By Murray Sherriffs
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The families of the five teenagers who were hanging out with 15-year-old Nooran Rezayi the day that he was shot dead by Longueuil police have launched a $1.9 million dollar lawsuit against the city and the police department, citing racial discrimination by police. Public Security Minister Ian Lafrenière has yet to make the police watchdog (BEI) report into the shooting public.
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Quebec Transport Minister Jonatan Julien says that the reason why Quebec’s road infrastructure has been judged as worsening and “far exceeds its useful life” is because the data has become more refined and the state of assets is now better documented, but he refused to answer one question put to him by a reporter: “Are the deteriorated structures a safety risk to motorists?”
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Train service on Exo’s Vaudreuil-Hudson commuter line is gradually resuming, following a freight train derailment earlier this week near the Dorion station.
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Service on the REM commuter train line between Sunnybrooke and Côte de Liesse stations is back, after a garbage truck hit a protective beam near the Bois-Franc station.
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The Quebec government budget is drawing criticism from a number of community groups who say that it doesn’t do enough for the homeless: That the $740 million allocated to build 1,000 new affordable housing units in the next three years, is 10 times below what’s needed.
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Parti Québécois MNA Alex Boissonneault is ticked off at the campaign of “ideological intimidation” launched by the feminist organization, Féministes en mouvement de l’Université Laval, which wants a conference on the future of the Quebec nation at Université Laval cancelled, because its panelists will promote a “traditionalist, discriminatory and hateful discourse.”
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Data from the Institut de la Statistique du Québec says that in the past 30 years, more people left Quebec than arrived and many of the 51,000 non-permanent residents were temporary foreign workers, international students and other permit holders who are no longer legally allowed to stay here.
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A 51-year-old man who beat up a 41-year-old woman in their home in Pierrefonds last night on Athéna Street and Callas are in hospital this morning; she with injuries he inflicted on her and he with injuries he caused to himself.
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Red Wings 3 Habs 1
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Snow (5-10 cm) / 0º today
Flurries / 7º tomorrow
Snow / -1º Sunday