By Murray Sherriffs
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The people who educate tomorrow’s leaders in Quebec are being subjected to rising violence; so reveals a survey of 6,000 members of the Fédération des employées et employés de services publics and the perpetrators are students for the most part but also parents, colleagues and manager all of whom shout at, curse, utter death threats are touched sexually or have derogatory sexual gestures directed at them.
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The union representing maintenance workers in Montreal’s public transit system says members will go on strike for most of next month by refusing overtime, not work outside rush hours, all to urge management to bargain seriously.
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Information technology expert, Professor Emeritus Bent Flyvbjerg from Oxford university has told the Gallant commission investigating the SAAQclic mess that IT projects have a one-in-five chance of costing up to 450% more than budgeted, and that decision makers must take that risk into account.
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The Quebec coroner’s office has released recommendations aimed at stopping people from committing suicide by jumping in front of Metro trains.
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Rims and tires have been stolen from several vehicles, parked in a City of Montreal training facility on Louis-Hippolyte Lafontaine Boulevard.
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The Canadian Food Inspection Agency has told Dollarama to recall one of its desserts, Biskwi brand Waffles with Chocolaty Filling, because of mold.
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Family and friends of 15-year-old Nooran Rezayi remembering in a ceremony what happened to him a month ago, when he was shot dead by a police officer in Longueuil, with the family claiming that it feels abandoned.
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Quebec’s legislature has heard opposing views of a proposed Quebec constitution: Quebec Liberal leader Pablo Rodriguez is open to signing the Canadian Constitution, while Parti Québécois leader Paul Saint-Pierre Plamondon says that the federal system is “illegitimate.”
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Three Montreal mayoral candidates have offered their visions of Montreal, in a CBC panel where Soraya Martinez Ferrada (Ensemble Montréal), Luc Rabouin (Projet Montréal) and Craig Sauvé (Transition Montréal) debated the city’s housing crisis, homelessness and affordability.
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Habs / Calgary Flames (8:30)
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Showers / 13 today
Showers / sun / 10 tomorrow
