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Agent 728, City of Montreal asked to pay $40,000 for racial profiling
After investigating his complaint that he was roughed up and taken on a “starlight tour” by notorious Agent 728 back in 2012, the Quebec Human Rights Commission has awarded McGill lecturer Julian...
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16-year-old charged with attempted murder after Villeray stabbing
A 16-year-old was charged with attempted murder Thursday morning in connection with the stabbing attack of a teenager that occurred at the corner of St-Laurent Blvd. and Jarry St. Wednesday in...
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Quebec $60-million jackpot winners have eyes on travel, new cars
Twenty-eight smiling winners, almost all members of the same extended family from the Montérégie region, filed into a news conference at a downtown Montreal hotel Thursday to claim the largest jackpot...
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Charges dropped against Longueuil cops
Nearly four years after being charged with criminal offences in the wake of an internal investigation by Montreal’s police department, two Longueuil police officers have seen all charges against them...
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Premier needs to be better salesman abroad: opposition
QUEBEC — Premier Philippe Couillard is flying to Davos, Switzerland, Tuesday to attend a prestigious economic forum alongside the world’s elite, an event Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has chosen to...
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'Godfather of Grass' will remain in Montreal a little longer
The U.S. fugitive who was once considered America’s most prolific marijuana producer will remain in Montreal a little while longer after requesting a hearing to have him removed from Canada be delayed...
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Guilty pleas, dropped charges in Mascouche corruption case
JOLIETTE Five years after a vast anti-corruption investigation led to the arrests of a dozen municipal officials and civil servants in Mascouche, the case started coming to a close on Friday, with...
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Construction woes: Bishop St. to be torn up until 2020
Elio Schiavi has an acute sense of the construction blitz going on in Montreal and he’s worried what it will mean for his restaurant, a fixture downtown for the last 36 years. For the next 39 months,...
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Lisée confident PQ will support less strident approach on language
QUEBEC — The leader of the Parti Québécois says he’s convinced the party will follow his lead and rally to a more moderate approach to the language issue. “Times they are a changing,” Jean-François...
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How Boone's vast pot network became the Cornbread Mafia
John Robert Boone’s steadfast insistence on remaining silent while in custody in Montreal should come as little surprise to anyone who read a book published five years ago that explains how the group...
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Aboriginal public inquiry names chief prosecutor
VAL-D’OR – Christian Leblanc, a lawyer who has previously worked with Cree and Inuit communities, has been named chief prosecutor of the Quebec Commission of Inquiry on Aboriginal Relations. Jacques...
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Montreal's 'urban rodeo' draws ire of SPCA, opposition
The SPCA contends it’s an event that forces “useless stress” on the animals that must perform in it, the promoters counter that those animals are well treated and represent a rich part of our cultural...
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Montreal reaches the dead of winter on Jan. 21, climatologist says
It’s the dead of winter and — despite how ominous that might sound —the country’s top climatologist says that’s actually a good thing. “I always think that should be a national holiday for people who...
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Report on suicide crisis in Innu communities to be unveiled Saturday
Quebec coroner Bernard Lefrançois will present the findings Saturday of his inquest into the five suicides that rocked the Uashat-Maliotenam Innu communities in 2015. Lefrançois wrote his report after...
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Woman killed in Saint-Lin-Laurentides; witnesses sought
The Sûreté du Québec is investigating the slaying of a 24-year-old woman found dead on Friday night in a residence in Saint-Lin-Laurentides in the Lanaudière. The body of Mylène Laliberté was...
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Clearing snow from roof can be dangerous: CSST
Quebec’s workers’ compensation board warns that temperature swings in recent days have made rooftops icy or snowy. Taking the snow off your roof is extremely risky at this time of year, it warned....
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McGill course covers UFOs, alien abductions extraterrestrials
A retired McGill professor is convinced we have been visited by UFOs and extraterrestrial life forms. In fact, Don Donderi knows people who claim to have been abducted by aliens from outer space....
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Three charged after copper plates thrown from moving train and stolen: police
Police say three men are facing charges after 26 copper plates valued at more than $10,000 were thrown off a moving train and stolen. Toronto police say the incident happened Thursday evening, when it...
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Kilted skaters celebrate Sir John A's birthday at Old Port rink
More than a hundred people turned out to commemorate the 202nd birthday of Canada’s first prime minister, Sir John A. Macdonald, at the Natrel skating rink in Old Montreal on Saturday afternoon....
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Aboriginal suicides stem from 'ancient apartheid system': coroner
The five suicides that occurred within a nine-month period in 2015 in a small indigenous community in northern Quebec were avoidable and fundamentally the result of Canada’s “ancient apartheid system,”...
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