Kelsey Litwin is a Montreal-based freelance journalist. She has worked as a reporter at the Montreal Gazette and as a researcher on the award-winning Price of Oil collaborative series
More than a month after a hydrogen sulfide emission left one teacher and several children at an elementary school in Montreal’s east-end feeling ill, government agencies have ceased their investigations despite not having definitively identified the source of the toxic gas.
Hydro-Québec has reportedly offered Maine nearly $40 million in financing for a proposed hydroelectricity project, including an electricity vehicle charging network.
Billionaires in Canada have increased their wealth by $20 billion over the last year, says a new Oxfam report on global inequality. Solutions? Increase public services and tax the rich more.
Canada’s premiers and prime minister met under tense circumstances in Montreal Friday, and left a day of meetings without a shared agenda on energy or the environment.
Parti Québécois supporters watched quietly from Montreal as Coalition Avenir Québec supporters celebrated a majority win in Quebec City, and their own party leader, Jean-François Lisée, lost his riding to a candidate from Québec solidaire.
Quebec voters made history on Monday evening, electing the right-leaning Coalition Avenir Québec to form its first ever government. The CAQ defeated the ruling Liberals in the province's Oct. 1 general election.
A group of housing rights activists from across Quebec walked 500 kilometres from Ottawa to Quebec City to push for concrete commitments to affordable housing from the federal and Quebec governments.
