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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Quebec's new minister responsible for the status of women faced criticism on Wednesday, February 6, 2019, after saying she considers the hijab to be a symbol of oppression.
Two years after a gunman killed six worshippers in a Quebec City mosque, banners with the names and faces of the victims were unfurled on Tuesday, January 29, 2019, night as a word chosen by family members to describe their loved one was read out.
The judge deciding the fate of Quebec City's mosque shooter says he needs additional information from the Crown and defence and more time before pronouncing a sentence.
The man who gunned down six Muslim men in a Quebec City mosque deserves to spend 150 years in prison, a Crown prosecutor said on Tuesday, June 19, 2018, as he recommended Alexandre Bissonnette receive the longest sentence in Canadian history.
