{"id":7194,"date":"2026-05-27T11:35:22","date_gmt":"2026-05-27T11:35:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newscoverage.org\/?p=7194"},"modified":"2026-05-27T11:35:24","modified_gmt":"2026-05-27T11:35:24","slug":"newsbrief-27-5-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newscoverage.org\/index.php\/2026\/05\/27\/newsbrief-27-5-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"NewsBrief (27.5.2026)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><em>By Murray Sherriffs<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">=<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Game 4 Montreal vs Carolina tonight at 8 p.m.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">=<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Vegas Golden Knights swept the Colorado Avalanche in the Western Conference final last night, and are now resting and waiting for who emerges from the Habs-Hurricane series.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">=<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On day two of the Permanent Peoples\u2019 Tribunal on Missing Indigenous Children and Unmarked graves meeting in Montreal, residential school survivors have shared what they went through at the hands of governments, Christian brothers and churches.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">=<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Quebec government will increase the number of mobile photo radars, especially around schools, where tomorrow&#8217;s leaders are at risk from inattentive or uncaring motorists, and work zones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">=<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">UPAC has met with former Liberal MNA Sona Lakhoyan Olivier relating to text messages about \u201cbrownies\u201d ($100 bills) that were involved in the leadership race of former PLQ leader Pablo Rodriguez, that motivated members to vote for him as leader.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">=<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The City of Montreal will add a crisis unit to its tactical intervention group that deals with the homeless.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">=<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Quebec\u2019s lobbying commissioner Jean Francois Routhier is calling for a major overhaul of the province\u2019s lobbying transparency rules, claiming that the system now in place provides little public oversight. 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