's finance minister announced Friday that the COVID-19 pandemic will blow through Quebec's financial reserves and leave the province with a $15-billion deficit at the end of the fiscal year. That figure includes a $4-billion contingency fund that Eric Girard said will help the province survive a second wave […]
Jun 16 2020 — Giuseppe Valiante — MONTREAL — Quebec's police watchdog, the Bureau des enquetes independantes, is investigating two recent police shootings of Indigenous people in New Brunswick. On June 4, 26-year-old Chantel Moore was shot by a member of the Edmundston Police Department. Police said the officer was performing a wellness check when he allegedly encountered a woman holding a knife. […]
Jun 15 2020 — Giuseppe Valiante — MONTREAL — Quebec will allow indoor public gatherings of up to 50 people beginning June 22, and is reducing the physical distancing requirement for children 16 years and under to one metre, the province's director of public health announced Monday. Horacio Arruda said that in some indoor locations where people are sitting and don't need to circulate […]
Jun 12 2020 — Giuseppe Valiante — MONTREAL — For Louise Delisle, an African Nova Scotian who grew up in the rural town of Shelburne, the racism her community has experienced over the years is reflected in the health of its members. Her father and brother died of cancer. Her mother is still alive after two bouts of breast cancer, and her sister and niece are […]
May 29 2020 — Giuseppe Valiante — MONTREAL — Former Parti Quebecois leader Andre Boisclair turned himself in at an east-end Montreal police station Friday after a warrant was issued for his arrest on sexual assault charges. Boisclair, 54, who was PQ leader from 2005 to 2007, emerged from the police station around 11:15 a.m. and declined to speak with reporters. News reports said he arrived […]