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Quebec police say 40 ‘high risk’ sex offenders arrested in provincewide operation
Provincial police say one person is missing after fire destroyed a home in the Beauce region south of Quebec City. Sûreté du Québec headquarters is seen on Monday, May 29, 2023, in Montreal. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Christinne Muschi
politics
CAQ whip resigns from caucus to run for Conservatives in next federal election
Coalition Avenir Québec Leader François Legault, left, applauds Arthabaska MNA Eric Lefebvre after he was sworn in, Monday, Dec. 12, 2016, at the legislature in Quebec City. Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre is dipping into the Quebec government ranks for a new candidate. Lefebvre is leaving the province's ruling party to prepare to run for the Conservatives in the next federal election. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jacques Boissinot
real estate
Montreal market powers ahead as home sales surge
<p>A "sold" sign is shown in a new housing development in Lasalle, a borough of Montreal, Monday, Feb. 19, 2024. The Quebec Professional Association of Real Estate Brokers says Montreal-area home sales rose 14.2 per cent in March compared with the same month last year. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Christinne Muschi</p>
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Wild turkey breaks into Quebec long-term care home, no injuries reported
A Quebec regional health authority says no residents were impacted after a wild turkey broke in to a long-term care centre south of Quebec City over the weekend. A wild turkey is shown at the Falardeau Zoo and refuge in Saint-David-de-Falardeau, Que., on Friday, April 7, 2023. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jacques Boissinot
sports
Veteran forward Tyson Beukeboom poised to enter Canadian rugby record book
Canada's Tyson Beukeboom (centre) in action during the 2022 Pacific Four Women's Rugby Series rugby match between NZ Black Ferns and Canada at Trusts Stadium in Auckland, New Zealand on Sunday, June 12, 2022. THE CANADIAN PRESS/HO-Rugby Canada-Dave Lintott **MANDATORY CREDIT**
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Ottawa museum caught between coroner’s office, Information Commissioner on release of documents
Jamie Jelinski, an art historian and tattoo researcher, looks through a large stack of redacted documents including documents that show the skull of 1922 murder victim Raoul Delorme, in Montreal on Thursday, November 16, 2023. Jelinski has been engaged in a lengthy struggle for access to information, facing denials from Quebec officials regarding photographs and documents of a forensics collection of human remains publicly exhibited as recently as four years ago. Evan Buhler/The Globe and Mail
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Quebec ‘not alone’ in commitment to secularism, says French Prime Minister Attal
The Prime Minister of France Gabriel Attal, centre, walks in the Salon Bleu of the National Assembly, followed by Quebec Premier Francois Legault, right, at the legislature in Quebec City, Thursday, April 11, 2024. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jacques Boissinot
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Montreal English school board seeks leave to appeal Bill 21 ruling to Supreme Court
The offices of the English Montreal School Board are seen Wednesday, Nov. 6, 2019, in Montreal. The English Montreal School Board says it will seek permission to appeal a recent decision on Quebec's secularism law to the Supreme Court of Canada. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Ryan Remiorz
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Quebec tables bill that includes fines of up to $1,500 for threatening politicians
<p>Quebec Minister of Municipal Affairs Andree Laforest answers questions during a scrum in Saguenay on Thursday September 7, 2023. People who harass or threaten Quebec politicians could soon be hit with a court injunction or a fine of up to $1,500. &nbsp;THE CANADIAN PRESS/Francis Vachon.</p>
sports
Athletes drove the choice of Toronto for swim trials, says Swimming Canada chief
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Telecoms tout eclipse plans after wireless networks handle increased traffic
Canada's two largest mobile carriers say bolstered capacity helped their networks handle the extra wireless traffic in hot spot regions where tens of thousands gathered to take in Monday's total solar eclipse. People use their phones to document the total solar eclipse in Niagara Falls, Ont., on Monday, April 8, 2024. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Aaron Lynett
olympics
Canada’s swim trials shift to Toronto from Montreal because of fire, pool closure
Caeli McKay of Canada competes during the women's 10m platform preliminary round at the World Aquatics Diving World Cup 2023 in Montreal, Friday, May 5, 2023. Swimming Canada is searching for a new site for the Olympic and Paralympic trials due to an extended closure of Montreal's Olympic pool. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Christinne Muschi
