Newsbrief (16.7.2025)

By Murray Sherriffs

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The body of a 60-year-old woman has been found in a home in Anjou and her son has been found dead in Notre-Dame-de-l’Île-Perrot.

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A 25-year-old man has been arrested after stabbing three members of his family last night in a home on Jean-Pierre-Ronfard Street near de Contrecœur in Mercier–Hochelaga-Maisonneuve.

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Laval police have arrested two suspects in connection with an attempted murder in the Duvernay neighbourhood.

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Some Montrealers are pushing for infrastructure change following this week’s powerful rain storm.

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Parks Canada has suspended all water activities on the Lachine Canal, because the city of Montreal will discharge water from the sewer system, containing rain water and raw sewage, into the waterway to ease pressure on the system still overwhelmed by this week’s storm.

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The air quality in Montreal has been ranked the sixth-worst in the world because of the smoke of Manitoba’s forest fires.

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Royal Lepage says Quebec’s real estate market continues to make gains; home prices are steadily increasing, outpacing Toronto and Vancouver that are on the decline.

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Via Rail will refurbish rail cars, to improve service between Montreal and Halifax.

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Popular weight loss medications like Ozempic can help reverse low testosterone levels in men with obesity or Type 2 diabetes.

Researchers at SSM Health St. Louis University Hospital have analyzed the electronic health records of 110 men (average age 54) with obesity or Type 2 diabetes.

They measured testosterone levels before taking the medications and for 18 months after starting the treatment.

Roughly half had low to low-normal testosterone at the start of the study and most reached normal levels after treatment.

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Sun / 33 today

Sun / showers, thunderstorms 28 tomorrow

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