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Quebec’s election campaign has collided with a trade war that is becoming harder to separate from everyday economic policy. With ...
News Canada » Quebec » Government: Canada’s retaliatory US tariffs take effect as trade dispute grows
Counter-measures covering several sectors come after Trump announced 50% tariffs on Canadian goods ...
News Canada » Quebec » Government: Hit by Trump tariffs, Quebec loses appetite for quick separation from Canada
By Maria Cheng MONTREAL, Aug 22 (Reuters) - When U.S. President Donald Trump levied 50% tariffs on Canadian steel in June last year, a steel factory in Canada's mostly French-speaking province of ...
News Canada » Quebec » Government: Future Quebec government urged to protect 2029 Horne Smelter emissions target
The Horne Smelter in Rouyn-Noranda, Que., says the deferral given by the former government to allow the company to bring arsenic emissions down to 15 ng/m³ was necessary. Local health experts are now ...
News Canada » Quebec » Government: From labels to Netflix, how Quebec's fight to protect French collides with US trade
French-language protections in Quebec have emerged as an unlikely source of friction between Canada and the United States, bringing rules designed to protect French in overwhelmingly English-speaking ...
News Canada » Quebec » Government: Quebec government moves to eviscerate the right to strike
In the fall of 2023 more than half a million Quebec public sector workers participated in strike action, in one of largest strike movements in Canada in decades. Pictured above, striking educators and ...
News Canada » Quebec » Government: CAQ's controversial Quebec constitution bill dies as parliamentary session ends
Quebec Justice Minister Simon Jolin-Barrette's divisive Quebec constitution bill will die on the order paper as there is not enough time to adopt it before the end of the parliamentary session on ...
News Canada » Quebec » Government: After top court ruling, Quebec to prioritize long-term residents for subsidized daycare
The Quebec government will be prioritizing families who "live and work in Quebec permanently" over asylum seekers for subsidized spots in daycares, according to the province's families minister. In a ...