Quebec News

GATINEAU, Que. — Jan Sprynar completed his hat trick with the game-winning goal 1:11 into overtime as the Rimouski Océanic edged the Gatineau Olympiques 3-2 on Saturday. Gabriel Robert made 23 saves for Rimouski (13-15-1).

QUEBEC — Valérie Maltais and Antoine Gélinas-Beaulieu both won gold as Canada earned four medals on Saturday in the second day of the Four Continents speedskating championships. Maltais of La Baie, Que.

MONTREAL — Last year's Supreme Court of Canada decision in favour of a controversial Quebec comedian forced the province's human rights commission to close 194 files involving discrimination complaints during the 2021-22 fiscal year.

SEPT-ÎLES, Que. — Ann-Sophie Bettez had the shootout winner as the Montreal Force edged the Connecticut Whale 4-3 on Saturday in Premier Hockey Federation action.

MONTREAL — An 80-year-old woman is dead after she was hit by a vehicle in the Montreal-area borough of Lasalle on Friday night. Montreal police say the collision occurred around 8:50 p.m. on Angrignon Boulevard, near Newman Boulevard.

QUEBEC — The Canadian team captured six medals, including three gold, to open the ISU Four Continents Speed Skating Championships on Friday. Laurent Dubreuil of Levis, Que.

MONTREAL — The security plan put together by police for Quebec's 2012 election night had a "major flaw" that permitted a gunman to carry out a deadly attack, a Superior Court judge has ruled in a civil case.

MONTREAL — The Montreal Alouettes have signed American defensive tackle Almondo Sewell to a two-year contract. The six-foot-four, 288-pound Sewell had 19 defensive tackles and three quarterback sacks in 16 games with the Alouettes in 2022.

MONTREAL — An Ottawa woman says her experience of trying to report a sexual assault that happened in another province led to a "convoluted" back-and-forth between police forces that has made her reconsider whether she wants to come forward at all.

MONTREAL — Harvard professor Tiya Miles's book about the history of an enslaved mother and her daughter has won this year's US$75,000 Cundill History Prize.