{"id":7454,"date":"2026-08-05T14:39:15","date_gmt":"2026-08-05T14:39:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newscoverage.org\/?p=7454"},"modified":"2026-08-05T14:39:17","modified_gmt":"2026-08-05T14:39:17","slug":"newsbrief-5-8-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newscoverage.org\/index.php\/2026\/08\/05\/newsbrief-5-8-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"NewsBrief (5.8.2026)"},"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\">Montreal police will charge a 15-year-old boy in an arson attack on a triplex on 10th Avenue near Legendre in St. Michel, and are hunting at least two others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">=<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Montreal Police have taken over investigation of a fire at a mosque in C\u00f4te des Neiges.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">=<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">New York state homicide investigators found blood traces on the jacket of a nine-year-old Montreal girl, Melina Frattolin, allegedly murdered by her father Luciano Frattolin last summer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">=<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Canadian army explosives experts are looking at the grenade found at the Lac Cristal campsite, near St. Bernard de Lacolle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">=<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">More people are showing up at Quebec hospital emergency wards at the end of the construction holiday season, with a number of emergency departments operating at 180%+ stretcher capacity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">=<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">811 callers now wait an average 89 minutes before making contact with a nurse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">=<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Laval police have seized millions of dollars in illegal drugs and firearms in Project Daurade raids on homes, a commercial business and vehicles in Laval, Montreal and Lanaudi\u00e8re.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">=<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Longueuil police feel there are more victims of 48-year-old M\u00e9lanie Tanguay, charged with stealing jewelry from homes she cleaned in St. Bruno de Montarville and Sainte Julie.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">=<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Firefighters in L\u2019Ascension have to navigate around a massive hole outside the fire hall as they answer calls for help from citizens affected by heavy rain that hit the village of 900 people, north of Mont Tremblant, in recent days.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">=<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Dollard city officials have cancelled an information session about the flooding problem, because of the class-action lawsuit filed against the city, resulting in anger and frustration by residents who feel abandoned.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">=<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Montreal is marking the 325th anniversary of the Great Peace of Montreal, reaffirming its commitment to reconcile with Indigenous Peoples and revealing a new Indigenous housing strategy and reconciliation action plan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">=<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The steady increase in requests for medical assistance in dying has resulted in Quebec now leading the world in this practice: 7.9 per cent of deaths in the province in 2024-2025.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">=<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sun \/ 30\u00ba today<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sun + showers \/ 30\u00ba tomorrow<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Murray Sherriffs = Montreal police will charge a 15-year-old boy in an arson attack on a triplex on 10th Avenue near Legendre in St. Michel, and are hunting at least two others. = Montreal Police have taken over investigation of a fire at a mosque in C\u00f4te des Neiges. = New York state homicide<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.2 - 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