Baie-Saint-Paul news

• Report reveals workplace failures after foreign worker fatally crushed by concrete

  20-12-2025 03:21 via montrealgazette.com
  A workplace investigation reveals a temporary foreign worker had no training or qualifications when he was crushed to death by a concrete slab on a construction site in Montreal North in 2023. The man was pronounced dead at the scene after a load-bearing wall in the basement of a mixed-use building on Rolland Blvd., near Pascal St., was demolished, causing the concrete floor above to collapse. The accident left two other foreign workers with injuries. Quebec’s workplace safety authority, t
  
  Read more

• Engineers order issues $75,000 fine and lifetime ban for former SNC-Lavalin CEO Jacques Lamarre

  07-01-2026 23:15 via montrealgazette.com
  Quebec’s engineering order has stripped former SNC-Lavalin chief Jacques Lamarre of his professional licence over violations tied to corruption — including contracts linked to the family of Libya’s former strongman Moammar Gadhafi — during his leadership more than a decade ago. The order has also fined him $75,000. Lamarre was found guilty on seven counts several months ago by the disciplinary council of the Ordre des ingénieurs du Québec, which included tol
  
  Read more

• Martinez Ferrada invoked exceptional powers to keep emergency shelters open

  07-01-2026 23:10 via montrealgazette.com
  In its rush to open new emergency shelters and warming centres for the unhoused, the City of Montreal quickly exhausted the contract it had awarded for security guards to supervise some of the spaces this winter. As a result, Mayor Soraya Martinez Ferrada had to invoke exceptional powers granted under the city’s charter to award a new contract over the holidays, ensuring two new resources would remain open. “There was no question of closing doors and leaving people out in the cold be
  
  Read more

• Crown mulls new charges in death of woman who fell from Montreal balcony

  07-01-2026 21:22 via montrealgazette.com
  The Crown still has not decided what new charges to file against the suspect in Montreal’s first homicide of the year. On Wednesday, James Theramene, 31, of Laval appeared in court, through a video conference, for the second time since his arrest on New Year’s Day after 31-year-old Tadjan’ah Desir was injured in a fall from a third-storey balcony in the Mercier—Hochelaga-Maisonneuve borough. Witnesses told police they saw a man push the woman off the balcony during an alt
  
  Read more

• Advertisement

• Fewer buses than expected sidelined as STM maintenance workers' OT strike nears end

  07-01-2026 20:43 via montrealgazette.com
  The city’s transit agency says the overtime strike by maintenance workers has left it short of a full fleet of buses to serve the needs of its users. However, the STM is far from the nightmare scenario it predicted when the strike began last month. On Monday and Tuesday this week, as many returned to work and school after the winter break, the STM said it was missing about 60 buses from its fleet to deliver on its promised schedule. The union received authorization from the Tribunal admini
  
  Read more

• Montreal's third snow-removal operation of the season kicks off Wednesday night

  07-01-2026 17:55 via montrealgazette.com
  The city of Montreal announced it will be begin its third snow-removal operation of the season beginning at 7 p.m. Wednesday. The operation will take place in all boroughs and must be underway across the city no later than 7 p.m. Thursday. Motorists and residents are warned to respect parking restrictions during the process, leave sidewalks in front of residences clear of recycling or garbage bins, and to park parallel to the sidewalk and pull in their side rear view mirrors. A total of 3,000 wo
  
  Read more

• Ticketmaster faces Quebec class action over alleged abusive fees

  07-01-2026 02:26 via montrealgazette.com
  The world’s dominant ticketing platform, Ticketmaster, is facing a class action in Quebec after a court authorized a lawsuit over allegedly abusive service fees. On Monday, Eleni Yiannakis, a Quebec Superior Court judge, ruled that the plaintiffs had met the legal threshold for a proper trial. If successful, Ticketmaster could be forced to pay out compensatory damages for affected consumers. The lawsuit, initially filed in 2024 by the Montreal law firm Paquette Gadler, alleges that the ser
  
  Read more

• Crown seeks nine-year prison term for Candiac massage therapist who sexually assaulted 16 clients

