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• STM maintenance workers insist overtime strike won't affect service

  04-12-2025 21:38 via montrealgazette.com
  The union of maintenance workers at the Société de transport de Montréal says it is taking pains to ensure the public won’t be affected if it has to take further work action. Still, the STM hauled the union before the Tribunal administratif du travail (TAT) Thursday to ensure that the safety and security of the populace won’t be in peril during the union’s planned strike on overtime work from Dec. 11 to Jan. 11. Hearings began Thursday morning and were expe
  
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• Montreal weather: Frigid temperatures fade with Cold Supermoon

  05-12-2025 12:46 via montrealgazette.com
  The temperature in the Montreal area was a frigid minus-17 C — with a wind chill of minus-23 C — at 5 a.m. Friday. That’s as cold as it will get through the weekend. Temperatures will climb to a high of minus-7 C during the day with a mix of sun and cloud and a wind-chill factor of minus-13 in the afternoon. At night, expect a low of minus-9 C with a wind chill of minus-14 C. The average daytime high for Dec. 5 is minus-1 C. The twelfth and final full moon of 2025, the Cold Sup
  
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• Groups on both sides of Quebec constitution debate say more consultation was needed

  05-12-2025 12:30 via montrealgazette.com
  QUEBEC — Public consultations on the proposed Quebec constitution began Thursday, with MNAs hearing submissions from the first of the over 200 groups set to testify over the weeks-long process. The constitution bill has faced criticism from all three opposition parties and a long list groups, who argue the Coalition Avenir Québec’s project lacks legitimacy and risks undermining fundamental rights. But while legislators heard criticisms Thursday that the constitution hadn&rsquo
  
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• Who is the Montreal entrepreneur courting U.S. private equity to revive the Expos?

  05-12-2025 12:00 via montrealgazette.com
  In 2012, Ashkan Karbasfrooshan, the Montreal founder of the digital media company WatchMojo, was watching the Washington Nationals, formerly the Expos. Most Montreal fans would have felt “bitter” watching, he said. But he felt something different: acceptance. The 47-year-old was on a business trip in D.C with an adviser at the time when he realized his childhood baseball team, which he long-associated with warm summer nights, were gone for good. Or so he thought. In November, he was
  
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• What's behind Alexandre Carrier's decline with Canadiens? | HI/O Bonus

  05-12-2025 12:00 via montrealgazette.com
  The acquisition of defenceman Alexandre Carrier in a trade with the Nashville Predators a week before Christmas last year was a turning point in the season for the Canadiens, who ended up making the playoffs for the first time in four years. Read More
  
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• Friday on My Mind: Filmmaker Jennifer Alleyn pays tribute to her artist dad Edmund Alleyn

  05-12-2025 12:00 via montrealgazette.com
  Friday on My Mind is a highly subjective, curated rundown of five of the cooler things happening in Montreal during the weekend. Read More
  
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• Brownstein: Montreal concert promoter Rubin Fogel still booking after 50 years

  05-12-2025 12:00 via montrealgazette.com
  It was 50 years ago this week he booked his first concert: the Keith Jarrett Quartet at Salle Claude Champagne. Montreal concert promoter Rubin Fogel remembers it as if it were this week. Read More
  
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• Quebec reports its first measles case since April

  05-12-2025 02:23 via montrealgazette.com
  Quebec’s health authority warns another measles outbreak is underway. One new case was reported on Dec. 3 in the Laurentians, just outside Montreal. It comes less than one month after Canada lost its status as a measles-free country more than 25 years after eradicating the virus. Until now, the province had been measles free since April, according to Quebec’s Health Ministry. The person infected with measles visited the UP Centre d’urgences pédiatriques in St-Eustache b
  
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• Pablo Rodriguez excludes another MNA from caucus as Quebec Liberal crisis intensifies

  05-12-2025 01:14 via montrealgazette.com
  QUEBEC — The Liberal Party of Quebec has dropped the MNA for Chomedey, Sona Lakhoyan Olivier, from its caucus pending the results of an investigation by the legislature’s ethics commissioner. In a statement on Thursday, Liberal party whip Marc Tanguay said the party informed the MNA of the decision late Thursday. “At the request of our leader, Pablo Rodriguez, I am announcing that the MNA for Chomedey is excluded from the Liberal caucus for the duration of the investigation,&rd
  
