By Murray Sherriffs
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After hearing victim impact statements, the Crown and defence have reached an agreement that 29-year-old Baljeet Singh, the truck driver who killed 42-year-old Nancy Lefrançois and her 11-year-old son, Loïc and injured 10 others in a construction zone, while playing a video game as he motored along Highway 30 in St. Hubert, should do six years of jail time.
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A Quebec Court of Appeal judge has rejected a challenge from the city of Montreal, in an effort to dismantle a homeless encampment.
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CAQ leader Fréchette says that voters don’t need to know if she is still a separatist saying that “…my personal position is not important.”
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Longueuil police pulled over two bikers wearing Hells Angels vests this week, telling them that they are breaking a Quebec law that bans public display of the winged skull symbol, which they must cover up.
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Maison Benoît Labre, a supervised consumption site in St. Henri, is again the focus of residents and merchants, who are insisting that it be relocated because some users who exit the building are a menace to neighbours. They have organized a protest for next week that will focus on safety concerns.
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A Quebec judge has heard concerns from both sides and is deliberating the Élections Québec decision to issue no English-language voter information documents ahead of the October 5 election. As lawyer Douglas Mitchell states—acting for plaintiff Geoffery Chambers—not giving Quebecers the information they need to cast a ballot can hurt their ability to exercise their fundamental right to vote.
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25 years after 9/11, Montrealer Kimmy Chedel is remembering her late husband Frank Doyle, who called her from the 87th floor of the World Trade Center, telling her he loved her and their their children.
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Quebec’s new Children’s Welfare and Rights Commissioner, Marie-Ève Brunet-Kitchen says that her investigations will probe the systems surrounding vulnerable young people.
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20-year-old Mikael Jacob has been charged with stealing airbags from several vehicles in Anjou, Mercier–Hochelaga-Maisonneuve, Rivière-des-Prairies, Pointe-aux-Trembles, Saint-Michel and Parc Extension.
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Longueuil police have charged Tristan Duschene with committing sexual offences involving a minor when he worked as a social worker for youth-oriented organizations in the Montreal area. They are urging potential victims and witnesses who might have been in contact with the suspect, to come forward.
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Crown prosecutors are now reviewing the evidence in the case of 13-year-old Megan Bell, who was killed as she attempted to dismount the double chairlift at Centre Vorlage in Wakefield, when her jacket hood got caught in the lift.
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