Quebec

Jagmeet Singh embarks May 15, 2017 on a bid to replace New Democratic Party leader Tom Mulcair - a quest that could make him the first non-Caucasian to head a major federal party.

Provinces have been protesting the large volume of work and heavy costs they say the Trudeau government has piled on them in its rush to legalize recreational cannabis across Canada by next year.

Christian Montigny's two-storey home in the central Quebec town of Yamachiche is normally a lakefront cottage — but now it's become an island.

Between 1970 and 1995, the average annual payment under disaster financial assistance was $10 million. Between 1996 and 2010 it was $110 million and between 2011 and 2016 it was $360 million.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Quebec Premier Philippe Couillard are urging Canadians to dig deep and contribute to the relief effort for flood victims in Ontario and Quebec.

When Andrew Scheer first started telling people he was considering a run for the leadership of the federal Conservatives, he'd often get a raised eyebrow in response.

The new panel reviewing TransCanada Corp.'s controversial Energy East pipeline project plans to consider the upstream and downstream greenhouse gas emissions associated with its operations.

Flood levels are gradually dropping in Quebec, particularly in the western part of the province, Public Security Minister Martin Coiteux said on Tuesday, May 9, 2017.

A man and a two-year-old child were missing in eastern Quebec on Monday after their vehicle drifted into a river because of heavy flooding on a road.

Thousands of Canadians across the country spent the weekend in a desperate struggle with rising floodwaters caused by unusually persistent rainfall.

More than 130 communities in the province have been hit by the flooding, with an estimated 1,500 homes affected and 850 people forced to evacuate.

Heavy rains descending on already waterlogged areas of Canada has residents and emergency officials across the country bracing for flood conditions through Friday and the weekend.

The dam hasn’t seen this much action since 1993, the last time Lake Ontario was this high. But the system can only handle so much.

If passed by California legislators, the new system would begin in January 2021, but there is no guarantee it will be adopted.

Barely 30 minutes into the anti-capitalist protest march on Monday in Montreal, several in the crowd threw canisters of pink gas at police, who responded with tear gas.