NewsBrief (9.6.2026)

By Murray Sherriffs

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Canada’s federal minister of industry Melanie Joly has told an audience at the Conference of Montreal that Canada needs to become more aligned with European markets, in the face of US tariffs and the threats that they pose to Canada’s economy.

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Montreal’s Louise Arbour is Canada’s new Governor General.

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38-year-old Steven Luu’s mental evaluation is not yet complete and a Montreal judge has delayed his next hearing on six charges revolving around an arson attack on Temple Emanu-El-Beth Sholom in Westmount: arson, possessing incendiary materials, using an explosive substance and possessing a weapon for a dangerous purpose.

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The Centre Intégré de Santé et de Services Sociaux de Laval is asking patients to not go to the emergency at the Cité de la Santé hospital, because of a major IT outage.

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A Laval barbershop has been damaged in an arson attack that caused the evacuation of several residents in the area of a commercial building on de la Concorde East in Pont-Viau.

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An Indigenous family in Quebec is anxious, hoping to locate remains of two-and-a-half year old Lauréanna Echaquan, who may be in a field in Joliette, after passing from pneumonia at the Saint-Eusèbe Hospital in 1973.

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Sun / 29º today

Showers / 26º tomorrow

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