By Murray Sherriffs
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Montreal North Mayor Christine Black is urging residents who have experienced racial profiling, discrimination or racist behaviour by police to come forward, as 16 officers working out of Station 39 are charged or reassigned.
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The Montreal Police Brotherhood says that allegations of racism involving members are “…totally unacceptable and shocking”. Several Montreal groups will protest what is unfolding tonight at 7 p.m. in front of Station 39. Montreal Mayor Martinez Ferrada has denounced what she has heard; that it highlights the persistence of systemic racism.
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The Montreal police Arson division is investigation the fire in St. Michel that killed a 40-year-old father and his four-year-old daughter and has put a 30-year-old woman and a 15-year-old boy in hospital, suffering burns and injuries that they incurred when they jumped from the second floor of the unit.
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The Quebec Liberal Party has sent formal notice to PQ leader Paul St-Pierre Plamondon demanding that he retract remarks linking the party to organized crime and to apologize—and if that doesn’t happen, it is threatening to launch a defamation lawsuit.
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Gunfire near Angrignon Park sent scores of people running on Saturday, and police have arrested a man.
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La Cantine Pour Tous is pushing all of Quebec’s political parties to make school meals a priority in their campaign for election this October. A SOM survey has determined that 88% of respondents want the government to ensure that children have a healthy lunch in elementary school.
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Commercial passenger flights are set to return to Montréal Metropolitan Airport, in St Hubert, today, with the opening of a new terminal.
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The search continues for a young kangaroo that has escaped from its owners’ home in Boucherville. The Galahad SPCA says that the animal was likely being housed illegally.
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Showers / 21º today
Sun / 24º tomorrow