By Murray Sherriffs
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The mother of a 14-year-old girl, stabbed in the face by a teenage boy as she was about to go to class in NDG, says that she knew the boy who attacked her and that her daughter had refused to go out with him.
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Quebec’s family doctors have ended their teaching boycott, a day after Premier Legault warned he would enact a special law and impose a new way to pay them.
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The doctors are following a plea from Liberal leader Pablo Rodriguez who urged negotiations with the government to resume saying “…the best agreement is negotiated for the good of all Quebecers.”
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Montreal’s public transit agency has asked the provincial government to appoint a mediator to settle a labour dispute with bus and metro drivers, who will walk off their jobs next month.
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Days after the union representing transit workers gave their employer strike notices, the STM is cutting 300 jobs to allow it to cut $100 million from its budget over three years but not cut services.
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Secularism Minister Jean-François Roberge will ban religious symbols for daycare workers in an effort to tighten secularism rules that will be in line with Quebec’s 2019 secularism law, Bill 21, which bans public sector workers from wearing religious symbols on the job.
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The Quebec government has given the Gallant Commission investigating SAAQclic until next February to submit its report.
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Quebec’s Crown prosecutor’s office will not pursue charges against Montreal police for how it handled the matter of two missing people, (59-year-old Giuseppe Arcuri and his mother, 76-year-old Lucia Giovanna Arcuri) who were eventually found dead in a car in St. Léonard last year.
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A United States-based truck manufacturer in Sainte Thérèse is laying off 300 workers, days ahead of U.S. tariffs on heavy-duty trucks taking effect.
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U.S. President Trump says that he is ending all trade talks with Canada because of an anti-tariff ad that the Ontario government is running which features former U.S. President Ronald Reagan warning, in 1987, that “…high tariffs inevitably lead to retaliation by foreign countries and the triggering of fierce trade wars. Then the worst happens: Markets shrink and collapse, businesses and industries shut down, and millions of people lose their jobs.”
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Laval police have arrested three teenagers, aged 16-17, in connection with a home invasion this month.
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Quebecers paid more than $10 million out-of-pocket to receive health care in other provinces last year because Quebec did not go along with other provinces and offer reciprocal billing agreements with other jurisdictions for most medical services.
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Montreal Public Health says that gonorrhea infections are at the highest level in 25 years and for the most part, it is young men aged 24-44 who are infected.
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Châteauguay residents are ticked off because of the “ridiculous, moronic, stupid and %*$%^&4”construction projects that they have to deal with every day.
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Montreal researchers have developed a new tool (Sentry) to fight glioblastoma—a brain cancer so deadly that it is called the Terminator—which helps surgeons to remove as many cancer cells as possible, before they can regenerate.
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Do you fart? Now that I’ve got your attention, Japanese scientists say the anal orifice can deliver oxygen and may one day actually help lung disease patients, following clinical trials. An enema-like process delivers super-oxygenated liquid to the large intestine where the life-supporting gas is absorbed into the bloodstream. The method could one day be used to help people with blocked airways. A study in the journal ‘Med’ reports encouraging data from the first human clinical trial to evaluate the potential benefits.
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Edmonton 6 Habs 5
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Showers / 9 today
Sun / cloud 10 tomorrow/ Sunday
