Quebec

Quebec City is bracing itself for the possibility of new confrontations between far right and left groups in a demonstration on Saturday.

Quebec's finance minister is expected to announce personal income tax cuts today, Nov. 21, 2017, as well as changes to the province's welfare system.

Though she's only 22, Constable Pamela Stevenson is undoubtedly one of her northern Quebec police force's most coveted new recruits.

A Quebec Superior Court justice promised on Friday, Nov. 17, 2017, to deliver a ruling as soon as possible regarding a request for a temporary suspension of Quebec's controversial face-covering law.

The Alberta government plans to control the online sale of legalized marijuana but will leave over-the-counter sales to private operators.

When asked about Kinder Morgan’s plans to proceed with its Trans Mountain pipeline expansion project, linking Alberta’s oilsands producers to the west coast, Gov. Jay Inslee says he’s very worried about expanding fossil fuel infrastructure and the impacts on his own state, including impacts on endangered orca whales.

Montreal's first female mayor will be sworn in this afternoon, Nov. 16, 2017, in a ceremony that begins at 4 p.m. eastern.

On Wednesday, National Observer launched a new membership campaign to power its reporting on racism, Islamophobia and threats to human rights.

The Quebec government says Montreal's Olympic Stadium will have a new, $250 million roof by 2023.

New mothers and fathers planning to begin their parental leave on or after Dec. 3, 2017, will be able to spread their federal benefits over a longer period of time.

Two groups have filed a legal challenge to Quebec's Bill 62, saying the face-veil law "gravely infringes" the religious and equality rights of certain Muslim women in the province.

Punctuating her address several times with her trademark, full-sized laugh, the newly-elected Valérie Plante said that “we have lots of work to do in the coming years,” and appealed directly to Montrealers for their help in “getting [it] done.”

This is the unfinished story of the floods that rocked central Canada in May, 2017: after helpful military members cleared out, after politicians talked about revising flood plans, some residents and homeowners are still on hold. They are still waiting to find out if they can rebuild, if they can go home, if their politicians have concrete plans for helping them in the future.

When she graduated in June of this year, Patricia Deveaux won a Governor General’s Academic Medal for having the highest grades in her high-school class. Meanwhile, she had long since learned the ropes in the world of work, having talked her way into a job at a local hotel when she was 13. “She was always the one I looked up to,” says her 16-year-old sister, Lissa.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau appeared incredulous Wednesday at Quebec's efforts to clear up confusion surrounding its law on religious neutrality, which is widely seen as targeting Muslim women who wear face veils.