Quebec

A waitress dismissed for allegedly having a bad attitude and not smiling enough has been awarded $30,000 and must be given her job back, Quebec's labour tribunal ruled.

Inside this southern Ontario greenhouse, workers delicately clip each stem of a potted orchid onto thin, black stakes jutting out from its soil, marking the finishing touches on the final floral harvest before turning over a new leaf: marijuana.

Leah was 17 when she first flew to Montreal, in early fall of 2002, and she was scared of heights. As the plane lifted above Kuujjuaq, Nunavik, she kept her eyes on her ten-month-old daughter, Katie. She had never had a bird’s-eye view of her town, built along the Koksoak River, but she couldn’t bear to look down.

Quebec's provincial long-gun registry is set to come into effect on Mon. Jan. 29, 2018 — the one-year anniversary of the Quebec City mosque shooting.

After spending the past two weeks criss-crossing the country to speak with ordinary Canadians in town hall meetings, Justin Trudeau is heading to Switzerland where he'll rub elbows with the rich and powerful at the World Economic Forum in Davos.

The three men charged in the Lac-Mégantic railway disaster have all been found not guilty of criminal negligence causing the death of 47 people.

The G7 summit taking place in Quebec's Charlevoix region later this year is an opportunity to have "frank and open" discussions on environmental and economic issues, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said on Wednesday, January 17, 2018.

A progressive group says it's baffled that the Canadian government has worked at the NAFTA negotiating table to protect a dispute resolution system that allows companies to sue governments, estimating it has cost Canadian taxpayers $314 million.

The Quebec government is paying $233 million to settle lawsuits over extra costs related to the construction of two large Montreal hospitals, including one that is at the centre of bribery allegations involving a former chief executive of SNC-Lavalin.

The freezing drizzle had already been falling for four days when Normand Chaput left his home in St-Hyacinthe, Que., on Jan. 9, 1998.

Ten days after a news report falsely claimed that two mosques in Quebec had asked women workers to be removed from a nearby construction site, TVA Nouvelles has released a follow-up, fact-checking story as a "gesture of respect."

Canada loses 20 times more forested land to fires and invasive bugs each year than it does to harvesting wood for industry — and Canada's lumber association says climate change is making it worse.

The Quebec chapter of Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society argues it's unacceptable that Quebec's Energy and Natural Resources department vetoed the creation of a protected area for the Magpie River. Hydro-Québec had decided in September to abandon its hydroelectric dam project, prompting hopes among environmentalist that new protections would be implemented for the pristine region.

Victoria is the latest Canadian city to move ahead with a ban on single-use plastic shopping bags.

For half a century Quebec politics have been dominated by the split between those who wanted to stay inside the Canadian federation and those who wanted out.