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A quarter century after blowing the whistle, Allison Forsyth feels heard. Alpine Canada has settled a lawsuit with the former national team skier via the sport body's insurer.

The Bastarache commission on the nomination of judges resumed work Thursday with an intense cross examination of Liberal fundraiser Franco Fava.

France's political class has a more positive attitude towards Quebec nationalism than President Nicolas Sarkozy, Bloc Quebecois leader Gilles Duceppe said Tuesday.

Premier Jean Charest said Thursday he was “very disappointed” at suggestions made by Parti Québécois leader Pauline Marois that his government is trying to protect the Mafia.

Quebec Premier Jean Charest has offered to slightly soften the blow of controversial tuition hikes in a series of proposals with two aims in mind: calming his province's angry student movement and winning public sympathy for his government.

The continuing crisis in the Parti Québécois is battering away at its support with voters fleeing in droves, a new poll shows. And one of the big winners in the chaotic political climate is François Legault’s Coalition for the future of Quebec.

After another night of demonstrations and mass arrests in Montreal and Quebec City in support of student demands for a university tuition freeze, Education Minister Michelle Courchesne appeared to be in solution mode Thursday.

All parties in the Quebec National Assembly joined Thursday in unanimously adopting a motion “condemning without reserve” the use of smoke bombs to close the Montreal métro. <br /><br />

The Premier presented the 26 members of his inner circle on Wednesday.

MONTREAL - The extension of the mandate for Quebec's corruption inquiry became more likely today after it was supported by opposition parties in the legislature.

“We have a massive issue in this country," said former Canadian Olympic skier Allison Forsyth. “Every sport has an issue with the normalization of behaviours.”

The crimes date back more than 20 years when he trained aspiring professional downhill skiers.

The chair of the board of Alpine Canada has apologized to the victims of a former national ski coach convicted of sexual assault.

The 57 charges against Bertrand Charest include sexual assault and breach of trust.

Former national ski coach Bertrand Charest is seeking to have his sexual-assault sentence reduced by at least half.

A new survey from AthletesCAN shows that 17 per cent of Canadian athletes surveyed have experienced psychological abuse, including intimidation, humiliation and fear.

The changes come as the sporting world reels from numerous cases of sexual abuse and harassment of athletes in a number of different sports both in Canada and elsewhere.

Four more women who were assaulted or allegedly assaulted by ex-national ski coach Bertrand Charest when they were younger have obtained the right to be identified by name.

Charest was found guilty in June 2017 of 37 of the 57 sex-related charges he was facing, and was eventually given a 12-year prison term.

Quebec's national assembly has unanimously adopted a motion filed by Sports Minister Sébastien Proulx aimed at making sport abuse-free.