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• 'I'm afraid of everything': Report reveals realities of women without status in Quebec

  03-12-2025 22:55 via montrealgazette.com
  Something as insignificant as crossing the street on a red light is a source of stress for Nina Gonzalez, who came to Quebec from South America in 2008 and, nearly two decades later, still doesn’t have status. “I’m afraid of everything,” said Gonzalez, who uses a fake name to protect her identity, in reference to the possibility of being deported at any time. “I’m always afraid … I’m stressed, I feel really depressed,” she said. “But I
  
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• STM strikes plunge monthly pass sales with 10 per cent drop since June

  03-12-2025 21:46 via montrealgazette.com
  Labour conflicts have had an impact on the STM’s bottom line, with 200,000 fewer people buying monthly passes to travel in the Montreal area since June, new figures from the Autorité régionale de transport métropolitain (ARTM) show. According to the data, monthly fares to travel within the island of Montreal, known as Zone A, plummeted between June and November. Sales of those passes in June 2025 dipped to 253,484 from 263,966 in June 2024. In July, they plummeted near
  
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• STM strikes affect monthly pass sales with 10 per cent drop since June

  03-12-2025 21:46 via montrealgazette.com
  Labour conflicts have had an impact on the STM’s bottom line, with 200,000 fewer people buying monthly passes to travel in the Montreal area since June, new figures from the Autorité régionale de transport métropolitain (ARTM) show. According to the data, monthly fares to travel within the island of Montreal, known as Zone A, plummeted between June and November. Sales of those passes in June 2025 dipped to 253,484 from 263,966 in June 2024. In July, they plummeted near
  
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• STM monthly pass sales have dropped 10% since June amid work stoppages

  03-12-2025 21:46 via montrealgazette.com
  Labour conflicts have had an impact on the STM’s bottom line, with 200,000 fewer people buying monthly passes to travel in the Montreal area since June, new figures from the Autorité régionale de transport métropolitain (ARTM) show. According to the data, monthly fares to travel within the island of Montreal, known as Zone A, plummeted between June and November. Sales of those passes in June 2025, when the first strike action took place, dipped to 253,484 from 263,966
  
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• Montreal man who killed three told police he was 'the devil,' court hears

  03-12-2025 20:16 via montrealgazette.com
  The young man who killed his parents and grandmother in Rosemont two years ago told the first police officers to arrive at the bloody crime scene that he was the devil. The details of what Montreal police officers witnessed when they arrived at the family’s home on Bélanger St. were told to Quebec Superior Court Justice Annie Émond on Wednesday at the Montreal courthouse. The judge is hearing evidence over the course of two days to determine if Arthur Galarneau, now 22, shoul
  
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• Montreal man who killed parents, grandmother told police he was 'the devil,' court hears

  03-12-2025 20:16 via montrealgazette.com
  The young man who killed his parents and grandmother in Rosemont two years ago told the first police officers to arrive at the bloody crime scene that he was the devil. The details of what Montreal police officers witnessed when they arrived at the family’s home on Bélanger St. were told to Quebec Superior Court Justice Annie Émond on Wednesday at the Montreal courthouse. The judge is hearing evidence over the course of two days to determine if Arthur Galarneau, now 22, shoul
  
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• Former MNA Amir Khadir suspended from practising medicine for six months

  03-12-2025 19:03 via montrealgazette.com
  A career physician and former MNA for Québec solidaire has been suspended from the practice of medicine for six months after admitting he prescribed long-term antibiotic therapy to treat Lyme disease despite agreeing with the province’s Collège des médecins not to do so. In a 41-page ruling, the Collège ruled that Amir Khadir, who served in the National Assembly from 2008 to 2018 and works as a specialist in microbiology and infectious diseases at Pierre-Le Gard
  
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• Opinion: Who's a 'disgrace to all Quebecers'?

  03-12-2025 18:49 via montrealgazette.com
  When someone overreacts to another’s remarks, it’s often because there’s a sting of truth in there somewhere. And in this moment, masks often slip. Premier François Legault’s over-the-top reaction to newly minted federal Minister of Official Languages Marc Miller’s suggestion that French is not at death’s door in Quebec, but needs careful attention, is a classic case. Miller, who is also minister of Canadian Identity and Culture, said he’s tired
  
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• 'Don't go there': Advocates fear CAQ constitution could endanger abortion rights in Quebec

  03-12-2025 18:45 via montrealgazette.com
  QUEBEC — Do not enshrine the right to abortion into law, critics told the government Wednesday, warning that any legislation protecting abortion could threaten that very right. The province’s lawyers’ association — the Barreau du Québec — said Wednesday morning that spelling out the right to abortion in the planned Quebec constitution risked “reopening” the abortion debate. “The vast majority of legal experts specializing in the matter
  
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• 'Don't go there': Abortion rights at risk in Quebec with CAQ constitution plan, advocates say

