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Montreal's First nations homeless community gets help from Quebec government
The provincial government will give $100,000 in financial aid to to help First Nations homeless people in Montreal. The sum will go to Projet Autochtones du Québec, a Montreal-based non-profit...
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Lise Millette steps down as president of Quebec journalist federation
The president of the Fédération professionnelle des journalistes du Québec, Lise Millette, is stepping down “for personal reasons” after 18 months at the head of the journalism association. A...
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Quebec schools to receive $553 million in funding
Quebec announced Thursday it will inject $553 million in schools across the province. Education minister Sébastien Proulx announced that the investment would serve to carry out projects that will...
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Critics slam Quebec bill on oil and gas development
It would be hard to believe Energy Minister Pierre Arcand did not see the hornet’s nest lying in the middle of the trail. Blame it on the bungled Anticosti Island oil drilling issue. Or the hundreds of...
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Two suspects arrested in fatal Ahuntsic-Cartierville shooting
Two men have been arrested after a man was fatally shot Thursday morning while sitting in his car in Ahuntsic. Montreal police responded to a 911 call at 11:30 a.m. The 45-year-old man sustained at...
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Man charged with first-degree murder in Ahuntsic shooting
A Montreal man was charged with first-degree murder on Friday in connection with a fatal shooting that took place in the Ahuntsic-Cartierville borough this week. Joseph Sarikakis, 45, was shot in the...
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Police arrest 2 at drug den in Hochelaga-Maisonneuve
Montreal police arrested two people Thursday night after raiding a building in Hochelaga-Maisonneuve suspected of being a hub for the purchase and consumption of drugs. The East Division’s Section des...
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Crown to decide if charges will be laid in case of infant found in car
The autopsy of a young child found dead in a car in St-Jérome Wednesday has been performed, and the case is being passed to the crown prosecutor, the Sûreté de Québec has confirmed. “We are now at the...
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Montrealers top astronaut applications: Canadian Space Agency
It’s Montrealers who have shown the most enthusiasm in wanting the job of next Canadian astronaut. While the recruitment campaign ended Monday, the Canadian Space Agency released its final figures...
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Workers at 16 CEGEPs will strike for half day
Professional non-teaching staff at 16 French CEGEPs across Quebec will hold a half-day strike Monday. The 700 members of the Syndicat de professionnelles et professionnels du gouvernement du Québec...
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Jacques Daoust goes out with a whimper, insists he told the truth
Insisting he always told the truth but clearly lacking the personal support of the premier, embattled Transport Minister Jacques Daoust resigned from politics Friday. Dogged for weeks by allegations he...
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Cyclist hit by truck while on the access ramp to Highway 40 in Berthierville
A cyclist has died in hospital after a collision with a semi-trailer truck in Berthierville on Friday. Around 2:30 p.m., a cyclist in her 50s was travelling on Route 158 near the access ramp to Highway...
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Radicalization of CEGEP students: Long-awaited report reveals perfect storm
The report doesn’t name names — not of the CEGEP students still drawn to Syria today or trying to come home, nor of the “radicalization agents” who hovered around them at Collège de Maisonneuve,...
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Two charged with murder in Laurentians death
Two people have been formally charged with murder in the death of Marielle Portelance, an Ontarian woman found dead in a wooded sector of Grenville-sur-la-Rouge in the Laurentians on July 29....
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Police investigates shooting in downtown apartment building
A shooting downtown left one man dead and another in hospital Friday night, police say. Around 8:20 p.m., numerous calls came in describing a shooter who targeted two men in an apartment building on de...
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Laval public speaking competitor makes it to an international stage
Raymond Brisebois’s 16-year-old daughter was struck and killed by a train in 2012 but he was never able to tell her one last time he loved her because he kept putting off the phone call. “Today is...
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Lessard becomes transport minister, Couillard knew nothing about Rona deal
By Magdaline Boutros QUEBEC — Laurent Lessard succeeds Jacques Daoust as the new Minister of Transport, Sustainable Mobility and Transportation Electrification. Luc Blanchette, who was the minister...
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36-year-old to be charged with murder in connection with downtown shooting
A 36-year-old man arrested Saturday in connection with a fatal shooting Friday night will be charged with murder, according to Montreal police. The shooting in a downtown apartment in Montreal left one...
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Girl kills seagull at U.S. beach, Quebec father faces charge
REHOBOTH BEACH, Del. — Police in the Delaware resort of Rehoboth Beach say a Canadian man has been charged for allowing his daughter to allegedly lure a seagull to a hole in the sand, where she killed...
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No verdict in Quebec election shooting trial after eight days of deliberations
Jurors at Richard Henry Bain’s first-degree murder trial will deliberate for a ninth day after failing to reach a verdict Saturday. Day 8 went by with no word from the seven women and five men who are...
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