By Murray Sherriffs
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Concordia University closed its downtown Montreal campus yesterday, to deal with “threats of extreme disruption,” and President–Vice-Chancellor Graham Carr says the decision relates to the arrest of two people who helped disrupt a class and midterm exam.
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Students for Palestine’s Honour and Resistance and Academics & Staff for Palestine gave advance notice, protestors would gather at the Hall building, claiming President Carr tries to portray students as ‘dangerous,’ while his administration “…supports the flow of weapons to Israel that have violently murdered the students of Gaza, destroying every university” and are “…fed up with the zionists and imperialists in Carr’s administration.”
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Pro-Palestinian protesters occupied on one side of the street as a counter-protest of pro-Israeli supporters gathered on the other side, each yelling at the other and throughout the afternoon thousands of people had gathered.
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At Mcgill university, an Israeli flag was burned.
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Israel’s foreign ministry called the protests “shameful”; “…Concordia University student groups are organizing a rally this October 7, celebrating the massacre and atrocities committed by Palestinians, glorifying terrorism under the banner of resistance” and ”…celebrating murder, rape and the kidnapping of innocent civilians, carried out by Hamas terrorists, under the protection of a Canadian university. Terror has no place on campus.”
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Prime Minister Carney has condemned Hamas and antisemitism, marking the second anniversary of the October 7th attacks and ”…Jewish people everywhere, including in Canada, continue to live with a profound sense of grief and anxiety and on this day and every day, we stand with the victims, their families, and their communities, who continue to carry unimaginable grief.”
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Longueuil police have released a video of a person walking down a street and she or he may be connected to who left a 34-week-old boy at a home, ringing the doorbell, and running.
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The Gallant Commission investigating the SAAQclic mess has heard that the Quebec software firm CGI submitted a bid that was $135 million lower than the contract won by competitor LGS-IBM, for the digital transformation of the SAAQ.
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Quebec’s three opposition parties have condemned the Minister of Justice and Canadian Relations Simon Jolin-Barrette’s Quebec constitution bill, with Liberal leader Pablo Rodriguez saying it was created through a “flawed process” that “…this is a project that should seek to unite, not divide” and adds that he’s in favour of the idea of a Quebec constitution.
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Negotiations between the Quebec government and specialist physicians have stopped.
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A man in his 20s has been killed in a road crash involving a bus and a motorcycle in Longueuil at the corner of Chambly road and Gentilly Street.
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A boil-water advisory is in place for a part of Côte-des-Neiges and NDG, bordered by Harvard Avenue, Côte-Saint-Luc Road, Monkland Avenue and Décarie.
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Showers / 17 today
Sun / 12 tomorrow