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Dany Villanueva, 10 others arrested in drug raid
Montreal police arrested 11 people in a drug raid Thursday afternoon, including Dany Villanueva, brother of the teenager fatally shot by a police officer in a Montreal North park in 2008. A Montreal...
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Jean Lapierre's family issues statement thanking people for their support
Jean Lapierre’s family has broken its silence over the tragic events they have lived through this week in a touching message of thanks to everyone for their support. “It is impossible to imagine all...
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NDP's relevance as big a question mark as Mulcair's leadership
A week from today delegates from the NDP will get together in Edmonton to decide whether party leader Tom Mulcair gets to keep his job. And it’s entirely possible that a week from this Sunday Mulcair...
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Beyond grief: Innu community forges new path
This is the final part in our series on Uashat and Maliotenam, sister Innu communities near Sept-Îles where five people took their lives in the span of nine months last year. Despite great pain,...
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SNC-led consortium sues Quebec and MUHC for cost overruns
A private consortium is suing the Quebec government and the McGill University Health Centre for $330 million, claiming that it had to carry out extra work to complete the $1.3-billion superhospital on...
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Quebec won't foot entire bill for Angélil's funeral
The Quebec government won’t be footing the entire bill for the larger-than-life funeral for Céline Dion’s husband René Angélil because it was too expensive. Quebec had suggested to host a national...
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Second Draft: Somewhere near Côte des Neige Rd. lies an ex-soldier
In April 1779, The Gazette noted the death of one Capitaine Mackaye, spelled as such. The obituary – the newspaper was in French in those days – described him as “bon Soldat, bon Citoyen, bon Pere, bon...
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Montreal police-fired rubber bullet lands suspect in intensive care
One of the suspects targeted by a Montreal North drug raid is clinging to life in an intensive care unit after police shot him with a foam-coated bullet. Around 4 p.m. Thursday, Montreal’s SWAT team...
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Harnessing the power of the social economy in Montreal
The social economy is the community kitchen like Le Chic Resto Pop in Mercier–Hochelaga-Maisonneuve that hires the addicted, the mentally ill and the disenfranchised in order to teach them job skills...
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Water main repairs begin on Marcel Laurin near Décarie Expressway
There could be seven months of traffic headaches in a busy area of St-Laurent. Crews will rebuild water mains and storm sewers on Marcel-Laurin Blvd. between St-Louis St. and the access to the Décarie...
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Second suspect charged in Lacordaire Blvd. homicide
A 25-year-old man has been charged in Quebec Court Friday with first degree murder and attempted murder in relation to Montreal’s 19th homicide of 2015. Kevin Desprez is the second suspect to be...
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Ethics commissioner to investigate allegations against Sam Hamad
Pressure is mounting for Quebec Premier Philippe Couillard to remove Treasury Board President Sam Hamad from his cabinet following revelations made in Radio-Canada’s investigative program Enquête....
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Radio Shalom, a voice for Montreal's Jewish community, turned over to...
Radio Shalom, Canada’s only radio station devoted specifically to the Jewish community, signed off on Friday evening for the last time. Owner Robert Lévy, who for months has been trying to find...
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Pedestrian struck by car in Ville-Marie
A pedestrian is in critical condition after being struck by a car early Saturday morning in the Ville-Marie borough. Around 3:15 a.m., Montreal police received a 911 call that a pedestrian had been...
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Toronto and Montreal sign 'historic' cooperation agreement
The cities of Montreal and Toronto will sign a new partnership agreement Saturday. In a press release, the mayor’s office said the agreement covers information sharing and cooperation in governance,...
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Hamad out of Quebec cabinet in wake of influence-peddling allegations
Treasury Board President Sam Hamad is stepping down from the Quebec cabinet in the wake of a report Thursday night by Radio-Canada’s investigative program Enquête. Premier Philippe Couillard made the...
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Canada's Duhamel and Radford win gold at world figure skating championships
BOSTON — Canada’s Meagan Duhamel and Eric Radford successfully defended their pairs title at the world figure skating championships on Saturday. Skating a clean program to Adele’s “Hometown Glory,”...
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Lucy DeCoutere resigns from Trailer Park Boys after star denies assaulting woman
Lucy DeCoutere says she has resigned from the “Trailer Park Boys” only hours after one of its principal actors denied assaulting a woman in the U.S. DeCoutere, who co-stars in the show, testified...
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21-year-old-man seriously injured in car crash on Highway 30 in Brossard
A 21-year-old male driver has suffered serious injuries in an accident early Sunday morning on the South Shore of Montreal. Around 2:30 a.m., the man lost control of his vehicle driving on Highway 30...
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Los Angeles father charged with killing son for being gay
LOS ANGELES — A Los Angeles man charged with fatally shooting his 29-year-old son for being gay had repeatedly threatened to kill him over his sexual orientation, prosecutors say. Amir Issa, 29, was...
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