Matthew Lapierre
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Digital Journalist at CBC Montreal
Crime reporter at The Ottawa Citizen. YUL native Contact me at [email protected]
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2 weeks ago |
atinitonews.com | Doy Santos |Matthew Lapierre
With some seats still too close to call as of early Tuesday morning, the Liberals appeared poised to win 43 seats in Quebec. In 2015, when the party won a sweeping majority under leader Justin Trudeau, they won 40. It was a significant gain for the party, which won 35 seats in the 2021 federal election. The seats helped the Liberals secure a government in Ottawa. As of 7:00 a.m., it was still unclear if the Liberals will form a minority or majority government.
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2 weeks ago |
kamumedya.com | Matthew Lapierre
Liberal Leader Mark Carney speaks toward the cameras as he leaves a polling station after voting in the federal election, in Ottawa, on Monday, April 28, 2025. (Justin Tang/The Canadian Press)With some seats still too close to call as of early Tuesday morning, the Liberals appeared poised to win 43 seats in Quebec. In 2015, when the party won a sweeping majority under leader Justin Trudeau, they won 40. It was a significant gain for the party, which won 35 seats in the 2021 federal election.
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2 weeks ago |
canadianinquirer.net | Matthew Lapierre
A Quebec Superior Court judge on Thursday struck down a tuition hike for out-of-province Canadian university students in Quebec and the French language requirements that the province had attempted to impose on them. In his 82-page decision, Judge Éric Dufour awarded McGill and Concordia universities a partial victory. He invalidated changes that the Higher Education Ministry made to its budgetary rules.
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3 weeks ago |
kamumedya.com | Matthew Lapierre
Montreal·NewThe judge struck down the tuition increases and French requirements that affected out-of-province Canadian students, saying that the Higher Education Ministry lacked data to support its claims that out-of-province students weren’t integrating into Quebec society.
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3 weeks ago |
maharlikanews.com | Matthew Lapierre
Quebec has officially passed a law requiring doctors to work in the public health-care system for five years after obtaining a medical degree in the province. Law 83, adopted on Thursday by a vote of 72 to 30, is intended to improve access to health care for Quebecers by preventing doctors from exiting the public system for the private system.
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