By Murray Sherriffs
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A group of Montreal lawyers has filed a legal challenge to the city of Montreal’s new bylaw which penalizes anyone who verbally insults a police officer, claiming that the law violates people’s fundamental rights to freedom of expression and that the hefty fines infringe on the right to protection against cruel and unusual punishment.
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The United States’ ban on Canadian alcohol is in effect, which sees many Quebec alcohol producers shut out of the U.S. market.
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Day 36 of electioneering in Quebec:
• CAQ leader Fréchette says that now is not the time to increase immigration.
• The Liberals want to implement nurse-to-patient ratios.
• Québec Solidaire says that the CAQ has abandoned municipalities dealing with homeless people.
• The Conservatives want greater autonomy for Indigenous nations.
• The PQ is promising to break with the British monarchy, if elected.
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The Mohawk Council of Kahnawà:ke says that the Parti Québécois must recognize Indigenous rights and that it does not, in its Livre bleu which outlines the party’s vision for a Quebec separate from Canada, economically, socially, culturally and linguistically.
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The truck driver who killed a mom and her son, when he drove his tractor trailer into a line of stopped cars at a construction site on Highway 30 in Brossard four years ago, while playing a video game on his phone, and then fled Canada, was sentenced to six years imprisonment.
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The partner of a 77-year-old woman found dead in her home in Laval, has been charged with murder.
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In several Montreal-area municipalities, murdered and abused indigenous children have been honored in Every Child Matters observances to mark National Truth and Reconciliation Day, many organized by the Native Women’s Shelter of Montreal.
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A Quebec coroner says that 87-year-old Sheila Padmore died in her Notre Dame de Grâce apartment from profound hypothermia, after spending nearly 36 hours without electricity during a major outage.
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Quebec’s Collège des Médecins has established a task force on homelessness and says that designating the care of unhoused individuals, is a specific medical activity.
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Former Montreal auxiliary nurse Sam Ahmadi, has been suspended for stealing 800 vials of morphine and hydromorphone from the Lakeshore Hospital emergency department.
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A 17-year-old motorist has injured two homeowners, after crashing his car into their home in Vieux-Longueuil, in his effort to escape police.
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Showers / 23º today
Rain / 17º tomorrow