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Spring storm hits Eastern Canada, tens of thousands without power in Quebec, Ontario
People make their way through a heavy snowfall in Ottawa on Thursday, April 4, 2024. A spring storm sweeping through Quebec and Ontario has left tens of thousands in the dark as the significant system rolled through on Thursday. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Sean Kilpatrick
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Woman faces second-degree murder charge in death of child at Quebec City daycare
<p>A Quebec City police patrol car in Quebec City on Tuesday, March 12, 2024. The Crown says two people have been charged in the killing of a 14-month old girl last month at a home daycare in Quebec City. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jacques Boissinot</p>
art & architecture
Timeline: A look back at the commitments on repatriating Indigenous cultural items
Pope Francis speaks during a news conference aboard the papal plane on his flight back after visiting Canada, July 29, 2022. - Pope Francis ended his six-day trip to Canada on July 29, 2022 as he began with a historic apology for the harm done to the country's indigenous people, again expressing his "outrage and shame" to Inuit in the Arctic. (Photo by GUGLIELMO MANGIAPANE / POOL / AFP) (Photo by GUGLIELMO MANGIAPANE/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)
theatre and performance
How Hamlet nurtured a bromance between ballet icon Guillaume Côté and director Robert Lepage
A scene from HAMLET_ image by Stéphane Bourgeois_ Guillaume Cote and Robert Lepage stage Hamlet
music
Quintuple Juno nominee TALK continues his rocket-like ascent
Q&A with Ottawa singer-songwriter Nicholas Durocher, known professionally as Talk, up for five Juno awards.
hockey
Former Quebec junior hockey players to be sentenced in July for sex assault of teen
Former Victoriaville Tigres junior major hockey league players Nicolas Daigle, left, and Massimo Siciliano, follow defence lawyer Michel Lebrun, right, out of the courtroom on Wednesday, Oct. 11, 2023, in Quebec City. A Quebec judge will render a sentence in July for two former Quebec major junior hockey players who pleaded guilty to sexually assaulting a minor in June 2021 as their team celebrated a championship at a hotel. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jacques Boissinot
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Two offers for luxury home with an elevator
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Case of former Quebec judge accused of killing wife to end with guilty plea
Former Quebec judge Jacques Delisle walks to court in Quebec City on June 14, 2012. A former Quebec judge found guilty in 2012 of fatally shooting his wife only to have that verdict overturned last year by the federal justice minister won't face a new trial. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jacques Boissinot
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Quebec village spent $20,000 in legal fees threatening to sue residents, local paper
Marc Cochrane, editor-in-chief of the Autour de l’Ile newspaper, poses in Quebec City, January 19, 2024. A village near Quebec City has threatened to sue the newspaper and cut its funding to prevent the publication of a story about the municipality’s general manager, who was fired from her previous job over allegations of serious misconduct. The Ile d’Orleans is pictured in the background. Mathieu Belanger for The Globe and Mail
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Pope Francis names former judge to investigate Quebec cardinal facing sex allegations
Cardinal Gerald Lacroix, Archbishop of Quebec leaves after he delivering a speech during a Mass of Thanksgiving for the canonization of two Canadian saints, St. Francis de Laval and St. Mary of the Incarnation, celebrated by Pope Francis, in St. Peter's Basilica, at the Vatican, Sunday, Oct. 12, 2014. Pope Francis has named a retired Quebec Superior Court judge to investigate allegations of sexual touching against a senior leader of the province's Roman Catholic Church. THE CANADIAN PRESS/AP/Andrew Medichini
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Quebec City police make arrest in connection with theft of Jean Beliveau photo from peewee tournament
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Woman’s death in Quebec City after weekend house fire ruled a homicide, police say
Quebec City police say a woman who was found dead inside a home over the weekend was a homicide victim. A Quebec City police car is seen in Quebec City, Friday, Dec. 3, 2021. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jacques Boissinot
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Quebec City police make four arrests linked to violent conflict between crime groups
A day after Quebec provincial police arrested nine people in connection with what they've described as a turf war among organized criminals in eastern Quebec, Quebec City police say four more people have been arrested in connection with a series of police operations targeting the violent conflict. Surete du Quebec headquarters is seen in Montreal, Monday, May 29, 2023. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Christinne Muschi
