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• Bodies of man and child found in Lanaudière lake after tractor falls through ice

  25-12-2025 21:45 via montrealgazette.com
  Quebec provincial police are investigating after finding two bodies in a lake in the Lanaudière region after a tractor fell through the ice. A man in his 40s and a child under the age of five were reported missing around 6 p.m. Wednesday in St-Zénon, said Sgt. Marc Tessier of the Sûreté du Québec. They were clearing snow on a trail along Lac Ernest when the tractor reportedly lost stability and began sinking into the water. Tessier said the SQ located their bodi
  
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• Watch: Habs defenceman Lane Hutson plays shinny with kids in N.D.G.

  25-12-2025 18:59 via montrealgazette.com
  The Montreal Canadiens may be on a winter break, but that didn’t keep Lane Hutson off the ice Wednesday, when he joined a group of kids for a game of shinny. The Habs defenceman was at the Bleu Blanc Bouge rink in Notre-Dame-de-Grâce’s Confederation Park on Christmas Eve, where he joined in a pickup game. The visit came one day after Hutson got three assists in Boston as he helped push the Habs to a 6-2 win over the Bruins — the team’s first victory in Boston since
  
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• Céline Dion's Grinch schedule doesn't allow time for an event with the Whos

  25-12-2025 15:19 via montrealgazette.com
  Céline Dion would rather spend Christmas all by herself. The Québécois pop star has made few public appearances since being diagnosed with stiff person syndrome in 2022, but stepped into the limelight in a full Grinch costume to spread holiday cheer. On Dec. 24, Dion shared an Instagram video re-creating a scene from the classic Christmas movie How the Grinch Stole Christmas. “The nerve of those Whos. Inviting me on such short notice. Even if I wanted to go, my schedul
  
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• Villeray restaurant hit by arson Christmas morning

  25-12-2025 14:15 via montrealgazette.com
  The Montreal police’s arson unit is investigating after a restaurant in the Villeray neighbourhood was set on fire. Around 3:45 a.m., a 911 call was made about a blaze in a mixed commercial/residential building on St-Dominique St. near Liège St., police spokesperson Jeanne Drouin said. When police arrived, they saw the fire in the restaurant and evacuated the apartments above of about 10 residents. The Montreal fire department arrived at the scene shortly after and extinguished the
  
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• Updated: Trattoria Trozzo in Villeray hit by arson Christmas morning

  25-12-2025 14:15 via montrealgazette.com
  The Montreal police arson unit is investigating after an Italian restaurant in the Villeray neighbourhood was set on fire. Around 3:45 a.m., a 911 call was made about a blaze in a mixed commercial/residential building on St-Dominique St. near Liège St., police spokesperson Jeanne Drouin said. When police arrived, they saw the fire in the restaurant and evacuated the apartments above of about 10 residents. The Montreal fire department arrived at the scene shortly after and extinguished the
  
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• Trattoria Trozzo in Villeray hit by arson Christmas morning

  25-12-2025 14:15 via montrealgazette.com
  The Montreal police arson unit is investigating after an Italian restaurant in the Villeray neighbourhood was set on fire early Thursday. Around 3:45 a.m., a 911 call was made about a blaze in a mixed commercial/residential building on St-Dominique St. near Liège St., police spokesperson Jeanne Drouin said. When police arrived, they saw the fire in Trattoria Trozzo Restaurant Bar and evacuated the apartments above, removing about 10 residents. The Montreal fire department arrived at the s
  
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• Montreal weather: This forecast sleighs

  25-12-2025 13:10 via montrealgazette.com
  Wow, actual snow on Christmas morning. That’s a treat for those who celebrate. The snow will give way to sun and cloud in Montreal Thursday morning, with a temperature of minus-7 C and an afternoon wind chill of minus-17 C. The temperature will continue to dive, hitting a low of minus-18 C overnight with a wind chill of minus-25 C. That’s the coldest it’ll get through the weekend, with a high of minus-12 C on Friday, and a bit more snow for those heading out to the ski slopes.
  
