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Five Things: Canada back in hunt for world junior glory
TORONTO — Canada is aiming to return to the top of the junior hockey heap on Boxing Day when it takes on Russia in preliminary round play at the world junior hockey championship. The Canadians lost to...
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'Humans before dogs,' Coderre says in year-end reflection
In a year-end interview Friday, Montreal Mayor Denis Coderre reflected on the events that marked 2016 and turned his attention to 2017 — when the city will celebrate its 375th anniversary. Coderre...
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Carrier’s ’The Hockey Sweater’ still captivates 70 years after winter of 1946
The last time Roch Carrier went skating was 15 years ago, when he fell and broke his kneecap trying out a new pair of blades. “My wife said: ‘Why are you wearing those old skates? They are terrible.’...
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Steve Downie goes on Twitter rant against Don Cherry, Coyotes
Former NHLer Steve Downie went on a lengthy Twitter rant on Friday night, taking aim at hockey commentator Don Cherry and the Arizona Coyotes organization. Downie, who played parts of eight seasons...
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Dutch study: Synthetic fields with rubber crumbs are safe
THE HAGUE, Netherlands — A Dutch government public health organization says it is safe to play soccer and other sports on artificial turf fields covered in rubber crumbs, following an investigation...
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Child dies after becoming ill on transatlantic Air Canada flight
SHANNON, Ireland — A 10-year-old girl died Saturday after falling ill aboard a transatlantic Air Canada flight. The airline says Toronto-to-London flight AC868 diverted to Shannon, Ireland, after the...
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Mission readies late Christmas gifts for mariners who spend holidays at sea
HALIFAX — Somewhere on the North Atlantic, there’s a small fleet of merchant ships headed for the port of Halifax, with crews that have spent Christmas Day at sea, far from their families. Rev. Maggie...
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Chelsea, Conte standing out as normality returns to EPL
MANCHESTER, England — In one sense, normality has returned to the English Premier League after the craziness of Leicester’s improbable surge to the title last season. The top six on Christmas Day are...
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Montreal winter-driving guide: How to avoid sliding, sliding … bang!
Noooo. My car is sliding, sliding, sliding, down, down, down the icy, snow-swept hill. The brakes are useless and turning the steering wheel doesn’t seem to … Bang! I hit a post by the side of the...
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Squeaky Wheels: D.D.O. has no plans to fix "intersection from hell"
Q: The intersection at Sources and De Salaberry Blvds. in Dollard-des-Ormeaux is poorly planned and unsafe for both pedestrians and cyclists. I call it the intersection from hell. There is no...
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Car driven by 83-year-old woman crushes son to death on Christmas Eve
Mont-Saint-Hilaire — What was to be a festive reveillon turned to tragedy in this off-island suburb in Quebec’s Montérégie region when a car driven by an 83-year-old woman backed into her 43-year-old...
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High-speed crash injures driver in Plateau-Mont-Royal
A 26-year-old motorist was seriously injured in an accident that occurred Saturday night in Plateau-Mont-Royal. According to witnesses, the man was travelling at high speed on D’Iberville St. when he...
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Quebec Liberals tried to shake Grinch image in 2016
QUEBEC — When it comes to significant political stories in 2016 it would be hard to beat the come-from-behind election victory of Jean-François Lisée as leader of the Parti Québécois. But as was the...
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Video: Holiday dinner for people in need
Emmanuelle Tassé of Le Refuge d’Hochelaga Maisonneuve and CAP Saint-Barnabe talk about their first afternoon turkey dinner for people in need in the neighbourhood of Hochelaga Maisonneuve in Montreal...
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Analysis: Premier Philippe Couillard vows to sell Liberals' record
QUEBEC CITY — Sitting in a cabinet in the back of Philippe Couillard’s office are a set of red boxing gloves. “These were presented to me by (former premier) Jean Charest as a potentially useful tool,...
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St-Jacques St. upholsterer stuck between a wall and no parking spaces
The wall is slowly closing in on Frank Berdah’s 40-year-old upholstery business. The wall is made of plywood, measuring six metres high by roughly 70 metres long, curving around the front of his shop....
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Premier admits he's been out of touch with anglophones
QUEBEC — Seeing former Parti Québécois leader Pierre Karl Péladeau go to bat to protect English school boards this year, and the screaming headlines that followed, was “horrible” and proof there’s been...
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Coalition Montréal leader Benoit Dorais quits party to sit as independent
Coalition Montréal, the upstart municipal party that first fielded candidates in the last municipal election, will not take part in next year’s election following the resignation of the party’s leader,...
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100 firefighters battle five-alarm blaze at Strøm Nordic Spa Mont-St-Hilaire
About 100 firefighters from fire departments in as many as 10 neighbouring municipalities were called to the scene of a raging five-alarm blaze on Boxing Day morning at a spa in Mont-St-Hilaire in the...
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Watch: People are skating on Montreal streets after freezing rain
Forget reaching for your boots if you’re heading outside and put on a pair of ice skates. Some people are taking advantage of the layer of ice left behind by the freezing rain that covered Montreal...
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