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The federal government should make it easier to move out of overheated markets and into less frothy ones, writes columnist Max Fawcett.

The escalating nature of these threats is setting off alarm bells among those who study violent extremism, writes Caroline Orr.

Some topics are just too big to be covered in one column. That’s why, over the next two weeks, Max Fawcett will tackle the housing crisis and the ways we could address it in a series of them. First up: the need for more federal leadership. 

The heads of several Montreal homeless shelters say they're facing a crisis, as rising staff absences due to COVID-19 threaten to disrupt services during the coldest part of winter.

Federal Transport Minister Omar Alghabra has asked Transport Canada to investigate reports of "unacceptable" behaviour on a recent Sunwing Airlines flight from Montreal to Cancun, Mexico.

Plante campaigned on her record leading Montreal during the pandemic and promised to focus on fighting climate change and building more social housing.

A Quebec environmental group attempting to block a road construction project south of Montreal that it says would damage the habitat of an endangered frog said it’s pleased with a recent court order.

One in five Canadian students moving from high school to university are dealing with food insecurity, a recent study found, a stress its author says puts those undergrads at risk of languishing from the start or ultimately dropping out.

Local Black leaders from a town just north of Montreal say the local police force did not hold proper community consultations when they developed an action plan to combat racism and racial profiling on the force.

The SNC-Lavalin legal saga was thrust back into the spotlight Thursday after the RCMP announced they've charged two former executives and the engineering company itself for allegedly paying bribes to obtain a Montreal bridge repair contract.

Although deforestation may seem like a problem far away from cities, more than 50 mayors from around the world are assuring us it’s not.

If elected, the federal NDP would identify fossil fuel subsidies, eliminate them “once and for all,” and spend the money on the renewable energy sector, Leader Jagmeet Singh said on the campaign trail Monday morning.

A blistering heat wave seemed poised to set new temperature records in parts of Quebec on Sunday, August 22, 2021, prompting both the national weather agency and the province's premier to issue warnings about the effects of scorching conditions.

Environmental experts are praising Montreal's decision to ban some kinds of single-use plastics, but they say Canada is still a long way from being plastic-free despite government promises. 

Montreal's Haitian community urged Ottawa on Monday, August 16, 2021, to process immigration files more quickly for Haitians waiting to come to Canada, as its members tried to help their homeland following a deadly earthquake over the weekend.