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The motorist accused in the hit and run that killed a young Ukrainian evacuee in Montreal, has pleaded guilty to failing to stop after an accident. Juan Manuel Becerra Garcia, 46, was charged in…
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The family of an 86-year-old Filipino grandmother found dead on the floor at the Lakeshore General Hospital in 2021 is suing the regional health authority on Montreal’s West Island for $1 million. Candida…
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Hockey fans made their way to Place Bell in Laval on Thursday evening. The crowd ahead of the Montreal/Boston PWHL game on May 9, 2024 at Place Bell in Laval. (Credit: Adriana Gentile, CityNews) Montreal’s…
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A video that’s been widely shared on social media Thursday shows a young girl crossing the street in Montreal to catch her school bus and getting hit by a cyclist. It happened on Thursday on Jeanne-Mance…
The man accused of murdering two children and injuring six others after a Laval city bus crashed into a Sainte-Rose daycare is scheduled to stand trial over five weeks beginning in April 2025. Superior…
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A collision on Highway 15 has left one man dead north of Montreal on Thursday morning, as he tried to change a tire. According to the Sûreté du Québec (SQ), the incident happened around 5:15 a.m….
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“My friend was saying like we are like rice, we all stick together,” says Annie Kwan, about her Chinese heritage. Kwan is a sous-chef at Yubari, a new Japanese restaurant that opened in Old Montreal. Fariha Naqvi-Mohamed reports.
“I’m excited,” says Anik Viger, a PWHL Montreal hockey fan at Laval’s Place Bell, ahead of the team’s playoff game Thursday night against third-place Boston in the first round. Pamela Pagano reports.
“Institutional accountability,” is what Emmanuel Macarine, whose 86-year-old mother Candida was found dead on the floor of the ER of Montreal’s Lakeshore General Hospital in 2021, is asking for after filing a $1M lawsuit. Alyssia Rubertucci reports.
Just when you thought these critters were hard to get rid of, experts are warning parents about a resurgence of super lice. Afua Baah has the details rapid return of the tiny bugs.
The Biden administration is proposing a new rule to crack down on migrants crossing into the United States from Mexico. Julia Benbrook with how the potential policy shift would work.
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Franco-Ontarian MP Francis Drouin apologized on Thursday for describing witnesses three days earlier as “extremists” and “full of s—.” “Any witness who comes before this committee should feel free…
The Quebec government plans to train nearly 200 more doctors per year – starting this fall. The Coalition Avenir Québec (CAQ) wants to keep the promise it made in 2022 they say to recruit 660 new doctors…
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The McGill University Health Centre (MUHC) will offer a new pulse field ablation as a minimally invasive procedure to treat atrial fibrillation, the most common form of cardiac arrhythmia. According…
Route 136 will be closed in both directions, between the Turcot interchange and Montreal starting Friday. The closure is needed to install the metal framework on the Saint-Laurent Blvd. overpass. The…
Residents, business owners as well as the mayor of Île Bizard are frustrated with the delays crossing the only bridge that connects their community to the Island of Montreal. During evening rush hour…
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May is Asian Heritage Month. Yubari is a brand new restaurant located in Hotel St. Paul in the heart of Old Montreal. The restaurant features authentic Japanese cuisine with a twist of Asian and French…
The ComediHa! group has announced that it will be offering several activities in Montreal at the end of July before its flagship event in Quebec City. The group had already indicated that it would be…
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It’s been a memorable inaugural season for the Professional Women’s Hockey League. PWHL Montreal set a New Women’s Hockey Attendance record last month –- with more than 21,000 fans at the Bell…
Around 2,300 secondary school teachers in four Canadian provinces are now able to train their students to intervene in the event of an opioid overdose. In Quebec, nearly 800 teachers have been trained. The…
The pro-Palestinian encampment at McGill University’s downtown Montreal campus stood strong Wednesday on its 12th day and even grew in size. The barricade surrounding the tents was moved forward in…
The Quebec Bar’s judicial clinic is opening 500 additional slots for free housing consultations ahead of the big July 1 moving day in the province. “The Quebec Bar is sensitive to the legal…
Quebec plans to end the requirement of needing a medical note before being reimbursed by an insurance company. On Wednesday, Labour Minister Jean Boulet announced that he will table a bill to ‘cut…
Nathan Goulet could hardly believe his eyes. The 22-year-old CS Saint-Laurent defender remembers watching Federico Bernardeschi play in the UEFA Champions League for elite Italian club Juventus a few…
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The Professional Women’s Hockey League has been crushing records left, right and centre in its inaugural season. And, ahead of its first-ever playoff game on Wednesday, the league shared some stats…
Quebec singer-songwriter Jean-Pierre Ferland will be laid to rest in a national funeral June 1 at Montreal’s Mary Queen of the World Cathedral. Quebec Premier François Legault offered the national…
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Life expectancy in Quebec has returned to pre-pandemic levels, according to new data from the Institut de la statistique du Québec (ISQ). There was an increase in mortality rates among 25- to 44-year-olds…
Quebec education minister Bernard Drainville is now considering banning cell phones everywhere in schools, and not just in classroom, as is currently the case. “On the (topic of) screens, there is…
LONGUEUIL, Que. — A Quebec court judge has ruled that the case against a former RCMP officer charged with helping China conduct foreign interference can go ahead in the province. Judge Sacha Blais denied…
Montreal police (SPVM) are investigating after an incendiary object was thrown into a commercial building in Villeray. Calls coming into emergency services at around 3 a.m. on Wednesday about the incident…