The federal government will commit $2.4 billion to the artificial intelligence sector, aimed at boosting job growth and international competitiveness, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said in a pre-budget announcement on Sunday.

The Quebec government says it will ask the province's language watchdog to investigate the Quebec Maritimes Junior Hockey League's decision after the leader of the Parti Qubcois complained.

Former city bus driver Pierre Ny St-Amand, 52, faces two counts of first-degree murder as well as seven other charges, including attempted murder and aggravated assault.

A Quebec coroner's inquiry into the deaths of a provincial police sergeant and the man who killed her heard dramatic testimony Wednesday about how the fateful arrest happened and what efforts were made on the scene to save Sgt. Maureen Breau.

Charles Ct told a coroner's inquest that mental health professionals usually refuse to share information about patients with police, for reasons of confidentiality.

Psychiatrists who treated a mentally ill Quebec man who killed a provincial police officer told a coroner's inquest on Tuesday about the challenges in getting patients to follow conditions from the province's mental-health board.

A coroner's inquiry is probing the deaths of both a Quebec provincial police sergeant killed on the job last March and her assailant, who was killed by fellow officers.