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MONTREAL - Ottawa and Quebec have announced their intention to protect the waters near a picturesque territory in the Gulf of St. Lawrence that was recently named a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

As the annual UN climate change negotiations creep closer, Quebec Premier François Legault says he is trying to convince Canada to abandon oil and gas, as a series of groundbreaking reports reveal huge fossil fuel expansion plans that must be cancelled if the world is to avoid catastrophic global warming.

Thursdays event will include dramatic readings of poignant letters from a woman in the Warsaw Ghetto to her husband in a German PoW camp.

A spokesperson said the premier won&#39t be attending due to "uncertainty" over the situation in the Middle East.

New study in hand, they demand Quebec&#39s environment minister block the project for a "new downtown" in Pointe-Claire.

Official groundbreaking in Montréal-Est for Matrec, a division of GFL and Éco Entreprises Québec...

The plaintiffs contend the foundry "emitted into the environment a cocktail of toxic and carcinogenic contaminants."

The Mères au front collective wants the CAQ government to withdraw the plants operating permit, citing its emissions of arsenic.

The rain didnt stop some 30 people from the Meres au Front collective from demonstrating in Montreal on Saturday afternoon to call on Francois Legaults government to withdraw the permit granted to the multinational Glencore to operate the Horne smelter in Rouyn-Noranda, Abitibi-Temiscamingue.

Too many questions remain unanswered about these new players with billions of dollars of government money, the Quebec Liberals say.