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While you were sleeping: The pope’s regrets, a too-skinny Christmas tree, the...
Here’s our roundup of the best and brightest stories this morning. No pontificating: Pope Francis won’t be visiting Montreal in 2017. Mayor Denis Coderre personally invited Francis during a meeting at...
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Luxury SUVs are the most stolen vehicles in Quebec
The Toyota 4Runner received a dubious honour in Quebec Tuesday: the truck topped the list of 10 most frequently stolen vehicles in the province this year. According to data released by the Insurance...
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Bill Tierney: A little bit of the Reconciliation story was told at John Abbott
How will Reconciliation with our First Nations take place? What is supposed to happen next? Is there anything we can do about it? The evolution of the Canadian story of Reconciliation with our First...
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'We're still waiting for change' 27 years after Polytechnique massacre
It has been 27 years since the Polytechnique massacre, but for Heidi Rathjen and other gun control activists, time appears to be moving backward. Rathjen was holed up in a classroom on Dec. 6, 1989,...
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Laurent Lessard cleared in lobbying investigation
Quebec’s lobbying commissioner has cleared Transport Minister Laurent Lessard and his friend Yvon Nadeau of any charges they violated the provincial ethics and lobbying law. In a statement released...
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Union militant Bernard 'Rambo' Gauthier launches a political party
QUEBEC — North shore union organizer Bernard “Rambo” Gauthier is going into politics, promising to make life miserable for the province’s elites and establishment and to stand up for the little guy....
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Polytechnique massacre remembered by staff, students: 'Still incomprehensible'
Most students at École Polytechnique were not born when a gunman named Marc Lépine rampaged through their school 27 years ago and killed 14 women. But the anniversary of the shooting still has meaning...
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Montreal's pileup garners international attention
Related Video showing cars, buses and a truck sliding downhill in downtown Montreal goes viral From Australia to England to early-morning and late-night U.S talk shows, Monday morning’s pileup of...
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Doctor found dead at Ste-Justine Hospital
Ste-Justine Hospital confirmed on Tuesday the death of one of its pediatricians, Alain Sirard, a doctor who was under investigation by the Quebec College of Physicians. “We have lost a great defender...
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Suspect in Montreal crime spree facing murder charges
Frédérick Gingras is facing two first-degree murder charges in connection with the Sunday night crime spree that left two dead and wounded a third person in east-end Montreal. The suspect, 21, will...
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Greenhouse-gas emissions waning in Montreal; down 25% since 1990
The city of Montreal announced Wednesday it has reduced its greenhouse gas emissions by 25 per cent between 1990 and 2013. An inventory of emissions sources presented Wednesday morning showed the city...
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It's about to get cold(er) in Montreal
Are you ready to enter the negative double digits? Montreal is expected its first cold dip of the season Friday and Saturday as temperatures plunge below -10C. Weather pros anticipate sun for both days...
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Opinion: A Montreal nurse and mother's plea for help
In my 12 years as a nurse, I have never seen so many colleagues go on sick leave as in the last few months. When I found out this week that another colleague was leaving because of burnout, I felt sad...
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Mohawk chief accepts minister's apology, vows to keep fighting pipelines
In the end, all it took was a simple phone call and apology to diffuse a war of words between a Quebec Mohawk chief and Canada’s natural resources minister. Minister Jim Carr reached out to Chief Serge...
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PQ demands public inquiry into Pointe-aux-Trembles crime spree
The Parti Québécois wants to see a public coroner’s inquest into the double homicide and carjackings that rocked Montreal’s east-end Sunday. Just as 21-year-old Frédérick Gingras was being formally...
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Make Quebec traffic safety signs bilingual or use pictograms: petition
A petition launched on the National Assembly’s website, initiated by Côte-St-Luc city councillor Ruth Kovac, is asking the provincial government to make all traffic signs and electronic alerts dealing...
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Quebec justice minister wants to add judges to help clear backlog
Justice Minister Stéphanie Vallée tabled a bill Wednesday that would increase the number of judges in Quebec courts. If passed, the bill would boost the number of magistrates in the Court of Appeal...
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Palma found guilty of second-degree murder of Pamela Jean
A jury that had been deliberating for more than two days has found Juan Fermin Palma guilty of the second-degree murder of Pamela Jean. Jean disappeared on Dec. 30, 2012 and her body was found less...
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Côte-des-Neiges-N.D.G. defends limited holiday library hours
Côte-des-Neiges-Notre-Dame-de-Grâce, home to Montreal’s newest library, will be the worst boroughs in which to borrow a book this holiday season. The borough’s libraries, criticized in the past for...
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Montreal police looking for missing 70-year-old
Police are looking for an elderly, vulnerable man who wandered away from his Montreal seniors home Wednesday night. Hacene Saad, 70, was last seen near the corner of Papineau Ave. and Ste-Catherine St....
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