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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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• Exo to make 'significant' cuts to projects, citing funding shortfall

  09-12-2025 20:33 via montrealgazette.com
  The Montreal region’s commuter train and suburban bus authority has announced significant cuts to its long-term projects as it prepares to face financial headwinds. Exo said Tuesday that its annual budget will include a “significant” reduction in the number of projects it intends to bring forward in the coming years. The transit authority’s 10-year capital budget will be reduced to $1.9 billion, down about $600 from its previous $2.5 billion. “The challenges to fund
  
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• Quebec constitution fails to recognize anglo, Indigenous minorities, Gaspé group says

  09-12-2025 19:51 via montrealgazette.com
  QUEBEC — The Coalition Avenir Québec government’s proposed new constitution fails to offer proper recognition and guarantees for the rights of the English-speaking and Indigenous communities, a group from the Gaspé region said Tuesday. On the third day of public consultations into the government’s Bill 1, representatives of Vision Gaspé-Percé Now, representing about 10,000 eastern Quebec anglophones and Indigenous people, presented a brief saying the
  
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• Westmount mayor apologizes after disparaging comments caught on microphone

  09-12-2025 18:02 via montrealgazette.com
  Westmount mayor Michael Stern issued a public apology during Monday night’s meeting of city council after an expletive comment he made under his breath during the previous month’s council meeting was picked up on the meeting’s sound system. “At our last meeting, an off-mic comment I made was audible in the room and online. It was inappropriate, I expect better of myself, and residents have the right to expect better from their mayor. I apologize for that comment,” S
  
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• Westmount mayor apologizes after disparaging comment caught on microphone

  09-12-2025 18:02 via montrealgazette.com
  Westmount Mayor Michael Stern issued a public apology during Monday night’s meeting of city council after an expletive he said under his breath during the previous month’s council meeting was picked up on the sound system. “At our last meeting, an off-mic comment I made was audible in the room and online. It was inappropriate, I expect better of myself, and residents have the right to expect better from their mayor. I apologize for that comment,” Stern told the council ro
  
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• Update: Air Transat axes second wave of flights as strike deadline nears

  09-12-2025 16:49 via montrealgazette.com
  Air Transat has cancelled a second wave of flights as last-minute talks with its pilots continue ahead of a possible strike early Wednesday. The first round of cancellations came Tuesday morning, but by early afternoon the airline said it was being “forced” to cancel another swath for both Tuesday and Wednesday after negotiations have so far failed to produce an agreement. Twelve flights scheduled for Tuesday and six for Wednesday have now been cancelled, all either linking Montreal
  
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• Air Transat starts cancelling flights in Montreal as pilots' strike looms

  09-12-2025 16:49 via montrealgazette.com
  Travellers are starting to see cancelled flights Tuesday at Montréal-Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport, as a possible pilots’ strike looms over Air Transat. At least three flights with the airline initially scheduled to land in Montreal on Wednesday have been cancelled. A few others were delayed, but the majority of departing flights appear to be unaffected at the moment. The disruptions come as Transat pilots issued a 72-hour strike notice over the weekend, clearing the
  
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• Air Transat starts cancelling flights as pilots' strike looms

  09-12-2025 16:49 via montrealgazette.com
  Travellers are starting to see cancelled flights Tuesday at Montréal-Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport, as a possible pilots’ strike looms over Air Transat. At least three flights with the airline initially scheduled to land in Montreal on Wednesday have been cancelled. A few others were delayed, but the majority of departing flights appear to be unaffected at the moment. The disruptions come as Transat pilots issued a 72-hour strike notice over the weekend, clearing the
  
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• Family of teen fatally shot by Longueuil police to launch lawsuit

  09-12-2025 15:56 via montrealgazette.com
  The family of a 15-year-old boy who was fatally shot by police on Montreal’s South Shore announced Tuesday they are taking legal action against the City of Longueuil and Longueuil police officers nearly three months after his death. Nooran Rezayi, who was born in Quebec to a family originally from Afghanistan, was shot on Sept. 19 after Longueuil police responded to a 911 call describing a “group of armed people” in the St-Hubert borough, according to Quebec’s Bureau des
  
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• Family of teen fatally shot by Longueuil police suing city, police for $2.2M

  09-12-2025 15:56 via montrealgazette.com
  The family of a 15-year-old boy who was fatally shot by police on Montreal’s South Shore announced Tuesday they are taking legal action against the City of Longueuil and Longueuil police officers nearly three months after his death. Nooran Rezayi, who was born in Quebec to a family originally from Afghanistan, was shot on Sept. 21 after Longueuil police responded to a 911 call describing a “group of armed people” in the St-Hubert borough, according to Quebec’s Bureau des
  
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• Quebec police watchdog launches investigation in Longueuil

  09-12-2025 15:34 via montrealgazette.com
  Quebec’s office of independent investigations (BEI) has opened an investigation into an incident Tuesday in Longueuil.Le BEI déclenche une enquête indépendante à Longueuil le 9 décembre 2025. Plus de détails à venir.— BEI Québec (@BEIQc) December 9, 2025Local police confirmed the investigation, however provincial regulations prevent their providing any details on the incident once the BEI has begun its work. The BEI is called in
  
