Aylmer, Quebec news

• Cyclists call for Sherbrooke St. bike path across Montreal

  20-11-2018 23:34 via montrealgazette.com
  Could Sherbrooke St. become Montreal’s main east-west corridor for cyclists?
  A new coalition of cycling groups and environmental organizations is pushing for it. With 4,000 cyclists a day already using the congested street in the downtown core in the summer, there’s an obvious need, proponents say.
  They want to see an 18-kilometre bike path running from the street’s western boundary in Montreal West all the way to Highway 25 in Hochelaga-Maisonneuve. It would traverse Notr
  
  Read more

• Consumers in Quebec, Ontario warned not to eat romaine lettuce

  20-11-2018 22:45 via montrealgazette.com
  Consumers should avoid eating romaine lettuce following an outbreak of E. coli that as of Tuesday had affected 15 people in Quebec and three people in Ontario.
  Public health investigators in Canada and the U.S. have not been able to pinpoint the cause of the outbreak, but say it may be related to an earlier outbreak of E. coli dating back to December 2017. There may be a recurring source of contamination, they said.
  Among the people infected in Canada, all had consumed romaine lettuce, either at
  
  Read more

• Métro escalators: Fix them or else, STM warns contractor

  20-11-2018 22:44 via montrealgazette.com
  The Société de transport de Montréal has lost patience with a company it has mandated to repair escalators at four stations on the métro Blue Line.
  The transit agency says it has served notice it intends to cancel the contract because the company is taking too long to do the work.
  The STM has warned Global-Tardif it must complete repairs at Édouard-Montpetit, Jean-Talon, Côte-des-Neiges and St-Michel stations by Nov. 30 or the contract will be cancel
  
  Read more

• Exciting, speedy Canadiens firmly in playoff hunt at one-quarter mark

  20-11-2018 22:06 via montrealgazette.com
  The hope for many Canadiens fans going into this season was for another dismal finish and the prospect of a spot in the Jack Hughes draft sweepstakes next June.
  There was little reason for optimism.
  Carey Price was coming off the worst season of his career as he embarked on an eight-year contract with an annual cap hit of US$10.5 million.
  Shea Weber, the team’s No. 2 defenceman, was out until December following surgery on his foot and his knee.
  The Canadiens finished 29th in the NHL in sco
  
  Read more

• Advertisement

• West Island Community Calendar for the week of Nov. 21

  20-11-2018 22:00 via montrealgazette.com
  Galleries and exhibitions
  The Stewart Hall Art Gallery, 176 Lakeshore Rd., Pointe-Claire, presents the 2019 Art Rental Collection, a wide selection of artworks by more than 75 artists. Continues until Dec. 2. Call 514-630-1220, ext. 1778.
  To The Stable Creche Display on Dec. 4 and 5 from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. at Cedar Park United Church, 204 Lakeview Ave. in Pointe-Claire. All are welcome. Free admission. Tea room available both days fro 2:30 to 4 p.m. Call 514-695-3337.
  Galerie de la ville, 12001 d
  
  Read more

• City considering eliminating up to 500 parking spots on Ste-Catherine

  20-11-2018 21:55 via montrealgazette.com
  Under fire from opposition city councillors and Montreal’s downtown business association, Mayor Valérie Plante’s administration is denying that it has already decided to eliminate almost 500 parking spots on Ste-Catherine St.
  When it announced Phase 1 of the Ste-Catherine revitalization in the spring, the Plante administration said parking would be removed between Bleury and Mansfield Sts. and one of the two traffic lanes would be dropped.
  The revamp of that 670-metre stretch,
  
  Read more

• 8-month jail term for SQ officer in high-speed crash that killed boy

  20-11-2018 21:48 via montrealgazette.com
  A Quebec Court judge who expressed surprise at the lenient joint recommendation has nevertheless sentenced a former Sûreté du Québec officer to an eight-month prison term for killing a child while driving at high speed.
  Just before 8 a.m. on Feb. 13, 2014, Patrick Ouellet, 34, was speeding to catch up to a surveillance operation on the South Shore when he struck a car driven by the father of five-year-old Nicholas Thorne-Belance.
  Ouellet, in an unmarked vehicle, had no r
  
