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Contrecoeur trial expected to begin — for real
The Contrecoeur fraud trial is expected to hear opening arguments and from its first witnesses at the Montreal courthouse as of Friday — a year after the trial began. Quebec Court judge Yvan Poulin,...
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HMV customer left holding worthless client card
As HMV stores across Canada hold going-out-of business sales to liquidate stock, loyal clients might be disappointed to learn their reward cards will not be honoured. HMV went into receivership Jan....
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Quebec must be bilingual on world stage: Lisée
Quebec must speak to the world in French and English, Parti Québécois leader Jean-François Lisée said Wednesday. The PQ leader’s comments follow a statement by Quebec Premier Philippe Couillard in both...
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Weekend traffic: Fewer lane closures than usual
Motorists can expect lighter traffic this weekend with fewer lane closures scheduled across the city. The only lane closure Transport Quebec has issued a warning about is the Highway 15 southbound...
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Many of the kids affected by mosque shooting back in school: board
QUEBEC — Many of the children whose fathers died or were wounded in last week’s mosque shooting have returned to class, says a psychologist with a Quebec City school board. In one board alone, eight...
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Montreal mosque vandalized Thursday morning
Before he could join thousands of others on Thursday to mourn victims of the Quebec City mosque shooting, Fazle Elahi Ahmad received troubling news of something he never expected to happen. Early...
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Kirkland's Antonio Padula, facing hate charges, has been released on bail
A Kirkland man charged with public incitement of hatred against Muslims and uttering threats online just days after the fatal shooting at a Quebec mosque was released on bail Thursday afternoon....
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Allison Hanes: We need to be concerned about casual hate
Three days after a gunman sprayed bullets into their mosque, members of the Centre Culturel Islamique de Québec invited journalists inside to document the aftermath of the carnage. Bullet holes riddled...
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Quebec mosque shootings: 'No words to describe the sadness in those homes'
QUEBEC — Manon Labrecque stops mopping the lobby of her apartment building long enough to show a reporter the memorial she’s erected near the entrance for her neighbours, Mamadou Tanou Barry and...
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Driver sought by Sûreté du Québec after fatal crash in St-Esprit
Quebec provincial police are seeking the driver of a white Subaru Impreza WRX or STI in the wake of an accident Friday morning that left one man dead. Sûreté du Québec spokesperson Daniel Thibodeau...
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Traffic accident paralyzes stretch of Metropolitan expressway
A westbound section of the Metropolitan expressway in Anjou was closed to traffic Friday afternoon after a truck smashed a pole holding up a traffic sign, a Transport Quebec official said. The accident...
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Quebec backs down on farm tax credit reform
The Couillard government is backing down on a proposal to reform its tax credit program for farmland after farmers threatened to block snowmobile trails starting Monday. In a press briefing Friday...
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No evidence who killed Darius Brown, lawyer says at bail hearing
A Youth Court Judge will decide in mid-February whether or not the teen accused of murdering 17-year-old Darius Brown in Côte-St-Luc last November should be released on bail. A publication ban has...
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Solidarity rally planned at vandalized Pointe-St-Charles mosque
More than 100 people attended a rally Friday at a Montreal mosque that had been vandalized the same day a funeral was held at Maurice Richard Arena for three of the men killed in the Quebec City mosque...
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Quebec City funeral: Sympathy for the suspect, hope for the future
QUEBEC — Six dead men. Six widows. Seventeen fatherless children. Five people in hospital. But “there is one victim none of us want to talk about,” Imam Hussein Guillet told the several thousand people...
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Bookmaking case against Montreal police officer tossed out
A Montreal police officer who was charged with illegal bookmaking two years ago only to have the case tossed out this week says his career was destroyed by lies. “I am ashamed of the way (police)...
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5 things to do in Montreal this weekend: Feb. 3-5, 2017
Here are five things to check out in Montreal: 1. Les Canadiennes’s annual “Pink in the Rink” game takes place on Saturday at 3:45 p.m. The women’s hockey team will host the Toronto Furies at the Bell...
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Quebec police keeping a close watch on cyber crime
Quebec City police arrested a 20-year-old man for allegedly posting hateful comments online Thursday night. Samuel Huot was formally accused of public incitement of hatred at the Quebec City...
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Trump travel order prompts Canada to scramble over report of revoked Nexus cards
OTTAWA — The Liberal government is trying to ensure Canadian dual-nationals can still use their Nexus trusted-traveller cards at the border following word the cards have been revoked, Public Safety...
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ICYMI: The Montreal Gazette's Top Five stories of the week, Jan. 29-Feb. 4
No time to sit down for the news? Here are the top five local stories our readers were digesting: 1. Shooting at a mosque in Quebec City leaves six people dead Six people have been killed and eight...
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