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Funeral held for pilot in Îles-de-la-Madeleine plane crash
A funeral is being held Saturday afternoon for one of two pilots in the plane crash that killed former federal cabinet minister Jean Lapierre and four other members of his family. The service for...
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Bruins collapse with playoffs on line, lose 6-1 to Senators
BOSTON — With Boston goalie Tuukka Rask out sick for the Bruins’ last-gasp run at a playoff berth, backup Jonas Gustavsson allowed four goals in the first half of the second period and the Ottawa...
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Few attend funeral for priest who was a serial sex offender
Only about a dozen people, gathered around John Edward Sullivan’s open casket Saturday afternoon in a small room on the second floor of the Magnus Poirier funeral complex on Sherbrooke St. E., near...
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Quebec law professors file appeal against monarchy law passed by Harper
The rules governing the ascension to the British throne are once again being challenged in Quebec. The province’s top court will hear the case of two law professors after Superior Court rejected their...
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Dear McGill: you should really have a sexual assault policy
The best day of Ariane Litalien’s life came about a year after her sexual assault in February 2013, while she was an undergraduate student at Harvard University. That was the day Litalien’s powerful...
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PQ blasts Liberals for not delivering improvements to Maisonneuve-Rosemont
Zero dollars. That is the amount the Philippe Couillard Liberals have allocated the last three years for desperately needed renovations to Hôpital Maisonneuve-Rosemont, according to two Parti Québécois...
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Squeaky Wheels: Can police enforce stop signs between corners?
Q: There is a stop sign plunk in the middle of Roslyn Ave., just north of Sunnyside Rd. where (Côte-des-Neiges and Westmount meet). There is no intersection at that spot. I’ve been informed by a friend...
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Monday Calendar: April 11-17
Monday, April 11 The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission begins three weeks of hearings into basic telecommunications policy. The Blue Metropolis literary festival begins, with...
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Chicoutimi prepares to vote in a byelection Monday
QUEBEC — A byelection in Chicoutimi on Monday could see the Parti Québécois solidify its presence north of Quebec City and send a message to the governing Liberals, currently muddled in allegations and...
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Bomb scare closes part off St-Laurent Blvd.
St-Laurent Blvd. between Pine Ave. and Napoléon St. was closed because of a bomb scare on Sunday afternoon. A worker renovating a building on St-Laurent Blvd. found what appeared to be sticks of...
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Window-washing crane falls downtown: 1 dead, 1 critically injured
A father and son team of window washers suffered a tragic accident Sunday morning as the crane supporting their basket tipped over, killing the father, who was crushed beneath the crane, and leaving...
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Collision in Yamaska leaves two dead, two seriously injured
Two people died and two others were fighting for their lives Sunday night after an accident iSunday afternoon in Yamaska in the Montérégie. The driver of a minivan on Highway 132 slammed into a car...
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Bill Young: Alex Hledin and the fine art of engine tuning
Too often in our search for brilliance, we look to distant horizons, forgetting that what we seek might well be sitting right in our own back yards. Hudson’s Alex Hledin is a case in point. Most know...
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Boshra: I'm back, and I could really use a nap
So, where were we? Oh, right: I started writing this column in November, and then promptly disappeared for a couple of months at the beginning of February. Look, I can explain. All the rumours (which,...
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Not all school board elections will be abolished: Quebec education minister
Education Minister Sébastien Proulx suggested on Monday that school board elections in one form or another will likely be maintained despite Quebec’s reform of school-board governance under Bill 86....
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Montreal seeks 6,000 volunteers to help throw its 375th birthday party
The organizers of Montreal’s 375th birthday celebrations put out a first call Monday for 6,000 volunteers to help with the party. The Society for the Celebration of Montreal’s 375th Anniversary is...
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Jacques Demers begins therapy after stroke: hospital
MONTREAL — Sen. Jacques Demers has begun therapy and his overall health is getting better after his stroke last week, hospital officials said Monday. “His overall medical condition is stable and...
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Montreal highrise window-washers: No special training required
They operate machinery and can work 40 or 50 storeys up in the air, but there are no specific training requirements and they get paid as maintenance people. That’s how industry veteran Jack Colati...
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400 contesting Lac-Mégantic settlement offers
About 400 people are contesting the amount of money they have received from the $460-million Lac-Mégantic settlement fund for victims and creditors of the 2013 rail disaster, the man overseeing the...
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Irish famine exhibit celebrates courage of Montreal's Grey Nuns
When no one wanted the starving Irish, Montreal’s Grey Nuns cared for the new immigrants, many of whom were stricken with typhus. Several of the nuns would die. As would the mayor of Montreal. A new...
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