Quebec provincial police say a toddler was killed after being struck by a car at a campsite in the Saguenay Lac-Saint-Jean region north of Quebec City. Provincial police say the boy, under the age of two, was struck around 11 a.m. while playing near the side of the road on Sunday at the site in…

A Quebec man who slipped through the cracks of the justice and health systems was sentenced today to eight years in prison for the March 2022 killing of his spouse. Quebec court Judge Sylvain Lépine accepted the joint sentencing recommendation from the Crown and defence for Pascal Arseneault, who killed 64-year-old Louise Avon. Arseneault, 50,…

Quebec provincial police are investigating after the bodies of two people in their 40s were discovered in separate locations in a community 80 kilometres north of Montreal. Police are not releasing details about the relationship between the two victims but say they knew each other and that their deaths are suspicious. They say police received…

Provincial police say a third person has died after a pickup truck crashed into pedestrians in an eastern Quebec town one week ago. Police say Simon-Guillaume Bourget, 41, died on the weekend after being injured last Monday. Two other men, Gérald Charest, 65, and Jean Lafrenière, 73, died after being struck in Amqui, about 350…

Provincial police say they believe that a fire that killed six members of a family on Thursday in Quebec’s Lanaudière region was likely accidental. A police spokesperson says investigators have completed their analysis of the scene at the home in St-Jacques, Que., and have begun working to identify the bodies. Sgt. Éloïse Cossette says there…

MONTREAL—Quebec provincial police were negotiating Saturday evening with a man accused of kidnapping his three-year-old son earlier in the week, in a case that sparked an Amber Alert and a large-scale manhunt. The Amber Alert came to an end on Saturday when investigators found the 36-year-old man and his child not far from where they…