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• Montreal weather: He's gliding down on blades of glory

  11-02-2026 14:05 via montrealgazette.com
  Gazette photographer John Mahoney came across Timéo de Paoli figure-skating in La Fontaine Park Tuesday. The visitor from Switzerland was apparently inspired the Olympic Games in Italy, and was fabulously colour-co-ordinated with the monochrome park. It’s enough to melt your heart (but not the ice). Montrealers can expect light snow Wednesday, with a high of minus-4 C and a wind chill near minus-13 C. The snow will end in the evening, when the temperature drops to minus-8 C with a m
  
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• Labos: Washing your hands isn't an Olympic feat

  11-02-2026 12:55 via montrealgazette.com
  Many things can go wrong at the Olympics. A fraction of a second can make the difference between gold and ignominy. There’s little we can do to protect ourselves against the vagaries of a random universe. But at least we can protect ourselves against outbreaks of viral diarrhea with one simple act. We can wash our hands. The opening game between Canada and Finland in women’s hockey was postponed to Feb. 12 because of an outbreak of norovirus among the Finnish players. One Swiss playe
  
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• One of Canada’s worst mass shootings leaves 10 dead in B.C., including suspect

  11-02-2026 05:44 via montrealgazette.com
  Canada confronted one of its deadliest shootings in decades Tuesday after an assailant killed at least nine people and injured 25 at a high school in northeastern British Columbia. Shortly after 1:20 p.m., police responding to reports of an active shooter at Tumbler Ridge Secondary School found six people dead inside the school, the RCMP said in a statement. Another victim died en route to a hospital, and two more were later discovered dead at a nearby home believed to be connected to the attack
  
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• Montreal man arrested for allegedly helping Ryan Wedding track informant to death

  11-02-2026 03:11 via montrealgazette.com
  A Montreal man accused of helping Ryan Wedding, a former Olympic snowboarder turned alleged international drug trafficker, track a federal informant to his death has been arrested at a U.S. airport, authorities said Tuesday. Tommy Demorizi, 35, is accused of helping Wedding’s organization locate Jonathan Acebedo Garcia, a Montrealer and FBI informant, by paying a Montreal-based reggaeton DJ up to $1,000 for his contact information after associates recognized him in a music video. Acebedo G
  
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• Canada’s 5-0 loss to U.S. 'painful to see' for women’s hockey fans

  11-02-2026 02:30 via montrealgazette.com
  At Le Nadia, a women’s-only sports bar in Montreal, nobody cheered when the final whistle blew in the Canada-U.S. Olympic women’s hockey match Tuesday. Dozens of Team Canada hockey fans left disappointed after what they described as a “painful” 5-0 loss in the preliminary round against Team USA at the Olympic Winter Games in Milano-Cortina, Italy. “Oh my God, that was painful to see, and probably painful for (Poulin),” said fan Marine Robert, 38, at the sports
  
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• Montreal traveller in Cuba hopes there will be enough fuel to get home

  11-02-2026 00:49 via montrealgazette.com
  Félix Noiseux is hoping his flight home from Cuba goes smoothly as several Canadian airlines wind down operations as the energy crisis continues to deepen in the Caribbean nation. The Laval resident, who is vacationing in the country for the first time with his father on the island of Cayo Cruz, is expected to return to Montreal on Wednesday. “My concern is the flight might not have enough fuel to go back,” he said in an interview Tuesday with The Gazette. “I’m gue
  
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• Fréchette reverses course, says she would reopen popular PEQ program

  11-02-2026 00:28 via montrealgazette.com
  QUEBEC — Coalition Avenir Québec leadership candidate Christine Fréchette shifted gears Tuesday, announcing she would reopen the popular Programme de l’expérience Québec (PEQ) program for two years to give immigrants who were already registered in it an acquired right to stay. Contradicting a line she has maintained for days, Fréchette took to social media to say if elected leader and premier she would reverse course and reactivate the program that
  
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• Federal nominee won’t commit to Quebec English school board court challenge

  10-02-2026 23:50 via montrealgazette.com
  The nominee to become Canada’s next Official Languages Commissioner declined Tuesday to say whether she would support the Quebec anglophone community in its legal challenge against the Legault government’s bid to abolish English school boards. Last fall, outgoing commissioner Raymond Théberge urged anglophones to fight the move, calling it unconstitutional and vowing to assist in a court challenge of the plan to scrap English boards. The federal Liberal government has nominate
  
