Quebec News

BAIE-COMEAU, Que. — Félix Gagnon had a goal and an assist as the league-leading Baie-Comeau Drakkar defeated the Gatineau Olympiques 4-3 to earn their 20th win of the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League season on Sunday.

MONTREAL — Quebec's treasury board president implored unions on Sunday to table a counter-offer to the government's last contract proposal as a week of planned, provincewide public sector strikes is set to get underway.

HAMILTON — General manager Danny Maciocia's fingerprints are all over the Montreal Alouettes' unlikely Grey Cup run.

BAIE-COMEAU, Que. — Matyas Melovsky had a goal and two assists and the league-leading Baie-Comeau Drakkar rolled past the Gatineau Olympiques 7-1 on Saturday.

MONTREAL — Hockey Canada has a new board of directors. Jonathan Goldbloom was appointed as chair by the board, taking over from Hugh L. Fraser.

MONTREAL — The Montreal Carabins and University of British Columbia Thunderbirds each advanced to the Vanier Cup on Saturday with convincing bowl wins on home turf.

RIVIERE-AU-RENARD, Que. — Quebec's premier is defending his government's decision to spend up to $7 million on two NHL pre-season games as opposition parties decry what they say is a poor use of public funds amid other economic and fiscal challenges.

HAMILTON — The Montreal Alouettes like their tunes, with loudspeakers blaring during practice. On Friday, Tim Hortons Field reverberated to the likes of the Notorious B.I.G.

MONTREAL — A Montreal billionaire who allegedly paid dozens of minors for sex may try to hide his assets in case he loses a class-action lawsuit, a lawyer for the alleged victims told a Montreal court Friday.

MONTREAL — A proposed class-action lawsuit accuses Concordia University in Montreal and its student union of creating a safe space for antisemitism on campus over decades, leaving students and faculty psychologically scarred.