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• Montreal forecast: This forecast sleighs

  25-12-2025 13:10 via montrealgazette.com
  Wow, actual snow on Christmas morning. That’s a treat for those who celebrate. The snow will give way to sun and cloud in Montreal Thursday morning, with a temperature of minus-7 C and an afternoon wind chill of minus-17 C. The temperature will continue to dive, hitting a low of minus-18 C overnight with a wind chill of minus-25 C. That’s the coldest it’ll get through the weekend, with a high of minus-12 C on Friday, and a bit more snow for those heading out to the ski slopes.
  
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• Man stabbed in Plateau-Mont-Royal, Montreal police say

  25-12-2025 12:57 via montrealgazette.com
  A 26-year-old man was stabbed Wednesday night in the Plateau-Mont-Royal borough. Montreal police responded to a 911 call around 10:45 p.m. and found the man conscious but badly injured, with wounds to his upper body. Although police said the injuries were severe, he is in stable condition. A security perimeter was set up near the site of the incident at an apartment near St-Denis and Bienville Sts. The canine unit was called in to search for evidence and police planned to look for nearby surveil
  
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• New year, new prices: Here are some things you'll pay more (or less) for in 2026

  25-12-2025 12:00 via montrealgazette.com
  With the New Year, the cost of your driver’s licence insurance and your property taxes will be going up. The price of food at grocery stories is also expected to keep rising over the course of 2026. But, many Quebecers will being pay less income tax and salaries are expected to largely keep pace with inflation. Here’s how the cost of living could change in 2026.Inflation and interest ratesWhile inflation across Canada averaged 2.2 per cent in November, it was three per cent in Quebec
  
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• Montreal police investigating arson attempt on mental health hospital

  24-12-2025 22:03 via montrealgazette.com
  Montreal police are investigating after a man set fire to a building in Ahuntsic-Cartierville just after midnight on Wednesday. The force received a call about the incident on Gouin Boulevard near Crevier Street at 12:20 a.m. When they arrived on scene, firefighters had already controlled the blaze. NoovoInfo reported that according to sources, a man wearing a mask had entered the Hôpital en santé mentale Albert-Prévost with a gas can and set a fire. “Preliminary inform
  
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• Montreal Highland Games to return in 2026

  24-12-2025 14:17 via montrealgazette.com
  The Montreal Highland Games, cancelled last summer as organizers wrestled with funding issues, will return to the grounds of the Douglas Hospital in August 2026, organizers announced on Facebook this week. The event is scheduled to take place on Aug. 2. Early bird tickets (purchased before July 3) are $20 per person and the price will rise to $25 a ticket as of July 4. Admission is free for children 14 and younger, although they must be accompanied by an adult. More details can be obtained
  
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• Update: REM service resumes between Bois-Franc and Deux-Montagnes Wednesday morning

  24-12-2025 13:49 via montrealgazette.com
  Service has been restored in both directions Wednesday morning of the Réseau express métropolitain between Bois-Franc and Deux-Montagnes stations. The breakdown lasted for nearly two hours, required the deployment of shuttle buses and was blamed on a “technical issue.”  
  
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• REM breaks down between Bois-Franc and Deux-Montagnes Wednesday morning

  24-12-2025 13:49 via montrealgazette.com
  Shuttle buses have been deployed to cover a disruption of service in both directions Wednesday morning of the Réseau express métropolitain between Bois-Franc and Deux-Montagnes stations. The breakdown is being blamed on a “technical issue” and there is no estimated time for a return to service.07:12 a.m.Service interruption between Bois-Franc and Deux-Montagnes in all directions.Cause: technical issue.
  Resumption time: undetermined.
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• Exo to open Mascouche train link to REM on Jan. 12

