Quebec News

MONTREAL — Ice dancer Nikolaj Sorensen believes he and partner Laurence Fournier Beaudry deserve to compete for Canada at the figure skating world championships this month amid sexual assault allegations surrounding the Danish-Canadian athlete.

MONTREAL — A bailiff seized more than $800,000 in assets from the Montreal company that runs the Just for Laughs comedy festival one week before the company announced it was seeking protection from its creditors.

MONTREAL (AP) — The Montreal company that operates the “Just for Laughs” comedy festival said Tuesday it has canceled this year’s event as it seeks to avoid bankruptcy. Groupe Juste pour rire Inc.

MONTREAL — The Quebec Professional Association of Real Estate Brokers says Montreal-area home sales jumped 30 per cent in February compared with the same month a year earlier, but sales activity remained slightly below the historical average for this

GATINEAU, Que. — First Nations leaders gathered Wednesday to discuss how they can better prepare for the wildfires, pandemics, floods and effects of climate change that disproportionately affect their communities.

Montreal Canadiens (24-28-10, seventh in the Atlantic Division) vs. Carolina Hurricanes (36-19-6, second in the Metropolitan Division) Raleigh, North Carolina; Thursday, 7 p.m.

MONTREAL — Members of the comedy world say they're saddened by the cancellation of this year's Just for Laughs Montreal comedy festival, whose years of shows have highlighted some of the industry’s biggest names and launched the careers of many comed

MONTREAL — Nuvei Corp. says it earned US$14.1 million in the fourth quarter, up from US$9.4 million a year earlier. The Montreal-based payment technology company, which reports in U.S. dollars, says revenue for the quarter ended Dec. 31 was US$321.

MONTREAL — A man in his 70s has died after he was shot at least once outside a restaurant in Montreal's St-Laurent borough Monday evening. Montreal police confirmed today the death is the seventh murder on their territory this year.

MONTREAL (AP) — Less than five months before the Paris Olympics, the World Anti-Doping Agency suspended work at the only approved testing laboratory in Africa late Monday.