By Murray Sherriffs
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Luciano Frattolin, the Montreal businessman who reported that his nine-year-old daughter Melina had been kidnapped, is now in jail in New York state, suspected in her death after police found her body in Ticonderoga.
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26-year-old Sylvain Kabbouchi, a leader of the Arab Power street gang, has been murdered in the max-security Donnacona Institution, beaten to death by an inmate, and there’s word police suspect the killing is the result of in-fighting in the gang.
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Three people have been killed in a fiery road-crash on rue Principale Street in Saint-Paul-de-l’Île-aux-Noix in the Monteregie.
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The Transportation Safety Board of Canada has sent investigators to Laval, to look at what happened aboard the Paule II cable ferry that operates on Rivière des Prairies between Laval and Île Bizard, when a car fell off the ferry and an elderly man barely made it to shore.
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37 people have drowned in Quebec waters so far this year (31 last year) as we enter National Drowning Prevention Week and the head of Lifesaving Society, Raynold Hawkins, says that there are ways to prevent these tragedies which kill about a hundred Canadians annually.
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A vehicle suspected of belonging to a Laval man, Robert St-Louis, who disappeared 37 years ago, has been found in the Mille-Îles River in Deux-Montagnes by Australian and American divers from Exploring With a Mission who say that there are several other vehicles in the water.
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Several Quebec business owners have launched a $300 million lawsuit against the federal government, saying that they are looking at bankruptcy if it goes ahead with its plan to reduce the number of foreign workers coming into Canada.
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Members of the Front de Résistance Autochtone Populaire have demonstrated in front of the National Assembly against a proposed law on forestry , demanding the complete withdrawal of Bill 97 and calling on the non-Indigenous population to support them, claiming that the bill gives the forestry industry carte blanche to exploit the area’s resources.
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Quebec’s LGBTQ2+ hotline says calls from victims of violence more than doubled in the last year.
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Beginning today, trailers are now available that can be attached to Bixi bicycles or on a bike that you own.
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Did you go to Camp Tamaracouta?
Abandoned for years, the century-old Scouts camp will be transformed into a conservation-tourism site.
Scouts Canada is selling Tamaracouta Scout Reserve to entrepreneur Eric Desroches, in partnership with the Nature Conservancy of Canada and the town of Mille-Isles, have purchased the property for $3.5million.
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Sun / 23 today
Sun / 25 tomorrow