  24-12-2025 13:30 via montrealgazette.com
  Commuters using the Mascouche Exo train won’t have to wait much longer to take advantage of a quicker way to get downtown. The transit agency announced this week it is “confident,” given the state of testing, that it will open the commuter train part of the Côte-de-Liesse station, allowing seamless transfers to the REM, on Jan. 12. Since the closure of the Mount Royal Tunnel to commuter trains in 2020, the Mascouche train line has had to take a 90-minute trip around the w
  
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• Montreal weather: Choose your adventure — tracking snow or tracking Santa

  24-12-2025 13:10 via montrealgazette.com
  While Montrealers were still sleeping, Santa and his reindeer were already well on their way around the world. By 7 a.m., NORAD had tracked them through New Zealand and they were headed for Antarctica. Though NORAD won’t give exact times for the big guy’s landing in a particular place, it notes that he doesn’t arrive until all the children are asleep. The North American Aerospace Defense Command has been tracking Santa since 1955, as well as “airplanes, missiles, space la
  
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• The best Gazette photos of 2025

  24-12-2025 12:00 via montrealgazette.com
  Gazette photographers John Mahoney, Allen McInnis, Dave Sidaway and Pierre Obendrauf take thousands of pictures every year to illustrate stories in the newspaper and online. Here is a collection of some of their favourites from this past year and the stories behind the photos.John MahoneyAllen McInnisDave Sidaway
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• Longest hugs, most joyous reunions are a daily display at Trudeau airport

  24-12-2025 12:00 via montrealgazette.com
  It was the first time in 65 years of her life Aminata Tandia wore a winter coat. She put a long black parka over her white traditional African robe and head covering minutes after arriving from a whirlwind 11-hour trip from her home country of Mauritania, with a stopover in Morocco. As her first blast of Canadian winter was in store for her outside, Tandia shared a warm hug with her son, Fodiye Marega, 45, who was waiting on the other side of the door at Trudeau airport’s arrivals area. On
  
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• Swastika traced in the snow on front lawn of Jewish couple's home

  23-12-2025 23:18 via montrealgazette.com
  A large swastika traced in the snow in the front yard of a Jewish physician’s home is being investigated by the Montreal police hate crimes unit, a police spokesperson said this week. A 911 call was received on Dec. 18 at 7:30 p.m. and police met with the physician’s spouse, who had made the call, said police spokesperson Johany Charland. According to initial information, a swastika was traced in the snow in front of the residence, located in the borough of Côte-des-Neiges&mdas
  
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• Teen arrested, suspected of arranging arson-for-hire contracts in Montreal

  23-12-2025 22:23 via montrealgazette.com
  A 15-year-old and 19-year-old have been arrested in connection with attempts to set fire to Montreal businesses over the past 24 hours, the Montreal police said Tuesday afternoon. In the first case, at 2:15 a.m., a 19-year-old woman was spotted loitering with a gasoline can near a bar on Brunswick Boulevard in Dollard-des-Ormeaux. She was arrested and released on a promise to appear in court. Later Tuesday morning, a 15-year-old was arrested and is now under investigation for allegedly arranging
  
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• Pablo Rodriguez's replacement as Quebec Liberal leader will be chosen in March

  23-12-2025 19:49 via montrealgazette.com
  The race to succeed Pablo Rodriguez as Quebec Liberal leader will begin Jan. 12, with the party’s new leader elected at a March 14 convention, the party announced Tuesday. The party said the general rules of the race were adopted Monday evening by its executive council and that the detailed rules will be made public at a later date. Rodriguez stepped down last week, six months after he was elected leader. It was the shortest leadership term in the party’s history. The resignation cam
  
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• Montreal police arrest seven suspects in Cabot Square drug clampdown