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• More than 15 cm of snow in the forecast for Montreal on Wednesday

  09-12-2025 13:12 via montrealgazette.com
  Tuesday will be fine, just fine, except for the brutal minus-24 C wind chill in the morning. It’s Wednesday you’ll have to watch out for. Clouds will move in around noon Tuesday and the temperature will rise to minus-8 C with a wind chill around minus-14 C. Periods of snow begin in the early evening with temperatures around minus-7 C. A special weather statement comes into effect Wednesday and Thursday, calling for more than 15 cm of snow in Montreal and most of southern Quebec. &ldq
  
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• Montreal weather: It's time to start layering the snow on top of the snow

  09-12-2025 13:12 via montrealgazette.com
  Tuesday will be fine, just fine, except for the brutal minus-24 C wind chill in the morning. It’s Wednesday you’ll have to watch out for. Clouds will move in around noon Tuesday and the temperature will rise to minus-8 C with a wind chill around minus-14 C. Periods of snow begin in the early evening with temperatures around minus-7 C. A special weather statement comes into effect Wednesday and Thursday, calling for more than 15 cm of snow in Montreal and most of southern Quebec. &ldq
  
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• Woman, 13-year-old girl stabbed during dispute in St-Léonard

  09-12-2025 12:41 via montrealgazette.com
  Two people, one of them a 13-year-old girl, were sent to hospital Monday night after they were stabbed during a dispute in the borough of St-Léonard. Montreal police said they were informed of the incident at 6:30 p.m., when a 911 call reported a woman injured in a residence on Grandes-Prairies Blvd. near Lacordaire Blvd. Officers found the woman suffering from injuries to her upper body and the teen with injuries to the lower body. A 19-year-old man was arrested at the scene and taken in
  
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• Opinion: Anglos don't count in CAQ's constitution

  09-12-2025 12:00 via montrealgazette.com
  In February, the Task Force on Linguistic Policy will appear before the National Assembly committee studying Bill 1, the Legault government’s proposed constitution for Quebec. In our brief, we outline how this legislation represents a threat to minority communities, but especially to 1.25 million English-speaking Quebecers. And it is a threat to Quebec’s future in Canada. The legislation, Bill 1, the Quebec Constitution Act, 2025, consists of three separate laws before the National A
  
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• CAQ's constitution would gut historic protections for minorities, anglo rights group warns

  09-12-2025 12:00 via montrealgazette.com
  Premier François Legault’s proposed constitution marks a step toward “dismantling democracy” and should alarm minorities because it would erase historic protections, an anglophone rights group warns. Fundamental rights are the foundation of democracy, and are “integral to the identity of modern Quebec society,” thanks to the province’s groundbreaking Charter of Human Rights and Freedoms, says TALQ, a coalition of anglophone groups. Now, 50 years after t
  
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• Crime, violence drive Milton-Parc residents to demand shelter be moved

  09-12-2025 11:30 via montrealgazette.com
  Charlotte Poitras says she recognizes Montreal needs shelters to address the homelessness crisis, but feels she’s reached her own personal limit as to how much she can endure while living near one. The 29-year-old artist lives in Montreal’s downtown Milton-Parc neighbourhood. Poitras says she regularly sees people grabbed at random, has had a wine bottle launched toward her while walking home, and witnessed her best friend threatened with a shovel. “I don’t want to charac
  
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• Melançon: PSPP ramps up rhetoric, attacks — and arrogance

  09-12-2025 11:00 via montrealgazette.com
  The French language is rich with creative, vivid expressions. “Tourner sa langue sept fois dans sa bouche avant de parler” — literally, to turn your tongue seven times in your mouth before speaking — is one of those delightful idioms. Why seven times rather than six or eight? Nobody really knows. But everyone understands the message: Think before you speak. It’s something Paul St-Pierre Plamondon could have done more of in recent days, as his attacks on Quebec&rsquo
  
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• Analysis: Santé Québec silent on threatened closure of medical clinics

  09-12-2025 00:03 via montrealgazette.com
  Despite the threatened closure of primary care clinics across the province, Santé Québec has chosen to remain silent on the controversy even though it has a direct oversight role over them, The Gazette has learned. Since the Legault government invoked closure in the National Assembly at the end of October to adopt Bill 2 — the controversial doctors’ pay law that also sets stringent performance targets for them — the owner-operators of numerous clinics known by the
  
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• New mobile clinic seeks to meet Montreal's unhoused where they are

  08-12-2025 23:11 via montrealgazette.com
  When a homeless encampment in a parking lot near the Montreal courthouse grew to about 16 people through this summer and fall, workers from the Old Brewery Mission’s mobile health clinic visited on a near daily basis. Over the course of months, visit by visit, they managed to convince half those living there to leave the encampment and head toward the mission’s services instead. “When you’re mobile, you can be proactive. Not just cross your fingers and hope they come to y
  
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• Mobile clinics help get Montreal’s unhoused inside and ‘out of these dangerous places’

