Quebec News

DRUMMONDVILLE, Que. — Louis-Félix Charrois earned a 28-save shutout to lead the Drummondville Voltigeurs to a 2-0 win over the Val-d'Or Foreurs on Thursday in Quebec Maritimes Junior Hockey League action.

VAUDREUIL-DORION, Que. — Two women were killed and a third was critically injured in a stabbing attack Thursday in a condo tower west of Montreal, provincial police said. Sgt.

POINTE-CLAIRE, Que. — Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre is pledging that a future government would cut what he calls "wasteful foreign aid" and would not allow funding to go to "dictators, terrorists and multinational bureaucracies.

SAGUENAY, Que. — The lawyer for a Quebec man charged with the first-degree murder and sexual assault of a 19-year-old junior college student in 2000 told a jury her client admits to killing the student, but he denies the act was planned.

GATINEAU, Que. — Quebecor Inc. CEO Pierre Karl Péladeau slammed Bell Canada's recent warnings to the CRTC that it could further scale back investments in its fibre network, saying the company is "exasperating Canadians.

MONTREAL — MTY Food Group Inc. reported its fourth-quarter profit more than doubled compared with a year ago. The restaurant franchisor and operator says it earned $16.4 million or 67 cents per diluted share for the quarter ended Nov. 30, up from $7.

MONTREAL — Lightspeed Commerce Inc. says founder Dax Dasilva is returning to the company as interim chief executive. He replaces JP Chauvet, who the Montreal-based tech business says is stepping down immediately.

SAGUENAY, Que. — The Quebec man charged with the first-degree murder and sexual assault of 19-year-old junior college student Guylaine Potvin nearly 24 years ago now admits to causing her death, a Crown prosecutor said Wednesday.

MONTREAL — The last psychiatrist to speak to a mentally ill Quebec man before he fatally stabbed a provincial police sergeant last March had a particularly difficult phone call with him days before the killing, a coroner's inquest heard Wednesday.

MONTREAL — Fixed-price defence contracts dragged down earnings at CAE Inc. as the flight simulator maker saw quarterly profits fall nearly 30 per cent year-over-year even while revenues rose.