  23-12-2025 18:26 via montrealgazette.com
  Montreal police announced on Tuesday they had arrested seven suspects in connection with drug trafficking at Cabot Square downtown. In a communiqué, the force said that a series of search warrants executed between Nov. 5 and Dec. 17 had resulted in the seizure of quantities of cocaine, crack and various pills, as well as $8,000 in cash. During that period, six men and one woman were taken into custody. Four of the suspects, including the 47-year-old woman, were released on conditions pend
  
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• Accident shuts down Concorde Bridge linking Montreal to Île Ste-Hélène

  23-12-2025 15:20 via montrealgazette.com
  The Concorde Bridge linking Montreal to Île Ste-Hélène was completely closed to traffic Tuesday morning after a car hit the span’s safety barrier. Montreal police were informed of the incident by a 911 call at 6:40 a.m. First responders found the driver alone in the vehicle suffering from upper-body injuries that were later determined not to be life-threatening. An initial investigation established that the vehicle was headed toward Montreal when, for reasons that have
  
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• What's open and closed in Montreal during the holidays

  23-12-2025 12:00 via montrealgazette.com
  StoresMany retail outlets are expected to be closed on Thursday — Christmas Day — and to reopen Friday, usually at noon. They are also likely to be closed Jan. 1 and to reopen on the afternoon of Jan. 2, but over the years it has become apparent there are no hard and fast rules governing individual scheduling decisions by stores and it is recommended to first call or verify online whether a store is open.Outlets of the Société des alcools du Québec will be close
  
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• Tips from Montreal psychologists on how to survive holiday gatherings

  23-12-2025 12:00 via montrealgazette.com
  It’s the most wonderful time of the year, but with so many gatherings packed into just a few days, it can also be quite a stressful time of year. Montreal psychologists say they see a spike in bookings ahead of end-of-year holidays, with patients seeking guidance on how to navigate the festivities, from uncomfortable conversations about politics to returning to old family dynamics. We asked them to help us with a few potential scenarios.What if you have different politics than your family?
  
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• Appreciation for Montreal's can collectors comes in a large green bag

  22-12-2025 21:02 via montrealgazette.com
  A Montreal team has created a voluminous green backpack to help those who collect recyclable containers, and cast a positive light on a profession that’s often stigmatized despite its benefits. Long and lean, the lightweight waterproof backpack can hold up to 240 aluminum cans. It’s a robust substitute for the flimsy plastic bags typically used by those who go through blue bins and garbage cans seeking containers to be returned for a deposit. On the back, in reflective lettering to p
  
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• Teen pulled over for driving 84km/h above speed limit in St-Lazare

  22-12-2025 20:50 via montrealgazette.com
  An 18-year-old man from Vaudreuil-Dorion was stopped by police while driving 84km/h above the speed limit on Saturday night. He was travelling 134km/h in a 50km/h zone on Côte St-Charles road in St-Lazare, the Sûreté du Québec (SQ) said Monday. In addition to having his driver’s licence suspended for a week, the man was given a $1,611 ticket and received 18 demerit points. The SQ is reminding drivers excess speed is one of the main causes of deadly collisions in Q
  
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• Montreal weather: Dreaming of a white Christmas? It looks like you're in luck

  22-12-2025 15:26 via montrealgazette.com
  It’s beginning to look a lot like it will be a white Christmas for Montrealers. While most of the snow cover in the greater Montreal area disappeared with Friday’s thaw, Environment Canada and the Weather Channel are forecasting a light blanket of snow to descend in time for Christmas. Monday’s Environment Canada forecast calls for a 40 per cent chance of flurries this morning, followed by periods of light snow beginning this afternoon with a high of minus 7 and a wind chill of
  
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• Why the price of your matcha latte has gone up in Montreal

  22-12-2025 12:00 via montrealgazette.com
  If you’ve noticed matcha prices nearly doubling in recent years, you’re not alone. Demand for the Japanese green tea powder has recently surged thanks to social media, making it harder — and more expensive — for tea companies to supply Montreal shops. Buyer and co-owner of Montreal tea company Camelia Sinensis, Kevin Gascoyne, said he’s “never seen anything like it in the tea world” in his decades of experience. “In the last two years, it’s j
  