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• Leader Pablo Rodriguez excludes another MNA from caucus as Quebec Liberal crisis intensifies

  05-12-2025 01:14 via montrealgazette.com
  QUEBEC — The Liberal Party of Quebec has dropped the MNA for Chomedey, Sona Lakhoyan Olivier, from its caucus pending the results of an investigation by the legislature’s ethics commissioner. In a statement on Thursday, Liberal party whip Marc Tanguay said the party informed the MNA of the decision late Thursday. “At the request of our leader, Pablo Rodriguez, I am announcing that the MNA for Chomedey is excluded from the Liberal caucus for the duration of the investigation,&rd
  
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• Ethics commission investigation: Liberal Sona Lakhoyan Olivier excluded from caucus

  05-12-2025 01:14 via montrealgazette.com
  QUEBEC — The Liberal Party of Quebec has dropped the MNA for Chomedey, Sona Lakhoyan Olivier, from its caucus pending the results of an investigation by the legislature’s ethics commissioner. In a statement on Thursday, Liberal party whip Marc Tanguay said excluding Lakhoyan Olivier from the caucus was necessary following the decision by the commissioner. In a separate statement, Anne-Sophie St-Gelais, communications officer for the commissioner, confirmed an investigation has been o
  
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• Opinion: McGill's sports cuts feel more like a choice than a necessity

  05-12-2025 01:00 via montrealgazette.com
  When McGill announced it would cut support for many of its varsity teams and competitive sports clubs, the university framed the move as the result of a long internal review. A sober administrative necessity. Something structural, almost inevitable. Read More
  
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• Police arrest second suspect after arson attack on Pornhub executive’s home

  04-12-2025 23:52 via montrealgazette.com
  Another man has been charged in connection with a 2021 arson attack that destroyed a luxury home under construction in the Ahuntsic–Cartierville borough. The multi-million dollar home was owned at the time by an executive for Pornhub. Police say they arrested Mohamed Aymen Tayeb, 28, in Montreal’s Ville-Marie borough Thursday morning. He appeared in court later in the afternoon facing an arson charge, according to a statement from the Service de police de la Ville de Montréal
  
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• Patients speak out against suspension of Dr. Amir Khadir over Lyme disease treatment

  04-12-2025 23:27 via montrealgazette.com
  Patients of former Québec solidaire MNA Dr. Amir Khadir came to his defence Thursday following his temporary suspension from practicing medicine, arguing he's one of a few health-care professionals in the province devoted to helping those with chronic conditions following infections. Read More
  
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• Canadiens and Jets to play outdoor game in Winnipeg in October 2026

  04-12-2025 23:21 via montrealgazette.com
  It's time to bring out the toques, the Canadiens are playing another outdoor game next season. Read More
  
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• Hanes: 'Clock is ticking' for family medicine groups as Bill 2 talks collapse

  04-12-2025 21:34 via montrealgazette.com
  The future of primary care rests on a knife's edge in Quebec after negotiations that had resumed last week between the government and the medical federation representing family doctors broke down again Thursday over a new remuneration model being imposed on physicians. Read More
  
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• Liberal MNA calls for inquiry on "organized crime's grip" on bars and restaurants

  04-12-2025 21:17 via montrealgazette.com
  Quebec Liberal MNA and public safety critic Jennifer Maccarone is calling for a parliamentary commission into how many of Quebec’s bars and restaurants appear to have been targeted recently by organized crime groups seeking to extort merchants through arson, shootings and other forms of violence. “There is a real culture of fear among business owners, with criminal groups extorting money from them through threats of violence. While the CAQ (government) is slashing the budgets of the
  
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• As temperatures plummet, temporary shelter opening in YMCA building

  04-12-2025 19:51 via montrealgazette.com
  The city of Montreal is taking measures to help unhoused people face the coming cold snap, including opening a temporary 135-space shelter in the downtown YMCA building. Speaking at city hall Thursday, Mayor Soraya Martinez Ferrada called on residents across the city to show tolerance as the cold weather threatens the city’s most vulnerable. “Winter arrived much too fast,” Martinez Ferrada said, flanked by members of her newly formed “crisis unit” to address homeles
  
