Caroline Plante
Reporter with the Canadian Press | Quebec City
About Caroline Plante
Canadian Human Rights Museum could include Quebec's secularism legislation
The Quebec government's latest attempt to legislate on secularism could find its way into the Canadian Museum for Human Rights in Winnipeg.
Former senator links hijab and mutilation at Quebec secularism hearings
Hearings into Quebec's secularism bill veered off track on Thursday, May 9, 2019, when a former senator drew a connection between the Muslim head scarf, female genital mutilation and forced marriage.
Number of Quebecers seeking assisted death has jumped, commission finds
The number of Quebecers seeking medical assistance in dying has been growing steadily since 2015, according to a report on the state of end-of-life care tabled on Wednesday, April 3, 2019, in the provincial legislature.
Quebec minister refuses to bend on bill upping legal age to consume cannabis
Quebec junior health minister Lionel Carmant is refusing to bend on legislation that seeks to increase the legal age of cannabis consumption from 18 to 21 and ban the product from all public areas across the province.
Quebec status of women minister calls Muslim head scarf symbol of oppression
Quebec's new minister responsible for the status of women faced criticism on Wednesday, February 6, 2019, after saying she considers the hijab to be a symbol of oppression.
Quebec City honours mosque shooting victims with memorial ceremony, monument plan
Two years after a gunman killed six worshippers in a Quebec City mosque, banners with the names and faces of the victims were unfurled on Tuesday, January 29, 2019, night as a word chosen by family members to describe their loved one was read out.
Judge pushes back sentencing decision for Quebec City mosque shooter
The judge deciding the fate of Quebec City's mosque shooter says he needs additional information from the Crown and defence and more time before pronouncing a sentence.
Crown recommends 150-year prison term for Quebec City mosque shooter
The man who gunned down six Muslim men in a Quebec City mosque deserves to spend 150 years in prison, a Crown prosecutor said on Tuesday, June 19, 2018, as he recommended Alexandre Bissonnette receive the longest sentence in Canadian history.
Mosque shooter a troubled youth, doesn't deserve exemplary sentence: defence
Alexandre Bissonnette, who murdered six men in a Quebec City mosque in January 2017, is a fragile narcissist, a man unable to overcome the hardships he suffered in his youth, his lawyer argued on Monday, June 18, 2018, during his sentencing hearing.
Debate begins in court over sentence for Quebec City mosque shooter
The man who murdered six men in a Quebec City mosque in January 2017 is facing the prospect of being handed the most severe prison sentence ever imposed in Canada.