By Murray Sherriffs
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The Laval Rocket has sent condolences to the family of Michel Pelletier, who died in the stands during Saturday night’s game at Place Bell, after patrons realized that the whom man they thought had fallen asleep, had passed.
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Hundreds of Montrealers, encouraged by the Canadian Muslim Forum, gathered in the cold on Saturday to denounce Premier Legault and his secularist Bill 21.
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Quebec Municipal Affairs Minister Geneviève Guilbault, citing a desire to get closer to her children, has decided to not run in the next election.
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Welcome Hall Mission’s Homelessness Mental Health Reintegration Project (PRISM) addresses gaps in services for people facing mental illness and chronic homelessness, helping them secure permanent housing and long-term care and is getting attention from outside Quebec. Retired Waterloo, Ontario psychiarist David S. Heath, renowned for his work specializing in intensive home treatment and alternative hospitalization for patients with acute mental disorders is impressed and the CEO and executive director of Welcome Hall Mission says that community organizations in Toronto are also interested in adopting PRISM’s approach.
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Québec Solidaire is shining the light on the CAQ for stalling cohabitation in social housing that would see homeless people become roomates in certain public housing units.
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The city of Montreal is refusing to issues a demolition order for St. Eusèbe de Verceil Church on Fullum Street in Sainte Marie. The archdiosese has filed a lawsuit against the city after it fined the church $250,000 for not stopping vagrants from living in the former house of worship.
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The housing market in Quebec is hot, evidenced in Montreal, where a single family home is selling for 67% more than five years ago), fuelled by lower interest rates, 30-year mortgages and a lack of supply.
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A woman, beaten savagely by her mate in Rougemont, in the Montérégie is clinging to life.
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The Sûreté du Québec suspects that drunk driving caused a fatal head-on road crash on Highway 40, in Trois-Rivières, that killed a young woman and has put in hospital two men in the other car who were driving the wrong way.
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Well known, respected Mohawk journalist Dan David, who founded the Aboriginal Peoples Television Network’s news department, has passed at age 73.
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A French translation of Adolf Hitler’s Mein Kampf has been sold on a Montreal auction site for $14,000.
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Can artificial sweeteners actually be harmful to health? Can consuming them on the regular affect our memory and thinking skills? A new link has indicated that there is a link between sugar alternatives and brain aging, but more studies are needed.
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Lane Hutson has passed Henri Richard for the most assists in franchise history by a Canadiens player at age 21 or younger.
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Former Montreal forward Phil Goyette, who helped the Habs win four Stanley Cups in his 16-year career, has passed at 92.
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Light snow / -4º today
Sun / -11º tomorrow
