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Quebec budget deficit for 2024-25 didn't reach $11B, but new one will, finance minister warns
Quebec will present its budget on Tuesday and the province’s finance minister Eric Girard has signalled it will include financial supports to help businesses adapt to the changing economic situation with the U.S. It could also include even higher deficit spending.
CBC Investigates
Surveillance, stakeouts and wiretaps: How police build cases against Montreal grandparent scam networks
Major raids targeting grandparent scam networks and their leaders take time, effort and co-ordination between police forces. Court documents show it can take hundreds of hours of surveillance, including stakeouts and wiretaps, to build a case against a major grandparent scam network.
CBC Investigates
Alleged grandparent scammers lived in luxury. Their victims lost their savings and peace of mind
Scam networks in Montreal allegedly drained the savings of seniors in the U.S. and Canada. Even in cases where the fraud was thwarted, it left their victims feeling vulnerable and exposed.
CBC Investigates
Grandparent scams steal millions from seniors. Organized crime made Montreal a hotbed for them
CBC News has found that large grandparent scam networks suspected of operating in Montreal recently bear striking similarities. Police say the Mafia may be behind them.
Northvolt declares bankruptcy in Sweden, raising concerns about Quebec battery plant's future
Northvolt has declared bankruptcy in Sweden, but says its North American operations are solvent. The company is building a large battery factory on Montreal's South Shore.
Quebec education minister suggests expanding religious symbol ban to some school support staff
Quebec’s education minister said Friday the government is considering expanding its ban on religious symbols to include daycare supervisors and other school aides.
The Quebec government is promising to help businesses affected by tariffs. Can it afford to?
Economists and experts say Quebec is in an unfavourable financial position at an inopportune moment. As the province weighs potentially costly measures to counteract tariff impacts, they warn that any relief measures would have to be extremely targeted or risk putting the province’s books into an even more dire state.
Montreal is officially opening its own French-language office
Mayor Valérie Plante said the office "marks a turning point in our engagement with promoting and protecting our common language."
REM too unreliable, bring back buses linking South Shore to Montreal, Brossard mayor says
Mayor Doreen Assaad said Friday she wants the 45 and 90 bus lines — which transported riders over the Champlain Bridge into the city before the REM’s non-compete clause axed them — re-established.
SAAQclic a total failure, hundreds of millions over budget, auditor general finds
The province's auditor general found that the auto insurance board, known as the SAAQ, blew through the budget allocated to its new digital systems by at least $500 million — and has nothing to show for it. Two years later, the SAAQclic system still doesn’t work properly.