Quebec News

MONTREAL — A Montreal university says it will keep a donation that has been linked to an alleged plot by the Chinese government to influence Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, but it will now use the money to promote democracy.

Montreal police have arrested a minor suspected of assaulting two Hasidic Jews on the night of Jan. 20.

QUEBEC — A parade of government ministers took turns Thursday issuing sorrowful regrets for breaking a major election promise to build a multi-purpose vehicle tunnel linking Quebec City to its south shore.

MONTREAL — Quebec's education minister has formalized a promise to ban prayer rooms and other religious practices in the province's public schools.

ROUYN-NORANDA, Que. — The Gatineau Olympiques scored four times in the first period Wednesday and cruised to a 6-1 victory over the Rouyn-Noranda Huskies to sweep the series and advance to the third round.

MONTREAL — A Quebec Superior Court judge has ordered Google to pay $500,000 to a Montreal man who sued the company after it restored a link to an online post falsely accusing him of being a pedophile.

OTTAWA — The federal Conservatives' top Quebec Tory says the party's concerns about the CBC do not apply to the broadcaster's French-language wing, but one of its senators suggests there is a need to look at it mandate. Quebec Sen.

MONTREAL — The Quebec government is modifying the province's anti-tobacco law to crack down on vaping, including by banning the sale of flavoured products.

QUEBEC — The Quebec government is abandoning plans to build a multi-purpose vehicular tunnel linking Quebec City to its south shore in favour of one that will be for public transit only, citing changing driving habits after the COVID-19 pandemic.

MONTREAL — Metro Inc. says its profits rose 10.4 per cent to $218.8 million in its latest quarter, up from $198.1 million in the same quarter last year, as its sales rose 6.6 per cent.