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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Who is the Montreal entrepreneur courting U.S. private equity to revive the Expos?

  05-12-2025 12:00 via montrealgazette.com
  In 2012, Ashkan Karbasfrooshan, the Montreal founder of the digital media company WatchMojo, was watching the Washington Nationals, formerly the Expos. Most Montreal fans would have felt “bitter” watching, he said. But he felt something different: acceptance. The 47-year-old was on a business trip in D.C with an adviser at the time when he realized his childhood baseball team, which he long-associated with warm summer nights, were gone for good. Or so he thought. In November, he was
  
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• Quebec reports its first measles case since April

  05-12-2025 02:23 via montrealgazette.com
  Quebec’s health authority warns another measles outbreak is underway. One new case was reported on Dec. 3 in the Laurentians, just outside Montreal. It comes less than one month after Canada lost its status as a measles-free country more than 25 years after eradicating the virus. Until now, the province had been measles free since April, according to Quebec’s Health Ministry. The person infected with measles visited the UP Centre d’urgences pédiatriques in St-Eustache b
  
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• Leader Pablo Rodriguez excludes another MNA from caucus as Quebec Liberal crisis intensifies

  05-12-2025 01:14 via montrealgazette.com
  QUEBEC — The Liberal Party of Quebec has dropped the MNA for Chomedey, Sona Lakhoyan Olivier, from its caucus pending the results of an investigation by the legislature’s ethics commissioner. In a statement on Thursday, Liberal party whip Marc Tanguay said the party informed the MNA of the decision late Thursday. “At the request of our leader, Pablo Rodriguez, I am announcing that the MNA for Chomedey is excluded from the Liberal caucus for the duration of the investigation,&rd
  
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• Ethics commission investigation: Liberal Sona Lakhoyan Olivier excluded from caucus

  05-12-2025 01:14 via montrealgazette.com
  QUEBEC — The Liberal Party of Quebec has dropped the MNA for Chomedey, Sona Lakhoyan Olivier, from its caucus pending the results of an investigation by the legislature’s ethics commissioner. In a statement on Thursday, Liberal party whip Marc Tanguay said excluding Lakhoyan Olivier from the caucus was necessary following the decision by the commissioner. In a separate statement, Anne-Sophie St-Gelais, communications officer for the commissioner, confirmed an investigation has been o
  
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• Police arrest second suspect after arson attack on Pornhub executive’s home

  04-12-2025 23:52 via montrealgazette.com
  Another man has been charged in connection with a 2021 arson attack that destroyed a luxury home under construction in the Ahuntsic–Cartierville borough. The multi-million dollar home was owned at the time by an executive for Pornhub. Police say they arrested Mohamed Aymen Tayeb, 28, in Montreal’s Ville-Marie borough Thursday morning. He appeared in court later in the afternoon facing an arson charge, according to a statement from the Service de police de la Ville de Montréal
  
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• Patients speak out against suspension of Dr. Amir Khadir over Lyme disease treatment

  04-12-2025 23:27 via montrealgazette.com
  Patients of former Québec solidaire MNA Dr. Amir Khadir came to his defence Thursday following his temporary suspension from practicing medicine, arguing he’s one of a few health-care professionals in the province devoted to helping those with chronic conditions following infections. An infectious disease specialist, Khadir was suspended for six months for prescribing long-term antibiotics to patients with chronic symptoms following Lyme disease, despite the fact he signed an agreem
  
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• STM maintenance workers insist overtime strike won't affect service

  04-12-2025 21:38 via montrealgazette.com
  The union of maintenance workers at the Société de transport de Montréal says it is taking pains to ensure the public won’t be affected if it has to take further work action. Still, the STM hauled the union before the Tribunal administratif du travail (TAT) Thursday to ensure that the safety and security of the populace won’t be in peril during the union’s planned strike on overtime work from Dec. 11 to Jan. 11. Hearings began Thursday morning and were expe
  
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• Liberal MNA calls for inquiry on "organized crime's grip" on bars and restaurants

  04-12-2025 21:17 via montrealgazette.com
  Quebec Liberal MNA and public safety critic Jennifer Maccarone is calling for a parliamentary commission into how many of Quebec’s bars and restaurants appear to have been targeted recently by organized crime groups seeking to extort merchants through arson, shootings and other forms of violence. “There is a real culture of fear among business owners, with criminal groups extorting money from them through threats of violence. While the CAQ (government) is slashing the budgets of the
  
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