L ast month, the right-leaning populist government of Canada’s French-speaking province of Quebec finally scrapped a controversial forestry bill. Known as Bill 97, this proposed legislation was aimed ...

Quebec's boreal forest — twice the size of France — is a vast expanse of wilderness rich in biodiversity that can lock up huge amounts of climate-warming carbon dioxide. It is also an economic driver ...

Unfortunately, wood from Québec’s public forests has not been harvested according to the rules of the game, to which all other Canadian provinces have committed. For more than 25 years, the Québec ...

The provincial government on Tuesday announced it had halted authorized logging operations along the Péribonka River in the Lac-Saint-Jean region, and that the area would be designated a protected ...

QUEBEC CITY — Quebec has announced an easing of measures recently adopted in reaction to forest fires and high flammability indexes. The government partially lifted a ban on forest access to public ...

The Quebec government has cancelled a controversial plan to log forests along the Péribonka River, north of Lac Saint-Jean. But that doesn't mean the entire forest, much of it old-growth, will be ...

The Quebec government faces a bitter confrontation with a group of Quebec natives that could jeopardize the fragile peace negotiated in recent years with the province's first nations. Quebec's Innu ...

Measures proposed by Quebec's government to help protect its dwindling caribou herds won't make a difference in the short term, say biologists, who cite a lack of willpower to create protected areas ...

OTTAWA (Feb. 2, 2000) — A strike by owner-operators in Quebec halted lumber shipments in the Gaspe and Saguenay-Lac St. Jean regions, La Presse newspaper reported. However, local agreements between ...

The first foreign firefighters to reach Quebec amid Canada’s worst wildfire season on record said that some of the blazes were 100 times bigger than any they had ever seen. Fires, named 372 and 373, ...