By Murray Sherriffs
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The Bureau des Enquêtes Indépendantes will look at the deaths of two young people who crashed their vehicle into a river in Coteau du lac yesterday, in an effort to escape Sûreté du Québec officers.
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Three Montreal teen males, charged in the stabbing death killing of a 22-year-old Edmonton man in the Walmart on Henri Bourassa last week, are being allowed to go home, under strict bail conditions.
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Quebec Auditor General Christine Roy says that the CAQ government revealed poor planning, lack of clear objectives and timelines when it invested $2.2 billion of public dollars in 11 companies, all of which have abandoned their projects.
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The CAQ government has revived the Programme de l’expérience québécoise immigration program, which offered status to French-speaking immigrants with Quebec work-study experience, reversing a decision by then-Immigration Minister Jean-François Roberge that put thousands into a state of limbo.
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An online survey conducted by La Presse reveals that the Parti Québécois is ahead of the Liberals—31 percent to 25 percent—and that the CAQ at 21 percent.
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Montreal police have arrested a 27-year-old man in St-Léonard in connection with a shooting that injured two women at Club École Privée in the Plateau, last month.
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Montreal police have stopped a criminal network that generated nearly $2 millionarresting seven people who had stolen vehicles in New Brunswick that were ferried to Quebec, where they were altered and sold.
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The Information Alimentaire Populaire Centre-Sud food bank in the Village has hiked the price of its food baskets from $3 to $5, for the first time in more than a decade, citing a decline in food deliveries that forced the organization to buy food.
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Day 2 of the Conference of Montreal has seen delegates talk about artificial intelligence, infrastructure, energy, talent, public institutions and whether people trust looming change, in light of inflation reaching 3.3% in Montreal—above the Canadian rate of 2.4%, with food inflation reaching 5.1% and housing inflation at 5.7% and fewer than one-in-five Canadians believing that the next generation will be better off.
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The City of Montreal’s Director General Benoît Dagenais has been fired, taking with him a $1 million severance package and Mayor Martinez Ferrada’s praise for his professionalism, rigour and courage.
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The new entrance to the library that straddles in Quebec-Vermont border in Stanstead, Quebec, and Derby Line, Vermont, has been officially opened, after the end of a 100+ year friendly understanding between two countries that allowed Canadians to enter from the United States side without a passport or customs inspection. Once inside, patrons can browse in either country.
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Showers / 28º today + tomorrow
