As lawyers defended the Quebec government's secularism law from a constitutional challenge in a Montreal court on Tuesday, July 9, 2019, the crucifix hanging over the province's legislative chamber in Quebec City was quietly removed.

The crowd roared in approval but Trudeau's new recruit, well-known and respected environmental activist, Steven Guilbeault, did not clap. He stared into the audience with a stern look on his face.

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.

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

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau committed $1.3 billion of federal funding Thursday towards extending Montreal's métro line — a project first announced by Réné Lévesque in 1979.

Quebecers are significantly less likely than other Canadians to have learned about the Holocaust in school, to have read a book about the genocide in the Second World War or to have ever been in contact with a Jewish person, a new poll suggests.

Still reeling from accusations its investigators fabricated evidence, the province's once-praised anti-corruption police unit is again the target of criticism.

As Toronto and Vancouver struggle to keep housing affordable for anyone but the wealthy, Montreal says its new, first-on-the-continent development model will help it succeed where other big cities have failed.

Justin Sanchez, a neuroscientist with the United States' Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency won't confirm or deny if he's working on classified projects.