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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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• Martinez Ferrada praises Montrealers' aid for unhoused population during cold snap

  07-12-2025 22:51 via montrealgazette.com
  Mayor Soraya Martinez Ferrada has praised Montrealers for the alacrity with which they have responded to her request on Thursday that they step up to help the city’s unhoused individuals by donating items including sleeping bags and winter gloves. Speaking at city hall Thursday with members of her newly formed crisis unit to address homelessness, the mayor said winter had arrived more quickly than anticipated — and that, although her team is working on long-term measures to help the
  
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• Body found after abandoned Longueuil building catches fire

  07-12-2025 18:59 via montrealgazette.com
  A fire late Saturday night in an abandoned building on St-Charles St. W. in Longueuil led firefighters to a macabre discovery: a lifeless body. Shortly before 11 p.m., Longueuil police were called to assist firefighters. The fire started under the balcony of the building, said Longueuil police spokesperson Jacqueline Pierre; while extinguishing it, firefighters discovered an inanimate body. The identity of the victim, whose death was declared at the scene, has not yet been established, Pierre sa
  
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• Elderly couple attacked in fatal St-Hubert home invasion

  07-12-2025 18:02 via montrealgazette.com
  An elderly man is dead following a home invasion in St-Hubert early Sunday in which he and his wife were attacked. Just after 2 a.m., a 911 call was made from a residence on Renaud St., according to Longueuil police spokesperson Jacqueline Pierre. The couple were transported to a hospital, where the husband, who had been critically injured, died. His wife was injured in the upper body, but her life is not believed to be in danger, Pierre said. A woman was detained at the scene and was to be
  
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• Montreal weather: Sunny morning, but light snow in the afternoon

  07-12-2025 12:00 via montrealgazette.com
  Environment Canada is forecasting mainly sunny skies for Sunday with increasing cloudiness near noon, then light snow beginning late in the afternoon. The temperature will hold steady near minus 10 with a wind chill near minus 15. The UV index will be 1, or low. Snow ending near midnight, then mainly cloudy with a low of minus 14. About 2 centimetres of accumulation is expected. Wind chills of minus 15 in the evening and minus 22 overnight are expected with a 15 km/h wind.
  
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• Fitness: A holiday gift list for the active set

  07-12-2025 12:00 via montrealgazette.com
  Wondering what to put under the tree for your favourite fitness fanatic? There are a lot of choices out there, but finding the right gift isn’t easy, especially if the person you’re gifting is particular about what they like. And while no exercise junkie is going to turn their nose up at a pair of socks or other simple essentials, Christmas is the time of year to give something special. So, if you really want to impress, here’s a list of gifts for runners, outdoor enthusiasts,
  
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• Christmas Fund: Her son’s autism prevents Sarah from working as bills pile up

  07-12-2025 12:00 via montrealgazette.com
  Sarah arrived in Canada in 2022 with her two young boys and the hope of building a stable future. Originally from Algeria, she was selected to immigrate through Canada’s skilled-worker program and was expecting to work quickly after arriving. She has a background in banking and communications. But caring for her eldest son has made that a challenge. Adam, 12, is autistic. He attends a specialized high school in Hochelaga, which is far from their home downtown. Her six-year-old, Sam, is in
  
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• ‘Suspicious death’ of woman in Longueuil prompts police investigation

  07-12-2025 05:16 via montrealgazette.com
  Longueuil police said they have opened an investigation after a 56-year-old woman was found dead in an apartment on Quinn St. on Saturday morning. Around 10 a.m., officers from the Service de police de l’agglomération de Longueuil (SPAL) were called to the residence, where they discovered the woman’s body, police said in a statement. They described it as a “suspicious death.” A person who was at the scene has been arrested and is expected to be questioned later by
  
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• Carney: Canada has ‘much more to do’ on combatting violence against women

  06-12-2025 19:09 via montrealgazette.com
  Mark Carney has said Canada still has “much more to do” in the fight against gender-based violence ahead of Saturday’s commemoration of the École Polytechnique massacre in Montreal, honouring the 14 women murdered on Dec. 6, 1989. The prime minister is expected to attend the memorial with Quebec Premier François Legault and Montreal Mayor Soraya Martínez Ferrada, alongside the families of the victims. He said in a statement “the attack was an assault
  
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• As Montreal honours Polytechnique victims, Carney says progress on women’s safety is not enough

  06-12-2025 19:09 via montrealgazette.com
  Amid blizzard-snow skies, beams of light rose Saturday evening from Mount Royal, one for each woman murdered in the École Polytechnique massacre 36 years ago. More than a hundred people gathered inside the Mount Royal Chalet, including families of the victims and dignitaries such as Prime Minister Mark Carney, Quebec Premier François Legault and Montreal Mayor Soraya Martínez Ferrada, to commemorate the anniversary, as photographs of the 14 women rested on a desk at the fron
  
