Quebec

Wildlife officials in Quebec appealed to the public this week as they probed the suspected poaching death of an endangered caribou on the province's Gaspe peninsula.

Bombardier Inc. announced on Thursday, November 8, 2018, it will shed 5,000 jobs company-wide and sell off two units as part of chief executive Alain Bellemare's five-year plan to rein in costs, focus on rail and business jets and reduce the net long-term debt of $9 billion.

The fate of a proposed wind project on Quebec’s North Shore is up in the air amid resignations at Hydro-Quebec and signals from Francois Legault's new government that it is doomed.

As the Bloc Quebecois seeks to rebuild, almost everything including the party's name will be up for discussion — but not sovereignty.

Members of Quebec's most prominent women's group are divided over whether to acknowledge prostitution as a freely chosen career and whether to support all Muslim female public servants who choose to wear a hijab at work.

In bad news for traditional taxi drivers, Quebec’s transport ministry announced a second one-year extension of a 'pilot project' allowing Uber to operate in Quebec. The outgoing Liberal government extended the pilot project in its final cabinet meeting at the behest of the incoming Coalition Avenir Québec government which championed Uber on the campaign trail.

Federal minister Jean-Yves Duclos praised Quebec’s leadership in fighting climate change on Tuesday, and said Quebec Premier François Legault will try to persuade reluctant fellow premiers to put a price on carbon pollution.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau vowed to put more money into the pockets of residents of Ontario and three other provinces as he forged ahead Tuesday with plans to fight climate change by imposing a new price on pollution as of April.

The federal government will take some of the sting out of its upcoming carbon tax on Tuesday, October 23, 2018, with a promise to give rebates directly to Canadians.

In their announcement, Trudeau and his ministers will specify how much revenue they expect to collect from carbon pricing and subsequently return directly to people who live in each of the non-complying provinces. The fees would be collected through a federal tax on products that contribute to climate change such as gasoline.

Members from across Quebec's political spectrum gathered at a downtown Montreal theatre to celebrate the life of Parti Québécois cabinet minister Lise Payette, who died in September at the age of 87.

Ottawa gave $12 million on Friday, October 19, 2018, to help a company extract magnesium from the waste of closed asbestos mines — despite warnings from Quebec's public health officers that the province's workplace protections are still lacking.

Marijuana smoke wafted through the heart of Montreal's downtown shopping district on Wednesday, October 17, 2018, as hundreds of people lined up to purchase legal cannabis for the first time at Quebec's state-run shops.

Canada's new asbestos ban will not prevent companies in Quebec from sifting through the waste left over from decades of mining asbestos to look for magnesium.

Sylvie Cadieux was concerned when she first heard that a cannabis company was setting up shop in Masson-Angers, a small bedroom community in Gatineau, Quebec, across the river from Ottawa. And now?