By Murray Sherriffs
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Montreal Mayor Soraya Martinez Ferrada will try to reduce the city’s debt in her first budget, paying down loans and returning the city to a healthier debt burden, all of this a year earlier than planned by the Plante administration. The Mayor says that the city’s credit has been maxed out “…over the limit” and that her move is responsible and “…signals credibility and is important for the future of the city.” The new administration will tackle the homelessness crisis through a tripling of the monies allocated to community organizations serving the unhoused with the purchasing of buildings to convert them into emergency shelters during the coming nine years.
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The Montreal Police service is cutting overtime and other expenses because of a $60 million spending overrun. Montreal has invested $40 million in police bodycams, but officers won’t be wearing them for at least another decade and critics are saying “…not good enough.”
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Quebec’s families ministry has given Félix Mercier, the owner of four daycares in the St. Lin–Laurentides area (Garderie Éducative St-Esprit, Garderie Éducative St-Lin, Garderie Éducative St. Jacques and Garderie Éducative St-Alexis) until early next month to find new buyers, after he was charged with assaulting a six-year-old child.
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An Ontario woman, Elnaz Hajtamiri, who was kidnapped four years ago, may have ties to Quebec and the United Arab Emirates.
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Charles Milliard, the only candidate so far in the Quebec Liberal party leadership race says that another long leadership race would advantageous to the Liberal party, in the lead-up to the October general election.
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A fire in Montreal earlier this week in a residential building on Sherbrooke Street East, near Lyall, which forced the evacuation of dozens of people, was arson.
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An academic associate in the Faculty of Education at McGill University, Naz Böke, says that stress among teachers is global and that a program to help future teachers is being developed.
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A Montreal-bound train carrying more than 100 passengers derailed in the early hours yesterday in St. Alexandre de Kamouraska, after it collided with two tractor-trailers that had been parked too close to the tracks, forcing the evacuation of the train and another coming from Halifax. All passengers were ferried to destinations in buses.
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A 49-year-old man shot late Sunday night in Lachine, will survive his injury.
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The City of Laval is changing garbage pick-up from weekly to bi-weekly.
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Starting the day with a bowl of healthy cereal is the norm for many but are they as heathy as claimed? No, say experts. Many of the big brands’ claims of being high in fibre, packed with wholegrains and fortified with countless added vitamins and minerals aren’t true. Nutionists say many contain high amounts of the blood-pressure-raising ingredients, are laden with sugar and contain very little protein or fibre. Rhiannon Lambert, lead nutritionist and best-selling author of The Fibre Formula says that the cereals have pushed eggs, porridge and yogurt aside but are popular because they’re convenient and affordable.
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