But some customers in Old Hull are fed up with the long wait for cabs after bars close. Salomé Cloutier-Courval, a student in her 20s, said she's chosen to do business with clandestine taxi drivers.

A pilot project that's pushed back closing time at Old Hull bars to 3 a.m. is now roughly two-thirds complete, and reaction from people in the area remains mixed.

It's closing time on a recent Saturday morning on rue Laval in downtown Gatineau's Old Hull district. About 50 people are waiting outside at 2 a.m. for taxis in –20 C weather. Two of them get into a ...

The province of Quebec (and in effect, Hull) didn’t cooperate with the their own government's version of Prohibition, which took effect a few years before the U.S. banned alcohol.