By Murray Sherriffs
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60-year-old Edouard Lallemand is outraged at the U.S. Coast Guard for confronting him on Lake Champlain recently, claiming he was illegally fishing in US and detained him for hours in an incident that saw him end up in the water when he tried to get to a Canadian shore near the community of Venise en Quebec.
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The Legault government will review cases involving children facing expulsion from their daycares because the province is restricting access to subsidized spots for immigrants with open work permits thus are not eligible for subsidized daycare.
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The Assembly of First Nations Quebec-Labrador has stopped talking with government negotiators over a forestry bill they claim will pave the way to privatizing public land and has shown no “genuine political will” to collaborate with Indigenous communities on forestry reform and “…does not respect their rights”.
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60 Quebec firefighters are headed to Manitoba today; 40 are headed to Saskatchewan to help provincial forest firefighters gain control of several outbreaks.
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Canadian Military police will hold public hearings to investigate an ‘active-shooter’ drill at CFB Longue-Pointe in Montreal, that left an employee who was not informed of what was going on, physically hurt and an emotional mess.
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Montreal Public Health says the number of Urgences-Santé interventions for opioid-related use and overdoses in Montreal, average about three per day.
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A Montreal-area woman is unimpressed with a judge who has ruled a man she had sex with, ’stealthed’ her by removing his condom without her knowledge and is not guilty of sexual assault.
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Uber has decided to implement a “Women’s Preferences” that will allow women riders and drivers in the U.S., to only be connected with other women for their trips.
It will launch in the coming weeks in Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Detroit.
The company says women users and drivers have told us they want the option to be matched with other women on trips and we have heard them and are responding to give them even more control over how they ride and drive.
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Sun / 33 today
Showers / 27 tomorrow
