Quebec News

MONTREAL — Quebecers are increasingly streaming music online but listening less often to francophone artists, a trend members of the province's music industry hope will be reversed with a new federal bill.

SHERBROOKE, Que. — Stéphane Huard Jr. capped his hat trick with the game-winning goal 37 seconds into overtime as the Shawinigan Cataractes edged the Sherbrooke Phoenix 6-5 on Friday.

MONTREAL — Family, friends and community members gathered Friday evening to mourn and remember a 21-year-old man who died in hospital after being injured inside a Montreal jail on Christmas Eve.

MONTREAL — Artificial intelligence researchers say a Montreal hospital's plan to reduce emergency room wait times with an AI algorithm is an appropriate use of the technology — if it’s done carefully.

MONTREAL — CF Montreal signed defender George Campbell to a three-year contract on Friday. The deal includes an option year for the 2026 season, the Major League Soccer club said in a release.

MONTREAL — Cauliflower, garden beet, reishi mushroom — these are some of the odd flavours of edibles for sale at Quebec's provincially owned cannabis stores.

VICTORIAVILLE, Que. — Jan Sprynar scored two goals to lead the way as the Rimouski Océanic pummelled the Victoriaville Tigres 9-0 on Thursday night. William Dumoulin and Julien Béland each had a goal and two assists.

MONTREAL — The number of Hydro-Québec customers without power dropped by more than 5,000 Thursday, though the utility said it was unsure when everyone who lost electricity during last week's major winter storm would be reconnected.

MONTREAL — The three respiratory viruses that had been causing chaos in the fall in Quebec hospitals — COVID-19, influenza and respiratory syncytial virus — are all on the decline, the province's public health research institute said Thursday.

MONTREAL — Tennis player Félix Auger-Aliassime, who shone on some of the sport's biggest stages in 2022, is the winner of the Lionel Conacher Award as The Canadian Press male athlete of the year.