Viewers' choice awards celebrating the most popular stars on Quebec television will be handed out next month, and all of the 70 stars nominated are white.

Within the ramparts of Quebec City, a library and cultural centre for the city's English-speaking minority housed in a former jail is run by a soft-spoken spectacled man from rural New Brunswick named Barry McCullough.

Quebec's secularism bill reflects the wishes of the Quebecois nation, the government said after introducing legislation on Thursday, March 28, 2019, prohibiting many public sector workers from wearing religious symbols and blocking their ability to challenge the bill over rights violations.

Premier Francois Legault invoked Quebecers' values, language and distinctiveness on Tuesday, March 26, 2019, to justify shielding from court challenge upcoming legislation that will restrict the wearing of religious symbols.

A woman who escaped violence and human trafficking, and helped shelter former CIA whistleblower Edward Snowden when he fled to Hong Kong, has arrived in Canada with her daughter after being granted refugee status.

Morrie Tobin, the Montreal native named in reports as the central figure who exposed an alleged college admissions scam in the United States, was described on Tuesday, March 19, 2019, by those who knew him as someone who stood out for his athleticism and drive.

Despite low unemployment and a strong economy, Quebec continues to have problems generating wealth and its citizens have less money to save and spend compared with Canadians in every other province, says a new report by Universite de Montreal's business school.

Its 2017 "rejuvenation" did nothing to avert last October's election disaster, but the Parti Quebecois says a new plan to modernize itself will be different than all previous attempts.

NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh was barely a minute into his speech on Monday, March 11, 2019, announcing a deputy leader from Quebec when he invoked the memory of Jack Layton, who famously led the party to its 2011 sweep of the province that propelled the party to official Opposition status.

The past two years have not been easy for Quebec's three major police forces, whose officers have been working in a climate of suspicion, scandal and now an allegation of criminal wrongdoing at the highest level.