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Family doctors must take on more patients: Barrette
QUEBEC — Family physicians must register nearly one million more patients by Dec. 31, 2017 if they don’t want to see their pay slashed by up to 30 per cent, Health Minister Gaétan Barrette said...
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Identity of man who died from gunshot in Île-Perrot has been released
The man who died Sunday in Île-Perrot when he was struck by at least one bullet that is alleged to have been fired by a Sûreté du Québec police officer has been identified. Chad Murphy, 45, was a...
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Quebecers are smoking less but aren't as healthy as you might think
The good news is that fewer of us are smoking. That encouraging revelation doesn’t mean we’re the picture of good health, however. Although Quebecers appear willing to give up that vice — dropping to...
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Police can't locate homeowner following Laval blaze
A house in Laval’s Vimont district was completely destroyed by fire Tuesday and Laval police said Wednesday morning that they have not been able to contact the homeowner. The home on D’Edimbourg St....
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Couillard waxes poetic with 'Waiting for Gaudreault' ode to interim PQ leader
QUEBEC — Philippe Couillard’s poetic side emerged Wednesday as he invoked Molière and Samuel Beckett in paying tribute to Parti Québécois member Sylvain Gaudreault. The Quebec premier stood up in the...
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Montreal philosopher Charles Taylor wins inaugural $1M Berggruen Prize
MONTREAL — Prominent Canadian philosopher Charles Taylor says he’s still getting over the shock of being named the first-ever recipient of the Berggruen Prize. The Montreal philosopher and writer...
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Montreal's pit bull ban is suspended indefinitely
Montreal’s pit bull ban has been suspended indefinitely, two days after it came into effect. On Wednesday, Quebec Superior Court Justice Louis Gouin granted the Montreal Society for the Prevention of...
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Police arrest 19 people in drug raids in and around Montreal
Nineteen people were arrested Wednesday in police raids that targeted an alleged drug-trafficking and vehicle-theft ring. About 200 police officers from the Montérégie, Montreal, Laval and other forces...
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Cabbies plan to disrupt traffic by driving 10 km/h during protest
After two legal challenges failed to stop a pilot project allowing Uber to operate legally in the province, taxi drivers took to the streets in protest and demanded to meet with Quebec Premier Philippe...
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DNA tests show U.S. woman is not Montrealer Liliane Cyr's missing daughter
A Montreal mother’s two-month wait to find out if a stranger who contacted her this summer is her long-missing daughter ended in disappointment this week. Liliane Cyr had been contacted in early...
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Montreal police renew lucrative programs targeting contraband, money laundering
The Montreal police will renew two programs that give the department a financial incentive to crack down on contraband tobacco and alcohol and follow the money-laundering trail of criminal...
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Quebec woman told to remove hijab in court treated regrettably: judge
A Quebec justice says a decision by a lower court judge to deny a woman’s day in court because of her hijab goes against the principles of Canadian law. But Superior Court Justice Wilbrod Decarie also...
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Jury trial begins in decades-old Rigaud murder case
A jury trial involving a murder that dates back nearly two decades began at the Gouin courthouse on Thursday. John Boulachanis in a 2006 photo. John Boulachanis, 42, is charged with the first-degree...
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What's open and closed on Thanksgiving Day
Here’s a partial list of what’s open and closed on Thanksgiving Day, Oct. 10, 2016: • Federal and provincial government offices will be closed. • Most city of Montreal offices will be closed, including...
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Boshra: On pit bulls, Coderre is showing how to lose both the battle, and the...
Today, I am going to ask you to do something that, based on the tenor of the correspondence I have received on the subject so far, may well be mission impossible: set aside, purely for the time it...
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Mayor on pit-bull ban: 'People first!'
Montreal Mayor Denis Coderre has vowed to push ahead with his plan to ban pit bulls in the city despite a judge’s decision Wednesday to suspend parts of the new animal control bylaw. “I have a lot of...
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Old Port of Montreal workers reject contract offer
The strike at the Old Port of Montreal will continue after 300 workers rejected the latest contract offer in a close vote, the workers’ union announced Thursday. “The last four months have not been...
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Montreal unveils its official flower, a hybrid that is attractive to bees
Montreal has its own official flower, created in Quebec in honour of the city’s 375th anniversary. Dubbed the “Montreal echinacea” it is an annual of the Echinacea family. Space for Life, the museum...
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Avoid Décarie Expressway, Ville-Marie Expressway tunnel on the weekend
Transport Quebec says it will be doing major work that will hamper traffic on the Décarie Expressway and the Ville-Marie Expressway this weekend. Décarie Expressway: Workers will be dismantling the...
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Suspect in Laval homicide arrested in Kitchener
An arrest has been made in the homicide case of Ferdinando Belmonte, who was killed June 28 in Saint-Vincent-de-Paul, Laval police said. Mitchell Robert Cousins, 29, was arrested Tuesday night in...
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