By Murray Sherriffs
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The Association des Collèges Privés du Québec is alarmed the Legault government has fined Montreal’s LaSalle College for registering too many students in English programs and urges it to negotiate, because the move “…unfairly compromises the viability of colleges that play an essential role in providing access to French-language post-secondary education here in Quebec” and could threaten the college’s survival.
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The Canadian Armed Forces says the four Quebec City-area men arrested by the RCMP last week, suspected of engaging in terrorism, did not get their weapons, ammunition or explosives from its depots.
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A 22 year old man has been found dead in a pool at a home in Pointe-aux-Trembles, on 43rd Avenue near Alberic-Gelinas.
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Legal aid lawyer Vincent Petit, acting on behalf of 51-year old Mohammed Abdullah Warsame, the Montreal man charged linked to Al-Qaida and threatening to bomb Montrealers using public transit, says the accused wants to stay in jail and there is a ‘realistic probability’, he will plead guilty.
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900,000 Quebecers are now waiting to see a medical specialist, nearly double the number from five years ago and health officials admit this is a crisis spiraling out of control.
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The Sûreté du Québec says those five cyclists on the Metropolitan Expressway, cutting through heavy traffic, trying to cross near the Décarie Expressway this week, were likely just lost and couldn’t find them to warn them that was a dangerous thing to do.
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Consumer Reports says electric cars have 80 percent-plus more faults than gasoline-powered vehicles.
The feedback came from over 330,000 owners of vehicles made between 2000 and 2023.
The most common issues; faulty charging systems, poor assembly, misaligned body panels. loose interior fittings.
Jake Fisher, head of car testing at Consumer Reports, says this is because electric cars are new to the scene and teething takes time to sort out problems.
Plug-in hybrids are even worse performers because of their complexity.
Owners of the BMW X5 and Ford Escape report a wide range of issues across 20 different categories.
The Toyota RAV4 and Kia Sportage have above-average reliability.
The real stars of the report are standard hybrid vehicles, like the Toyota Prius.
These models had 25 percent fewer problems than gasoline-only cars, because the technology is more mature.
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