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• Seizure of $2 million: Montreal man challenging Quebec forfeiture law

  22-12-2025 12:00 via montrealgazette.com
  A Montreal man is challenging the constitutionality of Quebec’s civil forfeiture law after police seized more than $2 million in cash from his home, but never charged him with any crime. Lawyers for André Levy argue a provision of the law, which presumes cash sums of $2,000 or more are the proceeds of illegal activity except in certain circumstances, violates the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms and are seeking the return of the money. “The legislative provision being c
  
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• Loto-Québec 'looking for a millionaire' before winning ticket expires

  21-12-2025 23:53 via montrealgazette.com
  One lucky lottery player has a winning ticket worth $1 million, but better get moving with only two weeks left before it expires. A winning ticket for the Lotto 6/49 Jan. 4, 2025, draw was sold in the Thérèse-De Blainville Regional County Municipality in the Laurentians. Their deadline to claim the prize is one year after the draw, on Jan. 4, 2026. “There’s someone out there with a ticket worth $1 million,” said a spokesperson for Loto-Québec, Renaud Dugas.
  
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• Eighth measles case reported in Quebec as outbreak spreads

  21-12-2025 21:41 via montrealgazette.com
  Quebec’s measles outbreak continues to grow. Eight measles cases were confirmed in the province on Dec. 19, Quebec’s Health Ministry reports. Lanaudière, Laurentides, Laval and Montreal are all affected by the outbreak. The outbreak has been underway since the beginning of this month, after the first case since April was reported in the Laurentians on Dec. 3. A person infected with measles visited the emergency room at CHU Sainte-Justine on Dec. 14 between 6:09 p.m. and 7:35 p
  
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• Canadiens' Nick Suzuki and his wife announce baby girl due in spring

  21-12-2025 19:01 via montrealgazette.com
  The captain of the Montreal Canadiens is expecting his first child this spring. Nick Suzuki and his wife, Caitlin Fitzgerald, announced her pregnancy in an Instagram carousel Sunday morning. “Baby girl coming this spring,” the post says. “The greatest joy of our lives, we can’t wait to meet you.” https://x.com/HabsOnReddit/status/2002155869337985350 The 26-year-old NHL star met Fitzgerald when they were still high school students in London, Ont., and have been toget
  
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• One or more suspects torch seven vehicles in Rivière-des-Prairies

  21-12-2025 17:27 via montrealgazette.com
  Montreal police are investigating two Sunday morning arson incidents in the Rivière-des-Prairies district that destroyed a total of seven vehicles. At 2:15 a.m., a 911 call was made about a burning cube truck at Gaston Maillet Ave., near Joliet Curie Ave., said Montreal police spokesperson Caroline Chèvrefils. When police arrived at the scene, the Montreal fire department was already extinguishing the blaze. Preliminary information shows one or more suspects set fire to the truck a
  
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• Montreal weather: Blustery with a risk of snow squalls early in the morning

  21-12-2025 12:00 via montrealgazette.com
  Environment Canada is forecasting a few flurries ending early in the afternoon on Sunday, then a mix of sun and cloud. There is a risk of snow squalls early in the morning with a local amount of 2 cm expected. The wind will come from the southwest at 50 km/h, gusting to 80, then becoming west at 30, gusting to 60 near noon. The temperature will fall to minus 4 in the morning then hold steady with a wind chill near minus 14. It will be partly cloudy overnight with a northwest wind at 20 km/h, gus
  
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• Fitness: Canadians earn a barely passing grade in their annual report card on physical activity

