Outgoing CAQ Immigration Minister Jean Boulet claims the vast majority of immigrants move to Montreal, don't speak French and don't work. Party leader François Legault adds that accepting more than 50,000 immigrants would be 'suicide.'
Polls heading into the final week of the Quebec election campaign show much of the same results since the first week: a race for second behind the CAQ.
For the second straight game, the Montreal Canadiens' prospects didn't give fans much to cheer about.
Dozens of Montrealers gathered Wednesday to remember Joyce Echaquan, an Atikamekw woman whose death in a Joliette hospital sparked an uproar and a public reckoning with systemic racism that continues two years later.
Immigration was once again at the forefront of the election campaign on Wednesday, as it was learned that Jean Boulet will no longer be Minister of Immigration if the Coalition Avenir Québec (CAQ) regains power.
The Bloc Quebecois bill to protect the French language was rejected Wednesday afternoon in the House of Commons due to a lack of support from the Liberals and Conservatives.
Animal rights advocates pleaded at the Longueuil courthouse Wednesday morning to halt the culling of more than 60 deer in the city's Michel-Chartrand Park.
Police in Laval (SPL) are heralding the force's strategy to reduce gun violence, which they say, has cut shootings in 2022.
Quebec's workplace health and safety board says design failures led to a scaffold collapse that killed two workers and injured several others at a western Quebec paper mill in October 2021.
Hurricane Ian made landfall in southwest Florida near Cayo Costa on Wednesday as a catastrophic Category 4 storm. About 2.5 million people were ordered to evacuate southwest Florida before the storm hit the coast with maximum sustained winds of 150 mph (241 km/h).
Florida firefighters pushed a smoking truck through rising water as Hurricane Ian battered the southwest state, Wednesday afternoon.
Coolio, the rapper who was among hip-hop's biggest names of the 1990s with hits including 'Gangsta's Paradise' and 'Fantastic Voyage,' died Wednesday at age 59, his manager said.
With Category 4 Hurricane Ian barrelling toward Florida on Wednesday morning, some of the state's popular theme parks. national parks, gardens, and cruise schedules have been closed or impacted.
In the aftermath of post-tropical storm Fiona, the premier of Nova Scotia is calling on telecommunications companies to 'step up', saying that many residents are still without cell phone service or access to 911 days after the storm pummelled the province.
National Hurricane Center’s Joel Cline on Hurricane Ian becoming a Category 4 hurricane while it remains along Florida’s Gulf Coast.
Hurricane Ian is so large that it is clearly visible from the International Space Station.