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Police investigating suspicious overnight Quebec City fire that killed one woman
<div>Eight people were lucky to escape without serious injuries when a crowded balcony in Quebec City went crashing to the ground early&nbsp; Sunday morning. A Quebec City police car is seen in Quebec City, Friday, Dec. 3, 2021. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jacques Boissinot</div>
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Warm weather forces city in Quebec to cancel ice-fishing villages for first time
There will be no colourful ice fishing huts dotting the bay near Saguenay, Que., this year, due to warm winter weather that forced the city to cancel the popular tradition for the first time. An overall view of some the more than 350 ice fishing cabins on the Ste-Anne river in Ste-Anne-de-la-Pérade, Quebec on Sunday, January 15, 2023. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Bernard Brault
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Warm weather forces Quebec winter carnival to shut ice palace on event’s final day
<div>Mild weather has for Carnaval de Québec to close one of its signature venues on the last day of the 18-day event. Some of the 50 teams take the start of the Quebec Winter Carnival ice canoe race across the St-Lawrence River in Quebec City, Sunday, Feb. 4, 2024. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Karoline Boucher</div>
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Opioid 25 times more powerful than fentanyl detected in Quebec City region
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Quebec cold case murder suspect ID’d with help of DNA research tool, trial hears
A forensic biologist has told a trial that a DNA research tool helped police hone in on the suspect who is now charged with the sexual assault and murder of junior college student Guylaine Potvin nearly 24 years ago. Potvin, shown in a police handout photo, was found dead in her apartment in Jonquière, Que., on April 28, 2000. THE CANADIAN PRESS/HO-Surete du Quebec **MANDATORY CREDIT**
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Ceremony planned to honour memory of those killed in 2017 Quebec City mosque attack
A ceremony commemorating the deadly 2017 attack on a Quebec City mosque is scheduled to take place today. Police attend the scene of a shooting at a Quebec City mosque on Monday, Jan. 30, 2017. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Paul Chiasson
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Quebec Cardinal Gerald Lacroix faces sexual assault allegations
Cardinal Gerald Cyprien Lacroix, Archbishop of Quebec leaves after he delivering a speech during a Mass of Thanksgiving for the canonization of two Canadian saints, St. Francis de Laval and St. Mary of the Incarnation, celebrated by Pope Francis, in St. Peter's Basilica, at the Vatican, Sunday, Oct. 12, 2014. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)
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Quebec cold case murder trial: Pathologist says teen victim died from strangulation
A forensic pathologist has told a Quebec cold case murder trial that the 19-year-old victim died of strangulation. Guylaine Potvin, shown in a Quebec provincial police handout photo, was found dead in her apartment in Jonquière, Que., on April 28, 2000. THE CANADIAN PRESS/HO-Surete du Quebec **MANDATORY CREDIT**
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Snowmobiler dies after veering into ditch in Chaudière-Appalaches region
A Surete du Quebec police car is seen in Montreal on Wednesday, July 22, 2020. A 12-year-old girl and a man in his 40s died on Wednesday after a head-on collision between a minivan and a heavy truck in Quebec's Chaudière-Appalaches region. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Paul Chiasson
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Decade after fatal fire, some Quebec seniors’ residences unable to install sprinklers
Fire engulfs a seniors residence in L'Isle-Verte, Que., early Thursday, Jan. 23, 2014. Ten years after 32 people died in a fire that ripped through a residential complex for seniors in rural Quebec, around a quarter of all private seniors' residences in the province are still struggling to comply with a requirement to install sprinkler systems. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Frances Drouin
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Small Quebec village gags local paper and citizens by threatening to sue, cut funding
Marc Cochrane, editor-in-chief of the Autour de l’Ile newspaper, poses in Quebec City, January 19, 2024. A village near Quebec City has threatened to sue the newspaper and cut its funding to prevent the publication of a story about the municipality’s general manager, who was fired from her previous job over allegations of serious misconduct. The Ile d’Orleans is pictured in the background. Mathieu Belanger for The Globe and Mail