By Murray Sherriffs
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Hydro Quebec did something innovative as ice built up on its lines this week: For the first time ever, it sent a high-intensity current through lines that shed the ice, before it could build and cause outages. Thousands of Quebec households and businesses remain off the grid but the utility expects that they will all be back on the grid today.
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Montreal police have arrested a suspect in the stabbing murder of a dépanneur clerk in the Plateau near Berri and Gilford, seizing him in Complex Desjardins.
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The Quebec government has come up with just under $2 million that will be used to convince young people to not engage in a life of crime by reviewing nine existing projects and activitating two new ones in Montreal North and Ville Marie.
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Longueuil police are investigating an arson attack on a home on Castello Street in Brossard and an arson attack on a car on Carignan Street.
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The Crown prosecutor at the trial of Salim Touaibi and Aymane Bouadi, who are charged with murdering 15-year-old Meriem Boundaoui in Montreal, five years ago, said that the pair intended to kill someone that day, even though the girl wasn’t the intended target in the battle involving two families.
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The RCMP says that two Montreallers, 40-year-old Minh Nguyen and 33-year-old Christian Ndizeye, and Granby resident 33-year-old Domenico Cherubini, have been arrested at the Peace Bridge port of entry in Fort Erie, holding forged passports, $24,000 cash, 84 stolen and fake credit, debit and gift cards, as well as drug paraphernalia, after they made a wrong turn to the U.S. and tried to get back into Canada.
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Community groups are pressuring the Quebec government to back away from its plan to merge two funds—the Fonds d’aide à l’action communautaire autonome (Fund for Independent Community Action) and the Fonds québécois d’initiatives sociales (Quebec Social Initiatives Fund)—in an effort to make government more efficient, out of fear that the move will reduce their autonomy.
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Delay and cancellation complaints against airlines logged by the Canadian Transportation Agency are so numerous that calls for reform are getting louder. Aviation expert John Gradek, who lectures at McGill on supply chain and aviation, says that some of the 95,000 people who have been waiting up to three years for a resolution have simply given up.
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Sun + cloud / 1º today
Rain + wet snow / 2º tomorrow