By Murray Sherriffs
Three homeless people have died in one week on Montreal’s streets. Frontline workers say that this is a warning of the very real consequences of the city’s homelessness crisis. Montreal Mayor Martinez Ferada had to pause a news conference in tears, when the reality of the homeless crisis, hit home.
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The bodies of the two Air Canada pilots—Captain Antoine Forest and first officer Mackenzie Gunther, who died when their jet crashed into a fire truck at Laguardia airport in New York—are back in Canada.
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Montreal firefighters and police officers continue their search for a man who went under the ice as he and a friend walked on Rivière des Prairies, yesterday afternoon.
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The Supreme Court of Canada has begun deliberating arguments for-and-against the Quebec secularism law which bans public sector workers from wearing religious symbols when they work: Can a government invoke the notwithstanding clause and override the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms?
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CAQ leadership candidate Christine Fréchette has floated an idea that she claims will improve Quebec’s health care system:—virtual waiting rooms—in emergency departments that would see non-priority patients able to go home and await a call to return to be seen by a doctor.
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29-year-old Salim Touaibi, who admits to shooting dead 15-year-old Meriem Boundaoui, has been judged guilty by a jury, dismissing his claim that he didn’t mean it, and sending him to jail for life, while a second man charged, 30-year-old Aymane Bouadi, has been found not guilty.
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Justice Minister Simon Jolin-Barrette has introduced Bill 24, that will protect consumers from using a person’s identity to commit fraud.
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Gilbert Rozon has dropped his defamation lawsuit involving Radio-Canada host Pénélope McQuade and Noovo host Julie Snyder, following out-of-court settlements.
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The Crown has dropped its case against 41-year-old Mai Abdulhadi, who had been charged with uttering threats during a pro-Palestinian protest in Montreal,—a Nazi salute and shouting, “The final solution is coming your way”—after she completed the General Alternative Measures Program for Adults.
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Canada’s Minister of Official Languages, Marc Miller has accused the Bloc Québécois of spreading “nonsense” about the anglicization of Quebec. “I do not wish to dignify comments” made in the House by Bloc MP Mario Beaulieu, that the federal government has spent ‘over $2.4 billion to strengthen English in Quebec since 1995.’”
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The Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre has unveiled a postdoctoral fellowship program—Canada’s Best—to recruit young researchers from around the world and strengthen Quebec’s position as a leading force in biomedical research in Canada and worldwide.
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STEAM is now full time at East Hill Elementary School in Rivière des Prairies and will change how students learn, using a hands-on, problem-solving approach. The science, technology, engineering arts and mathematics program encourages critical thinking through real-world application, rather than traditional teaching methods. The EMSB started the pilot project in 2016-2017 school year, which addresses gaps in creativity, communication and design, essential skills for the 21st century.
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Habs 2 Columbus 1
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Cloud + sun / -1º today
Flurries / -1º tomorrow
Cloud / 7º Sunday