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• As cold weather moves in, Montreal enacts measures to help unhoused people

  04-12-2025 19:51 via montrealgazette.com
  The city of Montreal is taking measures to help unhoused people face the coming cold snap, including opening a temporary 135-space shelter in the downtown YMCA building. Speaking at city hall Thursday, Mayor Soraya Martinez Ferrada called on residents across the city to show tolerance as the cold weather threatens the city’s most vulnerable. “Winter arrived much too fast,” Martinez Ferrada said, flanked by members of her newly formed “crisis unit” to address homeles
  
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• Judge to decide in January if Montrealer who killed his parents, grandmother is not criminally responsible

  04-12-2025 19:24 via montrealgazette.com
  A Quebec Superior Court judge will decide in January whether the young man who killed his parents and his grandmother inside the family’s home in Rosemont two years ago was unable to tell right from wrong when he carried out the slayings. On Thursday at the Montreal courthouse, Justice Annie Émond heard more evidence in the case of 22-year-old Arthur Galarneau. Émond was told that Galarneau had been suffering from schizophrenia for at least three years when, on March 17, 2023
  
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• WHL : Ce gardien réussit un blanchissage et marque un but

  04-12-2025 18:58 via journaldequebec.com
  Xavier Wendt se souviendra longtemps de son match de 3 décembre 2025 contre les Broncos de Swift Current.
  
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• Parti Québécois fears Ottawa 'will cheat' in a third sovereignty referendum

  04-12-2025 18:52 via montrealgazette.com
  QUEBEC — Reacting to a report that senior federal government officials are preparing for a possible third independence referendum, Quebec’s two sovereignist parties said Thursday that they feared Ottawa could “cheat” ahead of a vote. “We have a lot of reasons to believe that the federal government will cheat in this consultation,” Parti Québécois MNA Alex Boissoneault told reporters Thursday morning. Radio-Canada reported Thursday that officials,
  
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• «Comment tricher au Scrabble?»: voici ce qui a le plus tendance sur Google en 2025

  04-12-2025 18:50 via journaldequebec.com
  L’entreprise a dévoilé, jeudi, son palmarès des sujets les plus tendances au Québec sur son moteur de recherche.
  
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• Un père incarcéré pour des viols sur sa fille, avec qui il a eu trois enfants

  04-12-2025 18:48 via journaldequebec.com
  Viol «incestueux aggravé»: un père incarcéré pour des viols sur sa fille, avec qui il a eu trois enfants
  
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• Mark Carney va rencontrer Donald Trump et Claudia Sheinbaum vendredi

  04-12-2025 18:42 via journaldequebec.com
  Le premier ministre du Canada, Mark Carney, va rencontrer le président américain, Donald Trump, et la présidente du Mexique, Claudia Sheinbaum.
  
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• Empoisonnement: Poutine «moralement responsable» de la mort d’une mère de famille en sol britannique

  04-12-2025 18:39 via journaldequebec.com
  Le Royaume-Uni a convoqué jeudi l'ambassadeur russe et sanctionné l'intégralité du renseignement militaire de ce pays.
  
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• L’une des plus importantes pluies d’étoiles filantes de l’année débute ce soir

  04-12-2025 18:37 via journaldequebec.com
  Une des pluies d’étoiles filantes les plus actives de l’année coïncidera avec la superlune jeudi soir.
  
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• L’argent du fédéral pour la culture au Québec sert à taire les indépendantistes, dit Blanchet

  04-12-2025 18:37 via journaldequebec.com
  Yves-François Blanchet affirme que des artistes québécois doivent taire leurs convictions souverainistes pour obtenir des subventions fédérales
  
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• Maveric Lamoureux, le joueur le plus heureux de la LNH

  04-12-2025 18:31 via journaldequebec.com
  Avec son sourire facile et son attitude positive, ce n’est pas étonnant que Maveric Lamoureux soit devenu en peu de temps un favori de la foule.
  
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• Fugue à Québec: une ado de 17 ans manque à l'appel

  04-12-2025 18:31 via journaldequebec.com
  La police de Québec demande l'aide de la population pour retrouver une adolescente de 17 ans qui n'a pas été vue depuis plus d'une semaine.
  
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