  21-12-2025 12:00 via montrealgazette.com
  Every year, ParticipACTION issues a report card on the physical activity of Canadians. Considered the most comprehensive assessment of sport, physical activity and recreation in Canada, it reviews the most recent and best available research and surveys of daily activity and assigns grades across 17 different indictors. Last year, the report was on children and youth. This year, adults are graded, and the news isn’t great. Only 46 per cent of adults living in Canada are active at least 150
  
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• Ville-Marie borough to modify Atateken bike lane to restore a chunk of parking spaces

  20-12-2025 19:31 via montrealgazette.com
  Montreal’s Ville-Marie borough announced Friday it had found a “balanced solution” to modify a temporary bike lane on Atateken St. that had faced complaints from business owners. The borough plans to maintain the bike lane, but promises to restore 40 per cent of the parking spots removed to install the temporary project. Details of the plan will be released Jan. 5, a statement from the borough said, and the work will begin Jan. 12 to put the changes into place. “We are co
  
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• Christmas Fund: Nora, 98, lives alone and does 'everything myself'

  20-12-2025 14:00 via montrealgazette.com
  Nora, 98, not only raised her four children, but she spent half of her life helping kids in need in Montreal. As a foster parent for more than four decades, she would care for newborns until they were put up for adoption at about six months old. “I had 48 years looking after foster children,” she said. “Now I live alone.” Nora first moved to Montreal from the Gaspé in 1942. She bought a $14 train ticket and came to the city on her own. She ended up building a life
  
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• Libman: 'Twas many nights before the next Quebec election

  20-12-2025 12:55 via montrealgazette.com
  ‘Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house,barely a creature was stirring, not even a mouse. There were in fact three, having trouble getting sleepy,Pablo, and Legault, and PSPP. Their minds were active, deep in reflection,with less than a year now, before the election. Pablo, reluctantly, made his decision,his dream, being premier, won’t come to fruition. His leadership blindsided, by his second in command,when she fired her chief of staff, his former right hand. T
  
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• Montreal weather: Sunshine peeks through until some clouds roll in

  20-12-2025 12:00 via montrealgazette.com
  Environment Canada is forecasting mainly sunny skies with increasing cloudiness in the afternoon. A west wind will blow at 20 km/h, gusting to 40, then becoming light in the afternoon. The expected high will be minus 3 with a wind chill near minus 14 and the UV index at 1, or low. There will be periods of snow overnight with a low of minus 2.
  
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• Hanes: The takeaway from 2025? Don't take anything for granted

  20-12-2025 12:00 via montrealgazette.com
  This time last year, Mayor Valérie Plante’s eventual replacement as leader of Projet Montréal looked poised to cruise to victory at city hall, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s Liberals seemed fated for a brutal electoral drubbing and Canada was bracing for the inauguration of Donald Trump as U.S. president, assuming the rollback of rights he was portending could never reach us here. That’s not how things ultimately turned out. Our expectations for 2025 were put to
  
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• Being called a disgrace by Legault was 'over the top' | The Corner Booth

  20-12-2025 12:00 via montrealgazette.com
  Marc Miller hasn’t been the minister of Official Languages for long, but he’s already made some noise. The former Justin Trudeau cabinet minister joined Mark Carney’s cabinet in the most recent shuffle, after being snubbed the first time. He drew immediate backlash from some, including Quebec Premier François Legault, when he said he was “fed up” with the debate over the decline of French. He later doubled down on those comments. Miller joined hosts Bill Brow
  
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• Report reveals workplace failures after foreign worker fatally crushed by concrete

  20-12-2025 03:21 via montrealgazette.com
  A workplace investigation reveals a temporary foreign worker had no training or qualifications when he was crushed to death by a concrete slab on a construction site in Montreal North in 2023. The man was pronounced dead at the scene after a load-bearing wall in the basement of a mixed-use building on Rolland Blvd., near Pascal St., was demolished, causing the concrete floor above to collapse. The accident left two other foreign workers with injuries. Quebec’s workplace safety authority, t
  
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• Montrealer pleads guilty to killing man in knife fight over a woman

