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Tipped off by PMO, SNC Lavalin CEO left Canada fewer than 36 hours before he was to be arrested

Former SNC Lavalin CEO Neil Bruce fled Canada just three days before he was expected to be arrested on bribery charges relating to a series of meetings that he and an attorney, Frank Iaccobucci, engaged in late last year to

Marvin Rotrand chosen as interim leader of Coalition Montréal

Veteran city councillor Marvin Rotrand has been elected as interim leader of the opposition Coalition Montréal following the resignation on Monday of party chief Benoit Dorais. Dorais, mayor of the Sud-Ouest borough, said he would begin the New Year as an

Union militant Bernard ‘Rambo’ Gauthier launches a political party

QUEBEC — North shore union organizer Bernard “Rambo” Gauthier is going into politics, promising to make life miserable for the province’s elites and establishment and to stand up for the little guy. “I’m fed up with being fed up,” Gauthier

Valérie Plante rises in Montreal, with sights on 2017 municipal battle

Valérie Plante was elected leader of Projet Montréal this weekend, ending a long period of interim leadership for the city’s main opposition party. Here are five reasons this stands to be a boon for Montreal’s democracy in the short term,

Lisée wants government to show more ‘economic nationalism’

Mondelez Canada’s east-end cookie factory is done, and Parti Québécois leader Jean-François Lisée sees it as a wake-up call for the province. The Opposition leader was at a riding office not far from the soon-to-be-shuttered plant Monday to unveil