  08-12-2025 23:11 via montrealgazette.com
  When a homeless encampment in a parking lot near the Montreal courthouse grew to about 16 people through this summer and fall, workers from the Old Brewery Mission’s mobile health clinic visited on a near-daily basis. Over the course of months, visit by visit, they managed to convince half those living there to leave the encampment and head toward the mission’s services instead. “When you’re mobile, you can be proactive. Not just cross your fingers and hope they come to y
  
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• 'Progress' but no deal: Air Transat strike threat hangs over holiday travel

  08-12-2025 21:11 via montrealgazette.com
  Despite warnings of a looming shutdown, Air Transat said Monday that flights were operating as normal as the airline and its pilots said they pushed through overnight bargaining sessions that produced “progress” — but no deal, yet. The Air Line Pilots Association, which represents about 750 Transat pilots, said that it had been negotiating “until the early hours of this morning” with the airline, returning to the bargaining table after a three-week break. “Whi
  
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• Quebec plans to cut environmental assessment times in half

  08-12-2025 18:15 via montrealgazette.com
  QUEBEC — In an effort to spur development and reduce bureaucratic headaches, Quebec’s environment minister announced Monday that he would cut the maximum duration of an environmental assessment down from 18 months to nine. “We need to be more efficient to stay competitive,” Bernard Drainville told reporters, unveiling what he said was the first shakeup to the environmental assessment process since it was introduced in 1972. The current framework “produces a process
  
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• Body of 88-year-old woman found outside seniors' residence in Laval

  08-12-2025 15:15 via montrealgazette.com
  Laval police have confirmed that the body of an 88-year-old woman was found outdoors early Monday morning in the city’s Chomedey district. In an email to The Gazette, police said a 911 call requesting medical assistance at about 6:50 a.m. concerning the discovery of the woman outside a building “that seems to be a (seniors’ residence)” on Promenade des Îles. Images from the scene showed police tape surrounding the spot where the woman’s body was found. Inside
  
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• Body of 88-year-old woman found outside Chomedey residence

  08-12-2025 15:15 via montrealgazette.com
  Laval police have confirmed that the body of an 88-year-old woman was found outdoors early Monday morning in the city’s Chomedey district. In an email to The Gazette, police said a 911 call requesting medical assistance at about 6:50 a.m. concerning the discovery of the woman outside a building “that seems to be a (seniors’ residence)” on Promenade des Îles. The woman was declared dead at the scene. Since cause of death has yet to be determined, police said they had
  
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• Here’s what you need to know about a potential Air Transat pilots strike

  08-12-2025 14:28 via montrealgazette.com
  As peak holiday travel season approaches, flyers with Air Transat have been dealt an unexpected curveball. The airline’s pilots issued a 72-hour strike notice Sunday, raising the risk of a walkout later this week. Some flights have already been cancelled and more disruption is expected in the days ahead. Here’s what you need to know.How did we get here?On Sunday, the Air Line Pilots Association, which represents about 750 Air Transat pilots, issued a 72-hour strike notice. That means
  
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• Montreal weather: Chillin' like a villain

  08-12-2025 14:00 via montrealgazette.com
  Your feet are cold, your nose is red and you keep losing just one glove. And it’s not even winter yet. This week won’t be cold as last, but you are going to have to find that glove. Monday will be sunny with a high of minus-12 C and a wind chill near minus-22 C. Temperatures remain steady till nightfall, then dip one more degree. Sunset is at 4:11. Clouds move in on Tuesday, and flurries and snowfall are expected through the middle of the week. Winter officially begins in 13 days.
  
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• Another LaSalle bar targeted by gunfire

  08-12-2025 13:24 via montrealgazette.com
  Another Montreal bar was targeted by gunfire early Monday, this time in the borough of LaSalle. Montreal police said they became of aware of the incident after receiving multiple 911 calls reporting shots fired on Dollard St. near Lithuania St. Images posted from the scene showed bullet impacts on the front window of a bar and a neighbouring business. Police said that although one person was at the scene, there were no injuries reported. A growing number of Montreal-area bars have been the targe
  
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• Inside the OQLF: How inspectors hunt English signs, receipts and service

  08-12-2025 12:30 via montrealgazette.com
  Cellphone in hand, they move from shop to shop along busy commercial streets, stopping briefly before heading to the next store. But they’re not Christmas shoppers. In fact, merchants eye them warily, fearing paperwork, unwanted headlines — even fines. They’re Quebec language inspectors. For decades, the province has dispatched them to monitor language compliance. Their work sometimes stirs controversy: the Pastagate scandal over Italian menu words, the singling out of the Burg
  
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• The voice of Montreal: 80 years of CJAD 800

  08-12-2025 12:00 via montrealgazette.com
  When CJAD radio host Trudie Mason was hired at the station four decades ago, tape was edited by cutting it with a razor blade and splicing it together with Scotch tape. While much has changed since the station’s founding on Dec. 8, 1945, Mason says CJAD’s mandate of serving Montreal’s English-speaking community with local news and current affairs still holds true. “Gord Sinclair was the news director who hired me. He was a brilliant radio mind,” she said of the stat
  
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