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The Parti Québécois has won a minority government, completing a dramatic political comeback and paving the way for an eventual third sovereignty referendum. The party captured 59 seats after the votes were counted late Monday, falling short of the 64 needed to form a majority in Quebec's legislature. The Coalition Avenir Québec, which has governed the province for the past...
MONTREAL -- The Parti Québécois has won a minority government, completing a dramatic political comeback and paving the way for an eventual third sovereignty referendum.
MONTREAL -- The Canadian Press decision desk is projecting a Parti Quebecois minority government.
MONTREAL -- The Parti Quebecois will form the next Quebec provincial government, completing a dramatic political comeback and paving the way for an eventual third sovereignty referendum.
MONTREAL -- The Parti Québécois will form the next government in Quebec, but it is unclear if it will be a majority or minority.
MONTREAL -- The Canadian Press decision desk is projecting the Parti Quebecois will form the next government in Quebec.
MONTREAL -- Votes are being counted across Quebec as polls have now closed ridings in the provincial general election.
MONTREAL -- Anne Latendresse retired from her job as a university professor and researcher in June. But instead of taking time to relax, the 65-year-old jumped right into a new challenge: running as a candidate for left-wing party Quebec solidaire in the Oct. 5 election.
MONTREAL -- Martine Ouellet, the former Bloc Quebecois leader and Parti Quebecois cabinet minister, says parties offering new ideas face an enormous challenge to get anyone elected, due to a lack of media attention as well as party financing that is allocated according to the results of the last election.
MONTREAL -- Parti Quebecois Leader Paul St-Pierre Plamondon urged Quebecers not to be afraid of a referendum, as the five main party leaders clashed Wednesday on sovereignty, finances and the cost of living in the third and final leaders' debate of the provincial election campaign.
MONTREAL -- Coalition Avenir Quebec Leader Christine Frechette changed her schedule to meet Montreal's mayor on Friday, as the discovery of a one-year-old child at a homeless encampment continued to send waves through the provincial election campaign.
MONTREAL -- Coalition Avenir Quebec Leader Christine Frechette is set to meet with Montreal's mayor, as the discovery of a one-year-old child at a homeless encampment sends waves through the provincial election campaign.
MONTREAL -- The Supreme Court of Canada says it decided to invalidate a federal Liberal candidate's one-vote victory in the 2025 federal election to ensure public trust in the electoral process.
MONTREAL -- The prospect of a referendum on Quebec sovereignty took centre stage Wednesday as the heads of the main political parties squared off for a provincial election leaders' debate in the shadow of an escalating trade war between Canada and the United States.
MONTREAL -- Coalition Avenir Quebec Leader Christine Frechette was the main target in the first debate of the provincial election campaign on Tuesday as the five main party leaders sparred over the economy, Quebec sovereignty and immigration.
MONTREAL -- A lawyer is asking a judge to order Elections Quebec to mail out voter information in both French and English, after the elections agency said earlier this month that it would be providing the documents in French only.
MONTREAL -- Orphee Dube-Gervais expects to spend a lot of time studying on the train in the coming weeks.
MONTREAL -- The leader of the Coalition Avenir Quebec says her party would make it easier for doctors to work in both the public and private sectors if it forms a new government after the Oct. 5 provincial election.
MONTREAL -- Taxes, parental leave and the U.S. trade war are taking centre stage during the first full day of campaigning on the Quebec election trail.
Quebecers are heading to the polls in early October, after eight straight years of Coalition Avenir Quebec governance. Here are some of the issues that could dominate the campaign. 1. Sovereignty The Coalition Avenir Quebec's win in 2018 was seen as a new chapter for a province that was moving on from the federalist-sovereigntist binary that had dominated the province's...
MONTREAL -- Quebecers are heading to the polls in early October, after eight straight years of Coalition Avenir Quebec governance. Here are some of the issues that could dominate the campaign.
