Quebec News

FERMONT, QUEBEC — A northern Quebec town is facing a possible evacuation order as a forest fire rages nearby on the other side of the provincial boundary with Newfoundland and Labrador. The municipality of Fermont, Que.

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MONTREAL — Five Quebec municipalities located by a proposed site for a graphite mine with ties to the Pentagon have created an alliance to accelerate public consultations on the project and pressure the provincial government to listen to what locals

MONTREAL — Federal Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre is attacking the Montreal mayor's approach to severe drug addiction and homelessness, accusing her of telling Montrealers to learn to live with "chaos.

MONTREAL — The founder of Canada’s biggest bookstore chain says she wants to bring the company back to its core values following a “tough four years” for the bookseller. Heather Reisman, chief executive of Indigo Books & Music Inc.

OTTAWA — Supervised consumption sites are just "drug dens" that a future Conservative government would seek to close and not provide with "a single taxpayer dollar," Pierre Poilievre said Friday.

SAINT-IGNACE-DE-LOYOLA — Quebec provincial police have recovered the body of a young fisher who went missing on the water Friday in a small municipality about 70 kilometres northeast of Montreal.

Cogeco Inc. says it's eyeing the launch of mobile service in Canada after beginning to offer wireless coverage to customers in the U.S. last quarter under its Breezeline Mobile brand.

MONTREAL — A major Montreal health network started to reopen medical services Friday after an overnight aqueduct break cut drinkable water to its superhospital site.

MONTREAL — Developing a style of play and identity doesn't happen overnight, but progress happens faster when everyone buys in. CF Montreal president and chief executive Gabriel Gervais set the tone at his midseason news conference Wednesday.