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Opposition calls for suspension of LED streetlights project
Opposition party Projet Montréal is calling on the city to suspend its $110-million project to replace 110,000 standard streetlights with LED lighting until the health risks and potential for light...
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Cops suspended for 'fraternizing' with tipsy women in patrol car
Two Montreal police officers caught with tipsy young women in their cruiser outside a bar have been suspended, almost two years after photos and a video of the incident went viral. One of the photos...
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City's contracts and upper management to come under scrutiny: inspector general
Montreal’s public contracts watchdog served notice Monday the city’s snow-clearing contractors and its multi-million dollar information-technology contracts will be coming under intense scrutiny in...
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Contrary to reports, fight not dead to save greenspace near airport
Concerned citizens and environmental activists will meet with a local MP and the Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency in Ottawa on Tuesday, asking for help protecting the trees at the former Dorval...
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Quebecers died in Ecuador earthquake when roof collapsed
Two members of a Quebec family were among those killed during a massive earthquake in Ecuador during the weekend, a relative confirmed Monday. Guy Laflamme told Montreal radio station 98.5 FM his...
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Man stabbed in Villeray park
A 21-year-old man was rushed to hospital Monday after being stabbed in an altercation at a park in Villeray borough around 6 p.m. Police responding to a 911 call found the man at the intersection of...
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Transport minister to visit site where overpass beam collapsed
Quebec’s transport minister will visit a construction site in Berthierville on Monday to find out why a 70-metre beam collapsed and fell into a river shortly after being installed last week. The...
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Octogenarian killed in head-on collision in Eastern Townships
A woman in her eighties was killed in a head-on collision in Westbury, in the Eastern Townships on Monday afternoon. The accident occurred on Highway 112 around 4 p.m. According to witnesses, a car,...
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Police searching for missing teenager in Montreal North
Montreal police are seeking the public’s help in locating Anna Rose Nicolas, 17, who went missing Monday morning. Nicolas is 5-foot-4, weighs about 150 pounds and has braided hair and brown eyes....
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A dedicated young volunteer inspires others to get involved in philanthropy...
“When you bring people together for a cause, you can do anything,” Olivia Monton told an auditorium full of Grade 10 students at Macdonald High School this month. She said it with a warm smile – and...
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PQ MNA must apologize for 'outrageous demagogy': Thériault
QUEBEC — The war of words that’s still raging between some female politicians at the National Assembly is distracting Quebecers from the real issue, which is that austerity measures are hurting women,...
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Car-share company Communauto expands Quebec operations
The growing reach of car-sharing in Quebec got another boost Tuesday when Communauto, North America’s oldest car-sharing company, announced that more than 500 new hybrid and electric cars will be added...
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West Island band poised to play All Through the Night
By the time the Day Dreamers entered FLIP Studios to begin recording their debut album on Boxing Day, the songs were already nestled comfortably in their DNA. Almost three weeks later, the tunes were...
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Nguyen's Two Lovers and a Bear makes Cannes' Directors Fortnight lineup
CANNES, France — Two Canadian directors – Montrealer Kim Nguyen and Toronto’s Nathan Morlando – will be showing their films at Cannes next month. Nguyen’s Two Lovers and a Bear and Morlando’s Mean...
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Montreal manholes to get a beauty treatment
“A city that finds beauty in small things will be sure to show a concern for beauty in big things,” city councillor Guillaume Lavoie said last week during Projet Montréal’s pitch for more creative...
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City department head fired for trying to rig bid
The city of Montreal department head who tried to skew a city contract so a friend’s firm would win it has been fired. Montreal Mayor Denis Coderre confirmed Tuesday morning with inspector general...
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Overflow of patients at JGH forces sharing of single rooms
After trumpeting the benefits of its gleaming new Pavilion K for its single-patient rooms, the Jewish General Hospital was forced to double up some patients in those rooms last week because of an...
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City vows to drop Alexis Carrel from street name soon
The City of Montreal intends to rename Alexis Carrel Ave. in the north end, because the French surgeon and Nobel Prize winner whose name it bears actually was a Nazi sympathizer. David Birnbaum, the...
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Karla Homolka resurfaces in Châteauguay, causing angst at her kids' school
“She could go to the end of the earth and still have someone recognize her,” the mother of slain schoolgirl Kristen French once said of Karla Homolka, the woman implicated in her daughter’s murder....
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Special-needs students are putting strain on teachers, study says
The integration of special-needs students into regular classrooms is taking a toll on teachers, according to a new study commissioned by the teachers’ group Fédération autonome de l’enseignement and...
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