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Quebec education minister suggests expanding religious symbol ban to some school support staff
Quebec’s education minister said Friday the government is considering expanding its ban on religious symbols to include daycare supervisors and other school aides.
The Quebec government is promising to help businesses affected by tariffs. Can it afford to?
Economists and experts say Quebec is in an unfavourable financial position at an inopportune moment. As the province weighs potentially costly measures to counteract tariff impacts, they warn that any relief measures would have to be extremely targeted or risk putting the province’s books into an even more dire state.
Montreal is officially opening its own French-language office
Mayor Valérie Plante said the office "marks a turning point in our engagement with promoting and protecting our common language."
REM too unreliable, bring back buses linking South Shore to Montreal, Brossard mayor says
Mayor Doreen Assaad said Friday she wants the 45 and 90 bus lines — which transported riders over the Champlain Bridge into the city before the REM’s non-compete clause axed them — re-established.
SAAQclic a total failure, hundreds of millions over budget, auditor general finds
The province's auditor general found that the auto insurance board, known as the SAAQ, blew through the budget allocated to its new digital systems by at least $500 million — and has nothing to show for it. Two years later, the SAAQclic system still doesn’t work properly.
'Be patient,' Montreal mayor says, as snow-removal operation lags
Mayor Valérie Plante said the city was doing a great job "given the situation." There is no estimate for how long the snow-removal operation will take.
Montreal races to clear snow off main arteries as Sunday snowstorm looms
One day after a persistent winter storm dumped over 30 centimetres of snow on Montreal, the city is racing to clear some streets before another one arrives.
With 800 unsolved homicides, Montreal's police force is bolstering its cold case unit
The head of the major crimes unit says she doesn't expect the improved cold case unit to solve all 800 files, but she hopes it will be able to begin with cases where DNA had been collected.
Trump is imposing tariffs on steel and aluminum — again. What have we learned from last time?
This time, Donald Trump said both aluminum and steel are subject to the 25 per cent rate. Why is Canada still so dependant on the U.S. market?
Looking to diversify its exports, Quebec willing to rethink natural gas pipeline project
The threat of tariffs and lingering economic volatility has prompted the Quebec government to reconsider a pipeline project bringing natural gas from western Canada to the province before shipping it overseas.