Quebec announced on Friday that it's banning oil and gas exploration and exploitation on Anticosti Island and has reached an agreement with three of the companies which had permits.
Quebecers are voting in a provincial byelection on Monday in the Montreal riding of Gouin, where a former student activist running for the left-wing Quebec solidaire party is heavily favoured to win.
Bain was facing a charge of first−degree murder in Denis Blanchette’s death outside a nightclub as then−Parti Quebecois leader Pauline Marois was inside celebrating her party’s 2012 election win.
Alexandre Cloutier, Veronique Hivon, Martine Ouellet, Jean-Francois Lisee and Paul St-Pierre Plamondon are vying to replace Peladeau, who resigned in early May citing family issues.