By Murray Sherriffs
Sebastian Aho scored in overtime for Carolina last night, giving the Hurricanes a 3-2 win over the Canadiens and a 2-1 series lead, taking home-ice advantage away from the Habs in the Eastern Conference Final. Canada’s Snowbirds flew over the Bell centre, as the anthems finished at last night’s game.
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Premier Fréchette has removed the sales tax, effective July 15, on several grocery and pharmacy items, to help Quebecers deal with the rise in the cost-of-living: pre-cut fruit. vegetables, granola bars, salted nuts, tissues and toilet paper—a saving of $50 a year. Fréchette has cut $50 from the annual car registration fee for one year only. The Premier has also decided to give a one-time payment of between $100-$200 for low- to middle-income earners.
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Quebec’s opposition parties are not amused that the Premier is buying votes in the lead-up to the fall election, continuing the ways of the Legault government, spending wildly in election season.
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Liberal finance critic Frédéric Beauchemin says that the CAQ wastes, manages badly and spends more than it promises and that “…Quebecers are fed up being taken for idiots.”
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The Permanent Peoples’ Tribunal on Missing Children and Unmarked graves has begun in Montreal, hosted by the Native Women’s Shelter of Montreal, which all this week will organize to demand accountability for crimes against Indigenous children in Canada’s residential schools.
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Serge Audette has been found guilty of manslaughter in the killing of 23-year-old Patricia Ferguson in 1996 in Pointe aux Trembles, following a Noovo Info documentary that raised questions about the original police investigation, which prompted Montreal police to look at the evidence again.
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The Just for Laughs comedy festival has unveiled its lineup which will run from July 15-26 in scores of downtown locales, featuring two Jerry Seinfeld shows—because tickets for the first one sold out so quickly—Weird Al Yankovic and Gabriel Iglesias.
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Thousands of cyclists are headed to Montreal to take part in two major cycling events this weekend: Tour la Nuit kicks off Friday night; Tour de l’Île de Montréal on Sunday.
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Shawn Batten from Montérégie has won $12,500,000 in the May 19 Lotto Max draw. He bought his ticket on the Loto Québec app. When he confirmed his win, he called his wife and told her but she thought he was kidding: “…. I’m in a meeting and all the team can hear you. You’re not joking right now, are you?” Batten picked up his symbolic cheque at the Casino de Montréal. He plans to continue working, but says that travel is definitely in the cards and that he will follow his new passion, photography, and maybe buy a cottage.
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Montréal Victoire will celebrate their inaugural PWHL title with an event on Saturday at 11a.m. at Quartier des Spectacles.
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Sun / 27º today + tomorrow
