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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
  Pierre Obendrauf
  
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• Longest hugs, most joyous reunions are daily displays at Trudeau airport

  24-12-2025 12:00 via montrealgazette.com
  It was the first time 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 her home country of Mauritania. 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. Marega, who has only returned home once since moving away from Mauritania in 2017, h
  
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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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