By Murray Sherriffs
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Retired Quebec CBC news producer Yves Boutin is reliving the harrowing time that he endured in Mexico this week, when he was unable to resist chasing a story and got caught up in violence that saw him chased, caught, badly beaten and then taken in by a family offering refuge.
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The Parti Québécois has won yet another byelection—its 4th—against a CAQ candidate since 2023, this one in Chicoutimi.
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A four-year-old girl is recovering after receiving CPR on a cross-country ski trail in Val des Monts, when the adult she was with accidently fell on her.
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The Sûreté du Québec is looking for two 16-year-olds who have gone missing in Valleyfield.
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Canadian athletes have been greeted by family and family members at Montreal’s Trudeau airport, returning from competing at the Winter Olympics in Milano-Cortina, Italy.
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Indigenous land guardians, hereditary and traditional chiefs have filed a lawsuit seeking formal recognition of their rights over a vast stretch of Quebec, bordered by the St. Lawrence River, the St. Maurice River valley and the forested areas of northern Mauricie, in an effort to control industrial logging and ensure the protection of their traditional way of life.
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A Montreal food bank has been lost to fire and 70 seniors have been forced from their homes after fire consumed Saint Paul Catholic church near de l’Église and Laurendeaue and spread to a second structure yesterday.
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Sun + cloud / -9º today
Flurries / 0º tomorrow