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• Second arson attempt reported at N.D.G. restaurant

  15-01-2026 13:13 via montrealgazette.com
  Arsonists attempted to set fire to the terrace of a Notre-Dame-de-Grâce restaurant early Thursday, Montreal police reported. Police said the incident was reported to them at 2 a.m. and involved an attempt to start a fire on the terrace of the restaurant on Somerled Ave. near Bessborough Ave. Montreal firefighters quickly extinguished the flames and damage to the building was minor. Flammables found at the scene suggest the fire was deliberately set, according to police. Investigators will
  
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• STM ridership numbers plunged in 2025 because of strikes

  19-01-2026 18:10 via montrealgazette.com
  The city’s transit agency said it figures its ridership was down by 20 million trips in 2025 compared with the previous year, its chairperson said Monday. Speaking during a hearing of the city’s permanent commission on finance, Aref Salem said labour disruptions caused by four strikes of the city’s maintenance workers resulted in a reduction of overall ridership during the calendar year 2025. The STM logged 294.1 million trips last year, compared with 314 million in 2024. That&
  
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• Man sentenced to 8-year prison term for attempt to smuggle fentanyl through Dorval airport

  19-01-2026 17:27 via montrealgazette.com
  A man who was caught trying to smuggle more than $500,000 worth of fentanyl into Canada through Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport was sentenced Monday to an eight-year prison term. Quebec Court Judge Dennis Galiatsatos said that while he did not agree with the joint recommendation made to sentence Besnik Zeneli, 39, of London, Ont. to the eight-year prison term, he also felt any attempt to deliver a longer prison term would simply be rejected by a higher court. Galiatsatos said he wou
  
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• Quebec Education Minister Sonia LeBel won't seek re-election

  19-01-2026 17:13 via montrealgazette.com
  A little more than 24 hours after cabinet colleague Geneviève Guilbault announced she was leaving politics at the end of her term, Quebec Education Minister Sonia LeBel followed suit on Monday, saying on social media it was “time for me to turn the page.” “I was always motivated by one thing: to serve the public interest with integrity,” LeBel said in a lengthy message on her X account. “I’m not slamming the door, but turning the page with gratitude and
  
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• Woman dies of injuries after altercation in Rougemont

  19-01-2026 14:43 via montrealgazette.com
  Sûreté du Québec investigators hope to be able to question a man in his 40s on Monday in the wake of an altercation in Rougemont on Sunday afternoon that left a 40-year-old woman dead. SQ spokesperson Louis-Philippe Ruel said the SQ was called to a multi-unit dwelling on Petite-Caroline St. in the province’s Montérégie region at about 1:45 p.m. Officers arriving at the scene found the woman suffering from critical injuries while the man’s condit
  
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• Montreal weather: Snow squall watch won't help those January blues

  19-01-2026 12:38 via montrealgazette.com
  This isn’t just any old Monday: It’s Blue Monday. And there’s a snow squall watch in effect. The third Monday in January has been called the most depressing day of the year, what with the post-holiday letdown, continuing darkness — and workers have to wait till April for the next stat day off. There’s no actual science behind Blue Monday, so here are some cold hard facts instead: Environment Canada has issued a yellow watch for heavy flurries that could produce near
  
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• Quebec's new rent increase formula criticized as 'death by 1,000 cuts'

  19-01-2026 12:00 via montrealgazette.com
  Quebec tenants will see their rent hikes calculated according to a new formula this year after the province tossed out a decades-old equation in response to outrage over last year’s suggested 5.9 per cent rent increase. While praised by landlord group Corporation des propriétaires immobiliers du Québec (CORPIQ), the new formula has once again prompted anger from tenant advocates, who argue it won’t lead to affordable rents. The province’s housing tribunal, the Tri
  
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• Opinion: Ensuring language rights is essential to our democracy

