Doctor Melissa Genereux, head of public health in Quebec's Eastern Townships region, thought she had persuaded local officials not to introduce a strict cannabis bylaw in the area's largest city, Sherbrooke.

Canadian astronaut David Saint-Jacques' scheduled space voyage in December is in doubt following a rocket failure Thursday that forced a Soyuz capsule with two astronauts on board to make an emergency landing, Canadian officials say.

When the Quebec election was called on Aug. 23, Coalition Avenir Quebec Leader Francois Legault sat atop the polls and the race was his to lose.

Seven years ago, Manon Masse was aboard a flotilla of ships bound for the Gaza Strip in an attempt to break the Israeli-Egyptian blockade of the embattled territory.

Quebecers head to the polls on Monday, October 1, 2018, after a rare election campaign in which independence was not an issue and parties were left struggling to present a clear vision to voters.

At a downtown Montreal hotel last week, Quebec solidaire co-spokesperson Manon Masse looked out at members of the city's business community and calmly declared she wanted a revolution.

Just north of Montreal, between the St. Lawrence River and the Laurentian Mountains, is a Quebec nationalist heartland where cynicism about politics reigns and labour shortages are beginning to sting.

May Chiu, a family and human rights lawyer, ran in a previous provincial election for Quebec solidaire, which bills itself as the most environmentalist, left-leaning and socially conscious of the four major political parties.

On a late-summer evening in Montreal this week, with the humidex topping 30 C, Gabriel Nadeau-Dubois started knocking in earnest on doors in his riding.

Over the summer with the kids away, construction crews have hastily been erecting temporary, metal-clad extensions to aging school buildings across Montreal, to help cope with ever-increasing enrolment.