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Quebec transport minister launches internal investigation into SAAQclic
Transport Minister Geneviève Guilbault has asked her own department to launch an internal investigation after a report found $500 million in cost overruns, and problems with transparency about the issues facing the new system.
Community gathers to mourn Leonora King, a pillar of Montreal's Park Ex
Beloved community worker Leonora Indira King died unexpectedly at the end of December at 42. Members of Parc-Extension — the community she served over the last decade — are gathering Saturday to celebrate her life and legacy.
Montrealers: stay home today and tomorrow, city says in midst of snow dump encore
Environment Canada issued a blizzard warning for southern, central Quebec, and Gaspé Peninsula, Sunday afternoon. Some school boards in and around Montreal announced closures ahead of Monday.
High costs, shifting gears: Quebec business leaders say diversifying exports easier said than done
With the threat of U.S. tariffs looming at the beginning of March, Quebec government officials are looking for ways to diversify the province's economy, which has historically relied on American markets. What would that entail across different sectors?
All Guzzo movie theatres to be shut down, put up for sale
All Guzzo movie theatres will be closed and put up for sale after a Quebec Superior Court judge ordered the transfer of all the chain's assets to a court-appointed trustee.
Montreal public library says it can't host English book club, citing Quebec's new language law
Montreal writer Christopher DiRaddo says he's disappointed after a municipal library told him he's not allowed to hold his monthly book club there because it would violate Quebec's new language law.
Hydro-Québec fined $5M for acting in institutional bad faith toward Innu community
The Quebec Superior Court has found that Hydro-Québec acted in institutional bad faith in its dealings with the Innu First Nation of Uashat and Mani-Utenam, failing to honour an agreement reached with the community during the development of the La Romaine hydroelectric complex a decade ago.
Rio Tinto fined $2M for contaminating water near Quebec mine
The company plead guilty to eight counts of violating the Fisheries Act and the Metal and Diamond Mining Effluent Regulations, said Environment Climate Change Canada (ECCC) in a news release Tuesday morning.
15 years after earthquake, Haitian Montrealers disappointed by lack of change in country
On Sunday, Montreal's Haitian community commemorated the lives of more than 220,000 people who died in the 2010 earthquake that struck their home country.
Montreal councillor Abdelhaq Sari hopes to become next MP for Bourassa
Abdelhaq Sari has represented the Marie-Clarac district in Montréal-Nord at city hall since 2017 with Ensemble Montréal. He says that after seven years on the job, he thinks he can do more for his constituents from Ottawa.