In the wake of Premier François Legault’s comments that losing a third referendum on independence would be ‘the worst thing that could happen,’ Parti Quebecois leader Paul St-Pierre Plamondon is asking him ‘to do no harm’ and not to ‘contaminate everyone with unhealthy defeatism.’
All the forest fires still burning in Quebec’s intensive protection zone are currently ‘contained or under control,’ prompting Quebec’s forest fire protection agency SOPFEU to say that ‘fire-fighting operations are progressing smoothly.’