Quebec Politics

Greater autonomy for Flanders would boost its economy, but outright independence for the northern region of Belgium would be costly for all, its leader said Monday.

French Prime Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault announced Monday he will travel this month to "Canada and Quebec", singling out the French-speaking province whose status within Canada has been a source of friction between the two countries.

Scotland's First Minister Alex Salmond and Quebec's Premier Pauline Marois held talks in Edinburgh on Tuesday, declaring that Quebecers and Scots "will decide their own destiny".

Quebec's separatist premier will meet next week with her Scottish counterpart Alex Salmond, who is to hold a referendum in 2014 on Scotland's independence from Britain, government sources said Tuesday.

The man suspected of shooting one person dead at an election victory rally for Quebec separatists will undergo a psychiatric exam to determine if he is competent to stand trial, his lawyer said.

The mayor of Quebec's third-largest city resigned Friday after police searched his home, offices and bank deposits as part of a corruption probe in the Canadian province.

Montreal mayor Gerald Tremblay resigned Monday after witnesses linked him to illegal party financing skimmed from city construction contracts as part of an alleged mafia scheme.

A public inquiry into corruption in Quebec has uncovered shocking details of rigged contracts, fixed rates for kickbacks and cash-filled plastic bags hidden away in the basement of a suburban home.

A public inquiry into corruption in Quebec has uncovered shocking details of rigged contracts, fixed rates for kickbacks and cash-filled plastic bags hidden away in the basement of a suburban home.

Quebec's new separatist government cannot conceive of holding a fresh referendum on independence for the French-speaking Canadian province any time soon, Premier Pauline Marois told AFP on Tuesday.

President Francois Hollande said Monday that France would return to its policy of "non-interference, non-indifference" on the question of the independence of Canada's Quebec province.

The trial of a Canadian accused of opening fire at a Quebec separatist election victory rally last month, killing one person and wounding another, was delayed Thursday so court documents could be translated into English.

A star witness at a Quebec corruption inquiry testified that taxpayer money was illegally siphoned off to the Canadian province's ousted Liberal party through graft, local media said Wednesday.

Canada's prime minister will promote trade with economically rising Africa when he makes his third visit to the continent on Wednesday for a major summit for the French-speaking world.

A Canadian policemen was slightly hurt and two people were arrested in Montreal on Saturday as students staged a demonstration to press for tuition-free university studies.

France is expected to return to its traditional policy of neutrality in regards to Quebec independence after years of tilting towards federalism, Quebec and French figures said this week.

Quebec separatists with close ties to France's new socialist government said this week they expect Paris to support its former colony's independence from the rest of Canada.

The new Quebec government formally repealed Thursday a planned tuition increase that had triggered months of angry and sometimes violent protests in Canada's French-speaking province.

Quebec Premier Pauline Marois announced Thursday that the province's only nuclear power plant would be closed, as activists went to court to try to prevent new reactors from being built in neighboring Ontario.

Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper warned Thursday that the Quebec separatists' narrow election victory does not give them a "mandate" to seek independence for the mainly French-speaking province.