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Is Quebec's new Native policy a document of the 21st century or the 18th? While the Quebec government was announcing its new First Nations policy this spring, Paul Dixon and [...]

At Wellesley Central Hospital, the mood is grim, as bleak as the future prospects of many of the inner-city patients the venerable Toronto institution serves. Doctors, nurses, staff and a [...]

In Cree legend, the chute of wild white water is called Hawk's Breastbone. It boils down through a gorge on the Great Whale River, not far from the point where [...]

The Quebec bishops' assembly announced it would offer neither apologies nor compensation to the Duplessis 'orphans,' who claim their lives were ruined in Quebec's Catholic-run institutions of the 1940's and [...]

A Montreal lawyer who spent about $125,000 on cancer surgery in the United States -- after three operations at a Montreal hospital were cancelled -- has won the right to [...]

When we think of the work force, we rarely have in mind a young child like Manuel. Still, at 12 years old, Manuel already spends a good 10 hours a [...]

For parents and teachers in Quebec, it had the strange feel of a true-or-false test in which neither answer was entirely correct. After months of speculation on how the province [...]

Henri Laberge objects to being described as a Parti Quebecois hardliner-but he is hardly in Premier Lucien Bouchard's more conciliatory mode. The 58-year-old party member was one of the architects [...]

Quebec became the first province to order across-the-board testing of its police forces' Tasers in March. A preliminary test of the popular stun guns by an independent lab found that [...]

COATICOOK, Quebec, Canada--"Family stability, fidelity, lots of children--those are values I would like to preserve," Mayor Andre Langevin told the New York Times in March. Langevin manages to make good: […]

Quebec Justice Minister Linda Goupil introduced legislation that would give same-sex couples the same rights enjoyed by heterosexual common- law couples. The legislation extends to laws affecting pension and taxation [...]

Changes to Quebec's prescription drug plan, introduced in recent years to extend coverage and share costs, have benefited some previously unprotected citizens but have hurt many of the province's most [...]

The Quebec government announced it would soon try to settle the festering issue of the so-called Duplessis Orphans. They are an estimated 3,000 surviving children who were born to unmarried [...]

Quebec introduced legislation to restrict smoking in public places, clamp down on tobacco advertising and curb smoking among young people. The bill bans smoking in schools, recreational facilities and taxis. [...]

Last month, Ontario launched a new curriculum requiring students to master a broad range of reading, writing and math skills at a faster pace. Among other things, children will now [...]

Loto-Quebec says it is just trying something different. But consumer advocate groups in la belle province are not laughing about a new instant lottery ticket they say is aimed at [...]

In its annual review of human rights around the world, the U.S. state depart- ment drew an especially bleak picture of conditions in China. By the end of 1996, the [...]

Quebec's health minister, Marc-Yvan Cote, is creating a storm over his proposals to cut health care costs in the province. These include charging a $C5 fee for each visit to [...]