Quebec News

QUÉBEC — Businessman-turned-politician Pierre Fitzgibbon, economy minister and a central figure in the right-leaning Coalition Avenir Québec government, is stepping down.

This year's Presidents Cup at Royal Montreal Golf Club will be the most Canadian version of the international men's golf event, ever.

OTTAWA — The NDP's supply and confidence deal with the Liberals in Ottawa will get heavy scrutiny when leader Jagmeet Singh meets with his caucus in Montreal next week, with the Liberals' decision last month to force binding arbitration to end a work

MONTREAL (AP) — Rosters for the Presidents Cup, to be played Sept.

MONTREAL — Leila Mekki Berrada, new to marathon running, had set her sights on Montreal's big race at the end of September. But she wasn't prepared to get swindled — twice — before securing a spot in the sold-out marathon.

VENICE, Italy (AP) — Venice Film Festival regular Luca Guadagnino is back on the Lido to debut his new Daniel Craig film “Queer” on Tuesday night.

MONTREAL — Quebec's labour tribunal has ordered McGill University to stop obstructing and interfering with a union representing full-time law professors amid an ongoing strike over what the union says is the faculty's right to unionize.

OTTAWA — Canada's transport minister said he is determined to get to the bottom of a recent train delay that left Via Rail passengers stranded for about 10 hours in Quebec over the long weekend.

MONTREAL — A 4.6 magnitude earthquake rumbled through parts of Quebec early Sunday morning. Natural Resources Canada says the quake struck at 5:43 a.m, and was "lightly felt" in Drummondville, Trois-Rivières and Montreal.

MONTREAL — Law professors at McGill University were on the picket line Thursday, forcing the cancellation of classes during the first week of the fall semester in protest of the school's challenge to their right to unionize.