  07-01-2026 00:07 via montrealgazette.com
  A Quebec Superior Court judge will decide later this month on what type of sentence a massage therapist from the South Shore merits for sexually assaulting 16 of his clients and for sometimes recording his disrobed clients with hidden cameras. The Crown has asked Justice Lyne Décarie that François Delorimier Vallières, 47, of Candiac be sentenced to a prison term of nine years. The sentence recommendation includes a seven-year term for the sexual assaults and two years to be
  
  Read more

• Advertisement

• Police treating man’s death in Quebec City fire as a homicide

  06-01-2026 21:41 via montrealgazette.com
  Police say a Quebec City fire that took the life of a 42-year-old man on Saturday night is being treated as arson, and the death will be investigated as a homicide. Quebec City’s police department reported that multiple 911 calls were made about smoke and flames pouring out of a second-floor apartment building in the St-Sauveur neighbourhood of Quebec City. When emergency services arrived at the building on St-Mathias St. shortly after 6:42 p.m. Saturday, they found an unconscious man in t
  
  Read more

• After Venezuela, Trump could put Canada ‘back in his crosshairs,’ Charest warns

  06-01-2026 21:20 via montrealgazette.com
  In the wake of his actions in Venezuela, U.S. President Donald Trump could put Canada “back in his crosshairs,” Jean Charest warns. “Canada must accelerate everything we need to do to be less economically dependent on the Americans, less dependent militarily as well, and we must act with a sense of urgency,” Charest, a former Quebec Liberal premier and former leader of the federal Progressive Conservatives, said in an interview with TVA. “Because if we don’t,
  
  Read more

• Obituary: Elwood Quinn remembered for bringing his love of farming to city dwellers

  06-01-2026 20:59 via montrealgazette.com
  Elwood Quinn, who introduced hundreds of thousands of city dwellers to the glory and vital importance of agricultural life at his Quinn Farm on the outskirts of Montreal, has died. Quinn, 78, suffered a heart attack Saturday after a morning spent feeding his animals, driving his tractor and seeing friends. It was pretty much the perfect start of a day for a farmer, his children wrote on social media. “Dad was old school, was never big on praise,” his son, Phil, wrote on Facebook. &ld
  
  Read more

• Elwood Quinn remembered for bringing his love of farming to city dwellers

  06-01-2026 20:59 via montrealgazette.com
  Elwood Quinn, who introduced hundreds of thousands of city dwellers to the glory and vital importance of agricultural life at his Quinn Farm on the outskirts of Montreal, has died. Quinn, 78, suffered a heart attack Saturday after a morning spent feeding his animals, driving his tractor and seeing friends. It was pretty much the perfect start of a day for a farmer, his children wrote on social media. “Dad was old school, was never big on praise,” his son, Phil, wrote on Facebook. &ld
  
  Read more

• Pratte: No need for pro forma Quebec Liberal leadership race

  06-01-2026 20:31 via montrealgazette.com
  Charles Milliard has confirmed he will once more be a candidate for the leadership of the Quebec Liberal Party. The first question Liberals must now ask themselves is whether they want a leadership race or a coronation for the former head of the Quebec federation of boards of trade. While most of us were celebrating the holiday season, members of the QLP’s executive committee were working on setting up the process that will guide the election of the party’s next leader, after Pablo R
  
  Read more

• Pratte: No need for another Quebec Liberal leadership race

  06-01-2026 20:31 via montrealgazette.com
  Charles Milliard has confirmed he will once more be a candidate for the leadership of the Quebec Liberal Party. The first question Liberals must now ask themselves is whether they want a leadership race or a coronation for the former head of the Quebec federation of boards of trade. While most of us were celebrating the holiday season, members of the QLP’s executive committee were working on setting up the process that will guide the election of the party’s next leader, after Pablo R
  
  Read more

• Pratte: No need for a pro forma Quebec Liberal leadership race

  06-01-2026 20:31 via montrealgazette.com
  Charles Milliard has confirmed he will once more be a candidate for the leadership of the Quebec Liberal Party. The first question Liberals must now ask themselves is whether they want a leadership race or a coronation for the former head of the Quebec federation of boards of trade. While most of us were celebrating the holiday season, members of the QLP’s executive committee were working on setting up the process that will guide the election of the party’s next leader, after Pablo R
  
  Read more

• Montreal Children's Hospital warns of possible measles exposure in its ER on Jan. 1

