Jacob Serebrin
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Quebec premier urges Trudeau to discourage asylum seekers from crossing border
The Quebec government is welcoming a federal government move to send most of the asylum seekers who enter Canada through an irregular crossing in southern Quebec outside the province.
Former colleague jumps to defence of new anti-Islamophobia special rep
The federal government's appointment of Amira Elghawaby as its first special representative on combating Islamophobia has caused an uproar in Quebec and raised eyebrows elsewhere in the country.
Quebec wants federal anti-Islamophobia representative to resign
The Quebec government is calling for the resignation of the federal government's special representative to combat Islamophobia over a 2019 opinion piece in an Ottawa newspaper in which she suggested Quebecers are influenced by anti-Muslim attitudes.
Quebec man found guilty of promoting hatred against Jews
To advocate for Nazism is to call for the persecution of Jews, a Quebec court judge ruled on Monday, January 23, 2023, in a decision against a 36-year-old man who wrote hundreds of online articles for an American neo-Nazi website.
Mourning begins after victims of Quebec propane blast identified
The mayor of a Quebec town where a propane explosion left three people dead last week says the identification of the victims on Thursday, January 19, 2023, will allow people to begin mourning.
A week post-storm, lights are still out for about 6,000 Hydro-Québec customers
Spokeswoman Lynn St-Laurent said that while the utility would like to tell customers when their electricity will return, it's difficult to estimate because most of those who are still without power are in remote areas and require complex repairs.
COVID hospitalizations rise in Quebec
The number of COVID-19 hospitalizations is increasing across Quebec, but the rise is not as rapid as in previous waves and is not being felt in intensive care units, Health Minister Christian Dubé said on Wednesday, October 12, 2022.
Immigration could be pending source of conflict between Ottawa and Quebec's CAQ
Control over immigration and Quebec's religious symbols ban could be sources of conflict between Ottawa and the province as Premier François Legault begins his second mandate.
Legault roasted for saying Quebec hospital's racism problem fixed
Coalition Avenir Québec Leader François Legault faced criticism from his political rivals over the weekend after he said members of an Indigenous community want to reopen a semantic debate rather than fix racism problems at a nearby hospital.
Legault's rivals take shots at his immigration, COVID record at first debate
Coalition Avenir Québec Leader François Legault was forced to defend recent controversial comments on immigration as well as his handling of COVID-19 during a leaders debate on Thursday, September 15, 2022, as his four opponents tried to wrest support from the popular premier.