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Contrecoeur: Decision expected Tuesday about whether trial can proceed
The defence in the Contrecoeur fraud trial is expected to find out on Tuesday which police officers had access to certain intercepted communications between some of the accused and their lawyers while...
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Movement expected Wednesday on motion holding up Contrecoeur trial
The Crown accused the defence at the Contrecoeur fraud trial on Tuesday of going on a “fishing expedition” with its motion seeking more details concerning police wiretaps that targeted one of the...
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New political financing rules kick in for municipal elections
Fewer than half of Montrealers vote in a municipal election, but everyone is going to support the candidates who run in the next general election this November under new provincial financing rules that...
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Contrecoeur trial expected to begin — for real
The Contrecoeur fraud trial is expected to hear opening arguments and from its first witnesses at the Montreal courthouse as of Friday — a year after the trial began. Quebec Court judge Yvan Poulin,...
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Crown puts Contrecoeur trial on hold after police 'misunderstood' court order
A revelation and an admission of error by the Crown in the disclosure of police wiretaps of some of the accused and their lawyers has brought the Contrecoeur fraud trial to a temporary halt. The...
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City vows to sue witnesses who testified against Applebaum about bribes
They may have avoided criminal charges by testifying against former Montreal mayor Michael Applebaum, but witnesses who admitted at his corruption trial they received or offered some part of $60,000 in...
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Montreal bureaucrat leaves with $190,000 severance after two years
The administration of Mayor Denis Coderre is giving the director of the city’s economic development department a $190,000 package to leave the city after two years in the job. The director, Serge...
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Projet Montréal calls for end to police manager bonuses for tickets
The city of Montreal is being urged to abolish performance bonuses paid to police department managers whose officers meet quotas for issuing traffic tickets. Projet Montréal, the official opposition...
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Montreal bars first firm from city contracts after bad report card
The city of Montreal has for the first time used its power to bar a firm from obtaining municipal contracts for two years based on a bad report card from the city for its work. But the firm’s president...
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Judge insists Crown and defence hurry up to move Contrecoeur trial forward
The judge presiding over the Contrecoeur fraud trial has granted the Crown a delay to hand over more material to the defence relating to police wiretaps that intercepted conversations between some of...
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Hearing on wiretaps to continue at Contrecoeur trial on Thursday
A judge has given lawyers representing former Montreal politician Frank Zampino until Thursday to say whether they’re satisfied with documents and audiotapes that were handed over by the Crown during...
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Contrecoeur trial unlikely to see first witness testify before March
It now appears unlikely the Contrecoeur fraud trial will see its first witness before early March. The hold up in the one-year-old trial relates to back-and-forth this week between the prosecution and...
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Quebec athlete's Olympic dreams among the victims of U.S. travel restrictions
Mohamad Alsabbagh says he considers himself lucky to live in Canada and train here as a triathlete, with a dream of competing in the 2020 Olympics. It has been treacherous for fellow athletes back in...
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Groups say Montreal must go beyond words to become a "Sanctuary City"
As Montreal city council prepares to vote on Monday on a motion declaring this a “sanctuary city,” several community groups concerned with the fate of undocumented immigrants are warning that words...
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Police chief must address whistleblower allegations: Projet Montréal
Related Allegations of Montreal police corruption are 'troubling': CoderreWhat we know about the latest Montreal police scandalFormer SPVM internal affairs head no stranger to controversy The Montreal...
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Police corruption scandal: Montreal appears light-years behind on oversight...
Police departments in other provinces in Canada use data-tracking software that can flag officers who are at risk of misconduct and in need of early intervention. Those forces answer to multiple layers...
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Leadership void at Montreal fire department: No one wants to be its chief
No one, it seems, wants to lead Quebec’s largest and busiest fire service. The Montreal Fire Department has now gone without a chief longer than anytime in the past 80 years. The last director of the...
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City and firefighters union at war over whether fire department cuts threaten...
Related Leadership void at Montreal fire department: No one wants to be its chief The Montreal fire department says it’s providing an acceptable level of service despite budget cuts over the past three...
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Woman falls through broken drain cover in N.D.G.
Lorne Dubrofsky says he’s livid after his daughter, Andra, fell part way into a city drain in front of her home in Notre-Dame-de-Grâce on Sunday because the grid covering it was broken. “She fell into...
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Contrecoeur trial hearing final defence motion — for now — before witnesses...
The 13-month-old Contrecoeur fraud trial is not expected to begin hearing evidence until mid-week at the earliest. The trial of Frank Zampino, the former No. 2 politician at Montreal city hall, former...
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