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• Polytechnique Montréal to expand to accommodate more students and labs

  10-02-2026 23:37 via montrealgazette.com
  Quebec’s changing economy will need more engineers, Premier François Legault said as he confirmed provincial funding of almost $269 million for Polytechnique Montréal to expand and renovate its facilities on Mount Royal. The project, which will also receive almost a million dollars in federal funding, is scheduled to be completed by spring of 2031. Part of the provincial funding has already gone to the acquisition, in June of 2024, of half of the J.-Armand-Bombardier pavilion
  
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• Legault bewildered by Trump's statement that China would stop hockey

  10-02-2026 22:23 via montrealgazette.com
  Premier François Legault seemed baffled on Tuesday over U.S. President Donald Trump’s musings that Canada’s trade deal with China will somehow result in all ice hockey ceasing in Canada and the elimination of the Stanley Cup. The hockey warning was included in a statement Trump posted on Monday on his social media platform, Truth Social, threatening to block the opening of the Gordie Howe International Bridge. The $4 billion bridge project, paid for by Canada, will connect Det
  
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• Côte-Ste-Catherine Rd., Rachel St. among a dozen bike lanes Montreal will review

  10-02-2026 21:29 via montrealgazette.com
  The new administration at city hall is launching a review of a dozen existing or planned bike lanes in Montreal, including some of the busiest in the city on Rachel St. and Côte-Ste-Catherine Rd. Mayor Soraya Martinez Ferrada said Tuesday the lanes were selected based on the number of complaints the city has received about them and discussions with local elected officials. While the announcement raised concerns about possible dismantling, the mayor said the goal is rather to make them safe
  
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• Teens younger than before are wading into crime, Montreal police say

  10-02-2026 20:38 via montrealgazette.com
  Montreal remains a relatively low-crime city, police say, but youth are engaging in criminal activity at younger ages than before. “What we’re seeing now, is a decrease in the age that young people move toward (criminal) action,” specialized services director David Bertrand said Tuesday as the Montreal police force (SPVM) presented its summary of 2025 and its goals for 2026. While police are accustomed to seeing teens enter the criminal world between the ages of 16 and 18, Bert
  
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• EMSB chair, Jolin-Barrette spar over French language and whether Quebec is a nation

  10-02-2026 20:10 via montrealgazette.com
  Quebec’s nationhood, the French language and religion were the focus of a testy exchange Tuesday between the province’s justice minister and the head of its largest English school board. Joe Ortona, chair of the English Montreal School Board, told National Assembly hearings that the proposed Quebec constitution drafted by the Coalition Avenir Québec government undermines the education system, centralizes power, threatens minority rights and fails to reflect the province&r
  
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• Two Montrealers jailed for bilking U.S. seniors in grandparent scam

  10-02-2026 19:05 via montrealgazette.com
  Two men who admitted in October they were part of a grandparent fraud scheme and made calls to bilk elderly people in the United States out of their life savings were sentenced Tuesday to prison terms at the Montreal courthouse. Quebec Superior Court Justice Éliane Perreault accepted a joint recommendation that Carson Sean Vaudry, 30, of Beaconsfield and Paul Létourneau, 29, of St-Léonard serve prison terms of 20 months and two years respectively. A period of one year of pro
  
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• Opinion: Let's not dilute antisemitism and Islamophobia

  10-02-2026 18:31 via montrealgazette.com
  As Canadian Muslims marked the anniversary of the 2017 Quebec City mosque attack recently, remembrance was accompanied by unease. Six men were murdered while praying in the deadliest attack on a house of worship in Canadian history. At commemorations in Quebec City and Montreal, a shared message emerged: Remembrance must be matched by resolve. That message comes at a critical moment. The federal government has decided, and without meaningful consultation with affected communities, to dissolve th
  
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• Caisse pauses new partnerships with DP World after CEO’s emails to Epstein surface

  10-02-2026 18:24 via montrealgazette.com
  Quebec’s public pension fund said Tuesday that it is pausing new partnerships with DP World after released emails show years of contact between the company’s chief executive and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Some of the messages reference sexual encounters. The Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec, which is Canada’s second-largest pension fund managing nearly $500 billion, told The Gazette it is now seeking clarification with the company over the
  
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• Update: Montreal métro system back up after being stopped by communications glitch

  10-02-2026 17:50 via montrealgazette.com
  Service on all four lines of the métro was returning to normal Tuesday morning after being disrupted for almost an hour because of what transit authorities described as “communications equipment failure.” In an email to The Gazette, the Société de transport de Montreal said communications between métro trains and the subway network’s control room had been disrupted. While service was not expected to resume before 1 p.m., the system was back up and ru
  
