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QUEBEC -- Quebec Transport Minister Benoit Charette is adding his name to the growing list of Quebec cabinet ministers who won't be running again in the fall provincial election.
SHERBROOKE -- Quebec Liberal Leader Charles Milliard is pitching his party as the only resolutely federalist option in Quebec as it will likely face off against the separatist Parti Quebecois in the general election scheduled for October.
- Quebec Liberal Leader Charles Milliard is pitching his party as the only resolutely federalist option in Quebec as it will likely face off against the separatist Parti Quebecois in the general election scheduled for October. "On the referendum issue, the (Coalition Avenir Quebec) is indecisive. Some say they are in the 'No' camp. Others are proud sovereigntists," he told...
SHERBROOKE -- Quebec Liberal Leader Charles Milliard says protecting the French language will be a top priority ahead of the general election scheduled for October.
QUEBEC -- Quebec legislature members are coming together to denounce the prime minister's comment suggesting that a simple majority isn't enough for a province to separate from Canada.
PARIS -- Quebec Premier Christine Frechette met with French President Emmanuel Macron at the Elysee Palace in Paris on Monday as part of a mission focused on economic co-operation with France.
QUEBEC -- The Quebec government has introduced a bill to better protect people from intimate partner violence.
Parti Quebecois Leader Paul St-Pierre Plamondon says he's worried the federal government is spying on his party. St-Pierre Plamondon admits he has no proof but says there's a long history of spying and surveillance against his party. The Parti Quebecois is leading the polls with only months to go before October's general election and has promised to hold a sovereignty...
QUEBEC -- Parti Québécois Leader Paul St-Pierre Plamondon says he's worried the federal government is spying on his party.
QUEBEC -- The Quebec government has tabled a bill to increase the number of ridings in the province to 127 from 125.
QUEBEC -- The association of Quebec's psychiatrists says it supports a bill that would make it easier to forcibly hospitalize someone in a mental health crisis.
QUEBEC -- The Quebec government says it will table legislation in the coming days that would allow people in relationships to find out if their partner has a history of domestic violence.
QUEBEC -- The first debate in the race to succeed Quebec Premier Francois Legault as leader of the Coalition Avenir Quebec took place in Quebec City, with candidates Christine Frechette and Bernard Drainville facing off.
QUEBEC -- The Parti Quebecois is urging the anti-corruption police to release the results of its investigation into alleged Liberal party fundraising irregularities before the October general election.
QUEBEC -- As the Coalition Avenir Quebec leadership race continues, both candidates seeking to succeed outgoing Quebec premier Francois Legault highlighted gender equality as a key issue, though their approaches differed.
QUEBEC -- Quebec's justice minister has reversed course in the face of strong criticism of his plan to enshrine abortion rights in his constitution bill.
QUEBEC -- Former Quebec Liberal staffer Genevieve Hinse is firing back against claims that she was fired for using legislature funds for partisan use last year.
Quebec Environment Minister Bernard Drainville moved ahead of his rival Saturday by launching his bid for the leadership of Quebec's governing Coalition Avenir Quebec, saying the party must become the "party of real people."
Environment Minister Bernard Drainville will enter the race to lead the governing Coalition Avenir Quebec and succeed Premier Francois Legault.
QUEBEC -- Economy Minister Christine Frechette will officially enter the race to succeed Francois Legault as Quebec premier and Coalition Avenir Quebec leader on Sunday.
QUEBEC -- The Coalition Avenir Quebec will choose Premier Francois Legault's successor on April 12.
QUEBEC -- Quebec tabled its own bill Tuesday to expedite large-scale projects in the province, one that would allow the province to amend some 30 laws to allow the realization of projects deemed of national interest.
QUEBEC -- Inspired by the federal government, Quebec is tabling its own provincial bill to expedite large scale projects in the province.
QUEBEC -- Anti-corruption police say they are looking into the internal crisis shaking the Quebec Liberal Party.
QUEBEC -- Quebec Liberal Leader Pablo Rodriguez says his party will send a formal legal notice to the Journal de Montreal, after the news outlet published a report alleging some party members were paid to vote for him in his leadership campaign.
QUEBEC -- Quebec Liberal Leader Pablo Rodriguez has convened his caucus for a meeting in Montreal this afternoon as the party is rocked by twin crises.
SHERBROOKE -- Parti Quebecois Leader Paul St-Pierre Plamondon rallied his party faithful Sunday, less than a year from the next provincial election and with a number of important tests to come before then.
Jean Charest says Canada will eventually thank U.S. President Donald Trump for providing the country with a much-needed economic shakeup. The Quebec premier between 2003 and 2012 told business leaders in Quebec City on Tuesday that Trump is pulling Canada out of its "lethargy" and forcing its leaders to rethink the economy.
QUEBEC -- Jean Charest says Canada will eventually thank U.S. President Donald Trump for providing the country with a much-needed economic shakeup.
QUEBEC CITY -- Quebec Premier Francois Legault says he is taking Monday's byelection loss to the Parti Quebecois with humility.
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...
QUEBEC -- Former Montreal mayor Denis Coderre has still not submitted all the documents required to certify his candidacy in the Quebec Liberal party leadership race, according to an anonymous source within the party.
QUEBEC CITY -- Several Indigenous groups are calling on the Quebec government to distance itself from the "colonialist mentality" as it designs a new $92-million history museum project in the provincial capital.
Federal Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre has dipped into the Quebec government ranks to add a new candidate to his team. Eric Lefebvre, the Coalition Avenir Québec government whip, is leaving the province’s ruling party and will sit as an Independent before joining the Tories ahead of the next federal election. Poilievre wrote on the X platform, formerly known as Twitter...