By Murray Sherriffs
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A Léger survey says that the Quebec Liberal Party is now tied with the Parti Québécois in voter favor—PQ 31%, Liberals 30%—when compared to December, when a poll had the PQ sitting on an 18-point advantage.
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An Italian court has ruled that suspected Blood Family Mafia leader, Dave “Pik” Turmel can be extradited to Canada, where he is wanted on a number of charges in Quebec.
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A 24-year-old man is in critical condition after being shot on Durocher near Sherbrooke, in Plateau Mont Royal, early yesterday morning.
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The trial of a Quebec student pilot, 33-year-old Jean Fredric Pinard Deecelles, has been set for March 16, when he will answer to charges of dangerous flying and causing bodily harm to his passenger, when in his alleged effort to show off for a party in St. Remi he flew a Cessna 150G fly low over several homes, he executed a steep nose-up climb, then stalled, flipped over to a vertical descent, severed a number of power lines and crashed into a car in a driveway, setting it and the adjacent house on fire.
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Three Montreal police officers are recovering from inhaling gas in an apartment on St. Joseph Boulevard near 6th avenue in Lachine, where they had discovered the body of a woman who had succumbed to the gas.
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Quebec coroner Julie-Kim Godin is urging improved mental health support and resources for people applying for Medical Assistance in Dying (MAID), following her investigation into the final days of a 91-year-old Montreal-area man who killed himself, after his MAID request was refused, because his age and the grief that he was living with, weren’t good enough reasons.
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Flurries / -1º today
Sun / 7º tomorrow