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• Update: Entire Montreal métro system down because of communications glitch

  10-02-2026 17:50 via montrealgazette.com
  Service on all four lines of the métro was disrupted Tuesday morning because of what transit authorities described as “communications equipment failure.” In an email to The Gazette, the Société de transport de Montreal said communications between métro trains and the subway network’s control room had been disrupted. They added shuttle buses were being deployed along the length of routes serviced by the métro. Service is expected to resume at 1
  
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• Communications glitch disrupts service on Montreal métro system

  10-02-2026 17:50 via montrealgazette.com
  Service on all four lines of the métro was disrupted Tuesday morning because of what transit authorities described as “communications equipment failure.”Service interruption extended line 1 - GREEN between Angrignon and Honoré-Beaugrand. Communications equipment failure. Service expected to resume at 1:00 PM. J— Ligne 1 - Verte (@stm_Verte) February 10, 2026
  Service interruption extended line 2 - ORANGE between Côte-Vertu and Montmorency. Communications equi
  
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• ICE eyes detention facility at warehouse owned by firm with Montreal ties

  10-02-2026 16:58 via montrealgazette.com
  U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement is considering using a warehouse in Roxbury, N.J., owned by a firm with roots in Montreal, as part of its major expansion of immigration detention infrastructure, The Gazette has learned. The Trump administration has begun a nationwide effort to expand its detention and processing centres. Several sites have already been secured, U.S. media report, as part of an expansion that could hold tens of thousands of migrants at a time. But critics, including lawm
  
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• Montreal-Cuba flights suspended by WestJet, Air Transat till at least April

  10-02-2026 15:38 via montrealgazette.com
  WestJet and Air Transat have joined Air Canada in winding down their service to Cuba, announcing Monday evening neither of them expect to resume service to the destination before April. The decision by the carriers follows a similar announcement by Air Canada and is sparked by the growing penury of aviation fuel on the island nation, a situation Cuban officials maintain is being exacerbated by the Trump administration’s decision to cut oil shipments from Venezuela. In a travel advisory on
  
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• Montreal-Cuba flights suspended by Air Canada, WestJet and Air Transat

  10-02-2026 15:38 via montrealgazette.com
  Montreal Trudeau International Airport is asking travellers to Cuba to check their flight status Tuesday as airlines continue to suspend flights to the Caribbean nation. “Due to an aviation fuel shortage in Cuba, Air Canada, Air Transat and WestJet have announced the temporary suspension of their flights to Cuba, effective Feb. 9, resulting in disruptions to schedules to and from the island,” an alert on the airport’s website reads. “Please contact your airline with any q
  
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• Are Montrealers still paying too much for gas? Probably, CAA-Quebec report suggests

  10-02-2026 14:24 via montrealgazette.com
  Montreal motorists saw the average per-litre price for gas at the pump drop by five per cent between 2024 and 2025, according an annual report made public Tuesday by CAA-Quebec. A daily analysis of gas prices in Quebec over the course of 2025 found that Montreal motorists also paid the single highest price for gas ($169.9 on Sept. 4) as well the lowest ($136.9, Dec. 29-30). The report notes that the average price of gasoline in Quebec decreased by 5.8 per cent in 2025 compared with 2024, a
  
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• Montreal weather: Snowfall, travel advisory loom over evening rush hour

  10-02-2026 14:07 via montrealgazette.com
  Environment Canada has issued a winter weather travel advisory for Tuesday afternoon, warning of poor driving conditions as rapidly accumulating snow will make roads slippery. In its yellow advisory, federal meteorological agency says snowfall rates could reach two centimetres per hour, reducing visibility. By the time the night is over, Montrealers can expect a dump of up to 10 cm. The high for the day is expected to reach minus-8 C, with a wind chill of minus-14 C in the afternoon. Up to five
  
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• Updated: New Brunswick grants 38 licenses to Quebec doctors

  10-02-2026 12:40 via montrealgazette.com
  At least seven physicians — including a thoracic surgeon and an emergency room specialist — are quitting Quebec in frustration for better working conditions in New Brunswick, making good on their threat to leave the province since the adoption last fall of Bill 2, the divisive doctors’ pay law that is now being reworked by the provincial government. Their imminent departures add to the flight of 33 physicians from the Outaouais to neighbouring Ontario — an exodus that has
  
