By Murray Sherriffs
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Christine Fréchette, Quebec’s premier sworn in yesterday, is promising to focus on growing Quebec’s economy and govern as a nationalist.
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A Pallas Data survey has determined that the Quebec Liberal Party is now leading the Parti Québécois among Quebec voters (32% Liberals; 29% PQ; CAQ and Conservatives tied at 14%; Québec Solidaire 11%).
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Montreal police have arrested a man in connection with the murder of a woman in a home in Ville-Marie borough, on Simpson at Terrasse Summerhill, near the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts.
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The trial for Montreal father Luciano Frattolin, accused of drowning his nine-year-old daughter Melina and hiding her body in a shallow pond near Ticonderoga, New York, has been delayed until July 20.
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29-year-old Baljeet Singh, the tractor-trailer driver who drove his vehicle into a line of cars stopped at a construction site on Highway 30 in Longueuil, four years ago, has been judged guilty of dangerous driving causing death, after killing 42-year-old Nancy Lefrançois and her 11-year-old son, Loïc, and hurting 10 others as he played a video game on his phone.
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Montreal police have pieced together evidence that they discovered at a home in Sainte Anne de Bellevue, and have charged 56-year-old Medhat Darwish with attempting to murder his daughter—of having hit her in the head with a hammer as she slept, then barricading himself in the home for several hours.
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Concordia University and the City of Laval are developing a clean energy network for Carré Laval that will put in place renewable energy infrastructure and make 1,000 affordable housing units available.
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Five vehicles have been destroyed in arson attacks in Saint-Laurent on Gold, Brunet and Noël streets.
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In a bid to encourage waste reduction, the city of Vaudreuil has placed microchips in trash bins that will track how often a resident takes out the bin and reward residents who produce less garbage with rebates on municipal taxes.
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Tanks, fighter jets and 1,500 Canadian soldiers will take part in training exercises as part of the army’s largest annual training event to prepare for a NATO mission in Latvia.
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Sun + cloud / 16º today
Showers / 17º tomorrow
