{"id":7350,"date":"2026-07-07T12:45:47","date_gmt":"2026-07-07T12:45:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newscoverage.org\/?p=7350"},"modified":"2026-07-07T12:45:47","modified_gmt":"2026-07-07T12:45:47","slug":"newsbrief-7-7-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newscoverage.org\/index.php\/2026\/07\/07\/newsbrief-7-7-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"NewsBrief (7.7.2026)"},"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\">Quebec&#8217;s police watchdog, the <em>Bureau des Enqu\u00eates Ind\u00e9pendantes,<\/em> is asking people who witnessed the shooting of a police officer in C\u00f4te-des-Neiges and a citizen last month, to talk to its investigators. 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