Mélanie Marquis

Reporter with the Canadian Press

15 Articles

Speaker of the House of Commons, Geoff Regan, hide-a-bed, Speakers Apartment,

Speaker Geoff Regan opens the door to his apartment in Parliament

One of the best-kept secrets inside the main building on Parliament Hill — known as Centre Block — is what's inside room 202N.

News, Politics | December 17th 2018

Gun control activists impatient with process to pass government's firearms bill

Gun-control activists pressed senators on Monday, December 3, 2018, to move more quickly on firearms legislation, a few days before the 29th anniversary of the Ecole Polytechnique massacre that left 14 women dead in Montreal.

News, Politics | December 4th 2018

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, Yerevan, Armenia,

Trudeau says Quebec cannabis plan leaves opening for organized crime

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau suggested on Saturday, October 13, 2018, morning the incoming Quebec government's plan to raise the legal age for smoking cannabis to 21 could leave an opening for organized crime.

News, Energy | October 15th 2018

Cut adrift by Canada, Michaelle Jean continues bid for Francophonie post

Delegations from Canada and Quebec arrived in Armenia on Wednesday, October 10, 2018, ahead of the summit of la Francophonie, intent on putting the controversy over the election of a secretary general behind them.

News, Politics | October 11th 2018

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, Michaelle Jean Secretary General, Organisation Internationale de la Francophonie, Paris, France,

Canada and Quebec pull support for Michaelle Jean for top spot at la Francophonie

The Canadian and Quebec governments announced on Tuesday, October 9, 2018, they are pulling their support for former governor general Michaelle Jean to remain atop the international organization of French-speaking nations, backing instead the "consensus" candidate from Africa.

News, Politics | October 10th 2018

Secretary General of La Francophonie Michaelle Jean,United Nations Peacekeeping Defence Ministerial conference,

Ex governor general Michaelle Jean in tough spot as la Francophonie vote nears

The contest between Michaelle Jean and Rwandan Foreign Affairs Minister Louise Mushikiwabo for la Francophonie's top post goes far beyond the spending questions that have plagued the former Canadian governor general.

News, Politics | October 9th 2018

Astronauts, Anne McClain, Oleg Kononenko, David Saint-Jacques, Soyuz simulator, Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center, Star City, Russia,

Canadian astronaut David Saint-Jacques uses simulator to 'head into space'

News, Politics | August 19th 2018

Andrew Scheer, Conservative Party of Canada, Manning Networking Conference

Andrew Scheer says more ex-Bloc Québécois members will join the Tories

Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer rallied his troops in Quebec on Sunday, promising them there would be more former Bloc Quebecois members joining their ranks.

News, Politics | May 13th 2018

Andrew Scheer, Conservative Party, Rick Dykstra, Stephen Harper, Ottawa

Andrew Scheer says he spoke to Tory MP Falk about abortion comment

Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer says he spoke to his MP, Ted Falk, but did not say whether he was reprimanded for saying that abortion was "not a right."

News, Politics | May 13th 2018

Freeland: No evidence Canadian-made LAVS were used against Saudi citizens

The federal government has not been able to determine with any certainty that Canadian-made light-armoured vehicles sold to Saudi Arabia were used by that country to suppress the Shiite minority in the eastern part of the country.

News, Politics | February 9th 2018