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Barrette, health officials to meet Wednesday to consider MUHC merger proposals
Quebec Health Minister Gaétan Barrette is to hold an extraordinary meeting Wednesday evening at McGill University to consider major proposals to merge the MUHC with two west-end health organizations,...
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Doctor behind full-page Subban ad making sizable donation to P.K.'s Helping Hand
A doctor who penned a letter to run as a full-page ad in the Montreal Gazette last week thanking P.K. Subban has announced he will be donating a sizable amount to the Montreal Children’s Hospital...
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Greg Duncan: wallets full of empty promises on plastic cards
If you are like most people then your wallet or purse is jammed packed with so many loyalty or reward points cards that they leave little room for important items like your drivers license and...
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Victor Schukov: Lateral thinking disorder hampers my reading
My condition is hampering my interpretation of West Island headlines. I have recently been self-diagnosed as suffering from LTD: Lateral Thinking Disorder. I define this condition as: A chronic habit...
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Aunt questions whether niece refused blood transfusion before death
Éloïse Dupuis was giddy with excitement the day before she gave birth to her first child, a son she and her husband named Liam. In a Facebook message to her aunt Manon Boyer, the 27-year-old said “she...
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Analysis: Lisée shifts focus to bread-and-butter issues
QUEBEC — Like players sitting before a giant chessboard representing Quebec, they made their first moves. But instead of wowing the crowd, the first encounter resembled more of a quick dance around the...
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Murder trial hears from alleged partner in crime
Robert Tanguay seemed to know what was coming as he was being driven to the trap that would end his life. The 32-year-old was killed on August 9, 1997, and the man who is alleged to have orchestrated...
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Weather alert: Heavy rain on the way
Environment Canada is warning of heavy rainfall in southern Quebec starting Thursday, and continuing through Saturday. The forecaster’s special weather statement — in effect for the Châteauguay-La...
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30 former students now claim they were sexually abused at Collège...
Three to six nights a week, for two years, “A” would stand outside Brother Claude Lebeau’s bedroom at the Collège Mont-Sacré-Coeur in Granby, along with the other boys, waiting in line to see the...
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Quebec blows hot and cold on relations with Trudeau government
QUEBEC — Despite his own health minister spending the day blasting Ottawa for refusing to cough up money for health, Premier Philippe Couillard insisted Wednesday he has a good relationship with the...
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Sisters want compensation for deaf-mute victim of abuse by Clercs de...
Eight months after a class-action suit was settled on behalf of former students at the Montreal Institute for the Deaf, a total of 195 victims have come forward to tell their stories of repeated sexual...
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Quebec Liberals table Bill 115 to fight elder abuse
QUEBEC — Quebec may soon adopt its very first law to fight elder abuse. On Wednesday, the minister responsible for seniors and anti-bullying, Francine Charbonneau, tabled Bill 115 — an Act to combat...
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Couillard refuses to let Lisée off sovereignty hook
QUEBEC — It has only been 24 hours, but they couldn’t resist. The age-old federalism-vs.-sovereignty debate got the best of Premier Philippe Couillard and opposition Parti Québécois Leader...
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He dug a hole but didn't think there would be a murder? Lawyer asks at John...
An accomplice in the murder John Boulachanis is accused of committing in 1997 claims he didn’t know he was driving the victim to his death. But that key part of the accomplice’s testimony in...
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Barrette has witnessed the influence of religious groups on patients
Though he wouldn’t comment on the recent death of a young Jehovah’s Witness, Quebec Health Minister Gaétan Barrette said Wednesday that he had witnessed the influence religious groups can have on...
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Break-in, sex assault reports at Université Laval rise to 15
QUEBEC — About 500 people gathered Wednesday evening outside the student residences of Université Laval in Quebec City to support victims of alleged sexual assaults last week. Quebec City police say...
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'There will be no forced marriage,' Barrette says of MUHC merger
Two of Montreal’s most powerful health-care leaders laid out competing visions Wednesday night of leading the McGill University Health Centre in a massive reorganization that would involve merging the...
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Police asking home-share landlords to take preventative measures
Montreal police and city officials are warning landlords to be vigilant about renting apartments to home-sharing tenants through the Internet. Police issued a statement Thursday about the increase in...
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City gets OK to appeal suspension of pit-bull ban
The city of Montreal will be allowed to appeal a Quebec Superior Court decision to suspend its pit-bull ban. For now, though, elements of the bylaw pertaining to pit-bull-type dogs remain suspended....
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Montreal blue collars condemned for contempt of court
Montreal’s blue-collar union has been ruled in contempt of court for staging a one-day illegal strike Dec. 8., despite a formal injunction issued by the court the previous day. Along with four of its...
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