  19-01-2026 12:00 via montrealgazette.com
  As my mandate as Commissioner of Official Languages draws to a close, there is no question that Canada is facing many challenges. Economic hardship, international turmoil and conflicts abound, and the tectonic plates of global relationships are shifting. In this context, we are reimagining our future and redefining what we stand for as a country. There are certainly tough choices to make. In these pivotal moments, we must look to the values that unite us here at home and that enhance our presenc
  
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• U.S. firm involved in Quebec's digital health records faces major lawsuit in Texas

  19-01-2026 11:30 via montrealgazette.com
  A U.S. software engineering firm that’s responsible for Santé Québec’s two pilot projects involving digital health records is being sued by the state of Texas amid allegations that it restricts parental access to children’s medical files and is maintaining a monopoly that has proved costly to taxpayers. Santé Québec, however, is standing by Wisconsin-based Epic Systems despite cost overruns for its projects of nearly $135 million to date. On Dec. 10,
  
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• Protecting the English option: Why anglo parents with kids in French schools are being urged to get eligibility certificates

  19-01-2026 11:00 via montrealgazette.com
  It’s a campaign about a school system parents aren’t using — and a right they might one day need. Quebec’s English school boards are urging anglophone parents who have opted for the French school system to obtain English school eligibility certificates for their children. “The message that we are sending is that the eligibility certificate is really, really important,” Joe Ortona, president of the Quebec English School Boards Association, told The Gazette. &ld
  
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• Protecting the English option: Anglo parents with kids in French schools are being urged to get eligibility certificates

  19-01-2026 11:00 via montrealgazette.com
  It’s a campaign about a school system parents aren’t using — and a right they might one day need. Quebec’s English school boards are urging anglophone parents who have opted for the French school system to obtain English school eligibility certificates for their children. “The message that we are sending is that the eligibility certificate is really, really important,” Joe Ortona, president of the Quebec English School Boards Association, told The Gazette. &ld
  
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• Quebec gun control advocates warn of flaw in Canada's buyback program

  18-01-2026 23:32 via montrealgazette.com
  The launch of a national buyback program for prohibited assault-style weapons is a win for public safety in Canada, say gun control advocacy groups and others — but they warn that sales of such weapons must end before compensation payments to gun owners begin. On Saturday, federal Public Safety Minister Gary Anandasangaree, secretary of state for nature Nathalie Provost and Quebec Public Security Minister Ian Lafrenière announced the launch of the Assault-Style Firearms Compensation
  
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• Laval Rocket fan dies during game at Place Bell

  18-01-2026 20:09 via montrealgazette.com
  A game between the Laval Rocket and the Manitoba Moose at Place Bell ended early on Saturday afternoon when a fan in the stands experienced a medical emergency. There was a minute and 12 seconds left in the third period of the American Hockey League game; the Rocket was behind 3-0. In a video from the game, emergency responders could be seen performing cardiopulmonary resuscitation on someone in the stands. Sports broadcaster RDS confirmed early Sunday afternoon that someone had died at the 
  
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• Update: Citing family reasons, CAQ's Geneviève Guilbault will leave office at the end of her term

  18-01-2026 16:58 via montrealgazette.com
  QUEBEC — Geneviève Guilbault is leaving political life at the end of her term and will not attempt to succeed Premier François Legault. Just days after Legault announced he is stepping down once the Coalition Avenir Québec finds a replacement for him as leader, CAQ minister Guilbault announced Sunday she, too, is dropping out of politics. “It’s a beautiful day for me today — a day I have been waiting for a long time,” said Guilbault, confirming
  
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• Citing family reasons, CAQ's Geneviève Guilbault will leave office at the end of her term

  18-01-2026 16:58 via montrealgazette.com
  QUEBEC — Geneviève Guilbault is leaving political life at the end of her term and will not attempt to succeed Premier François Legault. Just days after Legault announced he is stepping down once the Coalition Avenir Québec finds a replacement for him as leader, CAQ minister Guilbault announced Sunday she, too, is dropping out of politics. “It’s a beautiful day for me today — a day I have been waiting for a long time,” said Guilbault, confirming
  
