Quebec Liberal Party expels Sona Lakhoyan Olivier pending ethics investigation
Sona Lakhoyan Olivier has been excluded from Quebec’s Liberal caucus for the duration of an investigation led by the National Assembly’s ethics commissioner, the party announced Thursday.
Quebec food banks seeing record-high requests for help each month
The number of monthly food assistance requests has reached 3.1 million, according to the Food Banks of Quebec 2025 Hunger Report. The demand has never been so high, explains Véronique Beaulieu-Fowler, the network’s director of philanthropy.
Ottawa begins to consider the possibility of a Quebec referendum
The Parti Québécois’s dominance in the polls for nearly two years and its leader Paul St-Pierre Plamondon’s promise to hold a referendum on Quebec sovereignty during his first term have reverberated all the way to Ottawa.
Talks break off between Quebec and family doctors, only weeks before reforms set to take...
Negotiations between the Quebec government and family doctors have collapsed again, just weeks before controversial reforms take effect that doctors warn will force them to close their clinics — or leave the province altogether.
How a pipeline deal in Alberta somehow led to a language controversy in Quebec
A controversial pipeline agreement between Prime Minister Mark Carney and Alberta Premier Danielle Smith triggered a chain of events that included a cabinet resignation, a cabinet shuffle and — eventually — a fiery debate about the French language in Quebec.
Quebec City budget touts lowest tax increase in 5 years. Opposition calls it a ‘smoke...
Quebec City Mayor Bruno Marchand unveiled his latest budget on Wednesday, saying it is balanced and rigorous, with the average tax increase kept below the rate of inflation.
Legal experts ask UN to scrutinize Quebec’s proposed constitution over rights concerns
A group of legal experts has requested United Nations special rapporteurs examine Bill 1 to determine if it infringes on human rights.
Quebec man sentenced in accidental shooting death of 3-year-old
Yacine Mehennaoui, 21, was sentenced Wednesday to four and a half years in prison for criminal negligence in the death of a three-year-old child in Bois-des-Filion, Que., in November 2023.
Quebec to cut thousands of full-time civil service positions by March 2027
Treasury Board President France-Élaine Duranceau announced Wednesday that, starting at the end of January, public servants will be required to work in the office three days a week instead of two.
After brazen killing, Laval police cracking down on ‘Greeks of Chomedey’ extortion activity
Extortion instances are increasing in Laval, police said, even as the criminal landscape in the city shifts in the wake of the brazen daylight shooting of Charalambos Theologou, an organized crime figure known as “Bobby the Greek.”