Quebec is planning to fund in vitro fertility treatments for women, revealed Health Minister Yves Bolduc on Thursday during a news conference in Montreal.

Many orthopaedic surgeons who have lent a helping hand, to treat the Haiti victims after the Jan. 12 earthquake, want Quebec health ministry to keep paying them their regular salary.

But Bolduc extends concerns that if he pays the orthopaedic surgeons the $800 a day they seek, other Quebecers, who volunteered their services in Haiti, will also want to be paid.

The recently released figures by Statistics Canada claimed rise in prices of houses located in the Toronto area in October as compared to previous month. Overall home sales in the region rose significantly in October, reporting a two year high level.

Toronto based electric car makers Zenn Motor Company, on Monday announced its plans of ceasing operations and production at its Quebec unit, which makes low-speed vehicles, by April 2010 end.

One of Canada's largest and top ranked media firms, Quebecor Inc., posted a much better than expected third quarter report with a 52% increase in earnings as compared to last year. The lack of competition in the telecom sector is being viewed as the major reason for Quebecor's outstanding performance, coupled with better sales and a recovering economy.

In an announcement made by the Quebec Government recently, it was stated that the Government would back and safeguard pensions of over 3,700 employees working for Nortel, a company which is currently under bankruptcy protection. As per Government's announcement, employees of Quebec Nortel would be duly covered under provincial legislation taking care of bankruptcy provisions.

On Thursday the Quebec Liberal government tabled a budget projecting a $3.9-billion deficit. This deficit has happened for the first time in the last decade, but the government is hopeful that a 1-per-cent sales-tax increase beginning Jan. 1, 2011, will eventually help eliminate it.

Marie-Ève Laurendeau and Stéphane Mantha, a Quebec couple, have launched a $3.5-million lawsuit against Montreal Children's Hospital for putting their severely disabled infant daughter back on life support without their approval.

After the death of a two-month-old baby from asphyxiation in the southern city of Pointe Claire, a Quebec coroner has issued a warning to parents against the common remedy of putting restless infants to sleep in car seats.

According to a recent study, Quebec suffers a loss of $ 6.5 billion due to insomniacs.  Insomnia leads to poor output by the employees, thus, causing loss to various companies. 

The research conducted by the University of Laval in Quebec City suggests "the economic burden of untreated insomnia is much higher than that of treating insomnia."