By Murray Sherrifs
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The City of Montreal has put in place its highest flood-alert status, with thousands of residents of north end and West Island communities advised that their homes are at risk.
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Quebec Premier Fréchette will meet with Prime Minister Carney today in Ottawa, a request that she made soon after being chosen by party members to lead the CAQ.
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Quebec Liberal leader Charles Milliard says the party will maintain the use of the notwithstanding clause to shield from court challenges most of Bill 96, which overhauled the Charter of the French Language and eliminate the red tape that it imposes on small and medium-size companies and forcing immigrants who have been in Quebec for six months, to receive services in French.
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27-year-old Alexandre Karim Amau Restau has been charged with shooting dead his girlfriend, Hiba Elrhazi, in a downtown Montreal condo this week.
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A Sûreté du Québec unit that investigates organized crime says that its members have arrested several people suspected of killing a 14-year-old boy two years ago, in Frampton, near a Hells Angels bunker.
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A Montreal judge has told former high school basketball coach Robert Luu, who sexually abused one of his players in St. Laurent, that he is going to federal prison, so get ready.
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A worker has been crushed by a tractor-trailer truck at a business in St. Michel, near Albert-Louis-Van-Houtte Avenue and Jean-Rivard.
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Twenty-one school organizations are calling for a ban on the sale of energy drinks to young people under the age of 16, following the death of 15-year-old Zachary Miron, who died of an arrhythmia after consuming a drink that didn’t go well with his prescribed medication.
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Montreal Mayor Soraya Martinez Ferrada says that Montreal bars and restaurants will pay less for patio permits this year—in one instance falling from $11,000 to $1,400—in an effort to ease the financial burden faced by businesses due to ongoing construction.
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Montreal’s blue-collar workers held a rally yesterday on the second day of a three-day strike.
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Quebecers will have access tomorrow and Sunday to free legal advice, with 60+ lawyers and notaries to be on hand as part of the Telephone Legal Clinic organized by the Young Bar Association of Montreal.
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The Caribbean Coalition Network of Montreal has officially unveiled the Montreal Carimas Festival and say this summer’s celebration will be music and dancing and focus on reviving a Caribbean carnival tradition that they say “…once defined Montreal” and the big parade is set for July 4. Mark Henry, president of the organization, says that the festival will build on a carnival legacy in Montreal that goes back more than 50 years.
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Montreal Canadiens players Alexandre Texier, Juraj Slafkovský, Lane Hutson and Jakub Dobes will be the voices announcing station arrivals at Metro stops near the Bell Centre for the playoffs, Bonaventure and Lucien-L’Allier.
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The Canadiens play Game One against Tampa Bay Sunday night in Florida.
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Sun + cloud / 16º today
Sun / 23º tomorrow
Rain / 6º Sunday