By Murray Sherriffs
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Plenty of clean-up work for Montrealers impacted by yesterday’s powerful storm that flooded basements, roads, brought power outages of thousands and significant disruptions at Trudeau Airport.
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The hunt continues for several illegal migrants in a vehicle involved in a road crash near the Canada-U.S. border at Hemmingford.
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LaSalle College has been fined $30 million by the CAQ government for enrolling too many students in its English-language programs, in the past 2 years.
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Montreal police have arrested a man alleged to be an associate of Quebec billionaire Robert Miller and suspected of being part of a number of people who arranged for underage girls to be sexually abused.
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The Montreal Sexual Assault Centre is ending support services for teams assisting sexual assault victims in Quebec, because of a funding cut by Santé Québec that provided medical care, psychosocial support, and forensic evidence collection to survivors.
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A man in his 40s drowned Saturday in the St. Lawrence in Pointe-des-Cascades, and many are praising the woman he was with, who tried to save him when he slipped on rocks, couldn’t regain his footing and went under. The woman had to be rescued herself by nearby boaters.
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Montreal police say items and a drone, found in a forest in Ahuntsic-Cartierville were likely destined for inmates in Bordeaux jail nearby.
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Leger marketing says Quebecers are making different choices when it comes to the liquor, beer and wine that they consume, screening for environmental certifications, sugar content, and alcohol content.
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And the good people at Leger have determined Quebec residents are the happiest in Canada.
A web survey of nearly 40,000 Canadians says Quebecers rated their happiness at an average of 72.4 out of 100, well above the national average.
New Brunswick followed Quebec (70.2%), Manitoba and Prince Edward Island finished at the bottom of the list.
Montreal placed second behind Mississauga with the highest happiness rating of the 10 largest cities.
Toronto was lowest.
49 per cent say their happiness level is unchanged over the past year; 23% are more happy , 28% less so.
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Sun / cloud 29 today
Sun / 32 tomorrow