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MONTREAL — A Quebec Superior Court judge has authorized a class-action lawsuit on behalf of Indigenous people who allege they received lower-quality education than other Quebecers at day schools where abuse was rampant.

For skateboarders in Vancouver and elsewhere in British Columbia's Lower Mainland, there's a lack of city-supported covered or indoor spaces. 

DOLBEAU-MISTASSINI, Que. — Quebec provincial police are again pausing a search for a four-year-old girl who fell into a river north of Quebec City after today's efforts failed to locate her.

MONTREAL — Unions representing more than 200,000 Quebec government workers reached tentative working condition deals with the government over the weekend, but that may not be enough to stave off a strike in the new year.

VICTORIA — British Columbia seniors who face eviction from long-term, affordable rental housing face "catastrophic" consequences and a growing number of older residents are at risk of becoming homeless, says the province's seniors advocate.

ST. JOHN'S, N.L. — This year, Dave Rowe, owner of a decades-old music store in St. John's, N.L., found himself in a peculiar yet pressing situation: he was out of ugly sticks, and the man who made them was retiring.

Montreal police say an early morning fire outside the city's Notre-Dame Basilica was not intentionally set. Police spokeswoman Const.

OTTAWA — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says Canadians should "find strength in our differences" this Christmas.

OTTAWA — As another inflation-fighting year wraps up, the Bank of Canada's quest to restore price stability is expected to begin drawing to a close in 2024.

A tenacious Vancouver Island marmot's long-distance quest for love may help explain how the endangered animals are bouncing back from near extinction. Adam Taylor, executive director of the Marmot Recovery Foundation in Nanaimo, B.C.