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• Montreal police probe overnight shooting at Villeray business

  06-12-2025 16:45 via montrealgazette.com
  Gunfire shattered the front window of a business on Crémazie Blvd. in Villeray in the early hours of Saturday morning, Montreal police believe, though no one was reportedly injured. Police received a call around 2:15 a.m. about a commercial alarm reporting broken glass, according to Jeanne Drouin, a spokesperson for the Montreal police. When officers arrived, they found the storefront window smashed and, after a closer inspection, determined the damage appeared to have been caused by proj
  
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• Montreal weather: Snowy, but not as frigid

  06-12-2025 12:00 via montrealgazette.com
  Environment Canada is forecasting periods of snow for Saturday with a high of minus one. The wind will blow up to 15 km/h, giving a wind chill of minus 13 in the morning and minus 6 in the afternoon. Periods of snow will end late in the evening, then clearing with a low of minus 13. The wind will come from the southwest at 20 km/h, becoming light late in the evening. Wind chills will be minus 7 in the evening and minus 17 overnight.
  
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• Lincoln: Guilbeault's principled resignation merits praise and support

  06-12-2025 12:00 via montrealgazette.com
  I got to know Steven Guilbeault in Montreal, when he led Greenpeace and then Équiterre. Intelligent and action-driven, his commitment to the environmental cause runs deep. He entered public life not by ambition, but because he genuinely believed he could better achieve change within the political system, where ideas and policies are translated into binding agreements and laws. It must have been for him a soul-wrenching decision to resign from a senior ministerial post where he could wiel
  
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• Brownstein: Christmas Fund comes at critical time for those in need

  06-12-2025 12:00 via montrealgazette.com
  Bob Hayes was a long-time civic affairs reporter at The Gazette. More importantly, he was civic-minded. Hayes had a big heart, not always an oxymoron when it comes to describing journalists. In 1967, Hayes organized a food and clothing drive for those in need during the holidays. Montreal had experienced a sort of economic boom that year with the launch of Expo 67. Many locals profited. But others were still left out in the cold. This incongruity did not escape Hayes. His initial drive resulted
  
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• 800 STM professionals to launch overtime strike over holiday period

  06-12-2025 01:25 via montrealgazette.com
  About 800 professional transit workers, who have not walked out yet, are set to begin an overtime strike in the latter half of the month and into next year after their union filed formal notice amid stalled contract talks. The Union of Professional and Office Employees, Local 610, whose members include workers like engineers and architects, said in a statement members will refuse all overtime from Dec. 17 until Jan. 11. It follows 91 per cent of members voting in favour of strike action earlier
  
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• Legault urges Quebecers to size up his opponents carefully before voting in 2026

  06-12-2025 01:09 via montrealgazette.com
  QUEBEC — Premier François Legault says he expects the 2026 general election to be a three-way race and he will be one of those in the running. Taking questions from the public on the Radio-Canada Friday political show — La parole aux mordus de politique — Legault downplayed his current lack of popularity and instead said he sees the next election differently than some. He urged Quebecers to carefully compare him to his opponents before deciding. “I think there are
  
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• A weekend 'blitz': Negotiations resume on Quebec doctors' pay model

  06-12-2025 00:40 via montrealgazette.com
  Quebec Premier François Legault met again Friday with the heads of the federations representing Quebec’s family doctors and medical specialists in an effort to restart talks on Bill 2, the controversial law that would impose a new payment model on the province’s doctors. The talks broke down Thursday after doctors said the government seemed to want them to simply agree to the new law, which currently includes obligations to take on more patients and stiff punishments for
  
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• Housing crisis, traffic and food trucks: Here's what Montreal's new mayor wants her administration to tackle

  05-12-2025 21:49 via montrealgazette.com
  Montreal Mayor Soraya Martinez Ferrada has delivered mandate letters to members of the city’s new executive committee, offering a glimpse of what she expects from each over the next four years. The letters were signed on Dec. 1 and made public this week, echoing the approach from the federal government. Each includes what Martinez Ferrada considers to be the committee’s main priorities before listing specific commitments for each member. Here’s a brief overview of what they say
  
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• Supreme Court will hear EMSB appeal regarding Quebec secularism law March 23

  05-12-2025 21:41 via montrealgazette.com
  The Supreme Court of Canada has set March 23 as the date it will hear the English Montreal School Board’s appeal of a lower-court ruling that upheld Quebec’s secularism law. In 2024, the Quebec Court of Appeal upheld the law, commonly referred to as Bill 21, rejecting challenges from several groups, including the English Montreal School Board, the National Council of Canadian Muslims, and the Canadian Civil Liberties Association. The Act respecting the laicity of Quebec was passed by
  
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• Six ways to commemorate victims of Polytechnique massacre on Dec. 6

