By Murray Sherrifs
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The mother of a three-year-old Montreal girl is now looking at a charge of criminal negligence causing bodily harm in connection with the abandonment of her 3 year old child earlier this month, that led to a 4 day search for the little one, a charge that carries a 10 year prison term.
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The 34-year-old suspect learned of the new charge at her bail hearing in Valleyfield yesterday.
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A publication ban has been placed on the hearing and prevents identification of the child and the mother and any evidence.
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The hand-cuffed mother became visibly upset as she listened to testimony from a Surete du Quebec police officer, doubling over and breaking down audibly at the hearing that will continue today.
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A 27-year-old man has been shot dead in Brossard’s Léon-Gravel Park.
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Montreal police are investigating an armed robbery that saw a man fire a gun at a security guard and an employee, outside a store on Sainte-Catherine near Metcalf.
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All is back to normal at Trudeau airport, following a bomb threat called in yesterday that also saw threats called in to airports in Ottawa, Winnipeg, Edmonton, Calgary and Vancouver.
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The chairman of the commission investigating SAAQclic has told Karl Malenfant, (former vice-president of information technology at the SAAQ), he will not be granted special status to defend himself by cross-examining witnesses, but will have his say before the commission at the end of the summer.
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Come July 17, restaurant owners will be able to impose a maximum $10 penalty per person on groups that don’t honor reservations.
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The director general of Vanier College says a Quebec government investigation into the climate at two Montreal junior colleges is having a negative impact on teachers, and Benoit Morin says the months-long probe has worsened tensions surrounding different stances on the Israel-Hamas war.
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Brenda Aubin-Vega, a Montrealer in her 20s, has won a $1,000-a-week-for-life jackpot on the “Gagnant à vie” lottery, rejecting a $1-million lump sum.
She plays her favourite lottery, a few times a year.
During a recent break, she bought two tickets at a dep’, then sat down and scratched away, revealing three piggy bank symbols, checked the prize associated with those symbols and realized she had won the big one.
She then called her dad to share the news, then asked her boss if she could take the rest of the day off.
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Sun / 26 today
Sun / showers / 28 tomorrow
Sun / cloud 32