  Read more

• Update: Atwater Tunnel under water after workers cut through pipe

  20-11-2018 21:40 via montrealgazette.com
  The Atwater Tunnel in southwestern Montreal was almost completely flooded Tuesday after construction workers cut through a water pipe.
  Water poured into the tunnel, just south of the Atwater Market, and some surrounding streets were also flooded.
  A contractor working in the sector accidentally broke the pipe, said city spokesperson Marilyne Laroche Corbeil.
  Earlier reports that the break was caused by natural gas utility Énergir were false, Corbeil said.
  Police and firefighters respo
  
  Read more

• Advertisement

• Second man testifies at Montreal priest's sexual assault trial

  20-11-2018 21:26 via montrealgazette.com
  A second man testified Tuesday that Brian Boucher, a Catholic priest active until 2015 in several parishes in the Montreal region, sexually assaulted him on a regular basis, in this case for more than three years beginning when the victim was just 10 years old.
  Boucher, 57, has been stripped of his parish responsibilities while he faces multiple counts of sexual assault brought by three victims. The charges relate to incidents alleged to have occurred between 1985 and 2015 when Boucher was
  
  Read more

• Watch: Esi Edugyan wins Giller Prize for the second time

  20-11-2018 21:14 via montrealgazette.com
  Esi Edugyan won Canada’s top literary prize Monday for her novel Washington Black, about a boy who escapes slavery at a Barbados sugar plantation.
  Edugyan says it’s vital to tell the stories of marginalized people.
  Edugyan’s first Giller win was for Half-Blood Blues in 2011.
  Related
  Esi Edugyan wins second $100K Giller PrizeMontreal authors well represented on Giller Prize long list
  
  Read more

• Anger after court delay for man charged with threatening Jewish girls

  20-11-2018 20:47 via montrealgazette.com
  A large group of Jewish mothers, grandmothers and rabbis packed a courtroom on Tuesday for the appearance of a Montreal man who threatened to kill girls at a Jewish girls’ school.
  Robert Gosselin, 55, has been charged with inciting hatred toward Jewish people and threatening to cause death and bodily harm to Jews after anti-Semitic posts were written on the Facebook page of Le Journal de Montréal.
  Gosselin sat in the courtroom for about an hour, often with his eyes closed, before te
  
  Read more

• Gazette Christmas Fund: Single mother finds validation in writing

  20-11-2018 20:12 via montrealgazette.com
  Manon knows the power of community.
  In her early adulthood, Manon was in and out of the hospital because of mental health issues. Following a particularly rough patch, she said a local community centre provided her with work and a circle of friends that she has maintained to this day.
  Armed with that support, Manon said she was able to keep a positive outlook when faced with a breast cancer diagnosis last year.
  “I said I’m going to make it through it, and I did.”
  Now in remissi
  
  Read more

• Critics decry possibility of eliminating more Ste-Catherine St. parking

  20-11-2018 19:43 via montrealgazette.com
  Under fire from opposition city councillors and Montreal’s downtown business association, Mayor Valérie Plante’s administration is denying that it has already decided to eliminate almost 500 parking spots on Ste-Catherine St.
  When it announced Phase 1 of the revamp of Ste-Catherine in the spring, the Plante administration said parking would be removed between Bleury and Mansfield Sts. That 670-metre stretch has about 140 spots, with work scheduled to end in 2021.
  On Monday, ci
  
  Read more

• Opinion: Extending Uber pilot project will disadvantage future competition

  20-11-2018 19:38 via montrealgazette.com
  In a move that upset the province’s taxi drivers, the new Coalition Avenir Québec government recently extended the Uber pilot project for a third year. On the one hand, the decision allows the government more time to study the effects of platform-mediated services (like Uber and AirBnB) on traditional businesses and how best to “level the playing field” between new entrants and incumbents. On the other, by extending the project, the governme
  
  Read more

• Frustration after delay for man charged with inciting hate toward Jews

  20-11-2018 19:31 via montrealgazette.com
  A large group of Jewish mothers, grandmothers and rabbis packed a courtroom on Tuesday for the appearance of a Montreal man who threatened to kill girls at a Jewish girls’ school.
  Robert Gosselin, 55, has been charged with inciting hatred toward Jewish people and threatening to cause death and bodily harm to Jews after anti-Semitic posts were written on the Facebook page of Le Journal de Montréal.
  Gosselin sat by himself, often with his eyes closed, for about an hour before telling
  
  Read more

• Update: Atwater underwater after Gaz Métro workers cut through pipe

  20-11-2018 19:28 via montrealgazette.com
  The Atwater tunnel in southwestern Montreal was almost completely flooded Tuesday after construction workers cut through a water pipe.
  Water poured into the tunnel, which is just south of the Atwater Market. Some streets around the tunnel were also flooded.
  Employees from Gaz Métro doing work in the area cut through a 24-inch water pipe, Montreal mayor Valérie Plante said.
  Police and firefighters responded to the call about 10:30 Tuesday morning, and quickly closed off the streets
  
