Quebec News

CALGARY — As the clock ticked down to the Northern Super League's launch, president Christina Litz made the rounds to check in on its clubs' final preparations.

MONTREAL — In an effort to reinforce secularism in schools, the Quebec government is planning to expand the province’s ban on religious symbols to everyone who interacts with students.

MONTREAL — The RCMP arrested eight people in Quebec and Ontario early Thursday as part of an investigation targeting a smuggling ring that allegedly transported migrants across the U.S. border. RCMP spokesperson Cpl.

There's been another sharp increase in Ontario measles cases as the province begins to release weekly reports on the infectious disease. Public Health Ontario is reporting 470 measles cases since an outbreak began in October.

MONTREAL — Street cleaning is a rite of spring in Montreal, after receding snow exposes months' worth of cigarette butts, dog waste, and other garbage.

MONTREAL — The Quebec government says it will allow restaurants to charge people who reserve a table but who don't show up and don't cancel ahead of time, a change welcomed by an industry that says no-shows cost the average eatery almost $50,000 a ye

TORONTO — Daryl Watts scored twice in leading the Toronto Sceptres to a 2-1 win over the New York Sirens on Wednesday in Professional Women's Hockey League action.

MONTREAL — Quebec is taking some halting steps toward scrapping interprovincial trade barriers with measures that will reduce red tape for funeral directors, real estate brokers and racehorse owners.

LAVAL, Que. — The chief executive of Alimentation Couche-Tard Inc. says his company remains committed to acquiring the Japanese operator of the 7-Eleven chain despite recent pushback.

NEWPORT, VT. — President Donald Trump's threats to make Canada a 51st state are "unacceptable," a U.S. Senator from Vermont said Tuesday as businesspeople on both sides of the border gathered to denounce threatened tariffs on Canadian goods.