{"id":7563,"date":"2026-09-15T12:29:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-15T12:29:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newscoverage.org\/?p=7563"},"modified":"2026-09-15T12:29:28","modified_gmt":"2026-09-15T12:29:28","slug":"newsbrief-15-9-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newscoverage.org\/index.php\/2026\/09\/15\/newsbrief-15-9-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Newsbrief (15.9.2026)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span><strong><em>B<\/em><\/strong><\/span><em style=\"font-weight: bold;\">y<i style=\"font-weight: bold;\"> <\/i><\/em><em><strong>Murray Sherriffs<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A L\u00e9ger \/ Le Journal \/ TVA Nouvelles poll shows that the Parti Qu\u00e9b\u00e9cois remains in the lead (29%), followed by the Liberals (23%), CAQ (21%), Conservative (17%) and Qu\u00e9bec Solidaire (10%).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">=<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Hydro Qu\u00e9bec and New England states are embroiled in a US$40 million legal dispute over a service outage during the polar vortex last Winter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">=<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Montreal&#8217;s carsharing company Communauto says that a security breach involving personal information is under investigation, after one of its employee tried to download customer records, compromising customer names, dates of birth, addresses, phone numbers, driver\u2019s licenses and emergency contact information.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">=<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Three teens are among five people charged in the smash-grab robbery of a downtown Montreal jewelry last Friday (Clark and Viger) and police suspect that the gang has committed similar robberies in the area.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">=<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Union of Quebec Municipalities says that the homeless cost Quebecers $1.15 billion<sup>+<\/sup>\u2014$95,284 a year for every person.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">=<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Laval doctor Sanjeev Sirpal has been found guilty of two counts of assault and one count of counselling his then-girlfriend to create a false diary entry claiming that she had seen one of his patients wearing a Nazi symbol and making a racist remark in a waiting room, payback for the patient&#8217;s formal complaint made to the doctor\u2019s college.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">=<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Montreal Canadiens have signed head coach Martin St. Louis to a multi-year contract extension.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">=<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Josh Anderson has been named alternate captain this season, joining Mike Matheson behind captain Nick Suzuki.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">=<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sun + cloud \/ 21\u00ba today<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Showers \/ 26\u00ba tomorrow<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Murray Sherriffs A L\u00e9ger \/ Le Journal \/ TVA Nouvelles poll shows that the Parti Qu\u00e9b\u00e9cois remains in the lead (29%), followed by the Liberals (23%), CAQ (21%), Conservative (17%) and Qu\u00e9bec Solidaire (10%). = Hydro Qu\u00e9bec and New England states are embroiled in a US$40 million legal dispute over a service outage during<\/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-7563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.4 - 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