His comments have set off alarm bells in various Quebec regions and logging towns, many of which have economies built on ...

Logs are shown at a softwood lumber sawmill in Saguenay, Que. The forestry sector has been under strain and the province is trying to make changes to support it. But Indigenous groups and ...

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 ...

Indigenous leaders and conservationists called out the Québec government for failing to do enough to preserve boreal forests.

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...