By Murray Sherriffs
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Quebec’s Office for the Protection of the French language has carried out nearly 10,000 inspections in the past year, as the province cracks down even harder on businesses that don’t comply with the language law (nearly ten thousand inspections carried out between April 2024, and March 2025), a 47 per cent increase and the majority are a response to the record number of complaints and increased surveillance efforts by the language police.
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Montreal activist, Doctor Nimâ Machouf is back home in Montreal, following her detention by Israel from a relief convoy seeking to take food to Gaza.
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An Action Montreal candidate for council in the upcoming election, Gabriel Houle, is taking heat for the Facebook posts that have been shared on his account where he insults various races, women, election candidates and Montreal voters and his name has been removed from the party’s website.
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62-year-old Réal Courtemanche has been found guilty of murdering 10-year-old Marie-Chantale Desjardins in Sainte Thérèse, more than decades ago, thanks to advances in DNA technology.
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Montreal police admit that they are out of leads and have set up a command post in Saint Léonard, to gather more information about the murder two years ago of a 19-year-old man found shot dead in a car on Fontenelle and Jean Talon.
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A motorist has been badly hurt in a road crash where he drove into the rear of a driver who was seriously injured after colliding into the back of a stopped bus in Rivière-des-Prairies on Rodolphe-Forget near Henri-Bourassa.
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Montreal’s Welcome Hall Mission is worried that the postal strike will hurt donations but says its annual Thanksgiving meal for the homeless wasn’t disrupted.
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Nearly half of Quebecers have told a Leger poll that they don’t believe the Quebec government is doing all it could to help teenagers, and pressure is being applied on all political parties to commit on issues affecting young people.
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A study has revealed the longer that one commutes to work and back, the more it can affect mental health because of the personal time lost. Lead author, Dr. Annie Barreck, says that the more time people spend commuting, the more likely they are to experience work-family conflict and psychological distress, because long commutes interfere with work-life balance and time with loved ones. The study has also learned that how people commute is important and says that while public transportation is crucial, it is often more stressful than using a motor vehicle.
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The Montreal Canadiens have rewarded star defenceman Lane Hutson with a US$70.8 million, eight-year contract.
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Habs host Seattle tonight
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The Alouettes beat Ottawa 30-10
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Alouette players helped serve meals to the homeless for Thanksgiving yesterday, led by quarterbacks coach Anthony Calvillo.
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Showers / 18 today
Sun / cloud 13 tomorrow
