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Legault calls for export tax on aluminum if U.S. follows through on tariffs
Quebec Premier François Legault called for an export tax on Canadian aluminum to the United States, in retaliation to President Donald Trump's 25 per cent tariffs on steel and aluminum, during his visit to Washington with Canada's 12 other premiers on Wednesday.
Colombian man charged in U.S. for smuggling pregnant woman who died crossing from Canada
A Colombian man has been arraigned in the United States after being extradited from Canada on charges related to the smuggling of a 32-year-old Mexican woman who drowned shortly after having crossed the border into Champlain, N.Y., south of Montreal, in December 2023.
Quebec companies announce layoffs ahead of Trump tariffs
Quebec manufacturers are announcing layoffs they are attributing to the threat of United States tariffs, expected to come into effect in a month.
Quebecers already boycotting U.S. goods, even though Trump backed off for now
Most shoppers CBC spoke with in Montreal said they were set on boycotting U.S. products by now, whether the tariffs came into effect or not.
Man agrees to plead guilty in drone crash with Quebec water bomber fighting L.A. fires
A 56-year-old Californian man has agreed to plead guilty to operating the drone that crashed into a Quebec water bomber plane fighting the Palisades Fire in Los Angeles earlier this month.
Could Montreal rents reach Toronto and Vancouver levels of unaffordability?
Tenants's rights groups are calling for a rent hike freeze until measures such as a mandatory rental registry and a ceiling on rent hikes are implemented.
2024 Black Changemakers
A Montreal drag artist ties clowning and harm reduction into their sensual performances
FrankieB Lambert is familiar with complicated and layered histories. By night, they are a burlesque drag clown artist known as EnvyTheClown. By day, they work for a Montreal non-profit supporting drug users and sex workers.
Quebec coroner says Fritznel Richard died of drowning, hypothermia
A Quebec coroner says a 44-year-old Haitian man who was found dead in 2023 after trying to cross into the United States likely experienced hypothermia before drowning in shallow water.
At a friendly diner on the U.S. border, patrons react to Trump's inauguration
Best Friends Family Diner sits on the border with Quebec, just a few kilometres from Roxham Road, an unofficial border crossing where thousands of asylum seekers walked into Canada before it effectively closed in 2023.
New and old fears at a well-trodden Canada-U.S. border ahead of Trump's inauguration
Canadian law enforcement may be battening down the hatches, but groups helping migrants near Roxham Road say they aren't seeing a surge of asylum seekers. For now, at least.