  06-01-2026 20:18 via montrealgazette.com
  The Montreal Children’s Hospital is alerting parents to a possible measles exposure if they and their children spent any time in its emergency room on Jan. 1 between 12:18 p.m. and 11:01 p.m. The hospital, which is part of the McGill University Health Centre’s Glen site in Notre-Dame-de-Grâce, issued the alert on its website and Facebook page on Monday. The MUHC noted that “measles is a highly contagious viral infection that spreads through the air. It can be prevented by
  
  Read more

• Mulcair: Freeland flubs her farewell

  06-01-2026 18:56 via montrealgazette.com
  Chrystia Freeland has added needless controversy to her stellar political career. She should clear up the clouded situation on her own, while she still has the chance. Over the weekend, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy announced he was naming Freeland, Canada’s former deputy prime minister and finance minister, as an adviser on economic development. Another feather in the cap of a woman whose economic savvy and deep connections to Ukraine made her an ideal candidate for such a posit
  
  Read more

• Man sought in connection with massive Desjardins data breach is arrested in Spain

  06-01-2026 17:16 via montrealgazette.com
  The Sûreté du Québec said Tuesday that Juan Pablo Serrano, one of Quebec’s most wanted fugitives who has been sought since June 2024 in connection with a major data breach at Desjardins, was arrested in Spain by local authorities. Serrano was arrested Nov. 7 during a joint operation conducted by the SQ, Spanish authorities and Interpol. He will remain in custody pending extradition proceedings aimed at returning him to Canada to face charges of fraud, identity theft, tr
  
  Read more

• Several car breakdowns reported on Highway 20 in Longueuil

  06-01-2026 16:00 via montrealgazette.com
  While it routinely issues such messages in the wake of major traffic accidents or disruptions, the Sûreté du Québec urged motorists Tuesday to avoid eastbound Highway 20 in Longueuil at the Louis-Hippolyte-La Fontaine Tunnel after an apparently unrelated series of vehicle breakdowns in the area. The message, issued by the provincial force at 9 a.m., notes that “there are at the moment multiple vehicle breakdowns reported on Highway 20 (Route 132) in Longueuil. We ask (m
  
  Read more

• Drivers urged to avoid eastbound Highway 20 in Longueuil

  06-01-2026 16:00 via montrealgazette.com
  While it routinely issues such messages in the wake of major traffic accidents or disruptions, the Sûreté du Québec urged motorists Tuesday to avoid eastbound Highway 20 in Longueuil at the Louis-Hippolyte-La Fontaine Tunnel after an apparently unrelated series of vehicle breakdowns in the area. The message, issued by the provincial force at 9 a.m., notes that “there are at the moment multiple vehicle breakdowns reported on Highway 20 (Route 132) in Longueuil. We ask (m
  
  Read more

• Two children die after four-vehicle accident in Laval

  06-01-2026 14:56 via montrealgazette.com
  Two children — including a five-month-old baby and a six-year-old girl — died Monday night after a four-vehicle pileup on Route 335 in Laval. Seven other people were injured in the accident, said Laval police spokesperson Geneviève Major. The two deceased children were siblings in a car with their parents, who both suffered serious injuries. Laval police said the incident occurred around 7:30 p.m. when a driver travelling north on the highway apparently lost control of their v
  
  Read more

• Nine people injured in multi-vehicle pileup in Laval

  06-01-2026 14:56 via montrealgazette.com
  Nine people — including a nine-month-old infant — were injured Monday night in a four vehicle pileup on Route 335 in Laval. Laval police said the incident occurred at about 7:30 p.m., when a driver headed north on the highway apparently lost control of their vehicle about one kilometre north of Dagenais Blvd. and collided with three other cars travelling on the thoroughfare’s north and southbound lanes. The occupants of the vehicles — nine people aged between nine months
  
  Read more

• 6-year-old girl dies after four-vehicle accident in Laval

  06-01-2026 14:56 via montrealgazette.com
  A six-year-old girl has died and a five-month-old baby is in critical condition after a four-vehicle pileup Monday night. on Route 335 in Laval. Seven other people were injured in the accident, said Laval police spokesperson Geneviève Major. The two children were siblings in a car with their parents, who both suffered serious injuries. Laval police said the incident occurred around 7:30 p.m. when a driver travelling north on the highway apparently lost control of their vehicle about one k
  