  19-12-2025 22:03 via montrealgazette.com
  A murder trial set to begin before a jury in a few weeks at the Montreal courthouse was cancelled Friday after the accused admitted he fatally stabbed the victim during what turned into a knife fight over a woman inside an apartment in the St-Laurent borough two years ago. Uriel Pepin Rojas, 23, of Montreal North, pleaded guilty to manslaughter before Quebec Superior Court Justice Hélène Di Salvo at the Montreal courthouse on Friday. He was initially charged with second-degree murd
  
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• After 33 years, Quebecer released from prison while Ottawa reviews his case

  19-12-2025 21:09 via montrealgazette.com
  A man who has served more than three decades behind bars for four murders he swears he did not commit was granted a release Friday while his case is reviewed by the federal government. Daniel Jolivet, 68, appeared relieved as he and one of his lawyers, Nicolas St-Jacques, shared a joke and chuckled after Quebec Superior Court Justice Lyne Décarie delivered her decision on Jolivet’s request to be freed. Jolivet watched the judge deliver her decision from a prisoner’s dock in th
  
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• Outages and slowdowns plague REM's Deux-Montagnes branch in its first month

  19-12-2025 20:47 via montrealgazette.com
  The REM’s Deux-Montagnes branch is getting mixed reviews after its first month in service, as the new light-train network continues to struggle with outages and slowdowns. The train network experienced seven outages during the 31-day period from Nov. 17 to Dec. 18, said Carole Du Sault, a spokesperson for Pulsar, which is the company that operates the light-rail network. In an email, Du Sault said four of the outages were caused by external factors beyond the operator’s control. Amon
  
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• 'Pilot to the stars' denied parole on 15-year sentence for attacking Hydro-Québec network

  19-12-2025 20:25 via montrealgazette.com
  Normand Dubé, the helicopter pilot who who caused nearly $30 million in damage to Hydro-Québec’s power grid during his long-standing dispute with the utility, has been denied parole on the lengthy sentence he is serving. In a decision made by the Parole Board of Canada last week, the board wrote Dubé was denied both day and full parole on his current 15-year sentence. Following his arrest many years ago, Dubé was often referred to as “the pilot to the star
  
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• Woman, 92, dies after being hit by pickup truck in Verdun

  19-12-2025 18:12 via montrealgazette.com
  A 92-year-old woman died Friday after being struck by a pickup truck Thursday afternoon in the borough of Verdun. Montreal police said the woman was struck around 2 p.m. at the intersection of Gilberte-Dubé St. and Gaétan-Laberge Blvd. While the investigation into the incident is continuing, police reiterated on Friday that neither speed nor alcohol were factors in the accident.
  
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• Quebec Liberals: Marc Tanguay resumes job of interim leader after Rodriguez resignation

  19-12-2025 17:48 via montrealgazette.com
  QUEBEC — The Quebec Liberals have called on a steady hand to steer the party through the difficult times ahead. The party announced Friday that Marc Tanguay, the MNA for the riding of LaFontaine, will resume the job of interim leader in the wake of the resignation this week of leader Pablo Rodriguez. The decision was entrenched by the 18-member Liberal caucus at a virtual meeting Friday morning. “Marc Tanguay possesses a deep knowledge of the party rank and file, coupled with 14 year
  
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• Montreal police arrest two in stabbing of 12-year-old boy

  19-12-2025 17:21 via montrealgazette.com
  Montreal police announced on Friday they have arrested two suspects in connection with the stabbing last month of a 12-year-old boy in the borough of Côte-des-Neiges—Notre-Dame-de-Grâce. Rayan Zackary Rahmani, 19, and a 17-year-old minor were arrested Wednesday in Montreal. Police credited information from witnesses with allowing them to locate the pair. Rahmani appeared in Quebec Court on Thursday to face a charge of attempted murder, and the minor appeared the same day in You
  
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