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Goodbye, gas guzzlers. Quebec plans to ban the sale of gas-powered vehicles by 2035 and has presented what it calls its "roadmap" to get there. Draft regulation submitted on January 26 proposes tightening disincentives so that automakers will have to accumulate a certain number of credits from electric or low-emission vehicle sales.

The Nature Conservancy of Canada (NCC) is protecting another natural area between Montreal and Laval. Thanks to a generous land donation by 93-year-old Thor Vikström, Île Ronde, a three-hectare island

Quebec City is making it costlier for car companies to sell gas-powered vehicles over the next 13 years, installing a new system of credits to boost the numbers of zero-emission

Quebec environment groups say they are going to court to lift the veil on the millions of litres of water collected by Coca-Cola, Pepsi, Naya, Eska and others every year.

The use of Nazi symbols in anti-vaccine trucker convoys has demonstrated the need to increase awareness, Quebecs minister responsible for anti-racism says.

George Stetka’s daughter, who is half Black, is a Grade 7 student at Centennial Regional High School in Greenfield Park, Que., on Montreal’s South Shore. She came home with an assignment that depicted people of colour as criminals.

The Quebec government is postponing the expansion of its can and bottle collection project.

A woman was forced out of a grocery store in Montreal after a racist tirade in which she blamed Chinese people for the spread of COVID-19.

The unidentified grocery store Karen was forcibly removed from a Montreal grocery store after she going on a racist rant where she blamed an Asian couple for the spread of COVID-19.

Here are 40 questions to test your recall of local events of the past year.