Matthew Lapierre

2 weeks ago | canadianinquirer.net | Matthew Lapierre

In what police are calling the most significant operation to take place in Quebec in a decade, officers have arrested the suspected heads of Montreal’s Italian Mafia, including the presumed leader, Leonardo Rizzuto. Nearly 150 police officers descended on addresses across Quebec early Thursday morning. They arrested Rizzuto at his home in Laval, Que., just north of Montreal. Officers arrested 11 people in total, all men between the ages of 27 and 57. Five people remain wanted by police.

2 months 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.

2 months 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.

2 months 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.

2 months 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.