{"id":6842,"date":"2025-12-17T13:48:03","date_gmt":"2025-12-17T13:48:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newscoverage.org\/?p=6842"},"modified":"2025-12-17T13:48:04","modified_gmt":"2025-12-17T13:48:04","slug":"newsbrief-17-12-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newscoverage.org\/index.php\/2025\/12\/17\/newsbrief-17-12-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"NewsBrief (17.12.2025)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong><em>By Murray Sherriffs<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>=<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Quebec Liberal Party Leader Pablo Rodriguez claims to be unaware of 500$ envelopes handed to scores of donors during his leadership campaign, to reimburse their contributions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>=<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A seven-year-old girl who was hit by a school bus in Laval at the intersection of Rapha\u00ebl and Sim\u00e9on streets is in serious condition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>=<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a><\/a>Laval police have arrested five men in connection with multiple robberies that saw a number of people attacked with pepper spray or threatened with a knife. during Facebook Marketplace transactions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>=<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A teenage girl involved in a murder in Ontario has been sent to jail for 10 years by a Valleyfield judge for her involvement in the killing of a 16-year-old boy in St-Zotique, two years ago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>=<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ten people have been arrested in the Mont\u00e9r\u00e9gie in connection with a drug trafficking network operating in Chambly, Beloeil, Marieville, St. Jean sur Richelieu, McMasterville, St. Bruno and Ste. 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