  Read more

• Atwater Tunnel is flooded because of a water-main break

  20-11-2018 18:04 via montrealgazette.com
  A water main break in St-Henri flooded the Atwater tunnel Tuesday morning, just south of the Atwater market.
  Police and firefighters responded to the call about 10:30 Tuesday morning, and quickly closed off the streets around the sector. While the area is near Highway 15 and is a main thoroughfare for motorists, Sud-Ouest mayor Benoit Dorais, who was on the scene, said no one is in danger because of the flood.
  Tunnel Atwater fermé en raison d’une inondation suite à une condui
  
  Read more

• Critics decry plan to eliminate almost 500 parking spots on Ste-Catherine

  20-11-2018 17:41 via montrealgazette.com
  Opposition city councillors and Montreal’s downtown business association say a plan to eliminate all street parking on Ste-Catherine St. between Bleury St. and Atwater Ave. would hurt retailers on the city’s premier commercial strip.
  The plan was mentioned in passing in a city document made public this week about Phase 2 of the Ste-Catherine revitalization plan, which is to begin after 2021.
  A Plante administration spokesperson did not respond to a request for comment on Tu
  
  Read more

• SQ officer who killed child during high-speed chase gets 8 months in prison

  20-11-2018 17:40 via montrealgazette.com
  A Quebec Court judge has agreed with a joint recommendation that a Sûreté du Québec officer be sentenced to an eight-month prison term for having killed a child while he was needlessly driving at high speed when he crashed into the car the boy was riding in.
  On Feb. 13, 2014, Patrick Ouellet was speeding to get to a surveillance operation that was underway on the South Shore when he struck the car being driven by the father of five-year-old Nicholas Thorne-Belance. Ouellet wa
  
  Read more

• Economy minister denies conflict of interest with Bombardier supplier

  20-11-2018 17:40 via montrealgazette.com
  QUEBEC — The minister responsible for the economy says he is not in conflict of interest because he owns shares in a company supplying parts to Bombardier at the same time as he is trying to shore up the aeronautics giant.
  Pierre Fitzgibbon told reporters he also resigned from the board of director of Héroux-Devtek the day after he was elected to the legislature as part of the Coalition Avenir Québec government.
  The 8,000 shares he owns in the company, which are worth about $
  
  Read more

• Circus to screen: Montrealer lands role in J.K. Rowling’s Fantastic Beasts

  20-11-2018 16:49 via montrealgazette.com
  Until recently, Bart Soroczynski was never that interested in the world of Harry Potter created by author J.K. Rowling.
  “I had seen a few Harry Potter (films),” he says, “but it was so far back in my memory that I had to read a lot to prepare.”
  What he was preparing for was his role in the film Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald, the Harry Potter prequel with a screenplay by Rowling that opened in theatres Friday.
  In 2004, Bart Soroczynski played accordion on a m
  
  Read more

• Rescuers searching for helicopter that vanished in the Laurentians

  20-11-2018 16:43 via montrealgazette.com
  Rescuers were searching high and low on Tuesday for a helicopter and its pilot that disappeared during a flight between Rouyn-Noranda and Mirabel.
  Sûreté de Quebec police officers are searching the ground, while army helicopters are looking from the air for the pilot, a man in his 50s. The helicopter’s last known location is believed to be near St-Adolphe-d’Howard, about 30 kilometres from where the pilot was due to land. Police pinpointed the area near Lac Saint-Jo
  
  Read more

• Socks for Bubbly: Montreal restaurants join forces to help the homeless

  20-11-2018 14:40 via montrealgazette.com
  Listening to a radio documentary one winter morning, David Ferguson learned that clean socks are a scarce commodity for the homeless, whose feet are often wet and who are at risk for ulcers and infections that can lead to nerve damage and other permanent problems.
  People donate coats and sweaters to homeless shelters but, as the chef-owner of Restaurant Gus in La Petite-Patrie learned from the Socks for the Homeless doc on the CBC’s Sunday Edition in 2013, the need for new socks
  
  Read more

• Two Verdun fires lit in stairwells will be investigated by arson squad

  20-11-2018 14:06 via montrealgazette.com
  Montreal’s arson squad will investigate after two fires — suspected of being deliberately set — damaged homes and businesses in Verdun early Tuesday morning.
  The first fire broke out around 1:40 a.m. in a commercial and residential building on Wellington St. at the corner of Regina St. Two second-floor homes were evacuated, and the residents were not injured. However, the stores and apartments are likely a total loss.
  Firefighters determined fires had been lit in a few differen
  
  Read more

• How does your high school compare in annual rankings?

