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MONTREAL - The similarities between Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's decision to invoke the Emergencies Act on ...

Quebec Premier Francois Legault could be transparent and voluntarily lift the veil on decisions made by his crisis management team during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a constitutional law expert.

Even before the language debate resumes next week in the National Assembly, Dominique Anglade's Liberals say they fear the Legault government wants to gag the opposition by forcing through Bill 96. Meanwhile, the list of speakers promises a fiery defence of Bill 101 and a critique of Bill 96 for not being strong enough.

The Trudeau government has stopped using the Liberal Party's private database to conduct background checks on candidates for judicial appointments, federal sources said.

Article content OTTAWA – Can Quebec unilaterally rewrite certain sections of the Constitution to assert that the province is a “nation” and set French as its only official language? Why would Premier François Legault even want to do that? And what does that mean for other provinces? Or even the English speaking minority in Quebec? Those are just some of the questions swirling across Canada days after Legault’s government introduced Bill 96, a sweeping language law reform that includes adding two new subsections to Section 90 of the Constitution proclaiming Quebec a “nation” and �...