By Murray Sherriffs
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South shore police are looking for whoever left a premature newborn boy at the front of a home on Sunday, ringing the doorbell on Bourgeoys Street and fleeing.
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Police in that community are investigating the death of a motorcyclist, killed in a collision with an EXO bus yesterday afternoon on Chemin Chambly near Rue de Gentilly.
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A polling has revealed the opposition party at Montreal City Hall has a near 10-point lead over the current administration, but it also reveals the majority haven’t made up their minds.
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Ensemble Montréal leader Soraya Martinez Ferrada has abandoned her defence of one of her candidates and has turfed Alexandre Giasson, who has insulted several elected officials in social media posts, asking if Mercier–Hochelaga-Maisonneuve mayor Pierre Lessard-Blais was smart enough to tie his own shoes / suggesting dumping garbage on the door steps of political competitors and that Hochelaga councillor Éric Alan Caldwell was a “big pile of outdated shit”.
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The Montreal fire department says using cheap chargers or charging your cellphone by your bedside can be dangerous, because of the battery fires that can erupt.
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Lithium-ion-related fires are the focus of this year’s fire prevention week in Quebec and representatives of 16 area fire departments met with reporters to highlight the risks.
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Fires caused by lithium-ion batteries in Montreal have nearly tripled; 71 last year; 24 in 2022.
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Kevin Romagosa has admitted to a court in Drummondville, he murdered his wife, Robyn-Krystle O’Reilly and committed indignity to her body, stopping preparations for his trial, next spring.
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Police are asking young women who were sexually terrorized as children by Marc Gagnon, now 69, in Montreal and Longueuil between the 70’s to date, to come forward and have charged him with eight offences involving children.
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A 77-year-old woman is critical after being hit by a car in downtown Montreal last night on René-Lévesque at Atwater.
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Eighteen recommendations have been made by a coroner, to better protect the lives of traffic signal operators, following the death of a worker killed by a heavy truck at a construction site in Quebec city.
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Alberta Premier Danielle Smith has told a business group in Montreal that her province and Quebec are on the same team, in their effort to convince the federal government that it has intruded on provincial jurisdiction and that it should back off: ”…we have to get back to operating the country the way it was intended, we have exclusive areas of provincial jurisdiction.”
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Trudeau Airport will close its multi-level parking facility and the P5 parking lot this month, resulting in a loss of 4,500 parking spots, as part of a redevelopment plan that will add lanes to the airport’s drop-off and pick-up areas and develop a 6,300-spot parking structure, by 2031.
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An effort is underway to get parents and pediatricians to use training videos, health record prompts, informational handouts and allergy-prevention guidelines that could result in fewer children being allergic to peanuts.
A study in the journal Pediatrics has determined that early introduction of foods containing peanut into an infant’s diet can reduce the risk of children developing a peanut allergy by 80%.
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Sun / showers / 25 today
Sun / cloud 14 tomorrow
