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After years of criticism from the Indigenous community, BMO has removed two stone plaques from the facade of a building in Montreal's tourist sector that commemorated the killing of an Iroquois chief in 1644.

A long-promised triage system aimed at redirecting irregular border crossers from crowded shelters in Montreal and Toronto will not be in place until as late as the end of September.

"You cannot, no matter how educated you think you are, tell our stories without us. That is just not possible. You need us to provide the context, the pain, the suffering, the texture. Without that you’re left with a vapid production that continues to perpetuate stereotypes and ignores our very existence today.” - Steve Bonspiel

A protester who angrily confronted the prime minister in Montreal during Quebec's Fete nationale holiday weekend appeared in court on Monday, July 23, 2018, and pleaded not guilty to one count of obstructing a peace officer in the execution of his duty.

“We’re being treated as if we’re a criminal organization or a terrorist group. I’m not speaking from a place of power, I’m speaking truth to power. And if people can’t connect the dots to understand that, it means that their level of denial is being enforced, protected and valued by a system that reproduces that." - Ricardo Lamour

I’ve seen mainstream Quebec columnists who enjoy platforms and media exposure writers of colour can only dream of call the decision by the Montreal Jazz Festival to cancel the show “intellectual terrorism,” “an attack on freedom of speech,” "emotional tyranny," “cultural Apartheid,” “a blow to artistic freedom,” “fascism,” and “censorship." Are you listening to yourselves?

Quebec health officials say at least 54 people are now believed to have died from heat-related complications.

Montreal health officials are blaming the heavy heat and humidity for at least six deaths in recent days.

A Canadian hyperloop company is threatening to relocate its headquarters to Europe unless it secures political support at home for its technology that would transport goods and passengers through tubes at airplane speeds.

Paul Gerin-Lajoie, a key architect of education system reforms in Quebec during the 1960s, has died at the age of 98.

The familiar clop-clop-clop of horses carrying tourists around Old Montreal has long been a familiar sound to locals and visitors, and a tradition for centuries. According to animal rights advocates, however, the calèches are an antiquated and often inhumane industry.

Montreal's inspector general accused former mayor Denis Coderre on Monday of circumventing rules in his handling of last year's Formula E electric race in the city.

Three prominent Quebec-area Indigenous chiefs were among the hundreds of people who gathered in Montreal on Sunday, May 27, 2018, to protest the Kinder Morgan pipeline expansion.

Is it possible for Quebecers opposed to the hijab to understand that a woman can be completely modern, independent, a progressive thinker, and able to conduct herself professionally, while still choosing to wear a headscarf?

The recent tragic bus crash that took the lives of 16 travelling with the Humboldt Broncos has rightfully shaken many people across Canada. Popular folklore would present us as a “hockey nation”, one where our national sport forges bonds that transcend provincial and territorial borders, race, or even class.