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Matthew Schreindorfer takes it one day at a time
Matthew Schreindorfer, who famously raised nearly a million dollars in a matter of days to pay for experimental treatment for a rare blood cancer offered in New York two years ago, is fighting to stay...
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Letting sleeping watchdogs lie?
Four government watchdogs are being tamed, critics contend, with the provincial government neglecting to appoint people to key positions for weeks, months or even years at a time. Currently missing are...
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Star Midget AAA goalie bears striking resemblance to idol Carey Price
Devon Levi is approached by total strangers in restaurants who say his resemblance to super-star Montreal Canadiens goalie Carey Price is uncanny. What the strangers don’t realize is that the...
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Three safe-injection sites approved for Montreal
Health Canada has given Montreal approval to open three supervised drug injection sites, making it only the second city in the country to have the facilities on its territory. Canada’s health ministry...
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Culver remained loyal to Montreal after rise of Parti Québécois
David Culver, a Montreal business leader credited with spearheading the Maison Alcan project, died at his home in Westmount early Monday. He was 92. David Michael Culver was born Dec. 5, 1924, in...
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Suspect in over 50 robberies in Montreal area arrested
Montreal police have arrested a man they say was involved in more than 50 robberies in Montreal and Longueuil. At 5:40 a.m. Sunday, Samuel Duval was apprehended while allegedly attempting to rob a...
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Plateau-Mont-Royal pushing for lower speed limits
The Plateau-Mont-Royal borough is asking Quebec’s transport ministry to allow it to lower its speed limits to 40 kilometres an hour on all its main thoroughfares and 30 kilometres an hour on main...
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Opinion: REM electric train: A Montreal of the possible
Montreal is on the move. There’s Lightspeed, whose software helps 40,000 businesses across the world manage their sales. Hopper, whose successful use of big data predicts the best time to buy a plane...
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Crown calls for assessment of teen accused in murder plot
ST-HYACINTHE — The case against two teenagers charged with planning the rape and murder of some of their high school classmates has been delayed again after the Crown asked for a professional...
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Quebec school board wants 'vigilance' when bus drivers listen to talk radio
MONTREAL — A Quebec City school board stepped back Tuesday from an earlier decision to prohibit bus drivers from listening to the city’s contentious talk radio stations on the job. In a statement, the...
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Quebec health ministry on hiring blitz for new managers after job cuts
Nearly two years after setting out to abolish 1,300 administrative positions in the health network to cut costs, the Quebec government is now on a hiring blitz to recruit new managers, according to the...
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Tamara Thermitus named head of Quebec Human Rights Commission
QUEBEC — Haitian-born anti-discrimination lawyer Tamara Thermitus has been named head of the Quebec Human Rights Commission. She received the unanimous support of members of the National Assembly. Her...
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Couillard cool to CAQ-PQ compromises on religious symbols
QUEBEC — They were all on their best behaviour but remain miles apart on the heart of the matter. On a day where the National Assembly resumed sitting with a tribute to those slain in last week’s...
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Victor Schukov: hospitals lack hospitality
Remember when you were a kid and you got a cold and your mother would swaddle you with warm blankets and serve you chicken soup? She gave you a lot of things but the main ingredient of the healing...
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Strength in numbers: Quebec mental health groups join forces to help youth
Television and radio show host Stéphane Bellavance says he’s lucky his family is doing well, but should something go amiss, he would love for his boys to have a door to knock on, a door like Fondation...
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Montreal would lose provincial riding in electoral map reform
QUEBEC — The Island of Montreal would lose a riding in proposed changes to the province’s electoral map, and the MNA for that riding is ripping mad. Sainte-Marie-Saint-Jacques MNA Manon Massé said she...
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Montreal police seek suspect after woman shot at Tabagie Frontenac
Police are searching for a male suspect in his 40s after the owner of a dépanneur was shot Tuesday afternoon during a botched robbery attempt at an indoor mall in the east end of Montreal. Police said...
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Parti Québécois unveils plan to better integrate immigrants
Citing Quebec’s “heightened awareness” in the wake of the Jan. 29 attack on a Quebec City mosque, Parti Québécois leader Jean-François Lisée unveiled on Monday a series of measures aimed at improving...
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Projet Montréal calls for end to police manager bonuses for tickets
The city of Montreal is being urged to abolish performance bonuses paid to police department managers whose officers meet quotas for issuing traffic tickets. Projet Montréal, the official opposition...
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Manon Massé gets support from PQ, CAQ for her fight to save riding
QUEBEC — Manon Massé picked up some high-profile support Wednesday in her quest to save her riding of Sainte-Marie-Saint-Jacques from being wiped off the electoral map. One day after learning the...
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