Two Vermont utilities signed an agreement Thursday on a 26-year deal to buy power from Canadian provincial utility Hydro-Quebec, replacing contracts that expire beginning in 2012. The deal is among Green Mountain Power Corp., Central Vermont Public Service Corp. and Montreal-based Hydro-Quebec, which already provides about one-third of Vermont's electricity ...

A Quebec tribunal is considering the case of a Muslim student who was expelled from a language class for immigrants for refusing to remove a veil that covered her face, local media reported Tuesday. The Egyptian-born woman was studying French at the Saint Laurent school in Montreal and reportedly refused to show her face in class and asked not to ...

Under a vaulted, blue-sky ceiling, a group of acrobats flies through the air, lunging against a backdrop of Greco-Roman inspired columns in Saint-Esprit Church, now home to a circus school in Quebec City. More and more churches in Canada's most historic province are being transformed from places of worship into community centers, libraries and luxury condos. While some are ...

Joannie Rochette put heartbreak aside with a gutsy performance which gave her an Olympic bronze in women's figure skating, just four days after the death of her mother on Thursday. The 24-year-old from Quebec had already earned the praise of International Olympic Committee president Jacques Rogge for her heroic short programme just two days after her mother's Therese ...