Four years ago, Francois Legault's Coalition Avenir Quebec party was so far in the lead at the start of the provincial election campaign that the only debate was who would finish second. The outcome is far less certain this time around, as a new campaign begins with a slate of new leaders facing serious issues including resurgent referendum conversations and...
MONTREAL -- Four years ago, Francois Legault's Coalition Avenir Quebec party was so far in the lead at the start of the provincial election campaign that the only debate was who would finish second.
MONTREAL -- Environmentalists are divided on whether a new funding deal reached between Quebec and the federal government is a meaningful first step to saving the province's dwindling caribou herds or a smokescreen that does little to protect the threatened species.
A Montreal-based advocate for asylum seekers says Canada should expect a new wave of Haitians trying to enter from the United States after a court decision allowing the Trump administration to end legal protections for migrants fleeing violence and natural disasters in Haiti and Syria. Frantz Andre says he knows of several people who are making the journey north from...
MONTREAL -- A Montreal-based advocate for asylum seekers says Canada should expect a new wave of Haitians trying to enter from the United States after a court decision allowing the Trump administration to end legal protections for migrants fleeing violence and natural disasters in Haiti and Syria.
MONTREAL -- Quebec politicians are calling on the provincial government for an independent investigation into allegations of discrimination and racism by a group of Montreal police officers.
LONGUEUIL -- The verdict has been postponed in the case of a former employee with Quebec's hydro utility who is charged with carrying out economic espionage for the benefit of China.
MONTREAL -- The federal government has agreed to pay $1.1 million to settle a Canada Revenue Agency tax bill imposed on a Montreal suburb for funds the city recovered from a corrupt ex-mayor.
Liberal candidate Tatiana Auguste won the Terrebonne riding north of Montreal for the second time in a year Monday after her one-vote victory in 2025 was overturned by the courts. With all ballots counted, she led with 48.4 per cent of the vote compared to 46.8 for Bloc Quebecois candidate Nathalie Sinclair-Desgagne, securing a clean sweep in the evening's three...
TERREBONNE -- Liberal candidate Tatiana Auguste won the Terrebonne riding north of Montreal for the second time in a year Monday after her one-vote victory in 2025 was overturned by the courts.
CONTRECOEUR -- Construction has officially started on a port expansion near Montreal -- the first so-called nation-building project that was fast-tracked for approval by the federal government.
MONTREAL -- Christians across Quebec are about to face a new legal landscape on Good Friday, only a day after the provincial legislature adopted a law that could crack down on their annual Way of the Cross processions.
MONTREAL -- Two prominent members of the Quebec legislature announced on Monday their upcoming exit from provincial politics, ahead of a fall general election that at least one polling analyst says is shaping up to be unprecedented.
MONTREAL -- In 2023, the Ste-Marie-de-l'Isle Maligne church in Alma, Que., completed its transformation into the St-Creme -- a combination hotel, ice cream shop and event space. It's one of dozens of churches that have been restored in recent years, with some finding new vocations as climbing gyms, housing or distilleries, while others continue to offer religious services and community spaces.
MONTREAL -- The Quebec government announced Friday that it's removing the British crown from the province's official coat of arms, in what it described as a reaffirmation of the province's autonomy.
MONTREAL -- Quebec Premier François Legault's party is beginning the search for a successor with only months before the next provincial election, but experts say replacing the party's founder won't be easy.
MONTREAL -- The mayor of a village in Quebec's Far North says a six-year-old girl was one of two people injured after an exchange of gunfire involving the Nunavik Police Service.
MONTREAL -- When community group Mile End Chavurah held an event in 2023 to name Jewish Montreal's "new patron saint," Maimie Pinzer was the winning choice.
MONTREAL -- A graphite mine in Quebec has been included on the federal government's expanded list of major projects in the national interest to be considered for regulatory fast-tracking. Here are five things to know about Nouveau Monde Graphite's Matawinie Mine.
MONTREAL -- Montreal can develop the ambition to become one of the world's great metropolises, Mayor Soraya Martinez Ferrada said Thursday as she was formally sworn in during a ceremony at city hall.
