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Forget America: Canada's International Tourism Is Growing

Adrian Brijbassi | Posted 05.14.2013 | Canada
Adrian Brijbassi

While the Canadian tourism industry faces headwinds from its traditional markets because of the continued lagging economies in Europe and the United States, it has seen growth in other parts of the world.

Quebec Sinkhole Forces Evacuation

CBC | Posted 04.13.2013 | Canada

People who live in and near two Quebec City buildings evacuated Thursday after a sinkhole appeared in a nearby parking lot say they've noticed problem...

3 Quebec Teens Charged With Plotting School Shooting

CP | The Canadian Press | Posted 03.19.2013 | Canada

QUEBEC - Three Quebec City teens have been charged with planning a shooting at their high school.The three teens — two boys aged 14 and 15 and a 16-...

30-Car Pile-Up Blocks Quebec Highway

CBC | Posted 02.16.2013 | Canada

Transport Quebec has reopened a stretch of Highway 40 west of Quebec City, closed for more than ten hours after a major pileup involving 27 vehicles M...

Who Holds Keys To City Hall: Fear Of Nudge Nudge, Wink Wink Relations

Dermod_Travis | Posted 01.14.2013 | Canada British Columbia
Dermod_Travis

If voters were under the impression that it's only provincially in B.C. where corporate and union bucks talk tough, think again. Consider how much each candidate running for a mayor's chair in various Lower Mainland municipalities had to raise for their campaign in last year's local elections.

Canada and Quebec: Don't Stay Together For the Kids

Jordon Froese | Posted 11.27.2012 | Canada Politics
Jordon Froese

If Pauline Marois' government decides it wants to lead Quebec out of Canada, to my mind she's simply following the logical path that has been laid down (intentionally or not) by our Federal leaders over the past 145 years. If it turns out Quebec wants a divorce we should grant it and move on. It seems evident there wasn't much of a family to begin with, and we don't seem to want to start building one now.

Legionnaires' Death Toll Rises

CP | The Canadian Press | Posted 11.01.2012 | Canada Living

QUEBEC - An outbreak of legionnaires' disease in Quebec City has claimed its 10th victim.Public health authorities say there have now been 165 cases s...

Mysterious Reason For Quebec Sovereignty Holdup

CP | Andy Blatchford, The Canadian Press | Posted 10.30.2012 | Canada Politics

QUEBEC - Sovereigntists envision seeing cobblestoned, cliff-top Quebec City take its place among world capitals to host foreign embassies and dignitar...

9 Dead, Government Orders Inquiry

CBC | Posted 10.30.2012 | Canada Living

A coroner's inquest into the Quebec City outbreak of legionnaires' disease that has killed nine people has been ordered by the provincial government, ...

Two More Dead In Quebec City

CBC | Posted 10.23.2012 | Canada

Public health officials in Quebec City are reporting two new deaths from Legionnaires' disease. The new figures bring to six the total num...

Man On Suicide Awareness Trek Dies Of Heart Attack

CP | Posted 10.02.2012 | Canada

THETFORD MINES, Que. -- A Quebecer who was on a long-distance trek to raise awareness about suicide has died of apparent heart failure before being ab...

Quebec Fairmont Partners With Radiology Clinic For 'Medical Tourism' Package

CP | The Canadian Press | Posted 09.04.2012 | Canada Travel

QUEBEC - The Fairmont Le Chateau Frontenac hotel has partnered with a private radiology clinic in Quebec City to offer a "medical tourism package," cl...

Grey Cup To Tour Canada As Part Of 100th Anniversary Celebrations

CP | The Canadian Press | Posted 08.26.2012 | Canada Travel

TORONTO - The Grey Cup is going on the road.The CFL has announced the historic trophy will tour Canada by train as part of the Grey Cup's 100th annive...

Why Is No One Travelling to Canada?

Adrian Brijbassi | Posted 08.25.2012 | Canada Travel
Adrian Brijbassi

The World Economic Forum's 2011 Travel & Tourism Report, which rates nations on their attractiveness for tourism, ranked Canada ninth in the world. Canada has fallen behind Mexico, Turkey, Singapore, and even Malaysia in annual global tourism rankings, dropping to 16 in 2011 from a high of seventh overall in 2002.

WATCH: Quebec City Mayor Caught In Shoving Match

CP | The Canadian Press | Posted 08.19.2012 | Canada Politics

QUEBEC - Quebec City Mayor Regis Labeaume was caught up in a shoving match over a new city bylaw on Tuesday that ended with one man being arrested for...

Quebecois Student Protesters Will Grow Out of It. They Always Do

Yoni Goldstein | Posted 07.18.2012 | Canada
Yoni Goldstein

Going to university is like hitting the snooze button on life: You do whatever you want whenever you want, and there are no consequences. Same thing goes for these protests: Most of the kids on strike in Quebec demonstrating in the streets, are going to turn out just fine, and become hard-working citizens like you and me.

More Than 100 Dogs Rescued In Quebec

CP | The Canadian Press | Posted 05.23.2012 | Canada

QUEBEC CITY, Que. - Animal welfare advocates have removed 125 dogs from a breeding operation south of Quebec City they say wasn't properly caring for ...

Look Out Space, Here Comes China

CP | Peter Rakobowchuk, The Canadian Press | Posted 05.01.2012 | Canada Politics

QUEBEC - The five partners on the International Space Station are looking to the future of the orbiting space lab, with some hoping that it will one d...

Quebec Pummeled By Freezing Rain, Snow, Hail

CBC | Posted 03.28.2012 | Canada

A winter storm sweeping across Eastern Quebec and the Maritimes brought a messy mix of freezing rain, snow, hail and wind to the region, ...

24th Drunk Driving Charge For Quebec Man

CP | The Canadian Press | Posted 12.19.2011 | Canada

QUEBEC - An elderly man pleaded guilty today to his 24th charge of drunk driving in nearly a half-century.Yvon Gingras also pleaded guilty to violatin...

Suspect Dead After Police Shooting

CBC | Posted 12.04.2011 | Canada

A suspected bank robber died after being shot by police in the Charlesbourg borough of Quebec City Monday evening. Quebec Cit...

On the Anniversary of the Battle of Quebec: "The Path of Glory Leads But to the Grave"

Franz-Stefan Gady | Posted 11.15.2011 | Canada
Franz-Stefan Gady

This week marked the 252nd anniversary of the Battle of Quebec or The Battle of the Plains of Abraham, as it is also known. This conflict marked the virtual end of French rule of Canada.

Do as Quebecers Do: Read a Book

Jon Ossoff | Posted 11.06.2011 | Canada
Jon Ossoff

Two young women are unfolding a blanket, preparing to enjoy the warm afternoon rays. They reach into their bags, search a few moments, and pull out -- what? An iPod? iPad? iPhone? Laptop? No, to my surprise each reaches into her bag and pulls out a paperback book and begins to read.

3 Adults, 1 Child Killed In Quebec Helicopter Crash

CP | The Canadian Press | Posted 10.28.2011 | Canada

ST-FERDINAND, Que. - Four family members, including an 8-year-old girl, were killed late Saturday in a helicopter crash in a wooded area south of Queb...

Quirky Quebec Landmark Closing

CP | Sidhartha Banerjee, The Canadian Press | Posted 10.07.2011 | Canada

MONTREAL - A landmark rest stop in Quebec that's best known for the dinosaurs and monster trucks that litter its grounds is on the verge of shutting i...