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• Updated: New Brunswick grants 38 licences to Quebec doctors

  10-02-2026 12:40 via montrealgazette.com
  At least seven physicians — including a thoracic surgeon and an emergency room specialist — are quitting Quebec in frustration for better working conditions in New Brunswick, making good on their threat to leave the province since the adoption last fall of Bill 2, the divisive doctors’ pay law that is now being reworked by the provincial government. Their imminent departures add to the flight of 33 physicians from the Outaouais to neighbouring Ontario — an exodus that has
  
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• Update: New Brunswick grants 38 licences to Quebec doctors

  10-02-2026 12:40 via montrealgazette.com
  At least seven physicians — including a thoracic surgeon and an emergency room specialist — are quitting Quebec in frustration for better working conditions in New Brunswick, making good on their threat to leave the province since the adoption last fall of Bill 2, the divisive doctors’ pay law that is now being reworked by the provincial government. Their imminent departures add to the flight of 33 physicians from the Outaouais to neighbouring Ontario — an exodus that has
  
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• At least seven Quebec doctors have accepted job offers in New Brunswick

  10-02-2026 12:40 via montrealgazette.com
  At least seven physicians — including a thoracic surgeon and an emergency room specialist — are quitting Quebec in frustration for better working conditions in New Brunswick, making good on their threat to leave the province since the adoption last fall of Bill 2, the divisive doctors’ pay law that is now being reworked by the provincial government. Their imminent departures add to the flight of 33 physicians from the Outaouais to neighbouring Ontario — an exodus that has
  
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• Former SAAQ clerk arrested by Quebec’s anti-corruption commission

  10-02-2026 02:26 via montrealgazette.com
  A former licence and registration clerk at the Société de l’assurance automobile du Québec (SAAQ) was arrested Monday by officers from Quebec’s anti-corruption commission. The news was announced Monday by the Commissaire à la lutte contre la corruption (CLCC), and comes less than a month after the auto-insurance board was ordered to conduct an internal audit in light of a budget controversy. The former employee, François Dagenais, faces charges of u
  
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• Montreal public health warns of killer cough syrup aimed at teens

  10-02-2026 01:57 via montrealgazette.com
  Montreal’s public health department is warning parents and teenagers about a fake cough syrup in circulation that’s laced with a highly addictive opioid and a depressant that can cause overdose deaths. In fact, the illicit syrup — which goes by the street names of “lean”, “purple drank,” “Sizzurp” and “dirty sprite,” among others — was linked to an overdose death in Laval in November 2023. The liquid contains an extremely po
  
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• Montreal mayor open to helping La Tulipe, protecting other music venues

  10-02-2026 01:05 via montrealgazette.com
  Montreal Mayor Soraya Martinez Ferrada says she’s looking to defend music venues facing noise complaints in the city and is open to helping the La Tulipe concert venue she feels has become symbolic of the issue. La Tulipe is trying to reopen after the city reached a $350,000 settlement last week with a neighbour who targeted the iconic venue with a series of noise complaints and protracted legal proceedings. La Tulipe’s owners said they now face significant financial obstacles thanks
  
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• Air Canada Montreal-Cuba flights among those cancelled as Trump’s pressure sparks fuel crisis

  09-02-2026 21:51 via montrealgazette.com
  Air Canada has suspended all flights to Cuba after a deepening energy crisis on the island reduced aviation fuel supplies, which Cuban officials say has been exacerbated by the Trump administration’s hardening stance toward the country. The suspension takes effect immediately and will disrupt an average of 16 weekly flights, including flights from Montréal–Trudeau International Airport and Toronto Pearson International Airport, the airline said in a statement on Monday. The se
  
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• Heated Rivalry star Sophie Nélisse visits St-Viateur Bagel after shirt goes viral

  09-02-2026 21:32 via montrealgazette.com
  Heated Rivalry star Sophie Nélisse made a visit over the weekend to St-Viateur Bagel to sign a shirt her character Rose Landry made famous by wearing on the show. The bagel shop posted about the visit on their Instagram page, which included a photo of the signed shirt with the note “best team and best bagels in the city” from the actress, as well as the clip from the show. “Thank you, @sophie__nelisse, for your visit and for taking the time to graciously take photos with
  
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• Two children may have been bound with duct tape, Laval murder trial hears

