Montreal News

Music is the soul of Montreal. This cultural centre is home to an incredible 106 festivals every year, including the music festival M For Montreal, which champions local up-and-coming artists.

As the province-wide construction strike enters its third day, Quebecers are dealing with the consequences of projects large and small being left at a standstill.

Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies photo Men under guard at the Cave and Basin internment camp, where Parks Canada opens a new exhibit building on Thursday.

Canada , North America's friendly and reasonable northern neighbor is often seen as the United States' more sensible counterpart.

"You know how long I've been talking about this. You know how many press junkets I've been at talking about 'Riddick,' and we're actually on set here shooting a 'Riddick' that's better than all expectations, better than anything we anticipated, and we're here nine years later and it's surreal."

What we're doing now is putting some effort into this renaissance in wood,' said Conroy Lum, research leader for structural performance at FPInnovations, seen here holding a block of cross-laminated timber.

Montreal, QC, and Fall River, MA - June 18, 2013 Ecotech Quebec and ACTION announced today a formal collaboration to encourage business and research partnerships between the cleantech sectors of the New England region , and Quebec .

Fire crews are trying to find the cause of a fire in the Rosemont-La Petite-Patrie district this morning that forced a dozen people from their homes.

New-home buyers could be left temporarily stranded if a strike that's paralyzed construction sites across Quebec delays the completion of units expected to be delivered by Montreal's popular July 1 moving day, developers warned Monday.

Quebec City mayor Regis Labeaume says he doesn't believe services to residents will be affected by job cuts.

Michael Applebaum speaks to reporters in Montreal in November after he was elected interim mayor of Montreal.

Festivals, nightlife, bagels: There are many reasons to travel to Montreal. But one of the best may be to find inspiration - and tomorrow's signature piece - in the city's unique boutiques.

A general strike began at midnight after unions and the association that represents construction employers were unable to reach an agreement over the weekend.

Linda J. Hawkins, owner of Heart to Heart Publishing Inc., was recently invited to participate in the Kentucky Export Initiative' Trade and Business Mission to Canada.

That's the fear expressed in an independent assessment of the Montreal-based school commissioned by the federal government two years ago - and which landed in a semi-censored, access-to-information form on my desk recently in an envelope accompanied by an anonymous letter asking me to look into it.

Three men in their 60s face charges after police cracked an alleged plan to rob at least one armoured truck and had to destroy a possible bomb found in a Montreal apartment.

MONTREAL, June 16, 2013 /CNW Telbec/ -Today,Communauto inaugurated on Le Plateau-Mont-Royal borough, the first 100% electric one-way carsharing service in Canada.

It was the day her father, John Riddell, died in one of the worst workplace tragedies in Montreal history, the explosion of the tanker Cymbeline while it was being repaired at the Canadian Vickers Co.

Eleven of 12 beaches in the Ottawa-Gatineau region are open, including Petrie Island in Orleans, for the inaugural weekend of the 2013 summer season.

Another business in Ville St-Laurent was the target of arson early Saturday morning - this time a kitchen supply store, EntrepA t Cuisine, on CA te Vertu Blvd., near Beaulac.