By Murray Sherriffs
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Two Montreal women are dead, killed in the cold temperatures that arrived this week: 87-year-old Sheila Padmore in NDG and a 66-year-old woman in her apartment in Montreal West (on Hudson Avenue near Radcliffe). Hydro Québec says that a breaker failed at the Hampstead substation which feeds power to Côte St. Luc and Notre Dame de Grâce, affecting thousands of people.
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Good news from the Carney government: It will increase the amount of the Goods and Service Tax credit by 25 per cent, beginning in July, and provide a one-time payment equivalent to a 50 per cent increase, this year.
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Prime Minister Carney is standing by his comments about the Battle of the Plains of Abraham, despite the rebukes being heard from some Quebec politicians: That the 1759 battle in Quebec City, where the British defeated the French, was the beginning of a partnership between the French and English.
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Premier Legault will shuffle his cabinet today, because two of his ministers must step aside to allow them to run for the party leadership that he’s vacating.
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The Coalition pour l’avenir du Québec caucus will meet this week to prepare for the resumption of work at the National Assembly, next month.
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The people and businesses which former Montreal mayor Denis Coderre owes money to have unanimously accepted the plan that will see him pay them less than a quarter of the $1.1-million that he owes: $240,000 over five years, in monthly payments of $4,000.
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Montreal Mayor Matinez Ferrada is critical of the Quebec government’s decision to end its immigration program, saying that Montreal’s reputation is being hurt.
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The Sûreté du Quebec is investigating the discovery of a woman and a man in an apartment in Manawan, in the Atikamekwa First Nations community, northeast of Montreal.
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Léger Marketing, on behalf of Vivre en Ville, has determined one in five Quebec tenants had difficulty paying their rent in the past year—one in four in Montreal; about 720,000 people.
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Quebec civil servants have been told that they must return to work at the office “at least three days a week”. The decision by Treasury Board president France-Élaine Duranceau is being met with resistance.
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The Fédération des transporteurs par autobus says that too many motorists don’t stop when they must, and many of the offenders are parents of school-age children.
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Water has damaged the first and second floors of the Lehmann Pavilon in the Verdun Mental hospital.
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A rhythmic game on a tablet may help children who stutter. Montreal researchers are the same ones who determined the game also helps children with ADHD improve their attention and inhibitory control. Psychology professor Simone Falk, at the Université de Montréal and her colleagues say that advances in neuroscience have led to a better understanding of why some people stutter. Players tap in time to music, to construct a virtual building, with progress linked to their performance. The authors report that participants showed moderate improvements in rhythmic synchronization, interference control, oromotor performance (the mechanical functioning of the mouth) and reduction in stuttering, after training.
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Vegas / Habs / 7 p.m.
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Light snow / -11º today
Sun / -12º tomorrow