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Condo project gets green light in Beaconsfield
Beaconsfield has approved plans for a new condominium development at the former site of a fitness club at the corner of Elm Ave. and Alton Drive, just northeast of the Highway 20-St-Charles...
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Municipal building upgrades continue in St-Lazare
St-Lazare has demolished its old municipal garage after accepting a $38,000 bid from Panzini Démolition Inc. last month. The old structure was no longer needed since St-Lazare’s new municipal garage...
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Vaudreuil residents still waiting for solution to water woes
Vaudreuil-Dorion residents in the Hudson Acres sector are wondering when the city will deliver on a new waterworks project. The sector has been under a boil-water advisory for a few years as the city...
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Senneville residents to have say on plan to build new town hall
If a minimum of 82 eligible voters sign a public register against a $1.8-million borrowing bylaw to build a new town hall in Senneville, then council will have to either drop the item or call a...
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Brenda O'Farrell: Birthday gift creates a buzz in St-Lazare
It’s time for a quick pop quiz. What do a 15-year-old St-Lazare girl, the Honey Nut Cheerios cartoon mascot and an international action group aimed at fighting the proliferation of pesticide use have...
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Women charged in attempted baby abduction, two others arrested
Two women, age 19 and 20, have been charged with attempted kidnapping, assault and conspiracy following a home invasion in Pointe-aux-Trembles Monday night. The women and four other people entered the...
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PQ leadership candidates rebuff idea of referendum on renewed federalism
QUEBEC — The idea that a sovereignist government could negotiate a new federalist deal for Quebec and hold some form of hybrid referendum was greeted with skepticism from outside and inside the...
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Use civilian employees, not pricey police officers, to direct traffic: Projet...
With the cost of paying Montreal police to direct traffic around construction sites nearly doubling in 2015 to $8 million, Projet Montréal called on the city administration Tuesday to use less costly...
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Advocates for Syrian refugees in Montreal concerned about "sponsorship...
Front-line workers testifying before a Senate committee Tuesday said that while the experience of Syrian refugees in Montreal has been largely positive, they are worried about an increasing number of...
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Montreal planting $3.45-million granite stumps on mountain for 375th
Montreal is paying as much as double the going price of granite in a $3.45-million contract to install statues that resemble tree stumps on Mount Royal for the city’s 375th anniversary next year. The...
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Farmers use tractors to band together in dairy protest
A group of farmers drove a convoy of tractors across the Jacques-Cartier Bridge on Wednesday on their way to Ottawa to protest the importation of diafiltered milk from the U.S. The group plans to...
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Police raid ultra-Orthodox Jewish school on Parc Ave.
The sign at the door in Hebrew read: “Welcome in the name of God.” Below that were the words “Talmud Torah,” meaning the study of Torah. Behind that door about 100 boys as young as five and as old as...
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Boshra: Montreal's 375th birthday should be about more than spiffing up the city
Is anyone else starting to get a sinking feeling about Montreal’s 375th anniversary celebrations? Even if you, like me, are the kind of overly analytical party pooper who’s puzzled by the arbitrariness...
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Frayed ties and daily hassles along the Vermont-Stanstead border
STANSTEAD — For some folks living in a cluster of small towns straddling the U.S.-Canadian border here, life could not feel more comfortably secure. Six Canadian and U.S. checkpoints service the 2...
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Police investigating death, suspicious fires
Police are investigating whether there is a link between three suspicious fires that left one person dead in Rivière Beaudette early Wednesday. Sûreté du Québec Sgt. Joyce Kemp said a fire broke out in...
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Firefighters warn smokers to watch their butts
Montreal’s fire department said it responded to 12 fires linked to cigarettes or cigars since the warm weather started, and is warning people to be careful where they extinguish their cigarettes, or...
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Grand Prix: "Buying sex is not a sport"
Less than two weeks ahead of Grand Prix weekend, a new awareness campaign targeting sexual exploitation will be plastered across Montreal on billboards and city buses: Buying sex is not a sport....
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MUHC inaugurates central labs to speed up processing of blood and urine samples
After a shaky start during which some patients’ samples got lost or spoiled, the McGill University Health Centre on Wednesday inaugurated its automated central laboratories that will be capable of...
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Man injured in downtown shooting
A man in his 20s was shot during an altercation on Crescent St. Wednesday night in front of a crowd of stunned onlookers. A witness said he was having a pint with a friend when he heard yelling coming...
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Bill C-10, that eases conditions on Air Canada, sent to Senate
OTTAWA – The House of Commons passed Bill C-10 on its third and final reading Wednesday. The bill relaxes the conditions imposed on Air Canada for the maintenance of its aircrafts. The bill is now in...
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