Claude Pinard made the comment Wednesday following a ceremony marking the anniversary of René Lévesque’s death. Jacques Boissinot/Canadian Press MNAs from all parties are rallying behind Parti Québécois leader Pauline Marois after a member of her own caucus said part of the reason her leadership is in crisis is because she is a woman. Speaking [...]

The head of a Quebec City long-term care home says the staff has been shaken by a criminal negligence charge laid against a former orderly. Last year, 87-year-old Geneviève Saillant died after falling in the bath. On Tuesday, police charged the orderly caring for her with criminal negligence causing death. Nathalie Côté, who runs the [...]

Gustav Klimt’s Litzlberg am Attersee is expected to draw at least $25 million US at auction in New York. Museum der Moderne Salzburg/Associated Press A Nazi-looted painting that was returned to a Montreal family after being found in the collection of an Austrian museum has sold for more than $40 million US at an auction [...]

Parents of children with Type 1 diabetes have launched a petition against the B.C. government, saying it is failing their children by not providing in-school assistants who are trained to adjust insulin pumps. Shirley Parsons, the mother of a third grader who requires daily insulin injections, said that the current provincial care plan discriminates against [...]

A Chilliwack man who rushed from his office to rescue survivors in last week’s plane crash in Richmond, B.C., said he didn’t think about what he was doing when he stepped into a burning plane. Shawn Nagurny was sitting at his desk when the plane went down just outside on Russ Baker Way Thursday afternoon. [...]