Genevieve Beauchemin

1 month ago | bnnbloomberg.ca | Genevieve Beauchemin

The Bloc Quebecois election bus rolled into the Montreal region today, showing off the party’s campaign slogan: Je choisis le Québec, I choose Quebec. But this time, issues that have traditionally been a cornerstone of federal contests have taken a back seat on the campaign trail. “For the time being, what we have ahead of us is tackling the intimidation being put into place by the American president,” said Bloc Quebecois leader Yves-François Blanchet.

1 month ago | ctvnews.ca | Genevieve Beauchemin

The Bloc Quebecois election bus rolled into the Montreal region today, showing off the party’s campaign slogan: Je choisis le Québec, I choose Quebec. But this time, issues that have traditionally been a cornerstone of federal contests have taken a back seat on the campaign trail. “For the time being, what we have ahead of us is tackling the intimidation being put into place by the American president,” said Bloc Quebecois leader Yves-François Blanchet.

2 months ago | ctvnews.ca | Genevieve Beauchemin

Warnings of delays on the arrivals and departures board at Via Rail’s Montreal Central Station are now happening at historic levels. Via Rail passenger trains travelling along the key Quebec City to Windsor corridor increasingly run more than ten to fifteen minutes late, and Via blames a dispute with CN for much of the tardiness. “It was a bit of a pain,” says Nancy Diller, who arrived in Montreal forty-five minutes late from Toronto aboard a Via train.

2 months ago | ctvnews.ca | Genevieve Beauchemin

Winooski, Vt., is not exactly a border town. It’s a nearly forty-minute drive from the dividing line between Canada and the United States. But many of its residents have deep roots and connections with their northern neighbours and are bracing for the impact of tariffs. “Bouleversant,” French for upsetting, is the word Raymonde Parent uses to describe how she feels about levies. She was born and raised in the U.S., but her ancestors are Canadians.

2 months ago | ctvnews.ca | Genevieve Beauchemin

Ashley Valentini set out to make a little extra money for her family, but clicking on an online job ad led her down a financial and emotional spiral. She fell victim to what is commonly referred to as a work or task scam, which is an increasingly common type of fraud costing Canadians millions each year. “At some point I ran out of money,” says Valentin, a mother of four living in the Montreal area. “I used all my rent money, I borrowed from my mother, I was panicking.