Sabrina Jonas

Northvolt, a Swedish battery manufacturing giant, says it will build a new multibillion-dollar electric vehicle battery plant east of Montreal — a project Quebec leaders are calling the largest private investment in the province’s history.

Proceeds went toward scholarships and subsidies for music lessons and instruments at the Vanier College Music School.

Quebec has begun offering the latest Health Canada-approved COVID-19 vaccine, which targets a newer variant. Here are some key questions and answers about the fall vaccination campaign and the current situation of respiratory infectious diseases in the province.

Some residents living next to a daycare in Montreal’s Outremont borough are seeking a court injunction to limit the hours children can play outdoors in the small yard behind the building, citing unacceptable noise levels that prevent them from “enjoying the premises peacefully.”

After a brief pilot project, Quebec is spending $2 million for the purchase of 900 new automated external defibrillators (AEDs) over the next three years. Advocates say access to these devices can save lives and they need to be more readily available in the province.

The lawsuit alleges youth protection received four reports of negligence concerning the young girl’s mother, including excessive alcohol and drug use, but the situation was systematically ignored.

The city of Montreal is proposing modifications to a housing bylaw in hopes of speeding up construction of social housing units. Valérie Plante’s administration says the bylaw did not work as intended, while some say it hasn’t worked at all.

A recently inaugurated exhibit in a small rural Quebec town is challenging long-held beliefs about the small community of Black people that lived there around the turn of the 19th century.

Police received several calls about gunshots near Yeshiva Gedola of Montreal, located on Deacon Road in the Côte-des-Neiges neighbourhood, at around 5 a.m. Sunday. It’s the second time the school was targeted this week.

Station doors, walls and some bus stops were plastered with pro-Palestinian posters and graffiti overnight.