  09-02-2026 20:05 via montrealgazette.com
  A crime scene technician who testified at the murder trial of Kamaljit Arora said Monday it appeared the accused’s son and daughter were bound with duct tape at some point before they were killed. With the trial at the Laval courthouse entering its second week, Det-Sgt. Mathieu Gaudet of the Sûreté du Québec, who helped investigate the deaths of Arora’s 11-year-old son and 13-year-old daughter, testified that he found what appeared to be the remnants of grey duct
  
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• Double entendre or mistranslation? Canada's language watchdog apologizes for Valentine's post

  09-02-2026 18:27 via montrealgazette.com
  Canada’s language watchdog has apologized for and removed a seemingly raunchy Valentine’s post in French that raised eyebrows across the country. The Office of the Commissioner of Official Languages ​​of Canada posted on social media last week a card of two dachshund dogs staring at one another with a heart between them, encouraging Canadians to practise their second official language with their valentine. The post included the sentence: “Ma queue et mon cœur
  
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• Double entendre or mistranslation? Canada's language watchdog apologizes for Valentine's Day post

  09-02-2026 18:27 via montrealgazette.com
  Canada’s language watchdog has apologized for and removed a seemingly raunchy Valentine’s Day post in French that raised eyebrows across the country. The Office of the Commissioner of Official Languages of Canada posted on social media last week a card of two dachshund dogs staring at one another with a heart between them, encouraging Canadians to practise their second official language with their Valentine. The post in question included the sentence: “Ma queue et mon cœu
  
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• Mayor Soraya Martinez Ferrada shows Latin pride dancing to Bad Bunny halftime show

  09-02-2026 17:55 via montrealgazette.com
  Mayor Soraya Martinez Ferrada, like many Montrealers, was thrilled by Bad Bunny’s halftime show performance during Sunday night’s Super Bowl. So much so, the mayor took to Instagram to hype up the event. Prior to the halftime show, she posted a video dancing solo in her kitchen with the caption, “Prête pour le Benitobowl, et vous?” The IG Reel has been viewed more than 250,000 times. She posted another video later, dancing with her partner in the living room to Bad
  
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• Martinez Ferrada says Bad Bunny halftime show resonates with Montreal

  09-02-2026 17:55 via montrealgazette.com
  Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl halftime show sent a strong message about unity and joy that resonates with a city like Montreal, Mayor Soraya Martinez Ferrada said Monday. Martinez Ferrada, the city’s first Latina mayor, had posted a widely shared video of herself dancing ahead of the performance Sunday evening, asking people if they were ready for the “Benitobowl.” Asked about the halftime show on Monday, Martinez Ferrada said she appreciated the “very strong message&rdquo
  
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• Water infiltration forces shutdown of métro’s Yellow Line during morning rush hour

  09-02-2026 14:56 via montrealgazette.com
  Métro service between Longueuil, Jean-Drapeau and Berri-UQAM stations has been interrupted because of water infiltration along the Yellow Line. Shuttle bus service has been established between Longueuil and Papineau stations and between Jean-Drapeau and Bonaventure stations. Service is not expected to be restored until 9:40 a.m.[Ongoing disruption] 🚇⛔ A special bus service is currently in place.Between 🟡Longueuil-Université-de-Sherbrooke and 🟢Papineau
  
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• Update: Service resuming on métro’s Yellow Line after water infiltration forced shutdown

  09-02-2026 14:56 via montrealgazette.com
  Métro service between Longueuil, Jean-Drapeau and Berri-UQAM stations has been re-established after being interrupted for about two hours during Monday morning’s rush hour because of water infiltration along the Yellow Line. Shuttle bus service was established between Longueuil and Papineau stations and between Jean-Drapeau and Bonaventure stations. The accumulation, which occurred between Jean-Drapeau and Berri-UQAM stations, was blamed on a malfunction at a pumping station serving
  
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• Montreal weather: Unhappy with the forecast? Try Opalite

  09-02-2026 13:46 via montrealgazette.com
  If only we had a state of the art chemical potion to transform clouds into pure sunshine. Something like Opalite. Opalite spray, for those hiding under their pet rock last week, is a Taylor Swift-imagined magical spray that can turn inanimate objects into people — and the other way ’round. Swift narrowly avoided stealing Bad Bunny’s thunder by dropping the Opalite video — from the Life of a Showgirl album — just before Sunday’s Super Bowl. It’s all-over
  
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• Quebec entertainment broadcaster Franco Nuovo dead at 72

