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Quebec's Superior Court on Monday, July 8, 2019, rejected a request by a Montreal English school board to save two east-end schools from being transferred to the overcrowded French system.

The Liberals have quietly ended a much-touted "triage" program that aimed to redirect asylum seekers away from crowded shelters in Montreal and Toronto.

Quebec announced tens of millions of new dollars on Friday, July 5, 2019, aimed at getting more newcomers to learn French.

With a potential heat wave looming, Montreal says it's prepared to lengthen pool hours and send firefighters door to door to mitigate conditions that contributed to the death of 66 people last year.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is expected to confirm on Thursday, July 4, 2019, that the federal government will help finance Montreal's metro extension, multiple sources have told The Canadian Press.

It was out with the old Champlain Bridge and in with the new Samuel De Champlain Bridge on Friday, June 28, 2019, as one Montreal-area span was officially inaugurated while the other bid adieu after 57 years of service.

A Russian student who was invited to present her research at an upcoming academic conference in Canada says she believes her visitor visa was unfairly rejected — an issue scholars say is a growing problem for academics from certain areas of the world trying attend conferences in Canada.

Montreal's expensive new Samuel De Champlain Bridge opened to traffic for the first time this, June 24, 2019, morning, about six months behind schedule.

Montreal's new Samuel De Champlain Bridge will open to traffic on June 24, 2019, roughly six months behind schedule.

Montreal festival organizers have learned the hard way that trying to rebrand Quebec's Fete nationale celebrations simply doesn't fly in these parts.

The federal government will announce a plan today, June 10, 2019, to ban harmful single-use plastics like drinking straws as early as 2021.

The Supreme Court of Canada has rejected a bid by Montreal's Saint Joseph's Oratory to be excluded from a sexual assault class action suit.

Nobel Peace Prize winner Dr. Denis Mukwege said on Friday, June 7, 2019, that rape in armed conflict is a "weapon of mass destruction," the effects of which are felt for generations.

The head of the First Nations Chiefs of Police Association is calling on Ottawa and Quebec to address the chronic underfunding of Indigenous police forces outlined in this week's report of a national public inquiry.

The federal and Quebec governments have announced a $500-million reconstruction project for Canada's longest highway tunnel — the Louis-Hippolyte-La Fontaine Tunnel linking Montreal to its southern suburbs.