By Murray Sherriffs
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Montreal Police hate-crimes detectives are investigating the fake severed hand covered in a ‘blood’, thrown at the Verdun Islamic Centre last Sunday, while services were underway.
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Van Lanh Vuong has admitted to fraud in a scheme that left 24 Montrealers homeless, after giving him $37,460, believing his yarn that he was a landlord, collecting deposits on rentals that never existed.
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A lawyer for the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation has been ordered to pay $21,000+ for illegally evicting his tenant in Longueuil.
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Premier Fréchette supports eliminating interprovincial barriers to alcohol sales, putting her onside with eight other premiers meeting on Prince Edward Island, all agreeing to remove barriers on alcohol sales that will allow brewers, wineries and distillers to sell directly to consumers outside their home provinces.
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Premier Fréchette says U.S. President Trump’s new tariff threat on Canada is unjustified and of concern, and that she “…will address the situation with Prime Minister Carney at the premiers’ meeting,” claiming again that “…this is the worst time to add a layer of instability to Quebec’s economy, when our businesses need predictability.”
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British Columbia’s organized crime agency says that collaboration between police forces across Canada has led to the arrest of three men in the murder of a Montreal man, Sébastien Giroux, four years ago.
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Montreal says summer pothole repairs won’t begin until August 3.
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Sun + showers / 20º today
Sun / 25º tomorrow
