Quebec News

MONTREAL — The COVID-19 pandemic and the health measures brought in to limit it caused widespread collateral impacts that disproportionately harmed the most vulnerable, Montreal's public health director said Tuesday.

MONTREAL — Earthquakes Canada says a small earthquake was "strongly felt" on Monday night by residents of the Montreal area. The federal agency says the 3.5 magnitude quake was recorded at 9:23 p.m.

MONTREAL — Ticketmaster says organizers have cancelled a Montreal show by a French rapper whose lyrics have been denounced as antisemitic. A message on the ticket seller's website said Freeze Corleone's Dec.

RIMOUSKI, Que. — Within seconds of taking the witness stand Monday, former Parti Québécois legislator Harold LeBel strongly denied the sexual assault allegation against him.

MONTREAL — A Montreal-area Hydro-Québec employee is being charged with espionage after allegedly providing trade secrets to China "to the detriment of Canada's economic interests," the RCMP said Monday.

MONTREAL — Quebec's college of physicians is urging people to wear masks in public as hospitals are battling a trio of respiratory viruses that are filling up emergency rooms.

GATINEAU, Que. — Tristan Luneau and Zachary Dean each had a goal and assist as the Gatineau Olympiques tamed the Victoriaville Tigres 4-2 in Quebec Major Junior Hockey League action on Sunday.

SAINT-JEAN-SUR-RICHELIEU, Que. — Quebec Provincial Police say a 64-year-old man has been charged with second-degree murder in connection with the death of his wife.

MONTREAL — A Jewish group is calling on a Montreal venue to cancel a performance by a French rapper whose music it describes as "openly antisemitic and hateful.

PERCE, Quebec (AP) — On Quebec’s Bonaventure Island, the ghosts of human habitation from years past and the birds that breed there now in extraordinary numbers tell the same story: of lives lived hard in a place of fairy-tale beauty.