Security around Quebec's provincial party leaders appears to be high in the early days of the election campaign, with one leader saying he's been given bulletproof vests to keep him safe.
Friends, colleagues, adversaries and regular citizens lined up at Montreal's Notre-Dame Basilica on Monday, November 12, 2018, to offer condolences to the family of former Quebec premier, Bernard Landry, who died last week at the age of 81.
The death of former Quebec premier Bernard Landry on Tuesday, November 6, 2018, prompted a stream of accolades from his former colleagues about his patriotism, his love of the Quebec people and his conviction that the province would inevitably become a country.
Members from across Quebec's political spectrum gathered at a downtown Montreal theatre to celebrate the life of Parti Québécois cabinet minister Lise Payette, who died in September at the age of 87.
With a robust economy and a main opponent seen as vulnerable, Liberal Leader Philippe Couillard calculated that a longer election campaign would be the secret to securing a second mandate.
After following the evolution of the Energy East pipeline project proposal for years, I thought I had documented a large part of this epic political saga, writes National Observer managing editor Mike De Souza. But then I read Jacques Poitras’s riveting account of the story in his new book, Pipe Dreams: The Fight for Canada's Energy Future.
The Quebec Liberals on Sunday dusted off an old promise to expand free dental coverage should they be re-elected come Oct. 1 — this time to include children up to age 16 as well as low-income seniors.