MONTREAL -- The historic village of Calixa-Lavallee is named after the man who composed the Canadian national anthem, so perhaps it's no surprise its residents take their civic duty seriously.
MONTREAL -- Outgoing Montreal Mayor Valerie Plante has met her successor at city hall in a gesture she hopes will help combat cynicism in politics.
MONTREAL -- Montreal's mayor-elect said Monday that her background as a child refugee from Chile is proof that people from all over the world can be welcomed and find success in the city -- even as the provincial government hardens its tone toward immigrants.
MONTREAL -- The lawyer for a Quebec Liberal MP who won her riding in the April federal election by a single vote argued on Tuesday it would be unfair to other voters to cancel the result over one uncounted ballot.
MONTREAL -- The CEO of a Montreal-based company that uses satellites to monitor methane emissions says interest in his technology continues to reach new heights, even as governments appear to be wavering on their climate commitments.
MONTREAL -- Outgoing Montreal Mayor Valerie Plante says Thursday's inauguration of a sixth UN office in the city is a reflection of the environmental, housing-focused agenda she's championed in her nearly eight years in office.
MONTREAL -- Quebec Premier Francois Legault testified on Tuesday that he was kept in the dark about hundreds of millions of dollars in cost overruns at the auto insurance board, laying most of the blame for the scandal on the leaders of the state-run corporation.
MONTREAL -- Quebec Premier Francois Legault says he only learned about cost overruns at the province's auto insurance board in February 2025.
The Parti Quebecois sailed to a third-straight Quebec byelection win on Monday, cementing the sovereigntist party's momentum ahead of the 2026 provincial election and dealing a crushing blow to Premier Francois Legault's governing party. Former journalist Alex Boissonneault handily defeated Quebec Conservative Leader Eric Duhaime in the Arthabaska riding, flipping a seat that Legault's Coalition Avenir Quebec has held since...
KAHNAWAKE -- The Mohawk Council of Kahnawake says it will probably impose tolls on the roads crossing its territory in response to looming federal budget cuts.
MONTREAL -- On any given day, drones buzz in the skies above Quebec's detention centres looking to drop tobacco, drugs or cellphones to the inmates below.
Canadian scientists working on asteroid missions, exploring the universe through the James Webb Space Telescope or helping to put rovers on Mars say they can in some way thank Marc Garneau, who left an enduring legacy both as an astronaut and head of the country's space agency. While best-known in later years as a federal cabinet minister, Garneau, who died...
MONTREAL -- Quebec's immigration minister says the government will drop its permanent immigration targets to as low as 25,000 people per year, and keep them low until Ottawa agrees to slash the number of temporary residents in the province by half.
MONTREAL -- A scientific committee's decision to assess the snowy owl as threatened is yet another concerning sign of the changes shaping Canada's Arctic, two experts say.
MONTREAL -- Bloc Quebecois Leader Yves-Francois Blanchet on Tuesday called for a "partisan truce" with other federal party leaders, even as he was accused by the Bloc's provincial cousins of putting the sovereignty question aside.
Bloc Quebecois Leader Yves-Francois Blanchet is calling for a "partisan truce" with other federal party leaders after Monday's federal election, even as he faces criticism from his party's provincial cousins for putting sovereignty aside. Blanchet told reporters in Montreal that voters want stability in Parliament in order to address the ongoing trade war with the United States. His comments came...
MONTREAL -- Bloc Quebecois Leader Yves-Francois Blanchet is calling for a "partisan truce" with other federal party leaders after Monday's federal election, even as he faces criticism from his party's provincial cousins for putting sovereignty aside.
MONTREAL -- In the town of St-Amable, Que., it's plant or pay up.
QUEBEC -- Against the backdrop of U.S. tariff threats, the Quebec government tabled a budget on Tuesday with a record $13.6-billion deficit and billions of dollars in new infrastructure spending to stimulate the economy.