Quebec News

MONTREAL — City officials and organizers of this weekend’s Grand Prix in Montreal say they’re ready for the more than 350,000 people expected at the Formula One race.

From the front desk of Hotel Bedford in Goderich, Ont., Lynda Cross welcomes guests from regions ranging from southern Ontario to the South Pacific.

MONTREAL — Luguentz Dort and Bennedict Mathurin are going head-to-head on the court — but off it, their families are on the same team.

MONTREAL — Home sales in the Montreal-area rose again in May compared with the same month a year ago, as the city's real estate board says both activity and price growth show no signs of tapering off.

VICTORIA — Two Canadian Olympic medallists went head-to-head in a nail-biting 100-metre butterfly race, while Summer McIntosh of Toronto set a Canadian record in the 800-metre freestyle on Sunday at the Bell Canadian Swimming Trials in Victoria.

CALGARY — Canadian veteran rider Mario Deslauriers jumped to victory in Sunday's final 5-star competition of the Continental CSI5-star, ending a week of Irish domination at Spruce Meadows.

MONTREAL — Montreal police say a suspicious death that occurred Saturday evening marks the city's 16th homicide of the year. Police spokesperson Antony Dorelas says the victim is an 18-year-old man.

GATINEAU — Environment Canada says air quality has improved across most of Quebec and Ontario as changes in wind and rain ease the situation east of the Prairies, where wildfires continue to rage.

MONTREAL — Poor air quality fuelled by wildfires burning across the Prairies left a large swath of the country enveloped in a haze again on Saturday, but Environment Canada said the situation is expected to improve over the weekend.

MONTREAL — When Jad Albasha arrived in Quebec in 2016 as a 21-year-old fleeing his war-torn home of Syria, he landed in a snow-covered world that spoke French, a language in which he did not understand a single word.