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Caroline Plante

Reporter with the Canadian Press Quebec City
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Close calls with Chinese jets endanger Canadian plane operating in Asia: Melanie Joly

Joly was reacting to reports by the Canadian Armed Forces, who said Wednesday that on several occasions the People's Liberation Army Air Force failed to meet international aviation safety standards by flying dangerously close to the Canadian aircraft.
News, Politics | June 3rd 2022
Alexandre Bissonnette, court house, Quebec City,

Quebec mosque shooter not motivated by racism, lawyer says

The Quebec City mosque shooter entered a Muslim prayer space on Jan. 29, 2017, armed with two guns, and murdered six men — but there was no evidence he was motivated by deep-seated racism, the man's lawyer argued on Monday, January 27, 2020, at the Court of Appeal.
News, Politics | January 28th 2020
Pauline Marois, Quebec election shooting, Quebec, Montreal

Former Quebec premier Pauline Marois worried about future of French language

Quebec's first female premier has found a new role since leaving office: that of champion for the French language.
News, Politics | September 2nd 2019
Quebec Minister of Immigration, Diversity and Inclusiveness, Simon Jolin-Barrette,

Testy exchange between Quebec immigration minister and UN representative

Quebec has spent hundreds of millions of dollars resettling refugees and asylum seekers over the past few years, which is more than its fair share, Immigration Minister Simon Jolin-Barrette told a United Nations representative on Thursday, August 15, 2019, during a testy exchange at the legislature.
News, Politics | August 16th 2019
Quebec Premier, CAQ leader, Francois Legault,

Legault announces plan to electrify Quebec's economy, reduce oil consumption

The Quebec government will reduce oil consumption in the province by 40 per cent by 2030 through a vast program to shift transportation systems, buildings and businesses to hydroelectricity, Premier Francois Legault announced on Sunday, May 26, 2019, as his party held a general council meeting in Montreal.
News, Politics | May 27th 2019
Francois Legault, Genevieve Guilbault, Andree Laforest,

Premier Legault to force the Caisse to purchase REM trains made in Quebec

Premier Francois Legault says his government will force the Caisse to purchase trains made in Quebec as part of the extension of Montreal's Reseau Express Metropolitain light-rail system.
News, Politics | May 26th 2019
Canadian Museum For Human Rights, Winnipeg,

Canadian Human Rights Museum could include Quebec's secularism legislation

The Quebec government's latest attempt to legislate on secularism could find its way into the Canadian Museum for Human Rights in Winnipeg.
News, Politics | May 26th 2019
Simon Jolin-Barrette,

Former senator links hijab and mutilation at Quebec secularism hearings

Hearings into Quebec's secularism bill veered off track on Thursday, May 9, 2019, when a former senator drew a connection between the Muslim head scarf, female genital mutilation and forced marriage.
News, Politics | May 10th 2019
Quebec Health and Social Services Minister Danielle McCann,

Number of Quebecers seeking assisted death has jumped, commission finds

The number of Quebecers seeking medical assistance in dying has been growing steadily since 2015, according to a report on the state of end-of-life care tabled on Wednesday, April 3, 2019, in the provincial legislature.
News, Politics | April 4th 2019
Quebec Junior Health and Social Services Minister, Lionel Carmant,

Quebec minister refuses to bend on bill upping legal age to consume cannabis

Quebec junior health minister Lionel Carmant is refusing to bend on legislation that seeks to increase the legal age of cannabis consumption from 18 to 21 and ban the product from all public areas across the province.
News, Politics | February 19th 2019
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