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Crown calls Zampino defence motion a 'fishing expedition' to 'distract' the...
A prosecutor blasted Frank Zampino’s defence at the Contrecoeur fraud trial on Monday, contending that lawyers for the former No. 2 politician at Montreal city hall are trying to “divert the trial,” go...
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Contrecoeur trial to resume Monday
The first witnesses to give evidence at the Contrecoeur fraud trial aren’t expected to be called to testify before next week – at the earliest. The judge presiding over the trial of former Montreal...
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City approves more work that's over budget for 375th anniversary
The first time the city went to tenders last year to award a contract to install decorative limestone blocks in front of the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts for the city’s 375th anniversary, no one...
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Judge orders SQ to hand over more information as Contrecoeur trial gets started
The Contrecoeur fraud trial heard opening arguments from the Crown on Monday, a year after it opened at the Montreal courthouse. However, the process may yet be short-lived because former municipal...
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Contrecoeur trial hears first witnesses
The Contrecoeur fraud trial heard on Tuesday from three investigators who helped execute search warrants at the offices of Union Montreal, the party that ruled Montreal city hall for a decade, and at...
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City planning to make it easier to vote in Nov. 5 municipal election
The city says it wants to induce more people to vote in the municipal election in November, so it’s planning to make it easier for Montrealers to cast ballots. The city executive committee passed a...
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Contrecoeur trial has been suspended until April 3
The Contrecoeur fraud trial was suspended until April 3 on Thursday after Frank Zampino’s defence lawyer filed a request in Quebec Superior Court to stay the proceedings. The trial of the former No. 2...
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Price tag to beautify 5 bus shelters for 375th celebrations: $200,000
After granite tree stumps, the opposition at Montreal city hall is decrying a $200,000 project to put up temporary vinyl window decoration on five bus stops along Côte-des-Neiges Rd. for the city’s...
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Mayor Coderre balks at making all public-safety panel meetings public
Mayor Denis Coderre opened the door to the possibility of organizing more public meetings of the city council committee that oversees the Montreal police. However, he stopped short of saying that...
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Quebec has a new anti-corruption hammer and it’s called ISO 37001
Quebec isn’t the only place fighting corrupt and collusive practices in government and private contracting, but it is about to become one of the first places in the world where companies and public...
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Peter Trent: It's time to go
It has been 13 years since an iconic photo was taken one night in June 2004 of Peter Trent, the guiding spirit of the anti-merger forces in former suburbs that had been amalgamated in regions across...
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Crown to halt trial of four accused in Laval corruption case
The charges against four of the men accused in the Laval municipal corruption case are being set aside. The Crown announced on Monday it will stay the proceedings against four of the 37 people arrested...
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City plans to expand organic waste pickup to all smaller residences by 2019
All Montrealers living in houses, small apartment buildings and plexes will have organic waste collection – for food scraps, anyway — by 2019, Mayor Denis Coderre pledged on Tuesday. Only seven of the...
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Judge rejects Zampino defence request to halt Contrecoeur trial
The Contrecoeur fraud trial is back on after a Quebec Superior Court judge on Wednesday rejected a motion presented by lawyers representing former Montreal city hall No. 2 politician Frank Zampino to...
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Bruno Lachance becomes new chief of Montreal's fire department
The city of Montreal has appointed a new director of its fire department, six months after the last chief left. The new chief is Bruno Lachance, who has been with the Montreal fire department for 33...
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Star Charbonneau witness to testify at Contrecoeur trial
Michel Lalonde, the former engineering firm executive who testified at the Charbonneau commission about a system of collusion and political kickbacks involving Montreal municipal contracts in the...
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Lalonde testifies Zampino had firm in mind for Contrecoeur land deal
It was at a political cocktail fundraiser in the spring of 2005 that Michel Lalonde, the now disgraced former engineering firm executive, says he was first told about a plan to sell a city-owned parcel...
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Zampino didn't attend meetings when political financing and collusion...
While others would tell him that Frank Zampino could take care of problems that arose with municipal contracts, former engineering firm executive Michel Lalonde acknowledged under cross-examination on...
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High cost to decontaminate Contrecoeur land was pulled out of air
When city-owned land known as Faubourg Contrecoeur was sold to a construction firm for a fraction of its evaluation in 2007, the price was based in large part on a high cost estimate to decontaminate...
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Trépanier made others at city hall uncomfortable, Labonté testifies
The chief fundraiser for Union Montreal, the party that ruled city hall in the mid-2000s, had a business card with an official city of Montreal logo that said he worked for the mayor’s office, former...
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