{"id":7067,"date":"2026-03-25T14:33:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-25T14:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newscoverage.org\/?p=7067"},"modified":"2026-03-25T14:33:26","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T14:33:26","slug":"newsbrief-25-3-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newscoverage.org\/index.php\/2026\/03\/25\/newsbrief-25-3-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"NewsBrief (25.3.2026)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

By Murray Sherriffs<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Voters in Terrebonne will have to write in their pick in next month’s byelection, because there are so many candidates\u201448\u2013running.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Quebec’s Minister of Health and Social Services has tabled Bill 38, which sets up new criteria for the involuntary hospitalization of people experiencing a mental health crisis and who are dangerous to other people and themselves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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C\u00e9dric Forest, the brother of the pilot Antoine, who died Sunday at New York\u2019s LaGuardia Airport, has paid tribute to him online; \u201c…have a good flight, my brother. Oh yes, we\u2019ve heard that phrase often, but this time it will be the last. You were always coming and going, always full of new projects. You left us again, too soon to say goodbye. I love you, my brother. You can leave with your head held high.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Residents of Coteau du Lac are being directed by Mayor Andr\u00e9e Rousseau, to pay their respects to Antoine on the town’s Facebook page.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Air Canada\u2019s chief executive officer is in Ottawa to tell the Committee on Official Languages why his message of condolence flight AC8646, Montreal-to-New York, was in English only, French subtitles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A faculty lecturer in aviation management at McGill University, John Gradek, says that usually there’s no direct line of communication between an aircraft and ground vehicles, that both rely on ground control and, if there’s a weak spot in that process, it is with the ground controller.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The head of the National Transportation Safety Board, Jennifer Homendy, says that a runway warning system didn\u2019t work as intended as the Jazz jet landed, because the fire truck did not have a transponder.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Karl Malenfant, the architect of SAAQclic, is in Superior Court, in an effort to quash the Gallant Commission\u2019s final report into the botched and massively over-budget rollout of SAAQclic which determined that top SAAQ officials had lied for years about how the digital transformation project was progressing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Montreal police have unveiled its Anti-Discrimination and Racism Plan,<\/em> to address systemic discrimination by eliminating racial discrimination in police interactions with the public and within the force.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Montreal police have arrested 37-year-old Rosenthal Jr. Dorleans in connection with sexual assaults\u2014some of them minors\u2014on city buses, during morning commutes on two bus routes: the 193 Jarry and 439 Express Pie IX lines.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Quebec government is urging the Supreme Court of Canada to uphold the Bill 21 secularism law, arguing that the Constitution allows the province to override the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms and ban public sector workers from wearing religious symbols on the job.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Montreal’s Inspector General says that part of the problem in filling the city’s potholes could lie in how contracts are awarded: That for years the city has been \u201crestricting competition\u201d in its tendering process.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A fight involving two groups of young people has seen a bullet fired into a store window in C\u00f4te des Neiges district, on \u00c9douard-Montpetit Boulevard near C\u00f4te-des-Neiges.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The RCMP has arrested three Quebecers in connection with an international cocaine trafficking network. 38-year-old Mathieu Provost (Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu), 30-year-old Ysmael Rodrigues Da Costa (Brossard) and 28-year-old Ahmad Ebad Ebadi (Carignan) have been charged with conspiracy to import cocaine and possession of cocaine from Peru for the purpose of trafficking.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Canadiens 5 Carolina 2<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Sun + cloud 3\u00ba today<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Showers \/ 11\u00ba tomorrow<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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