By Murray Sherriffs
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The CAQ is now officially called Équipe Christine Fréchette–Coalition Avenir Québec.
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Montreal’s Just For Laughs comedy festival is underway.
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The federal government is changing the way that immigration consultants are regulated, but some are worried that not much will change.
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Montreal police have arrested two people for attacking visible members of the Jewish community earlier this month with antisemetic insults directed at several men returning from Shabbat services who were spit on, had objects thrown at them and items stolen.
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The City of Montreal will build 54 prefabricated transitional housing units for homeless women on Elmhurst avenue, in Notre Dame de Grâce.
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Former Premier Marois has won the support of the CAQ government in her effort to hold a summit on homelessness next year, with Premier Fréchette agreeing to develop “a national plan”—not a government plan—on homelessness.
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Montreal’s Maisonneuve-Rosemont Hospital is live-streaming complex eye surgeries to give medical trainees real-time training, with the goal of becoming an international leader in the field.
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The Fréchette government and Ottawa will spend $672 million to renovate Charles LeMoyne Hospital in Longueuil.
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Quebecers are paying less tax on food and hygiene products—toilet paper, facial tissues, snack bars, prepared fruits. vegetable platters, salted and seasoned nuts, muffins, croissants and doughnuts—saving the average family $50 dollars a year.
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35-year-old Kenton Arnold Desjarlais of Saskatchewan, a man who has embraced a lifelong criminal habit, has been arrested in Montreal on charges of sexual assault involving two people and of committing an indecent act in the view of several people.
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Agropur has reached an agreement with the French dairy company Lactalis to sell its fine cheese business, including production of Oka cheese.
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Montreal’s Pierre Draws has won $5 million dollars in the July 4 Lotto 6/49 draw. “the best day of my life…I still don’t believe it.” The 60 year old Draw has lived in an apartment since he was 15 years old and says “…I deserve a house, a more beautiful life for me and my cat.”
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Sun + showers / 27º today
Sun / 27º tomorrow
