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Authorities urge people to stay home due to freezing rain
The Sûreté du Québec is urging drivers in the Montérégie, Greater Montreal area and in the Eastern Townships to remain off the roads because freezing rain has already been the cause of over a hundred...
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Man in critical condition after being stabbed in chest in east end Montreal
Montreal police found a 37-year-old man stabbed in the chest in the city’s east end in what they suspect was a drug-related attack. Police received a call at 8 p.m. Monday reporting a stabbing at...
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Montreal this morning: Maybe snowy, definitely windy
Those going out to look for more post-Christmas bargains and sales may want to bring hats, mittens and scarves — mostly because of the wind. Environment Canada calls for a cloudy day with a 60 per cent...
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Montreal Gazette Christmas Fund 2016: Leg woes limit Tina's mobility
Even putting on socks in the morning is a challenge for Tina, 68. After a life of helping others, she needs some help herself — but she doesn’t want to burden her children. “Unfortunately, most of the...
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Commuters bemoan parking crunch at AMT stations
Every day, Kimberly Brown’s morning commute to work involves a prayer — for a parking space near her train station. “After I drop off my daughter at daycare, I say a prayer as I drive down St-Charles...
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The year in business: Sorry seems to be the fitting word
Sorry. That word, above all others, seemed to capture the spirit of 2016 on the business beat in Montreal. Tourisme Montreal used it in a “friendly and cheeky” way in an ad campaign to confuse — sorry,...
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The year in Montreal politics: The bans, the trials, the never-ending...
It was a tumultuous year on the municipal scene, with bans on everything from plastic bags and calèches to pit bulls, preparations for Montreal’s 375th anniversary in full controversial swing, three...
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Planned mass in Italy for reputed Montreal mobster is scrapped after outcry
Rocco Sollecito, a reputed Mafia leader in Montreal who was murdered last May, was denied a public commemoration mass in Italy on Tuesday due to his infamy. An archbishop and a local police chief...
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Number of fractures, sprains quadruples because of icy sidewalks
Doctors at the McGill University Health Centre treated four times the average number of fractures and sprains on Tuesday as a result of people falling on icy sidewalks and streets. On a typical winter...
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Machete-wielding man shot dead by police after chase in Quebec City
The Bureau des enquêtes indépendantes will investigate circumstances surrounding the death of a 39-year-old man in the Quebec City area early on Dec. 27, following a high-speed police chase that...
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Former McGill Athletics coach and administrator Harry Zarins has died
McGill Athletics & Recreation has announced the death of Harry Zarins, the former executive director of the Brain Injury Association of Canada and a former coach and administrator at the...
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Montreal this morning: Clouds moving in for snowy days ahead
It’s going to be cooling down a little bit on Wednesday. Expect a cloudy morning making way for a mix of sun and cloud with temperatures hovering around -7C. Cloudiness should increase overnight as...
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Montreal Gazette Christmas Fund 2016: Husband's stroke jolted Sarah's life
It was an early fall morning when Sarah’s husband suddenly collapsed inside their Laval home. It’s a day that Sarah can recollect in perfect detail and one she wishes never happened at all. “I didn’t...
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Drug lab packaging fentanyl raided in Eastern Townships
For the first time in Quebec, police have raided an illegal drug lab that was producing fentanyl capsules. The lab was raided in the Eastern Townships municipality of Potton last Friday, where police...
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Union prepares for legal battle ahead of pension cuts
A union leader representing 17,000 retired municipal workers said Wednesday he’s prepared to take the city of Montreal to court over pension cuts set to begin on Jan. 1. As of next year, thousands of...
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Greenhouse to be restored with historical character in mind, Westmount says
When the city of Westmount restored its public library in 1995, it faced the challenging task of modernizing the building while respecting its historical look and feel. To do so, it pored over...
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Montreal looks to refrigeration to save outdoor rinks
As a warming planet inexorably shrinks Montreal’s outdoor skating season, the city is looking to the example set by Toronto and its dozens of refrigerated rinks to extend the life expectancy of an...
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Quebec won't appeal rejection of evidence obtained through photo radar
The Crown won’t appeal a Quebec court decision that rejected evidence obtained from a photo radar machine. One month after a woman was spared from having to pay a $1,160 speeding ticket issued from...
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Quebec to get heavy snowfall on Thursday
Environment Canada is projecting that areas east of Quebec City, including the Gaspé and Lower North Shore, could get as much as 30 centimetres of snow on Thursday, along with strong winds of 50-80...
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Montreal Gazette Christmas Fund 2016: Elsa unlucky with health
On Christmas Eve, Elsa’s family filled her home for a potluck dinner. “I’m excited to see my parents and the rest of my close family. They’re great. “I am very lucky to have them,” she said —...
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