Several suspects arrested by the Sécurité du Québec in conjunction with a $1 million province-wide fraud scheme targeting senior citizens were arraigned at t

Laval Mayor Stéphane Boyer announced Wednesday that he would run for a second term as mayor of the city on Montreal’s North Shore. Boyer, 37, said in a press release that he wanted to continue to defend the interests of Laval,

Amazon couldn’t shut down just the unionized Laval warehouse, “so the remaining option was to nuke their entire Quebec operations,” says McGill University’s Barry Eidlin.

Amazon says it's closing all seven of its warehouses in the Canadian province of Quebec over the next two months.

Amazon has announced plans to close all of its Quebec facilities, laying off 1,700 permanent employees, months after workers in Laval, Que., made history by unionizing. Experts say the move could prompt legal challenges under Quebec labour laws.

The official line out of Amazon is that the decision to shut down its operations is entirely related to cost-cutting. Per a statement given to the CBC, the company reviewed its Québec operations and found “returning to a third-party delivery model supported by local small businesses,

Unions had gained a foothold in one of the company’s warehouses in the province, though Amazon would not say if there was a connection.

The online giant said its decision to close seven warehouses is unrelated to labour organizing, but others say it’s part of a pattern to stamp out unions

A company spokesperson said Amazon will outsource deliveries to smaller contractors. The spokesperson insisted that the decision was tied to cost savings — not the recent unionization of about 200 employees at the Laval,

The Honourable Manon Jeannotte, Lieutenant Governor of Quebec, will preside over a special ceremony at the Palace Convention Centre in Laval, to honor 86 citizens from the Greater Montreal Area who have been awarded the King Charles III Coronation Medal.

Hershey, 13-1-2 away Giant Center with an AHL-best .875 winning percentage, begins a three-game road trip this week against the Laval Rocket in Quebec. Opening face-off is 7 p.m. The Bears will remain in Canada for two more games against Belleville on Friday and Saturday and then visit Wilkes-Barre/Scranton next Thursday.

The online retail giant said the move was not linked to recent unionization efforts by workers in the Canadian province.