By Murray Sherriffs
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Norad CF-18 and F-16 fighter jets escorted two international flights bound for Montreal yesterday, that also saw police arrest two men on one of the flights, following reports of fraud and a bomb threat.
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63-year-old Émile Haïm Benamor, who owns a building in Place D’Youville in Old Montreal that was destroyed by fire three years ago, has been charged by Montreal police with seven counts of manslaughter and eight counts of criminal negligence causing bodily harm.
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Kamaljit Arora has been judged guilty by his judges of murdering his two children—drowning his 11-year-old son and 13-year-old daughter in their home in Laval, four years ago—and trying to kill his eldest daughter and his wife.
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Quebec Justice Minister Simon Jolin-Barrette is going after judges who engage in inappropriate behaviour, giving the province’s Judicial Council (Conseil de la Magistrature) new sanctions for judges who are the subject of a complaint.
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Data contained in the annual public infrastructure investment management plan has determined that the condition of Montreal’s metro system is deteriorating, but there is no money allocated to maintain the systems for the next five years under Quebec’s 2026–2036 infrastructure plan.
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A freight train derailment near Dorion has disrupted service on the Exo commuter train line, so there is no service in both directions between the Vaudreuil and Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue stations on the Vaudreuil-Hudson line.
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Hydro Québec technicians continue their round-the-clock work but officials say that it will take a little more time to see all customers back on the grid, following a peak outage of 320,000.
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The owner of Al-Quds Grill restaurant in Roxoboro, Wael Allou, is offering a free meal to anyone during the month of Ramadan and one needn’t be Muslim to enjoy.
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Canadiens vs Detroit 7 p.m.
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Light snow / -1º today
Snow / 1º tomorrow
