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Steven Guilbeault insists the federal government is funding new road projects, despite comments earlier this week suggesting otherwise which have infuriated Conservative premiers.On Monday, the environment minister told a crowd in Montreal “our government has made the decision to stop investing in new road infrastructure,” according to quotes published in the Montreal Gazette.“There will be no more envelopes from the federal government to enlarge the road network. The analysis we have done is that the network is perfectly adequate to respond to the needs we have.”When pressed by reporters two days later, Guilbeault said he “should have been more specific.”“Of course we’re funding roads,” he said Wednesday.

Quebec City region, where public health officials reported Saturday they have detected the dangerous compound in pale green tablets that mimic the appearance of other prescription opioids.The Quebec City regional public health authority warned the compound, protonitazepyne, presents a high risk of overdose, which may require several doses of the life-saving medication naloxone.Health Canada first detected the substance in 2023 and would go on to positively identify it in a total of 25 drug samples by the end of the year. Public health officials working in the Quebec City-area now say it has been increasingly found in the Montreal area since the beginning of 2024.No overdoses in the Quebec City region have been linked to the protonitazepyne tablets, but officials say it presents a very real threat.“However, it’s clear that given the potency and the fact that it’s in a tablet of something else, the risk of overdose is very high for people who would consume this tablet,” Dr.

another storm.A major snow storm is set to hit several regions in Ontario and Quebec, while many residents in Western Canada fight through a severe cold snap.This latest weather comes after another system hit many parts of Canada earlier in the week; Ottawa, Montreal and Quebec City were hit with snowfall Tuesday and Wednesday; the Maritimes also saw snowfall; parts of the West Coast dealt with winter weather before then, while the Prairies faced an extreme cold warning.Expected to start late Friday and into Saturday, parts of Ontario and Quebec are set to see another wallop of snow.Global News meteorologist Ross Hull said a Texas low will be moving into the Great Lakes area, adding the difference with the upcoming storm is that there’s more cold air available that’s building over the Prairies.He said that means there will likely be more snow before a transition to rain, especially for cities such as Toronto, closer to Lake Ontario.“The last system dropped five to 10 centimetres of wet snow for the GTHA. With this one we are anticipating more, but it’s still too early to pin down exact amounts,” Hull said Thursday.“Areas that did experience heavy snow with the most recent system will likely see the heaviest amounts with this latest disturbance too.”Environment Canada is forecasting five to 10 centimetres of snow; Ottawa, which was forecast to get 10 to 15 centimetres of snow earlier in the week, is expected to get 15 to 25 centimetres of snow in this system.

Many parts of Canada are set to get their first significant taste of winter snow this year with what’s expected to be a major storm ready to play out.

As Quebec faces a worsening homelessness crisis, some politicians, including Quebec City Mayor Bruno Marchand, have suggested the solution may be a Finnish model that aims to give everyone a home.

Frozen rivers and lakes can be deceptive, especially during an unseasonably warm winter like this one.

One in three Canadians say they are living in a household that is experiencing financial hardship, a new Statistics Canada report has found.

David Beaudoin had what many sports-loving academics would regard as a dream job. He graduated from Laval University in Quebec City with a PhD and walked right into a regular teaching gig there as a statistics professor while devoting his research to applying statistical analysis to the wide world of sports and authoring papers that, for example, examined “biased penalty calls” in the NHL.

IA Financial Corp. is cutting jobs in its capital markets business, ending its institutional activities including equity research.

Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre said the union representing WestJet cabin crew should apologize for trying to silence free speech.

Conservative party gathers in Québec City this weekend.The Conservatives are riding high in national polling and head into this weekend’s policy convention — the party’s first in-person convention since 2018 — with a sense of cautious optimism after eight years on the opposition benches.But it wouldn’t be a Conservative gathering without some good old fashioned intra-party power struggles.Alissa Golob, the executive director of anti-abortion group Right Now, said her organization is pushing for more transparency around party nominations and more power resting with local riding associations — rather than Poilievre and his team in Ottawa.The group’s goal is to nominate and elect more anti-abortion politicians to the House of Commons, with an aim of passing legislation to restrict abortion access in Canada.Unlike previous conventions, however, Golob said social conservatives are focusing their attention less on policy debates and more on the power dynamics between the party “establishment” and local volunteers.

Two cities in southern Ontario that share a partial border have taken the number one spots for the rudest and politest cities in Canada.

By Steve Scherer

One person is dead and another is in critical condition on Sunday after a mountain sightseeing gondola was struck at Quebec’s Mont-Tremblant ski resort, provincial police have confirmed.

In Quebec City, majestic stone fortifications have stood for hundreds of years, a monument to the days when French colonists erected them to keep out the enemy. Today, the city faces the opposite challenge — how to entice more outsiders to come in.

Pope Francis began a tense visit to Canada on Sunday to apologise to Indigenous peoples for abuses committed by missionaries in residential schools.