By Murray Sherriffs
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Montrealer Luciano Frattolin, charged with murdering his nine-year-old daughter Melina, as the two traveled in upstate New York last month, will apply for bail.
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A video is circulating on social media, showing Quebec’s public health director Doctor Luc Boileau, engaged in a big ol’ verbal donneybrook with the man who nearly hit him on his e-scooter as he rode the wrong way on Sainte Catherine street in Montreal, doing about 35 km/h.
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Montreal Mayor Plante has asked the Legault government to appoint a minister for homelessness which is ‘raging in the province’ as the Premier reorganizes his cabinet, following loss of a recent byelection.
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Quebec Health Minister Christian Dubé is slamming the province’s doctors’ federations, accusing them of ‘total refusal’ to look at his bill that would see up to a quarter of their pay linked to their performance.
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The FMOQ, Quebec’s family doctor organization, slammed the bill just last week in an open letter, saying the plan is simply ’fast food’ medicine that will focus solely on volume, “not on the quality and relevance of consultations.”
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The Canadian Army is dealing with another incident of alleged hateful conduct involving five Quebec soldiers caught on video partying, and showing some of them delivered Nazi salutes in front of a flag of the Royal 22e Régiment.
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The Quebec government is dealing with rising tensions between forestry workers and Indigenous protesters, who oppose a bill they say threatens their way of life, with Natural Resources Minister Maïté Blanchette Vézina and Indigenous Affairs Minister Ian Lafrenière saying that they will meet with three Atikamekw communities in Quebec’s Mauricie region.
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A man in his 40s has been found dead on the roof of the Cité de la Santé hospital in Laval.
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Air Canada is getting its operation back to normal, after settling with its flight attendants, ending their strike which shone a bright light on the reality that they don’t get paid for the majority of the work that they do while an aircraft at at the gate, not in the air.
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The action by flight attendants over unpaid labor is the latest blow to the airline industry’s compensation system, which also sees attendants when an aircraft is not flying and some analysts say their gains could influence upcoming contract negotiations in other North American airlines.
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McGill University, the University of Toronto and York University are adopting AI technologies to enhance learning and help students summarize academic research or assist professors in course planning.
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Alain Généreux, a political advisor in the Ministry of Transportation, has told the Gallant Commission that he became suspicious when he learned that the total cost of the SAAQclic conversion, would be $682 million.
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Health Canada has approved Ozempic to reduce the risk of further kidney decline in patients with Type 2 diabetes.
Between 30 and 50 per cent of people with Type 2 diabetes develop chronic kidney disease.
An international clinical trial, called FLOW, showed that the risk that kidneys significantly deteriorate or fail completely was 24 per cent lower in patients taking Ozempic, compared to those taking a placebo.
The patients are also less likely to die from cardiovascular disease, which also affects many patients with diabetes.
Check out the New England Journal of Medicine for more.
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