By Murray Sherriffs
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The Quebec Order of Engineers says that Quebec roads will worsen if governments don’t deal immediately with infrastructure that is aging quickly. Its president, Sophie Larivière-Mantha, says that Quebec has built too many roads beyond what it needs and has no money to maintain them.
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Montreal gynecologist, Doctor Roberto Fernandez has been suspended for three months by the Quebec’s College of Physicians, noting that despite a suspicion that he will probably re-offend, he will be permitted to continue to practice but it has ordered him to update his training and to deal with what he has done to a number of women who have been left traumatized, leaving them repeatedly humiliated, ignored, and not listening to his patients as he abused them.
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54-year-old Jose Antonio Pedraza Pedraza of Vaudreuil has been charged with sexual assault in his work as a massage therapist and remains in custody.
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CAE has laid off 280 employees the Montreal area, as the flight simulator maker deals with anticipated spending cuts by commercial airlines. It has also launched operational reviews at its training centres in Brussels, Stockholm and Barcelona, as it prepares to sell the operations.
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Quebec Immigration Minister Jean-François Roberge will cooperate with an investigation by the legislature’s ethics commissioner into suspected conflict of interest violations relating to data developed by his department and shared with CAQ leadership candidates Bernard Drainville and Christine Fréchette.
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Quebec’s provincial politicians have been permitted to take some time away from the legislature, to allow CAQ members to select a new leader this week.
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A three-day strike by Montreal’s blue-collar workers has been given the nod by Quebec’s Tribunal Administratif du Travail, so long as essential services are maintained between April 15-18.
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The president of the Collège des Médecins du Québec is worried vulnerable patients are being disadvantaged in the agreement to register 500,000 patients with family doctors by the end of June.
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Prime Minister Carney has praised astronaut Jeremy Hansen during a call with the Artemis II crew, saying he’s proud to see a Canadian in space and hear French spoken, calling the moon mission “hugely inspiring” and that “…Canadians couldn’t be more proud” of Hansen and the collaboration with the United States and “…look forward to seeing you here in Canada, for maple syrup on pancakes”.
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The REM link to Trudeau airport is coming along on schedule with operations slated to begin next year.
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Québec Solidaire MNA Christine LabrieIn agrees with scores of organizations and individuals, who have signed an open letter calling for a reform of the Civil Code of Quebec that would see children caught up in domestic violence always end up with the abused adult.
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Montreal police have arrested four people in connection with a stolen vehicle exportation ring, following raids in Repentigny, St. Jean de Matha, Rivière des Prairies, St. Michel and Parc Extension, that saw police recover 10 stolen vehicles, burglary tools, stolen licence plates et cetera.
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More than half of the equipment used by the City of Montreal to repair potholes is at the end of its useful life, says a report by Journal de Montreal.
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Minister of Education Sonia LeBel has lifted the hiring cap imposed on school service centres by her predecessor Bernard Drainville.
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The Haskell Free Library and Opera House in Stanstead, straddling the Canada-U.S. border, now has a new entrance on the Canadian side, following a US decision to stop Canadians from entering the facility from the US.
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Doctor and Super Bowl champion Laurent Duvernay-Tardif has bought Boulangerie Arhoma, a bakery in Montreal’s Hochelaga-Maisonneuve borough.
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Tampa Bay / Habs / 7 p.m.
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Sun + cloud / 16º today
Rain / 11º tomorrow