  05-12-2025 21:36 via montrealgazette.com
  Honouring the 14 women killed in the Polytechnique massacre on Dec. 6, 1989, has become a sombre tradition for Montrealers and Canadians. Every year, people gather to remember the lives of these female engineering students murdered in what is now recognized as a mass femicide. “People are attached to paying respect to these women who lost their lives in 1989,” said Polytechnique Montréal president Maud Cohen. “But beyond this memory there’s the question of why the
  
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• Canada’s least-popular premier? François Legault ends 2025 in the basement

  05-12-2025 20:47 via montrealgazette.com
  This year has brought no shortage of political milestones. Mark Carney became Canada’s prime minister. Montreal elected Soraya Martínez Ferrada as its first political refugee and Latina mayor. And Ottawa found itself locked in a trade standoff with U.S. President Donald Trump. It also was the year when Quebec Premier François Legault emerged, and remained, the most least-popular premier in Canada. The 68-year-old, who was first elected in 2018, “continues to be Canada&r
  
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• Libman: Fair or not, Rodriguez must step down

  05-12-2025 19:55 via montrealgazette.com
  “Politics is a blood sport.” And when journalists sniff blood in the water, they are ruthless in their pursuit. Quebec Liberal leader Pablo Rodriguez is the latest victim in a province where the waters can be fraught with more complicated predators than elsewhere. You had better be a damn good swimmer. It started a few weeks ago when Rodriguez, not yet a sitting member of the National Assembly, was blindsided by the party’s acting parliamentary leader, Marwah Rizqy, who had abr
  
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• Rodriguez faces calls to resign as turmoil deepens for Quebec Liberals

  05-12-2025 18:36 via montrealgazette.com
  QUEBEC — With the crisis in the Quebec Liberal Party continuing to grow, there are reports that a petition calling for the resignation of leader Pablo Rodriguez is circulating in the ranks. The Journal de Montréal reported Friday that some members of the party had received an petition by email calling for the leader’s head. The author of the email is unknown, but the subject of the message is “Intégrité PLQ” and members are asked to pass it on to gath
  
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• Major outages disrupt REM service on Friday morning

  05-12-2025 18:11 via montrealgazette.com
  The Réseau express métropolitain was back up and running around 11 a.m. after outages plagued most of the network Friday morning. The first alerts about outages were issued on the REM’s X account and via text message alerts at 5:34 a.m. At the time, there was no service along the network between the Du Ruisseau station in St-Laurent and Édouard-Montpetit in Outremont. A few minutes later, the outage had extended from Bois-Franc to the McGill station, and at 6:26 a.m. a
  
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• Quebec 'brownie bill' would ban vote buying in party leadership races

  05-12-2025 17:27 via montrealgazette.com
  QUEBEC — The CAQ government moved Friday to plug a hole in the electoral code that, up until now, has made vote buying in party leadership races legal. The bill comes in response to allegations that certain Quebec Liberal Party members received “brownies” — or $100 bills — to support Pablo Rodriguez in his successful run for leader this spring. The proposed legislation was tabled Friday. The Liberals have since launched an independent investigation into the matter a
  
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• Weekend traffic: Few disruptions on the island

  05-12-2025 13:00 via montrealgazette.com
  It’s a light weekend for road disruptions, with all bridges and tunnels open to and from the island. But here are some trouble spots to avoid:Highway 30The highway will be closed eastbound over Highway 10 from 10 p.m. Friday to 5 a.m. Monday. Traffic will be diverted to the service road so repairs can be done to expansion joints on the overpass. Ramps to and from Highway 10 are not affected by the closing.Highway 40The Charles-De Gaulle Bridge between Montreal and Terrebonne will be down t
  
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• Weekend traffic: Exit closed off Ville-Marie Expressway

  05-12-2025 13:00 via montrealgazette.com
  It’s a light weekend for road disruptions, with all bridges and tunnels open to and from the island. But here are some trouble spots to avoid:Highway 30The highway will be closed eastbound over Highway 10 from 10 p.m. Friday to 5 a.m. Monday. Traffic will be diverted to the service road so repairs can be done to expansion joints on the overpass. Ramps to and from Highway 10 are not affected by the closing.Highway 40The Charles-De Gaulle Bridge between Montreal and Terrebonne will be down t
  
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• Drimonis: There appears to be no end to the CAQ's brand of secularism

  05-12-2025 12:55 via montrealgazette.com
  I find it supremely ironic that as an atheist I’ve spent the better part of a decade writing in defence of Quebecers’ religious beliefs and their right to freely practise their faith. As a feminist, I also resent being told I’m a “useful idiot” by people feigning interest in women’s rights only when it provides them easy licence to attack something they dislike or deeply fear — notably immigrants or the Muslim faith. I fully recognize that most major rel
  
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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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• 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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