The message boards, which normally advise motorists of roadwork, were tampered with to display phrases such as "free Palestine," "escalate now," and "globalize the intifada." By the end of Wednesday morning, the original messages had been restored at the sites.

Five Quebec municipalities located by a proposed site for a graphite mine with ties to the Pentagon have created an alliance to accelerate public consultations on the project and pressure the provincial government to listen to what locals have to say.

Some police services in Canada are using facial recognition technology to help solve crimes, while others say privacy concerns are holding them back from employing the powerful tools. This uneven application of the technology, and the loose rules governing its use, has experts calling on the federal government to set national standards.

French President Emmanuel Macron called the snap election earlier this month following a crushing defeat of his party by the far right in the European parliamentary vote. The first round, on Saturday, could see the country's first far-right government since the Second World War Nazi occupation or no majority emerging at all.

The mayor of the Ahuntsic-Cartierville borough said she received a dozen complaints by emails after members of Montreal's Muslim community gathered at Parc des Hirondelles to celebrate the Eid al-Adha holiday and pray together.

In May, Lomiko Metals Inc. announced it received a grant of $11.4 million from the U.S. Department of Defence and another $4.9 million from Natural Resources Canada to study the conversion of graphite into battery-grade material for powering electric vehicles.

The authority that runs Montreal's international airport is going to court to stop an up-and-coming suburban airport from rebranding with the city's name, arguing it will sow confusion among travellers.