  03-12-2025 18:45 via montrealgazette.com
  QUEBEC — Do not enshrine the right to abortion into law, critics told the Quebec government Wednesday, warning that any legislation protecting abortion could threaten that very right. The province’s lawyers’ association — the Barreau du Québec — said Wednesday morning that spelling out the right to abortion in the planned Quebec constitution risked “reopening” the abortion debate. “The vast majority of legal experts specializing in the
  
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• Air Transat pilots vote 99% in favour of strike action

  03-12-2025 15:43 via montrealgazette.com
  Air Transat’s pilots have voted “overwhelmingly” to strike. According to a post Wednesday on the Facebook page of the Airline Pilots Association, International (ALPA), the union representing the pilots, the vote was 99 per cent in favour of strike “if management fails to deliver a modern contract.” This story will be updated.RelatedAir Transat flight attendants approve new contract on third try
  
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• PQ surges in new poll as embattled Quebec Liberals plummet

  03-12-2025 13:52 via montrealgazette.com
  The Parti Québécois is flirting with 40 per cent voter support in the province while the Quebec Liberals are nearly 20 points behind the PQ, a Léger poll conducted for the Québecor media chain suggests. And the survey, conducted last weekend as the Quebec Liberals’ internal crises continued to make headlines but before party leader Pablo Rodriguez expelled MNA Marwah Rizqy from the Liberal caucus Tuesday, suggests that 52 per cent of respondents do not believe R
  
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• Labos: Food allergies are a hard nut to crack, but there's some good news

  03-12-2025 12:55 via montrealgazette.com
  It’s rare that I get to bring people good news. But a new study in the journal Pediatrics is exactly that. It shows that food allergies in children are decreasing, mainly because of fewer peanut allergies. There aren’t always many opportunities to celebrate public health achievements these days. But the current study shows that good science and steady messaging can make people change. Because change for the better is always possible. To understand the context of the current study, we
  
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• Residents fear overcrowding in the Triangle if project gets approved

  03-12-2025 12:00 via montrealgazette.com
  The municipal election in November ushered in a new administration in Côte-des-Neiges—Notre-Dame-de-Grâce borough, but it hasn’t settled a development battle that started brewing in the Triangle neighbourhood this summer. Residents say they’re on tenterhooks waiting on the new Ensemble Montréal administration to give a sign of how it will respond to a developer’s proposal to erect an apartment complex with about 570 units. The proposed site at de la Sav
  
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• Another Griffintown? Development battle brewing in fast-growing C.D.N.-N.D.G. neighbourhood

  03-12-2025 12:00 via montrealgazette.com
  The municipal election in November ushered in a new administration in Côte-des-Neiges—Notre-Dame-de-Grâce borough, but it hasn’t settled a development battle that started brewing in the Triangle neighbourhood this summer. Residents say they’re on tenterhooks waiting on the new Ensemble Montréal administration to give a sign of how it will respond to a developer’s proposal to erect an apartment complex with about 570 units. The proposed site at de la Sav
  
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• Update: Dubé pleads for time as family medicine directors vow to defy Bill 2

  03-12-2025 04:25 via montrealgazette.com
  Rejecting a new role under Bill 2 as “instruments of control,” the heads of all Quebec’s Départements territoriaux de médecine de famille (DTMF), which help co-ordinate the delivery of primary health care in their regions, vowed Tuesday to refuse to carry out parts of the special law, which imposes a new pay model, heavier patient loads and rigid performance indicators on the province’s doctors. In a strongly worded letter to Premier François Legault,
  
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• Family medicine directors across Quebec vow to defy Bill 2

  03-12-2025 04:25 via montrealgazette.com
  The heads of all Quebec’s Départements territoriaux de médecine de famille (DTMF), which help co-ordinate the delivery of primary health care in their regions, have vowed to refuse to implement parts of Bill 2, the special law imposing a new pay model, heavier patient loads and rigid performance targets on the province’s doctors. In a strongly worded letter sent Tuesday to Premier François Legault, Health Minister Christian Dubé, Santé Québec
  
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• McGill rugby team creates first financial award in its 153-year history

  03-12-2025 01:54 via montrealgazette.com
  McGill Redbirds men’s rugby captain Elliot Descarreaux was named recipient of the Dr. Joseph Hanaway McGill Rugby Gentleman’s Award on Friday, a first in the team’s 153-year history. The newly minted financial award recognizes and honours “gentlemanly conduct and exemplary behaviour” exhibited by a McGill rugby player on and off the field during at least two seasons, according to a press release from the award’s creator, Neil Stephenson. Recipients earn a $3,5
  
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• Opinion: Bill 2 distorts the moral compass in medicine

  03-12-2025 01:00 via montrealgazette.com
  There has been no shortage of commentary on Bill 2. Still, confusion persists about what this law actually does — and why it threatens to deform medical practice. Most articles say something like: “10 to 15 per cent of a physician’s income will be tied to measurable outcomes.” Many readers might reasonably ask: Why not 100 per cent? Shouldn’t doctors be accountable? But physicians are already paid per act. The current system is already a commissions-only sales job
  
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