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Education Minister Sonia LeBel announced Monday she will not seek the CAQ leadership and will step away from political life at the end of the current term.

Anti-corruption police in Quebec say they are looking into allegations of wrongdoing involving Quebec Liberals before proceeding into a formal investigation.

Rodriguez gave a combative performance on "Tout le monde en parle" Sunday, capping off a week spent trying to get ahead of the crisis.

This comes after a bombshell report alleging Bonnardel knew about the cost overruns as early as 2021.

The fiasco involved half a billion dollars in cost overruns and has already claimed one minister in the province’s CAQ government.

QUEBEC - The mandate of the commission looking into corruption in Quebec's construction industry is being extended by 18 months.

<p><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Justice Minister Bertrand St-Arnaud announced Monday that the Quebec cabinet has agreed to the 18-month extension requested by Justice France Charbonneau.</span></p> <span style="font-size: 10pt;"><br /></span><p> </p>

With Montreal's mayor claiming the only option to fill the city's potholes is to use companies linked to the Charbonneau Commission, Global News asks, are there any other options?

The man dubbed "Mr. Three Per Cent" is telling Quebec's corruption inquiry he never took money from construction companies in exchange for access to lucrative city contracts.

Quebec's corruption inquiry picked up Monday morning right where it left off two weeks ago by questioning the former head of financing for Union Montreal about his connections to one of Canada’s biggest media companies.

Montreal's former mayor says he was completely unaware of the existence of reports that warned almost a decade ago of the damage being done by practices in the local construction industry.

A corruption-related storm ripped through the Montreal area Thursday, wreaking devastation on once-sturdy political machines inside and outside the city. The party that won Montreal's last municipal election was dissolved. And in the big suburb next door, the mayor who dominated the last six elections was slapped with numerous criminal charges.

Coalition Avenir Quebec has unveiled an online petition calling for the provincial government to sue companies named as corrupt in Quebec's corruption inquiry.

With the province-wide construction strike on for an indefinite period, residents in suburban areas are also feeling the pinch, as they have crucial services disrupted for an unknown span of time.

Former McGill hospital boss Arthur Porter is hitting back at Quebec's corruption inquiry.

He shouldn’t be out of work for long. A politician of Jean Charest’s calibre, with his vast network of contacts, here and abroad, dynamic speaking talents and 28 years of public service is bound to be scooped up by someone. <br />

Vision Montreal candidate, Cindy Leclerc, won the Rivière-des-Prairies byelection on Sunday.

MONTREAL - The City of Montreal has released an old report that suggests the municipality knew eight years ago that it was significantly overpaying for construction projects, perhaps by more than 30 per cent.

The City of Montreal has released an old report that suggests the municipality knew eight years ago that it was significantly overpaying for construction projects, perhaps by more than 30 per cent.

MONTREAL - A Montreal municipal official was offered prostitutes' services as a gift from construction companies, he testified Tuesday at Quebec's corruption inquiry.