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Quebec Court of Appeal Blocks Traffic Stop Law, Exposing Racial Profiling in Policing

In a groundbreaking late-October ruling, Quebec’s Court of Appeal upheld a 2022 decision to suspend a law that permitted random traffic stops, a practice that enabled racial profiling by police. What does this landmark decision reveal about systemic racism in law enforcement—and Premier François Legault’s ongoing denial of its existence?

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The Devastating Attack on Safe Consumption Sites

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Group Threatens to Blockade Highway Over Illegal Dumping in Kanesatake

Citizens in and around the Mohawk Territory say they've had it with waiting for governments to act on the growing environmental crisis.

Dump Site Openly Flouts Provincial Law

Experts say Quebec won’t enforce environmental laws on Mohawk land as Kanesatake deals with numerous dump trucks with unknown contents driving in every day.