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The article discusses the decision of the Quebec government to add a restaurant to Montreal's Casino and Loto Quebec, the supervisor of the gambling industry in Canada selecting the celebrated French chef Joël Robuchon for it. The selection attracted a great deal of criticism and the article presents comments by David McMillan, the owner of the restaurant Le Vin Papillon, stating it is an insult to the youth who have decided to pursue their career in the restaurant industry of the country.

The article offers information on the demand of doctors, residents and medical students in Quebec to avoid raising their pay and use money for nurses and other health care workers due to pay cuts and workloads, and views of family physician Isabelle Leblanc on the same.

The article discusses efforts by maple syrup makers in Quebec to evade the production and sales system of the cartel Federation of Quebec Maple Syrup Producers. Topics include the history of the sugaring industry in Quebec, the development of production quotas to support the higher prices for the industry, and the Federation's confiscation of syrup from farmer Robert Hodge.

The article informs that transport company Uber will stop operating in the Canadian province of Quebec if authorities push forward with plans to demand additional training of its drivers.

The article reports on the criticism faced by the police force in Montreal, Quebec over the surveillance of journalist Patrick Lagacé for allege leaking of the news about drugs and street-gang unit, noting that the police captured calls and text messages to and from the iPhone of Lagacé.

Reports on the negotiation between worker union United Food & Commercial Workers Canada and Wal-Mart Canada Inc. in Jonquiere, Quebec. Possible signing of a collective agreement between the parties; Dislike of Wal-Mart for worker unions; Statements of Michael J. Fraser, national director of the food and commercial workers union, regarding their aims.

The article reports that Canadian province Quebec's pension fund has bought stake in aerospace company Bombardier's train group that will help Bombardier to increase its cash reserves which have been decline because of company's struggles with a new commercial jet 'CSeries.'

The article presents an obituary for former Quebec premier Jacques Parizeau.

The article reports on the defeat of the political party Parti Québécois in the election in Quebec on April 7, 2014 where analysts believe it was due to its separatism as a political force and the aging leaders.

The article reports on the ouster of the separatist party, Parti Quebecois, from rule in Quebec, and deputation of the Liberal Party in its place.

The article reports that Pauline Marois, the separatist premier of Quebec, has called for a snap election to be held on April 17, 2014 after dissolving the provincial legislative assembly.

The article focuses on the plan released by Quebec on September 10, 2013 to ban the workers of the government from wearing "overt and conspicuous" symbols of religious faith.

The article reports on the increase in the number of deaths in a derailment accident in Quebec town in Ottawa, Ontario, saying that the police had reported the remains of 20 people.

The article reports on the designation of the month of July as the Moving Day in Quebec due to the large number of residents that relocate in the province during the month.

The article reports on the success of thieves with access to a warehouse to run awa $18 million of a valuable commodity in Quebec City, Quebec. It says that police arrested three men in connection with the theft from the warehouse, and are searching for five others suspected of being involved. It argues that the international scope of the theft underscores the country's outsize position in the maple syrup industry.

The article reports on the Canadian engineering firm SNC-Lavalin, which has been the center of domestic foreign allegations. It says that the firm is under investigation after its chief executive Pierre Duhaime has been charged of falsification of documents based from spokeswoman in police squad in Quebec, Anne-Frédérick Laurence. Moreover, the firm have also been reported on the charges related to $1.3 billion contract from the expansion of McGill University Health Center in Quebec.

The article offers information on the language used in the signage of restaurants in Quebec province. It says that American companies Kentucky Fried Chicken Corp. (KFC) and Staples & Fry have translated their names into French. The article also mentions that the provincial language law advocates the use of French language in serving costumers, posting signs and names in the front of the establishments of the American retailers.

Talks aimed at ending a 16-week strike over tuition increases by students in Quebec collapsed on Thursday evening. The suspension of the negotiations immediately raised concerns that the nightly demonstrations that have sometimes paralyzed cities in the province, particularly Montreal, would increase in intensity. The province's premier, Jean Charest, a participant in the negotiations, said that a ''big gap'' remained between the sides. Student groups had called for a tuition freeze; provincial officials had offered to modify and reduce the increases in tuition. In May, the province introduced an emergency law intended to limit protests, a measure that many human rights lawyers have criticized as excessive. More than 2,500 people have been arrested since students at colleges and universities in Quebec began their strike. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

OTTAWA -- Quebec's government said Wednesday night that it would introduce emergency legislation that would suspend the academic year at many of the province's French-speaking universities and colleges in an attempt to end a 14-week student strike over a plan to increase tuition. Jean Charest, the province's premier, said the semester would resume on a modified schedule in August in academic departments and schools that have been shut down by strikers, so that students would be able to complete the current school year. Mr. Charest declined to comment on reports from many news media outlets in Quebec that the legislation would also impose significant fines on anyone who tried to block access to classrooms. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Salvatore Montagna, who once controlled the Bonanno crime family in New York, was murdered near Montreal on Thursday. The Quebec police confirmed that the body of a man was found in a river shortly after witnesses heard gunfire. While the police did not identify the victim, several news organizations reported that it was Mr. Montagna. In 2009, he was deported from the United States to Canada, where he was born before being raised in Sicily. It is widely believed that Mr. Montagna was trying to take control of Montreal's organized crime families. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

