Hunters killed four deer in West Island last year, ministry reports
Hunters registered four deer kills in the West Island in 2020, according to new data from Quebec’s Ministry of Forests, Wildlife and Parks. Read More
View ArticleCommittee adopts recommendations on Montreal police's street-check policy
Montreal's public safety committee unanimously adopted 25 recommendations on Friday to improve the Montreal police department's new street-check policy, including a suggestion that the police force...
View ArticleWhy aren't Quebecers with cancer higher on the COVID-19 vaccine priority list?
Nadia Chaudhri's difficult journey began just as Quebec came to a grinding halt last March. Read More
View ArticleQuebec updating vaccine priority list to address younger, vulnerable people
Quebec's immunization committee is considering a recommendation to raise the priority for younger people with certain health conditions to get the COVID-19 vaccine as it updates its advisory on...
View ArticleLegal challenge seeks same rights for common-law unions as married couples
Family lawyer Anne-France Goldwater has served notice to the Quebec government that she's seeking to challenge the absence of legal protection for common-law couples in the province, a situation that...
View ArticleMontreal Island headed for budget shortfall and it's only March, suburbs say
The amount that Montreal collects from speeding tickets and parking fines hasn't exceeded $168 million in any of the last five years, yet Mayor Valérie Plante's administration is budgeting a windfall...
View ArticleAmendment calls for mail-in voting in Quebec municipal elections for those...
Quebecers who are over 70 would be permitted to vote by mail in municipal elections this fall under an amendment made to Bill 85 on Thursday. Read More
View ArticleStop stalling and let's make a deal, suburbs tell Montreal
Montreal and the island suburbs can't even agree on whether they're at the negotiating table. Read More
View ArticleThe mayor of T.M.R. will not run again, and social-media attacks are a major...
Another Montreal-area mayor says he's fed up with social media attacks and won't run again in the Nov. 7 municipal election. Read More
View ArticleQuebec 'particularly deceptive' about vaccinations for adult group homes,...
Families of adults with intellectual and physical disabilities are blaming the Quebec government for COVID-19 outbreaks in group homes, given that it's withholding the vaccine from that vulnerable...
View ArticleCoderre's plan for skyscrapers goes against Montreal's DNA, Lambert says
Denis Coderre's suggestions to allow downtown towers that rise above Mount Royal and allow the REM de l'Est to be built above-ground near downtown and the riverfront in the east end are urban planning...
View ArticleAdvocates for people with developmental disabilities ready to sue Quebec to...
Advocates for people with developmental disabilities say they're fed up with being ignored and plan to sue the Quebec government if it continues to delay COVID-19 vaccination for their vulnerable loved...
View ArticleA financial time bomb hangs over Montreal's municipal election
By the opposition's reckoning, the Plante administration was already bringing the city to its financial breaking point before the pandemic hit. The administration increased spending by nearly 19 per...
View ArticleDespite debt risk, Montreal's credit rating is stable — for now
One of Montreal's greatest strengths in managing its finances is that the province is always willing to bail it out. Read More
View ArticleCity land grab in Pointe-aux-Trembles a 'scam,' grandson says
The city of Montreal has perpetrated a "monumental scam" to grab plots of land belonging to several individuals in a vacant field in Pointe-aux-Trembles that happens to sit next to the future REM de...
View ArticleMontreal buys low, taxes high, land owners say — as developers get offers
Rosemary Lafrenière would be a millionaire if the city of Montreal applied its new housing development bylaw to buy her acre of land. Read More
View ArticleAudit reveals graduating international students were unable to understand...
So many international students graduating as recently as four years ago from adult vocational programs at the English Montreal and Lester B. Pearson school boards didn't understand English — the...
View Article'Catastrophic' vs. 'positive': Parties divided over Montreal budget's use of...
Calling the city's financial situation "catastrophic," the opposition at city hall declared Montreal to be under effective provincial trusteeship on Thursday after the administration of Mayor Valérie...
View ArticleAudit turned up 'bad debt' but nothing nefarious, EMSB says
The English Montreal School Board says an independent financial review it ordered in 2017 to track what was thought to be millions of dollars in missing international student tuition fees turned up...
View ArticleCities need constitutional status and share of tax revenue: Tremblay
Gérald Tremblay calls it "the pilgrimage." Read More
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