By Murray Sherriffs
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Gilles Bélanger has departed the CAQ and will sit as an independent for Orford, after Premier Fréchette did not include the former Minister of Cybersecurity and Digital matters in her new cabinet. The Premier has taken note of Mr. Bélanger’s decision, “…I wish him success with his future.”
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Premier Fréchette has met in Montreal with city Mayor Soraya Martinez Ferrada at city hall for the first time, donning Habs sweater for a media exposure, then talking about homelessness, infrastructure, the future of Montreal’s east end, spring flooding, stronger cooperation between all levels of government and efforts to secure more federal funding for public transit.
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The Supreme Court of Canada has rejected a Quebec government appeal that sought to block a redrawing of the electoral map that will see two ridings on the Gaspé Peninsula merged into one and elimination of Montreal’s Anjou-Louis-Riel riding.
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A study from Concordia University shows that mixing languages is not harmful to a child’s vocabulary development, nor does it cause confusion; that language switching is a normal, flexible communication strategy and that bilingual children can successfully navigate multiple languages—even when used within the same sentence.
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The RCMP has arrested 26-year-old Jeffrey Roussela of Quebec City, on charges of participating in a terror group that radicalized teenagers to commit violent crimes and take part in the ideology of the 764 network, which is on Canada’s list of terror extremists.
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The Quebec government will launch its latest digitization of Santé Québec next month, which will centralize all of the province’s patient medical data into a single platform.
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Le Comité d’examen des Décès Liés à la Violence Conjugale has reviewed domestic violence deaths in Quebec, determining that many victims don’t access help they need, even when signs of violence are clear: Prior instances of domestic violence, a recent or imminent separation or a loss of control by the aggressor.
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Montreal Public Health says violence in the city’s high schools is on the rise and, for the most part, it is girls in grades 7-11, who were targeted in the 92 Montreal high public and private schools reviewed. It defines violence as direct—an interaction between the perpetrator and the victim—or indirect—the spread of rumours, physical, psychological, sexual and economic abuse or neglect).
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Air Transat is cutting hundreds of flights from its schedule this year, because of the cost of jet fuel.
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Rigaud residents are breathing easier, as waters from the Ottawa River have peaked. Mayor Charles Meunier says that the dry, sunny weather is helping.
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Montreal Jews celebrated Israel Independence Day in Place du Canada, as pro-Palestinian demonstrators protested on the other side of René Lévesque Boulevard
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A survey commissioned by Earth Day says that with every second that passes, the equivalent of a garbage truck full of clothing is incinerated or sent to a landfill and that in Quebec, the amount of clothing discarded has more than doubled in ten years, noting that it is the result of a “fast-fashion phenomenon,” since the population hasn’t doubled.
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The City of Montreal has investigated 586 cases of aggressive dogs biting people, a 41% increase since 2021.
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