Quebec

Quebec's finance minister brushed off complaints from Alberta on Monday, December 10, 2018, about his province's share of the federal equalization-funding pie, calling them pre-election posturing in the Prairie province.

For the first time in a decade Ontario will not receive an equalization transfer from Ottawa, prompting the province's finance minister to join calls for the federal government to review how the program is set up.

New Brunswick Premier Blaine Higgs remained optimistic on Friday, December 7, 2018, that, someday, a pipeline would be built to bring western crude oil to ports in his region for transport overseas. But the Quebec premier tried his best to kill that dream.

Quebec Premier Francois Legault said he made progress during Friday's, December 7, 2018, first ministers' meeting on his demand that the federal government pay $300 million in compensation to cover the cost of refugees arriving in the province.

By the time he wraps up his day-long talk fest with provincial and territorial leaders, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau may well rue the day he promised to hold first ministers' meetings annually.

Staying true to its election promise, the new Coalition Avenir Quebec government announced Tuesday it will cut immigration by about 20 per cent next year despite labour shortages across the province.

The developers of a long-delayed electricity transmission project to transport hydroelectric power from Quebec to the New York City metropolitan area say that construction will start in 2020.

New Brunswick's new premier is trying to revive the Energy East pipeline — even though the original proponent says the project is dead.

Hugo Hernan Ruiz, a 42-year-old systems engineer from Colombia, has a master's degree in his field and ran the IT department of an oil company in his home country.

A proposed open-pit lithium mine in northwestern Quebec has triggered community tension and calls for the provincial government to order an independent environmental review.

A member of the Quebec legislature who says he was "destroyed" after being targeted by Quebec's anti-corruption police is suing the provincial government for $550,000.

Environmentalists are outraged by a "preposterous" large sewage dump into the St. Lawrence River near Montreal and a "staggering" number of smaller, chronic sewage overflows throughout the year in Quebec.

A meeting about expanding trade between Canada's two most populous provinces appeared to be overshadowed by language issues on Monday, with the premiers at odds over support for the French language in Ontario.

Half a dozen tractors rolled through the streets of downtown Montreal on Sunday, November 18, 2018, as thousands of people marched in support of farmers who say they're threatened by the new U.S.-Mexico-Canada trade agreement.

Former Quebec premier Bernard Landry planned much of his own funeral service, held on Tuesday, November 13, 2018, inside Montreal's Notre-Dame Basilica, and his choices ensured the ceremony would be as political as it was religious.