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Montreal Gazette must wait to find out if police are monitoring its journalists
The Montreal Gazette is demanding the city’s police force come clean about whether it is spying on its reporters. Gazette city editor Louise Solomita sent an email addressed to Montreal police Chief...
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Analysis: Did Denis Coderre go too far in hunt for police leaks to the media?
Up for re-election in a year, Denis Coderre expected to be talking about his accomplishments right about now. Instead, Montreal’s mayor finds himself at the centre of a growing police-surveillance...
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Biking by light of the moon among winter activities for city's 375th...
Inner-city obstacle courses, biking by the light of the moon and a soapbox race down St-Denis St. are among the winter activities on offer for Montreal’s 375th anniversary celebrations announced...
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Barrette: 'In no way are there more accidents at Ste-Justine Hospital'
Health Minister Gaétan Barrette disputed comments by nurses on Monday that the number of medical incidents and accidents has tripled in the birthing centre at Ste-Justine Hospital as a result of budget...
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John Boulachanis wanted a witness 'roughed up,' murder trial hears
John Boulachanis was willing to pay $2,000 to have a key witness in his murder trial roughed up in an effort to prevent him from testifying, Boulachanis’s murder trial was told Monday. The allegation...
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Community groups decry underfunding by Quebec
QUEBEC — Community groups such as MultiCaf — Côte-des-Neiges’ community cafeteria — are denouncing government underfunding in a series of actions this week, which will culminate in eight protests...
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Suspect in Plateau-Mont-Royal assaults arraigned on 13 charges
A 26-year-old Montreal man was arraigned Monday in connection with the alleged assaults of three women last week in the Plateau-Mont-Royal borough. According to police, François Dulude attacked the...
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All charges against St. Clair Armitage in MUHC case have been dropped
All charges against St. Clair Armitage in relation to the alleged fraud in the awarding of the contract for the McGill University Health Centre superhospital have been dropped. Armitage, a British...
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Montreal police using "petty cash" for investigations
The Montreal police department has been paying thousands of dollars in expenses for “special investigations” from a fund it calls “petty cash” over the past two years, and the biggest and most frequent...
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Elbowing each other all the way, Trump, Clinton near finish line of U.S....
PHILADELPHIA — Closing out a wildly unpredictable White House race, Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump blitzed through battleground states Monday in a final bid to energize supporters. Clinton, backed by...
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Man who befriended Boulachanis testifies about jailhouse conversations
John Boulachanis admitted to having committed the murder he is on trial for through a series of conversations he had while behind bars, says a man who was detained with the accused for weeks. The most...
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CEGEPs to get an official Mental Health Day Nov. 9
The Federation of CEGEPs and the Mouvement Santé mentale Québec are joining forces to promote good mental health on college campuses in Quebec. The partnership is behind the newly created Mental Health...
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Terrebonne mayor Jean-Luc Robitaille resigns
Jean-Luc Robitaille resigned as mayor of Terrebonne on Tuesday, citing health reasons. Robitaille, who was mayor for almost 20 years, said his resignation is effective immediately. He asked that his...
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Coderre cancels inquiry into police surveillance
Two days after he announced Montreal inspector general Denis Gallant would hold an ad hoc “administrative review” into the police surveillance scandal enveloping the police force and city hall, Mayor...
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McGill to host panel discussion on journalism and police surveillance
The issue of police surveillance of journalists will be debated Thursday night at the McGill Faculty Club by a panel of lawyers and editors. Billed as “L’Affaire Lagacé: A Free Press in a Surveillance...
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Quebec Community Groups Network optimistic after private meeting with premier
QUEBEC — An hour-long meeting with the premier has allowed the Quebec Community Groups Network to dream big again. The private audience — a first since the group met with former premier Bernard Landry...
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Superbug infection rates plummet at MUHC superhospital
Finally, some good news has emerged from the superhospital of the McGill University Health Centre. After months of struggling with clogged sewage pipes and other glitches since opening in April 2015,...
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Pamela Jean had unstable relationship with boyfriend, mother testifies at...
There wasn’t anything out of the ordinary about the day Rosa Robinson saw her youngest daughter for the last time. Pamela Jean, 27, still lived at her parents’ home in Longueuil, along with her young...
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Montrealers nervously watching, hoping for a better American future
It wasn’t their election — in fact it wasn’t even their country. But for the women who gathered Tuesday night at a Nuns’ Island bistro to watch the results of an election that could propel the first...
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American Montrealers reflect on U.S. presidential election, immigration
Robert Vincent is not a political refugee. Vincent and his wife moved from Massachusetts to Quebec in 2002 after she was hired as a professor at McGill University. The country’s bruising politics had...
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