Many families in Quebec have a daily life that is partly online. Moms and dads check their children's school portals, use their mobile phones to settle invoices and manage bank accounts, while the kids access digital platforms for schoolwork and stay in touch with relatives. A family album is shared right away with extended family living in the West Island or other areas, and vital papers are increasingly in digital format rather than paper. The comfort of this method is plain to see, but it also means that family members now have more sensitive personal data to protect than ever before.

Charles Olivier-Rivard is seeking to launch a class-action suit against more than a dozen major retailers, amongst them Best Buy, Costco, and Walmart, claiming they wrongly charged provincial and federal sales tax for such items as product protection plans and extended warranties.

Quebec is undertaking an animal vaccination program to control the spread of rabies among raccoons because there’s been a significant increase in the number of infected raccoons in the Montérégie and Estrie regions and raccoon rabies has infected a stray (feral) cat in that region.