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Casey's General Stores has urged shareholders to reject the long-standing offer from Canada's Alimentation Couche-Tard, and said it was reviewing a higher bid from another suitor.

Oxygen, a Dutch-Belgian film about young people trying to figure out how to live with cystic fibrosis, has won two prizes at the Montreal World Film Festival, including the Grand Prix des Americas.

A newly released study says one in five Canadian teenagers between the ages of 15 and 19 was no longer pursuing a formal education in 2008, a higher percentage than a global average of 31 countries.

The Bank of Canada should boost interest rates one more time on Wednesday and then could leave rates alone for as long as a year, according to many economists.

Quebec Minister Claude Béchard, who has fought a very public battle with cancer, is quitting politics after a downturn in his health.

Alouettes linebacker Walter Spencer is recovering from surgery after being stabbed by a broken beer bottle during a fight outside a Montreal bar.

Quebec police have located the remains of a man they believe could be the missing passenger in a plane that crashed last month in eastern Quebec.

Public consultations on the thorny issue of euthanasia begin Tuesday in Quebec with hundreds of people expected to voice their views.

Alouettes linebacker Walter Spencer is in hospital with serious injuries after what police sources say was a stabbing at a Montreal bar.

The body pulled from a Quebec lake is that of Gervais Munger, co-owner of a major junior hockey team, a family spokesman has confirmed.

Quebec provincial police say two brothers found dead in their home in the Montérégie region on Sunday died of natural causes.

Police are investigating after a middle-aged man was hit by the side mirror of a city bus on the corner of St. Hubert and De Maisonneuve streets in Montreal.

A record 21,000 people ran in the 20th edition of the Montreal Marathon on Sunday.

Two monuments will be unveiled in the High Arctic this week to recognize Inuit who were forced to live in Canada's most northerly settlements in the 1950s.

A 19-year-old woman died early Monday morning after being hit by a car in the parking lot of a bar in Sainte-Foy, near Quebec City.

A toddler is in critical condition after a single vehicle accident around 2 pm. Sunday afternoon in Quebec's Montérégie area.

Two people were killed and one injured Sunday in a head-on collision on Highway 20 near Drummondville, Que., about 80 kilometres northeast of Montreal.

The Baie-St.-Paul hospital in Quebec's Charlevoix region will be demolished and another hospital in Malbaie will undergo major renovations, government officials said Saturday.

Former Canadiens goaltender Jaroslav Halak drew a huge crowd to an autograph session that he used as his farewell to fans in Montreal.

Smiles replaced frowns at the B.C. bench Friday night as the Lions snapped a seven-game losing streak with a 38-17 drubbing of the Montreal Alouettes.