  09-02-2026 13:17 via montrealgazette.com
  Franco Nuovo, for a decades fixture on Quebec’s entertainment scene, died Sunday at the age of 72. Radio-Canada announced his passing on its Facebook page, saying he died of a heart attack. “A prominent figure on ICI Première for many years, Franco Nuovo left his mark on audiences with his wit, his vast knowledge and his sensitivity,” the network wrote. “Radio-Canada extends its deepest condolences to his family, his loved ones and all his colleagues who had the pr
  
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• Worried about catching a bug in a hospital waiting room? Here's what infectious disease experts say

  09-02-2026 12:30 via montrealgazette.com
  In the aftermath of COVID-19, a cough in a medical waiting room may still set off alarm bells for Quebecers — especially with a particularly intense flu season, around a dozen recent cases of measles and overcrowding in emergency rooms. Whether you leave a waiting room with something you didn’t have on the way in is influenced by several factors, according to infectious disease specialists, including the season, characteristics of the viruses in question, and precautions ta
  
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• Hanes: The French language will be a key issue in Quebec campaigns

  09-02-2026 11:45 via montrealgazette.com
  It might come as news to many, but Parti Québécois Leader Paul St-Pierre Plamondon said recently that the next sovereignty referendum campaign is already underway. Although he credits Prime Minister Mark Carney for kicking it off with a speech last month that offered a rather rosy version of Quebec history at odds with the PQ’s narrative of grievance, this sounds like wishful thinking on St-Pierre Plamondon’s part. The PQ leader would have to win a Quebec election befor
  
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• What's next for the old Royal Vic site? Not student housing, at least for now

  09-02-2026 00:55 via montrealgazette.com
  A report from CDPQ Infra on the feasibility of converting a portion of the former Royal Victoria Hospital into an inter-university campus consisting mainly of student housing puts the cost of upgrading the site’s heritage buildings at nearly 79 per cent of the estimated $845-million construction cost for 1,150 beds. CDPQ Infra is the subsidiary of the Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec that plans, finances, develops and operates major public infrastructure projects.
  
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• Former L'Assomption daycare worker found guilty of murder in toddler's death

  08-02-2026 20:48 via montrealgazette.com
  Tomy Carranza Ladry, a 36-year-old former home daycare worker in L’Assomption, north of Montreal, has been found guilty of second-degree murder in the 2023 death of a toddler in his charge. The verdict of the trial, in which the jury deliberated for 2½ days, was delivered on Sunday morning at the Joliette courthouse. Carranza Ladry had already confessed to having attacked the 18-month-old child; the jury’s duty was to determine whether he had intended to inflict injuries that
  
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• Man stabbed at Place-des-Arts métro station

  08-02-2026 18:03 via montrealgazette.com
  Montreal police were called to the Place-des-Arts métro station Saturday at about 10 p.m. and found a 30-year-old man with stab wounds to the upper body. The incident took place inside the station, said Montreal police spokesperson Florence Stafford. The victim was conscious when transported to a hospital and his life is not believed to be in danger. A suspect fled on foot before police arrived and no arrest has been made. The Société de transport de Montréal said on
  
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• Early-morning bar fire in Rosemont—La Petite-Patrie investigated as arson

  08-02-2026 17:20 via montrealgazette.com
  A fire early Sunday morning in a bar in the Rosemont—La Petite-Patrie borough appears to have been deliberately set. Montreal police and firefighters responded to 911 calls shortly after 6 a.m. at a bar on Papineau Ave. near St-Zotique St., and firefighters quickly brought the fire under control. No injuries were reported, but the building was heavily damaged. Incendiary elements were reportedly found at the scene and the investigation was transferred to the arson squad, police said. No ar
  
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• Montreal weather: Bundle up — there's a risk of frostbite Sunday

  08-02-2026 12:00 via montrealgazette.com
  Environment Canada is forecasting clearing skies in the morning on Sunday with a high of minus 11. A west wind at 20 km/h will bring wind chills of minus 28 in the morning and minus 19 in the afternoon with a risk of frostbite. It will remain clear overnight with a low of minus 17 and a wind chill of minus 25.
  
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• Montreal weather: Bundle up as Sunday has a risk of frostbite

  08-02-2026 12:00 via montrealgazette.com
  Environment Canada is forecasting clearing in the morning on Sunday with a high of minus 11. A west wind at 20 km/h will bring wind chills of minus 28 in the morning and minus 19 in the afternoon with a risk of frostbite. It will remain clear overnight with a low of minus 17 and a wind chill of minus 25.
  
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