Man arrested following road rage incident in Pointe-Claire
A 24-year-old West Island man has been charged with mischief following a road rage incident involving the 201 bus in Pointe-Claire. The incident took place on Oct. 7 at about 9:35 p.m. over a...
View ArticleMan missing from Pierrefonds home since August
Police and the mother of Patrick Jones are asking for help in finding the West Island man who was last seen in mid-August. Jones, 47, lives with his mother. He left their Pierrefonds home on Aug. 15...
View ArticleLevel crossing in Beaconsfield closed October 21
The level rail crossing at Woodland Avenue and Highway 20 in Beaconsfield will be closed Tuesday (Oct. 21) from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. for maintenance work. CN’s Signals and Communications Group will be...
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'Mr. Premier, don't let them down'
Former Quebec premier Pauline Marois has emerged from private life to defend a cause dear to her heart. Marois has been recruited by a labour union to make a video pitch in favour of the public daycare...
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Bixi offers early bird discounts, announces new sponsor
Bixi-Montreal, the city’s bike-sharing service, recorded a 91 per cent increase in the number of occasional riders last year and is offering discounts this season on memberships purchased before April...
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Annual demonstration against police brutality planned for Tuesday night
The Collective Opposed to Police Brutality (COBP) and other organizations are inviting the public to join Tuesday night’s anti-police-brutality demonstration to see that police are at the core of the...
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Order to pay SQ advisor out of secret fund came from the top, Audette trial...
An order to continue paying a consultant to the Sûreté du Québec, even if it violated provincial rules, came straight from the top of the provincial police force, a Quebec Court judge was told on...
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Terry O'Shaughenssy: Not every health-care story is a horror
So many media stories from the health-care world are terrible. They either reveal disasters about how something pretty important didn’t work out. Or, at the very least, are about how someone waited...
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MUHC superhospital to close beds on 'seasonal' basis to deal with budget cuts
There’s no way to sugarcoat it, a top MUHC official warned staff in an internal letter sent in February: For the McGill University Health Centre to meet its 2015-2016 budget more beds will have to...
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Montreal this morning: Another wet one
More of yesterday’s weather today, with drizzle ending in the morning. Today’s high: 9. Tonight, expect cloudy conditions with a 60-per-cent chance of showers and a low of plus 4. Coming up today: The...
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Two home invasions 35 minutes apart in Lachine and LaSalle
Montreal police are trying to solve two home invasions that occurred 35 minutes apart early Tuesday morning in the southwest of Montreal. The first incident occurred around 1 a.m. when a call was made...
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Governments, budgets and the art of betting other people's money
The only thing worse than getting cleaned out in a poker game is sitting at the table afterwards and watching other people play with the cash you lost. This lesson was driven home to me many, many...
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Bill Tierney: Everyone can be Irish for a day, but real history runs deep
The backhoes are out on the street breaking up the ice, freeing up the drains. There’s a huge pile of filthy, sloppy snow right in front of my window, vanishing. This must be the big meltdown. On CBC...
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Laval youth centre followed protocol, minister says
QUEBEC — Parents of runaway teens who attend the Centre jeunesse de Laval said Tuesday they are bitterly disappointed with an independent report’s finding that the youth home has always followed proper...
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2016 St. Patrick's parade to promote drinking in moderation
Call it a sign of the times, but there will be a new float in this year’s St. Patrick’s parade promoting responsible drinking without being killjoys. The float is the latest effort by Éduc’alcool, a...
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Analysis: Leitão faces daunting task with budget in new political context
QUEBEC — When you get to this stage in the war on the deficit, meaning you believe you have actually slain the evil beast, you run into a whole other political hornet’s nest. It’s called trying to...
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Montreal police brutality protest ends peacefully
Montreal’s annual protest against perceived police brutality went off without a hitch Tuesday night after a few hundred demonstrators, including some wearing masks and singing anti-police chants,...
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Financial reports don’t show how Lakeshore General spends ballooning parking...
If the Lakeshore General Hospital’s ballooning profits from parking fees are going anywhere else than to maintaining its parking lot, the West Island health authority’s financial records don’t show it....
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For NDP's Mulcair, "Orange Crush" has taken on a grim new meaning
“Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.” – Ian Fleming Tom Mulcair doesn’t come across as the kind of person who’d spend much time looking over his shoulder – even if...
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Negotiations between St-Lazare and arena shift gears
St-Lazare Mayor Robert Grimaudo said the city cannot justify subsidizing a private arena and sports complex by purchasing an excessive amounts of bulk hours which it partly resells to local hockey,...
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