  20-11-2018 14:00 via montrealgazette.com
  The Fraser Institute released its annual report card rankings for 452 Quebec high schools on Saturday.
  There was a three-way tie for first place in the latest 2017 rankings which offer an academic snapshot of both private and public high schools in the province.
  Two French private schools in Montreal — Collège Jean-de-Brébeuf and Collège Jean-Eudes – were tied with École d’éducation internationale in McMasterville.
  The highest ranking of a sec
  
  Read more

• Montreal this morning: A snowy forecast

  20-11-2018 13:58 via montrealgazette.com
  We’ll receive enough snow to make it a messy drive to work this morning.
  The snow was to begin overnight, and today’s forecast is calling for two to four centimetres. It will be breezy, with wind gusts of 40 km/h. The temperature is forecast to be steady near minus 3, with a wind chill near minus 10.
  Tonight: Light snow ending in the evening, then mainly cloudy. Wind becoming light after midnight. Low minus 8. Wind chill minus 8 in the evening and minus 15 overnight.
  Don’t forg
  
  Read more

• While you were sleeping: Giant wooden troll to find new home (not Twitter)

  20-11-2018 13:51 via montrealgazette.com
  Here’s what happened while…ugh, snow.
  Quebec boutique chain Dans un Jardin is ceasing operations after 35 years in business. The bath products company said in a statement that its stockholders had decided the only possible option was to cease operations and “proceed with an orderly liquidation.” Dans un Jardin and Art de Vivre Fabrication will make a proposal to their creditors, according to the Bankruptcy and Insolvency Act. The administration attributed its d
  
  Read more

• Ste-Anne turns to Transport Quebec for help building sound wall

  20-11-2018 13:36 via montrealgazette.com
  Ste-Anne-de-Bellevue council is requesting financial support from the Ministère des Transports du Québec (MTQ) to build a sound wall on the south side of a particularly noisy stretch of Highway 20.
  “The talk about building a sound wall has been around for a least 10 years,” Mayor Paola Hawa said. “Ever since Highway 20 expanded, it’s been running closer to homes and with the increase of traffic from the off island, it’s noisy, noisy, noisy. We get comp
  
  Read more

• Landscaper left stunned by grand theft auto in DDO

  20-11-2018 13:30 via montrealgazette.com
  How does a huge 10-wheeler and excavator simply vanish from a busy area of the West Island?
  That’s what entrepreneur Tony Michetti is asking himself after his truck and excavator/digger disappeared into thin air sometime last week.
  Michetti had brought the truck hauling the heavy machinery to the corner of St-Jean Blvd. and de Salaberry Blvd. because his landscaping company had been contracted by the city of Dollard-des-Ormeaux to do some tree planting.
  But when Michetti arrived at the sit
  
  Read more

• Black Friday: Is it worth it for Quebecers?

  20-11-2018 13:29 via montrealgazette.com
  Deep discounts on the day after U.S. Thanksgiving were once a uniquely American phenomenon.
  But Quebecers are now increasingly shopping on Black Friday.
  At some downtown shopping centres, signs for Vendredi fou sales, as the shopping day has become known in French, have been up since last week and a number of retailers have already started discounting as part of “pre-Black Friday sales.”
  This year, according to a survey commissioned by the Retail Council of Canada, Black Fr
  
  Read more

• Some Personnelle, Option+ sunscreens recalled in Quebec

  20-11-2018 13:26 via montrealgazette.com
  Empack Spraytech Inc. has voluntarily recalled some lots of Option+ Family Sunscreen Lotion SPF 50+ and Personnelle Sport Sunscreen Lotion SPF 50+. The lots were found to be contaminated with bacteria.
  Of the three bacteria found in the sunscreen lotions, two could result in infection, especially in children or those with weakened immune systems. Health Canada has not received reports of infection related to the sunscreens.
  More than 10,000 of the lotions were purchased. The lot number for
  