  Read more

• Charles Milliard will seek Quebec Liberal leadership after Rodriguez's resignation

  06-01-2026 13:56 via montrealgazette.com
  Charles Milliard will make a second attempt to win the leadership of the Quebec Liberal Party. With one week to go before the campaign to replace Pablo Rodriguez officially kicks off, Milliard is to announce Tuesday his intention to seek the post, sources confirmed to The Gazette. Last June, the former president of the Fédération des chambres de commerce du Québec placed second to Rodriguez in a leadership election vote, which went into a second round. While Rodriguez won th
  
  Read more

• Charles Milliard enters race to replace Pablo Rodriguez as Quebec Liberal leader

  06-01-2026 13:56 via montrealgazette.com
  Charles Milliard will make a second attempt to win the leadership of the Quebec Liberal Party. With one week to go before the campaign to replace Pablo Rodriguez officially kicks off, Milliard confirmed his intention to seek the post in a video posted on social media Tuesday. He picks up where he left off in the last race. “Over the last few weeks, many of you — from every region of Quebec — have contacted me to resume this essential conversation,” Milliard says, standing
  
  Read more

• Todd: Labour of love — 40 years and counting of Gazette memories

  06-01-2026 12:00 via montrealgazette.com
  Forty years ago Tuesday, I left my apartment in New York City to take a flight to Montreal, where I was to begin work as a copy editor on the Gazette sports desk that night. It was Jan. 6, 1986. After months of indecision, I still wasn’t sure it was the right move. I loved New York, I had been out of newspapers for 15 years, I was taking an enormous pay cut and I was going to have to start at the bottom. I decided that I would work one week and see how it went. An hour into my first shift,
  
  Read more

• Woman pushed from balcony dies of injuries, becomes Montreal's first homicide of 2026

  06-01-2026 03:02 via montrealgazette.com
  A 31-year-old woman who was pushed from a third-storey balcony in the Mercier—Hochelaga-Maisonneuve borough on Jan. 1 has died from her injuries, Montreal police said Monday. A 31-year-old man was arrested at the scene in the wake of the incident and has appeared in court, said Montreal police spokesperson Manuel Couture. He faces a charge of aggravated assault for now. Neighbours said they witnessed the man push the woman off the balcony following an altercation around 8:15 a.m. on Ste-Ca
  
  Read more

• Man charged in death of Montreal woman pushed from balcony

  06-01-2026 03:02 via montrealgazette.com
  A 31-year-old woman who was pushed from a third-storey balcony in the Mercier—Hochelaga-Maisonneuve borough on Jan. 1 has died from her injuries, Montreal police said Monday. James Theramene, 31, of Laval, was arrested at the scene and has appeared in court, said Montreal police spokesperson Manuel Couture. He faces a charge of aggravated assault for now. He is scheduled to appear in court again on Wednesday. Theramene does not have a criminal record in provincial court. Neighbours said th
  
  Read more

• Man charged in death of Montreal woman allegedly pushed from balcony

  06-01-2026 03:02 via montrealgazette.com
  A 31-year-old woman who was allegedly pushed from a third-storey balcony in the Mercier—Hochelaga-Maisonneuve borough on Jan. 1 has died from her injuries, Montreal police said Monday. James Theramene, 31, of Laval, was arrested at the scene and has appeared in court, said Montreal police spokesperson Manuel Couture. He faces a charge of aggravated assault for now. He is scheduled to appear in court again on Wednesday. Theramene does not have a criminal record in provincial court. Neighbou
  
  Read more

• Yes, it's been cold in Montreal this winter, but not abnormally so

  05-01-2026 23:04 via montrealgazette.com
  It brought us a white Christmas, but also some confusion: Why has the weather been so bitterly cold in Montreal this early on in the winter? It actually hasn’t been very far from average, according to Environment and Climate Change Canada. While the beginning of December was colder than usual, the rest of the month was fairly standard. Our perception may just be influenced by warmer weather in previous years. “It’s not unusual to see that kind of cold wave, and we were really f
  
  Read more

Follow @BaieSaintPaulNw on Twitter!