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Montreal this morning: Dreamy summer weather lingers and lingers
You’ll forgive us if our weather forecasts are somewhat repetitious over the next several days, because there are only so many ways we can tell you that it will be sunny, warm, humid at times — and...
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Woman, 18, in critical condition after hit and run downtown
An 18-year-old woman is in critical condition after being struck by an SUV in the early hours of Friday morning. Montreal police received several 911 calls at 2 a.m. reporting the accident at the...
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Montreal supervised drug injection sites in limbo
More than a year after Montreal Mayor Denis Coderre called for the urgent implementation of supervised drug injection sites, local advocates are stuck waiting for a project experts agree has...
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Public art: Montreal invests half a million dollars in mural program
The city of Montreal plans to invest half a million dollars in public art, transforming more building walls into an “outdoor museum” with the help of local mural artists. “We’re giving life to walls,...
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Laval doctor handed six-month suspension
A Quebec doctor has been handed a six-month licence suspension by the Collège des médecins du Québec. The council sanctioned Dr. Nathalie Hamel after finding her guilty of four infractions of the...
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French test for doctors will be changed, College of Physicians says
Quebec’s College of Physicians is in talks with the Quebec government to change the French test non-francophone doctors must pass to practise in Quebec. But the new exam might not come soon enough to...
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Quebec bringing in more income taxes
QUEBEC — Quebec raked in 8.7 per cent more in income taxes in the first quarter of 2016 than in the same period last year, according to new finance department figures. The department published its...
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Josh Freed: A brush with death just makes barbecuing more exciting
It’s Labour Day weekend, when tens of millions of guys across Quebec and North America will be passionately spending time in the Great Outdoors – barbecuing. Women barbecue, too, but in fewer numbers...
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Suspect flees after bank robbery, car crash in Mile End
The suspect in a bank robbery and subsequent car crash was still at large Friday night after Montreal police searched the Mile End area and failed to locate him. Around 11:30 a.m., two suspects entered...
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West Island health authority confirms potential merger with MUHC
The chairman of the board of the West Island health authority confirmed on Friday a proposal to merge the Pointe-Claire-based organization with the McGill University Health Centre as part of “an...
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Striking Old Port workers reject conciliator's contract offer
Striking employees at Montreal’s Old Port have rejected a contract offer put forth by a conciliator, the president of the union announced in a statement Friday. The Syndicat des employés du Vieux-Port...
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Fire in Rivière-des-Prairies café started by Molotov cocktail
A Molotov cocktail was thrown into the window of a café in Rivière-des-Prairies early Saturday morning causing a fire, according to Montreal police. The incident occurred around 5:30 a.m. at Café...
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Canadians pick common loon as favourite to become country's national bird
The votes are in and, if Canadians have their way, the common loon could one day join the beaver and maple leaf as an official symbol of Canada. While the United States has the bald eagle and Britain...
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Jogger assaulted in Mont-Saint-Bruno, police seek suspect
LONGUEUIL – A woman was assaulted while jogging in Mont-Saint-Bruno national park in Montérégie on Friday afternoon. The lady in her fifties was attacked by a man also about 50-years-old. Her injuries...
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Trudeau sidesteps question about concerns over Energy East pipeline hearings
By Andy Blatchford HANGZHOU, China — Justin Trudeau sidestepped a question Saturday when asked about concerns over the independence of the National Energy Board hearings into the Energy East oil...
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Community groups protest against travel restrictions on welfare recipients
Community groups have applied to the Tribunal administratif du Québec to strike down a regulation that restricts the freedom of movement of people receiving social assistance. Since May 2015, a...
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NDP says mandatory side guards for trucks would save cyclists lives
An online petition has been launched by NDP MP Alexandre Boulerice to support a bylaw aiming to equip trucks with side guards that would reduce impacts in case of collisions with cyclists and...
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Henderson star of the LPGA Manulife Classic despite struggles on the course
CAMBRIDGE, Ont. — It’s easy to find Brooke Henderson at the LPGA Manulife Classic. You don’t need a map of Whistle Bear Golf Club or an app on your phone and you don’t even have to ask a course...
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Bank heist suspect to appear in court Saturday while the other in still on...
Montreal police have met with witnesses in the hopes of apprehending the bank heist suspect who fled the scene of a car crash Friday in Mile End. “He fled running through back alleys,” Montreal police...
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Police investigating downtown shooting
A man was transported to hospital in critical condition after being shot at least once in the upper body early Sunday. Montreal police officers said they heard a gunshot while patrolling downtown. They...
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