  Read more

• Gazette Christmas Fund: Community offered Manon support, friendships

  20-11-2018 12:00 via montrealgazette.com
  Manon knows the power of community.
  In her early adulthood, Manon was in and out of the hospital because of mental health issues. Following a particularly rough patch, she said a local community centre provided her with work and a circle of friends that she has maintained to this day.
  Armed with that support, Manon said she was able to keep a positive outlook when faced with a breast cancer diagnosis last year.
  “I said I’m going to make it through it, and I did.”
  Now in remissi
  
  Read more

• Allison Hanes: New education minister knows what he's up against

  20-11-2018 12:00 via montrealgazette.com
  Jean-François Roberge knows Quebec’s school system from the inside out, having spent 17 years in the classroom as a primary teacher. Now minister of education, he will be the one spearheading the reforms promised by the Coalition Avenir Québec government, which has vowed to make education a priority.
  Roberge will be responsible for rolling out pre-kindergarten classes, expediting badly needed construction work to overhaul the province’s deteriorating school buildings an
  
  Read more

• Canadiens Game Day: The shot Carey Price couldn't stop

  20-11-2018 07:56 via montrealgazette.com
  When the media was let into the Canadiens’ locker room after Monday night’s 5-4 overtime loss to the Washington Capitals at the Bell Centre, Carey Price was already out of his equipment and nowhere to be seen, his red pads left in front of his stall.
  But from the back part of the locker room — which is closed to the media — someone was dropping big F-bombs and stuff was getting broken. You’d have to think it was Price.
  You could have made a Top 10 highlight reel of
  
  Read more

• Capitals beat Canadiens in overtime despite some spectacular Carey Price saves

  20-11-2018 05:56 via montrealgazette.com
  Lars Eller scored at 3:34 of overtime to give the Washington Capitals a 5-4 win over the Canadiens in an entertaining game Monday at the Bell Centre.
  Carey Price gave up five goals but he also produced a string of spectacular saves including one on Alex Ovechkin with two seconds left in regulation.
  The Canadiens exploded for three goals in 76 seconds early in the second period to take a 4-2 lead.
  Brendan Gallagher started the comeback when he scored 20 seconds into the period. Jeff Petry gave Mo
  
  Read more

• In the Habs' Room: Price saved a point, no matter what the stats say

  20-11-2018 05:53 via montrealgazette.com
  Statistics can be deceiving. Carey Price took the loss Monday night as the Washington Capitals defeated the Canadiens 5-4 in overtime.
  The game didn’t do anything for his goals-against average or his save percentage as he allowed five goals on 34 shots, but Tomas Tatar put Price’s performance in perspective when he said: “Carey got us a point tonight.”
  Price put together a series of spectacular saves which had the crowd chanting Ca-rey, Ca-rey on several occasions. And he
  
  Read more

• About last night … Caps win 5-4 in OT

  20-11-2018 05:07 via montrealgazette.com
  Lars Eller in OT?
  You gotta be kidding!
  The former Canadien beat Carey Price to win a hugely entertaining game at the Bell Centre.
  Price-bashers – and there are more than a few in hockey-mad Montreal – will lament Eller beating Price between the wickets. They’ll point to Washington scoring five goals on 34 shots, an .853 save percentage for the Canadiens’ goaltender.
  Those critics are a pain in the Ol’ Blogger’s butt.
  Price  is playing behind a defence co
  
  Read more

• Liveblog: Washington wins 5-4 in Shootout

  20-11-2018 04:34 via montrealgazette.com
  Lars Eller, of all people, scored the OT winner
  Alex Ovechkin’s power-play goal tied the game at 4-4 early in the third.
  Canadiens scored three times within the second period’s first 75 seconds, chasing Washington goaltender Pheonix Copley. Brendan Gallagher started the explosion. Then Jeff Petry scored on a power play before Kenny Agostino finished Copley’s night.
  Nicklas Backstrom made it a one-goal game, 13:22 into the middle period.
  Mike Reilly marked his return to the
  
  Read more

• Stu Cowan: Randy Tieman was a shining star on and off the ice

  20-11-2018 03:51 via montrealgazette.com
  Randy Tieman is the nicest man I ever met.
  I’m sure a lot of people who knew Randy would say the same thing.
  So it was heartbreaking to learn while I was in Vancouver on the weekend covering the Canadiens that the jolly former Montreal sportscaster who was called “T” by all his friends had died suddenly at his Ontario home at age 64. Randy would call almost everyone “bud” and if you talked to him for five minutes he became your bud.
  The world needs more people like
  