VARENNES, Quebec WHEN workers inspect utility lines, they must travel in special trolleys along transmission lines pulsing with up to 735,000 volts of electricity for a close-up view, or peer at the lines through binoculars from helicopters, trucks, all-terrain vehicles and snowmobiles, a method that misses small but potentially serious faults. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Canada's former military commander in Afghanistan was fined about $7,400 and given a symbolic reduction in rank after pleading guilty to having had a sexual relationship with a subordinate and for trying to block an investigation of the affair. The former commander, Daniel Menard, 45, a brigadier general, had his rank reduced to colonel by a military judge in Montreal on Thursday. But because he has retired from the military, he will retain his former rank. General Menard had the relationship with a female master corporal under his command in Afghanistan. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

About 500 police officers conducted a series of drug raids at Mohawk communities in the Montreal area on Tuesday and detained about 50 people. The police said they were investigating a drug trafficking ring that dealt primarily in marijuana. Some of the raids were at reserves, which are comparable to reservations in the United States. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

ASBESTOS, Quebec -- The belief in asbestos lives on in this mining town of 7,000 people, not just in the name -- retained despite its association with cancer -- but in the ambitions of the mineral's long-time champion here, G. Bernard Coulombe. Mr. Coulombe, 69, says he believes that you can recapture the past. At a time when Canada, like many countries, is spending millions of dollars to remove asbestos from buildings, to say nothing of covering asbestos-related disability claims, Mr. Coulombe wants a $58 million loan guarantee from the province of Quebec. He is hoping to attract investors and revitalize the mine that gave rise to the town in 1879 and for more than a century has swallowed chunks of it into its ever-expanding pit. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

MONTREAL -- At least 50,000 Quebecers are expected to gather Saturday for something most rarely do: attend a religious service. But the Mass at the Olympic Stadium to celebrate the elevation of Brother Andre, a school porter and faith healer who died 73 years ago, to sainthood is one of many contradictions surrounding religion, and Roman Catholicism in particular, in Quebec. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The editors of Maclean's, the venerable weekly Canadian magazine, have made provocative covers something of a specialty. But none of their earlier efforts produced quite the same response as an image of Bonhomme Carnaval, the snowman mascot of Quebec's winter festival, jauntily carrying a briefcase overflowing with cash. The bold cover headline on the issue dated Oct. 4 was no more subtle: ''Quebec: The Most Corrupt Province.'' Whether or not that claim is correct, the magazine had cause to examine the issue. A highly publicized inquiry has been looking into allegations by a former official that Liberal Party fund-raisers influenced judicial appointments. Opposition political parties have demanded an inquiry into bid-rigging by the province's construction industry. And Montreal, Quebec's largest city, is involved in contracting and political fund-raising scandals. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

MONTREAL -- Quebec's largest city is something of a cycling mecca, with a highly developed rent-a-bike system and an annual recreational tour that attracts about 20,000 riders. Sunday's cycling crowd was substantially smaller, just 170 riders. But it included Ivan Basso, winner of this year's Giro d'Italia; Samuel Sanchez, the 2008 Olympic road race champion; and the American veteran George Hincapie. Like Quebec City, the provincial capital, on Friday, Montreal was host to a race on cycling's elite ProTour circuit. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

A bomb exploded at a Canadian Armed Forces recruiting office in Trois-Rivieres, Quebec, early Friday, causing extensive damage. The newspaper La Presse in Montreal later received a faxed message from a group calling itself Resistance Internationaliste, claiming responsibility for the explosion. The message denounced Canada's military role in Afghanistan and the pledge of allegiance made by Canadian troops to Queen Elizabeth II, who is on an official visit to Canada. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Thieves who made off with a truck and trailer outside a motel near Montreal early Friday morning may have been surprised to discover its cargo: a tiger and two camels. Quebec has recently experienced a rash of truck and trailer thefts. The police speculated that the thieves were probably unaware that they had also acquired the animals, which were traveling to a private zoo near Toronto from Nova Scotia when their two handlers stopped for the night. The handlers told the police that the trailer and the animals were gone when they woke up on Friday morning. The tiger, they said, had been caged within the trailer, which was designed to carry cattle. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The separatist Parti Quebecois tied up Quebec's legislature with procedural maneuvers on Wednesday after the Liberal government introduced new restrictions on English language schooling. The opposition party thinks that the new legislation, introduced after the province lost a case at the Supreme Court of Canada, does not sufficiently limit access to English language education. The court dismissed an earlier law that had limited access to the English-speaking public school system. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

