NewsBrief (17.12.2025)

By Murray Sherriffs

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Quebec Liberal Party Leader Pablo Rodriguez claims to be unaware of 500$ envelopes handed to scores of donors during his leadership campaign, to reimburse their contributions.

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A seven-year-old girl who was hit by a school bus in Laval at the intersection of Raphaël and Siméon streets is in serious condition.

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Laval police have arrested five men in connection with multiple robberies that saw a number of people attacked with pepper spray or threatened with a knife. during Facebook Marketplace transactions.

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A teenage girl involved in a murder in Ontario has been sent to jail for 10 years by a Valleyfield judge for her involvement in the killing of a 16-year-old boy in St-Zotique, two years ago.

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Ten people have been arrested in the Montérégie in connection with a drug trafficking network operating in Chambly, Beloeil, Marieville, St. Jean sur Richelieu, McMasterville, St. Bruno and Ste. Madeleine and run by the Hells Angels.

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A Muslim Über driver says that his life was threatened by a passenger at St. Antoine near Place Jean-Paul-Riopelle, who demanded that he tell him what was his religion.

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Batshaw has launched its “Risk to Resilience” campaign in response to the growing number of at-risk young people in Montreal, focusing on education, which it feels is a key factor that can transform the life trajectory of at-risk youth, of whom there are 45,000 in Quebec.

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Two Montreal citizen organizations have launched a class-action lawsuit seeking compensation for the impact of homeless shelters on their neighborhoods.

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Highway 50 in the lower Laurentians—dubbed the highway of death by many—will see a new median barrier installed west of Lachute, by the end of next year.

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The Montreal Children’s Hospital and Sainte-Justine Hospital Children’s hospitals say occupancy is at 100%+; please avoid emergency rooms when possible.

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Several schools in Châteauguay will be back to normal today, following “shelter in place” orders yesterday that centred on a threat on social media by a person who has been arrested by Kahnawake Mohawk Peacekeepers.

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A study in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences suggests that there’s a lot to be gained by going to bed early. Researchers analyzed the sleep and exercise habits of 19,963 adults who wore biomedical devices to track their activity which accumulated 5,995,080 bits of nighttime data and determined that the earlier one went to bed, the more likely they were to engage in moderate-to-vigorous physical activity the following day. Most people Getting to bed by 9 p.m. devoted a half-hour more to physical activity.

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