By Murray Sherriffs
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The English Montreal School Board (EMSB) has launched another legal battle against the province over alleged violations of the rights of Quebec’s minority language community, singling out Bill 94, which replaced elected commissioners who manage school tax revenue to the two English-language school boards on the Island of Montreal—EMSB and Lester B. Pearson School Board—with the director-general of the school board.
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43-year-old Abraham Gonzalez Leon has been charged with murdering Susana Rocha Cruz, whose body was found in the St. Lawrence River in Quebec City, last week.
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Advocates say that the alleged murders of four women by their mates since the new year began is of considerable concern. SOS Violence Conjugale has posted the names of victims.
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Kahnawake Peacekeepers are investigating the murder of a 41-year-old man who was shot in the parking lot behind Robbie’s Smokehouse & Burger Bar, yesterday.
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Canada’s food prices are rising faster than in other developed nations, leading some professional observers to describe the country as “the food inflation capital of the G7—up 6.2 per cent over the past year—the highest three years and double the U.S. increase.
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That planned high-speed rail line between Toronto and Quebec City will include tunnels in Montreal and Toronto, prompting concern in some quarters that the budget may be compromised.
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Montreal Public Health says that adults are spending more time looking at their phones and on their personal computers: An average two hours of free time, and that the phenomenon is especially pronounced among young people between the ages of 18 to 24 as well as those aged 65 and older.
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Research released this morning has revealed that some types of exercise can lower your risk of dying prematurely. A study in the journal BMJ Medicine suggests that a mix of exercises is best, to delay the trip to the next life. Researchers followed 111,000+ men and women as they walked, jogged, ran, cycled, engaged in swimming, rowing, tennis, squash, racquetball, weight training, yoga, mowing the lawn, gardening, planting flowers and even walking upstairs. Walking has the lowest risk of early death. People who engaged in the widest range of activities had a 19% lower risk of death from any cause. Swimming and cycling reduced risk by 4%; tennis and squash by 15%; rowing 14%; weightlifting and running, 13%. People with higher physical activity levels are less likely to have early deaths contributers (high blood pressure and high cholesterol. And people who carry less weight, drank less alcohol, socialized more and ate healthier, did the best.
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Habs 4 Minnesota 3
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Snow / -6º today
Flurries / 0º tomorrow