In the latest of a series of measures related to religious displays, the province of Quebec introduced legislation on Wednesday requiring people to show their faces to receive government services. The bill does not make specific reference to Muslim women, but Premier Jean Charest told reporters that the law ''respects the principle of equality between men and women.'' Although Muslim women who cover their faces are not prominent in Quebec, there has been considerable controversy in the province about the practice. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Hydro Quebec, the Quebec government's electrical utility, said on Thursday that it would buy its counterpart in the neighboring province of New Brunswick for 4.75 billion Canadian dollars ($4.4 billion). The acquisition of the New Brunswick Power Corporation appears to be aimed at increasing Quebec's electrical export business to the United States rather than to extend its reach into a relatively small market along the Atlantic coast of Canada. By purchasing the company, Hydro Quebec gains direct access to portions of Maine and New Hampshire. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Wal-Mart's feelings about unions in its stores are well known. In Quebec, the company does not want a union even breathing its name. Wal-Mart Canada has asked a Quebec court to stop a union Web site from using the company's name, color schemes, a variation of its logo, a parody of its slogan and even photographs of people wearing blue vests. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

IN 1967 Charles de Gaulle created a media and diplomatic storm after he fueled Quebec's separatism by shouting ''Vive le Quebec libre!'' from a balcony at Montreal's city hall. Last month the former French president's endorsement of a Quebec nation reappears in a television commercial selling Pepsi to the province's French-speaking majority. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Marie-Eve Dean's harassment of the Montreal police department was, if nothing else, labor intensive. Over 15 months she flooded the city's 911 emergency line with more than 10,000 crank calls in a dialing marathon that sometimes blocked legitimate callers. On Wednesday, a judge in Montreal ordered Ms. Dean, 23, to undergo additional anger management therapy before he imposed a sentence on her recent convictions for mischief and conspiracy. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

THE unofficial anthem of Quebec separatists includes the line, ''Mon pays ... c'est l'hiver,'' which translates roughly to ''my country: it's winter.'' So it is perhaps fitting that the province will become the first in Canada to require winter tires on all cars beginning on Dec. 15. The new law, prompted by recommendations from a coroner's report on the traffic death of a 21-year-old motorist in 2004, has been applauded by safety experts. But as the Dec. 15 deadline approaches, the law is proving to be a headache for some procrastinating car owners and a bonanza for tire shops and thieves. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

When Montreal announced that it would be the host of the 1976 Summer Olympics, Mayor Jean Drapeau promised that the Games could ''no more have a deficit than a man can have a baby.'' Ultimately the Games left behind about $1.5 billion in unexpected debt that was paid off only two years ago. Now, Vancouver residents prepare to vote in a municipal election on Saturday, the freeze in credit markets and a collapse of the city's real estate market have made the financing of the 2010 Winter Games a critical issue. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Jean Charest, the premier of Quebec, announced an early election for the province on Wednesday, less than a month after a federal election in Canada. But even before the campaign officially began, one issue was clear: Quebec's separation from Canada will not be a major theme of any platform. After being pushed into third place during the last election, in March 2007, the separatist Parti Quebecois and its new leader, Pauline Marois, have said that they are in no rush to introduce another referendum on the issue. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

A coroner recommended in a report released Thursday that sales of semiautomatic, short-barreled rifles be banned in Canada. The coroner, Jacques Ramsay, also said doctors should be given access to Canada's gun registry data. The recommendations were in a report on a mass shooting at Dawson College in Montreal in September 2006. The gunman, Kimveer Gill, killed one student and wounded 16 others with a semiautomatic, short-barreled rifle. Mr. Gill, 25, who also killed himself, had obtained the weapon legally. Mr. Ramsay said that Mr. Gill had been treated for depression and suicidal thoughts. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The article reports on the arrest of American refugee aid worker, Janet Hinshaw-Thomas, in Canada. She was arrested in Quebec, Canada, on September 26, 2007, while accompanying some Haitians seeking asylum in Canada. She has been charged with immigrant trafficking. She was arrested and charged under the 2002 Canadian immigration law. She is the founder and director of a refugee settlement organization in Pennsylvania.

The article reports on Kimveer Gill, the man identified as the gunman who went on a shooting rampage in Montreal, Quebec on September 13, 2006. Gill was an avid blogger who posed with semiautomatic rifle for his online photo album. He used a Web site to post violent and crude entries. He killed one woman and injured 19 other students on the fateful day at Dawson College in Montreal. The autopsy report of his dead body found at the site of the shooting confirmed that he killed himself too.

The article reports that a man with an automatic rifle killed a woman and injured 19 other people at the campus of a junior college in Montreal, Quebec, on September 13, 2006.

The article reports that radio journalist André Arthur has been appointed as Honorable Member of the Parliament for the Portneuf-Jacques-Cartier district in Quebec City.

Reports that Quebec's labor relations board has rejected the claim of Wal-Mart Canada Inc. that it closed a unionized store in the province for economic reasons.

Reports that the labor relations board in Quebec has ordered Wal-Mart Canada Inc. to stop intimidating workers at a store in the area. Unfair labor practices in Wal-Mart stores; Penalty imposed by the board to the company; Statement of Andrew Pelletier, spokesman for Wal-Mart Canada, regarding the board's finding that its managers intimidated employees.