Quebec News

MONTREAL — Lightspeed Commerce Inc. reported a loss of US$40.2 million in its latest quarter as its revenue rose 27 per cent compared with a year earlier. The Montreal-based e-commerce technology company, which keeps its books in U.S.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Juraj Slafkovsky met with Slovakia's ambassador to the U.S.

MONTREAL — BCE Inc. is cutting nine per cent of its workforce or about 4,800 jobs, including journalists and other workers at its Bell Media subsidiary. It is also selling off 45 of its 103 regional radio stations.

SHERBROOKE, Que. — Peter Repcik and Sam Oliver each had two goals and an assist as the Drummondville Voltigeurs routed the Sherbrooke Phoenix 11-1 on Wednesday in Quebec Major Junior Hockey League action.

LAVAL, Que. — Police in Laval, north of Montreal, have opened an investigation after the bodies of two men were found inside an apartment Wednesday morning. According to sources, the deaths are being looked at as a murder-suicide.

QUEBEC — The Quebec government will table a bill Thursday aimed at ensuring the province's secularism law — known as Bill 21 — remains shielded from potential Charter challenges.

Quebec is asking the federal government to change the Criminal Code so the province can begin allowing people to request medical assistance in dying before their condition renders them incapable of giving consent.

MONTREAL — Despite hopes of a lull, inflation remains "omnipresent" across the supply chain of the Agropur dairy co-operative, its CEO says.

MONTREAL — A Montreal man appeared in court on Wednesday after he allegedly threatened in an online post to kill Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.

MONTREAL — The RCMP say a former employee of Quebec's hydro utility who is accused of spying on behalf of China is facing two new charges.