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• CAQ minister Geneviève Guilbault leaving politics at the end of her term

  18-01-2026 16:58 via montrealgazette.com
  QUEBEC — Geneviève Guilbault is leaving political life at the end of her current term. Just days after Premier François Legault announced he is stepping down once the Coalition Avenir Québec finds a replacement for him as leader, CAQ minister Guilbault is to announce Sunday she, too, is dropping out of politics. The Gazette confirmed her departure Sunday after La Presse broke the news. Guilbault, who is minister of municipal affairs, has scheduled an 11 a.m. news confe
  
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• Montreal weather: We get a break from this seesaw winter

  18-01-2026 12:00 via montrealgazette.com
  Environment Canada is forecasting a mix of sun and cloud with the temperature holding steady near minus 5. The wind will come from the southwest at 30 km/h, gusting to 60, then becoming light near noon. The wind chill will be minus 14 in the morning and minus 7 in the afternoon with the UV index at 1, or low. It will be cloudy overnight with a low of minus 8.
  
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• Heated Rivalry soundtrack was laid down in Quebec — and is now streaming

  18-01-2026 12:00 via montrealgazette.com
  Heated Rivalry, the gay Canadian hockey romance that has dominated the internet since it started broadcasting last fall, released its official soundtrack on Friday. The Crave series, directed by Montreal’s Jacob Tierney and adapted from Rachel Reid’s Game Changers book series, follows two rival hockey players as they hide their secret romance and navigate a league with no openly gay players. Quebec City musician Peter Roy, known professionally as Peter Peter, is the composer behind t
  
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• Fitness: Get stronger without reaching muscular failure

  18-01-2026 12:00 via montrealgazette.com
  Budgeting time to exercise in a schedule already packed with work, family and social commitments isn’t easy. And those who do manage to get in the recommended 150 minutes of moderate to vigorous intensity aerobic activity a week, often struggle to accomplish the additional two strength training workouts per week that are part of a healthy exercise prescription. But the benefits of strength training are too important to ignore. Improvements in strength, speed and power are well-documented.
  
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• Justin Trudeau, McGill University join buzz around Heated Rivalry

  17-01-2026 20:46 via montrealgazette.com
  The fanfare over Canada’s celebrated TV hit turned cultural phenomenon, Heated Rivalry, has rolled on. And now McGill University and even former prime minister Justin Trudeau have joined the conversation. “Our IG bio needed a little refresh,” the university playfully wrote in an Instagram story with eyes and hockey stick emojis. The updated bio reads: “Alma Mater of Shane Hollander’s dad. Not a town. A really good school. #McGill. 204 years of excellence in educatio
  
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• Christopher Skeete won't seek CAQ leadership, other candidates testing the waters

  17-01-2026 19:34 via montrealgazette.com
  QUEBEC — Christopher Skeete will not be in the race to replace François Legault as the leader of the Coalition Avenir Québec. After leaving the door open last week to a possible run, Skeete, who is minister of international relations in the government, said on social media it was not going to happen. “I want to clarify my intentions regarding the leadership race,” Skeete wrote. “After careful consideration, I have decided to not be a candidate for the leader
  
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• Quebec’s Éliot Grondin takes silver at World Cup stop in China

  17-01-2026 18:18 via montrealgazette.com
  It had been a quiet start to the season for snowboarder Éliot Grondin, but he rallied on Saturday. The 24-year-old from Ste-Marie clinched silver at the World Cup stop in China, finishing just behind Austria’s Jakob Dusek in the final in Dongbeiya. Australia’s Adam Lambert claimed bronze. Last month, the Quebecer placed seventh at the season-opening World Cup race in Italy. The competition continues on Sunday in Dongbeiya, the final World Cup event before the coming Milano Cor
  
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• Highway 40 reopens near Trois-Rivières after crash triggers its closing

  17-01-2026 18:02 via montrealgazette.com
  The eastbound lanes of Highway 40 near Trois-Rivières have reopened after being closed early Saturday because of an overnight accident, Quebec’s transport ministry said in a statement. The closing affected the stretch between the Boulevard des Récollets and Centre-ville exits, the ministry wrote. Motorists were diverted onto local roads and heavy congestion was reported. Traffic is expected to resume gradually to normal.
  