  Read more

• Dans un Jardin boutique chain to cease operations

  20-11-2018 03:49 via montrealgazette.com
  After 35 years in business, the owners of the Dans un Jardin chain of boutiques and its manufacturing subsidiary Art de Vivre Fabrication have announced they are closing up shop, citing insurmountable financial difficulties.
  “Efforts to relaunch the business by the companies over the last few years not having borne fruit, the stockholders have come to the conclusion that the only possible option is to cease operations and proceed with an orderly liquidation,” the bath products c
  
  Read more

• Liveblog: Canadiens 4 – Washington 3 after two

  20-11-2018 03:44 via montrealgazette.com
  Should be a dandy third.
  Canadiens scored three times within the second period’s first 75 seconds, chasing Washington goaltender Pheonix Copley.
  Brendan Gallagher started the explosion. Then Jeff Petry scored on a power play before Kenny Agostino finished Copley’s night.
  Nicklas Backstrom made it a one-goal game, 13:22 into the middle period.
  Mike Reilly marked his return to the lineup by scoring a spectacular goal to get the Canadiens on the board, nine minutes into the game.
  Four m
  
  Read more

• Fifth edition of Socks for Bubbly drive to help the homeless gets a leg up

  20-11-2018 03:24 via montrealgazette.com
  Listening to a radio documentary one winter morning, David Ferguson learned that clean socks are a scarce commodity for the homeless, whose feet are often wet and who are at risk for ulcers and infections that can lead to nerve damage and other permanent problems.
  People donate coats and sweaters to homeless shelters but, as the chef-owner of Restaurant Gus in La Petite-Patrie learned from the Socks for the Homeless doc on the CBC’s Sunday Edition in 2013, the need for new socks
  
  Read more

• Valérie Plante defends STM board shakeup in city council meeting

  20-11-2018 02:49 via montrealgazette.com
  Mayor Valérie Plante defended the decision Monday to dump veteran city councillor Marvin Rotrand from the board of Montreal’s transit agency, saying the goal was to bring more professional expertise to the table.
  “It’s nothing personal,” Plante said of the decision to recruit new blood to oversee the Société de transport de Montréal. Former Westmount mayor Peter Trent and Catherine Morency, a professor of transportation engineering at Polytechn
  
  Read more

• Longueuil raw sewage dump into river ends days earlier than expected

  20-11-2018 02:30 via montrealgazette.com
  The city of Longueuil has stopped dumping raw sewage into the St. Lawrence River, three and a half days before the planned release was expected to end.
  Longueuil announced on Nov. 1 that it would have to flush about 162 million litres of waste water, untreated, into the river for a period of eight days starting Nov. 15. The operation was necessary to facilitate the replacement of two sections of a sewage pipe that carries effluent from homes and businesses in Longueuil and Boucherville to a wate
  
  Read more

• #ICYMI: Schwartz's, STM buses, Mr. Ryan, more news

  20-11-2018 02:28 via montrealgazette.com
  In Case You Missed It (#ICYMI) is a daily feature highlighting news in and around Montreal.
  A smoked-meat sandwich, fries and a Coke for $1.09?
  If that sounds to you like a price from days (decades) gone by, you’re right. But for three delicious hours on Tuesday, you can indulge in the aforementioned for a mere buck and change.
  Bill Brownstein files this report: Montreal icon Schwartz’s turns back clock on prices to mark anniversary
  ***
  While many in Montreal will be celebr
  
  Read more

• Adele Sorella trial: 'It wasn't natural,' doctor says of children's deaths

  20-11-2018 01:03 via montrealgazette.com
  LAVAL — The information coming through on Georges Picard’s emergency radio kept shifting.
  At first, the call was about two children who had fallen ill. Then it escalated: the two children were in a coma, and finally, he learned, they were in cardiac arrest.
  But by the time Picard, then an Urgences-Santé doctor with 20 years experience, arrived at Adele Sorella’s home in Laval, he knew it was too late.
  Paramedics had already called off any resuscitation attempts. The girl
  
  Read more

• Hanes: Legault's support of Franco-Ontarians is essential, and encouraging

  20-11-2018 00:02 via montrealgazette.com
  Under normal circumstances, Quebec Premier François Legault might have found a lot in common with Doug Ford, his Ontario counterpart, during their first tête-à-tête in Toronto Monday.
  Both are businessmen-turned-politicians who have arrived in power by unseating long-entrenched Liberal governments. Both are fiscal conservatives with populist tendencies. Both have concerns about immigration. Both are at odds with Liberal Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on major priorities.
  
  Read more

Follow @AylmerQuebecnws on Twitter!