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• Libman: Legault leaves legacy as premier of not all Quebecers

  17-01-2026 12:55 via montrealgazette.com
  The Quebec political bombshell that dropped on Wednesday morning should not have taken anyone by surprise. François Legault’s resignation was inevitable as poll after poll indicated his Coalition Avenir Québec could be wiped off the political map if he led them into the election this fall. This week’s Pallas poll showing his party tied in last place was seemingly the last straw. Legault — a former minister in the separatist Parti Québécois government
  
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• 'I don't think history will look kindly' on François Legault | The Corner Booth

  17-01-2026 12:00 via montrealgazette.com
  It was not a total surprise François Legault resigned as premier of Quebec this week. But the timing of it caught many off guard. Legault’s resignation on Wednesday sent shock waves across the political landscape, and with a provincial election coming up in October, there’s even more uncertainty about what’s to come for Quebec. Does the CAQ have a future without its founder? Is it a foregone conclusion the Parti Québécois under leader Paul St-Pierre Plamond
  
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• Change is in the political air in Quebec as election looms

  17-01-2026 12:00 via montrealgazette.com
  QUEBEC — It will be a year of inevitable change if only because Quebecers must go to the polls in a general election Oct. 5, 2026 to elect a new government and a new premier. But after the roller coaster political ride that was 2025, predicting how the politics of 2026 will unfold is a risky business at best. Analysts who have examined the tea leaves agree. In an article produced for L’actualité magazine, Qc125 pollster Philippe J. Fournier warns Quebecers to “hang on to
  
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• New measles case confirmed on flight from Madrid to Montreal

  16-01-2026 23:08 via montrealgazette.com
  As Quebec’s measles outbreak spreads, the province’s public health authority warns a person with measles was aboard a flight to Montreal from Madrid last Thursday. Quebec has been struggling with a new outbreak since early December, shortly after Canada lost its status as a measles-free country more than 25 years after eradicating the virus. Before then, the province had been measles-free since April, according to Quebec’s Health Ministry. The airliner carrying the infected per
  
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• City streets fared poorly during fourth snowstorm of the season

  16-01-2026 22:51 via montrealgazette.com
  Dozens of buses were stopped, or stuck behind cars on Thursday as snow caused havoc during morning rush hour. While the snowfall was relatively minor, the timing was the killer, as rain changed quickly to snow and appeared to catch city crews by surprise, as many main roads were not salted in time for the crunch period. Many cars got stuck in the snow, or were sliding out on main roads, such as Sherbrooke St., Robert Bourassa Blvd., and others. Even if cars were not stuck, many were slowed down
  
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• Race to succeed François Legault: Entrepreneur Olivier Primeau bows out

  16-01-2026 22:36 via montrealgazette.com
  As the race to succeed François Legault as leader of Quebec’s governing party gets underway, an unexpected name emerged this week: Olivier Primeau. The 40-year-old entrepreneur-influencer, who commands a large online following, has never held public office. He has become known as the owner of music venue Beachclub and for his reviews of poutine across Quebec. He’s also in the water business, owning more than a third of the licensed water volume in the province, according to Le
  
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• A poutine influencer as premier? Olivier Primeau rules out a run to succeed Legault

  16-01-2026 22:36 via montrealgazette.com
  As the race to succeed François Legault as leader of the Coalition Avenir Québec gets underway, an unexpected name emerged in the discussion this week: Olivier Primeau. The 40-year-old entrepreneur-influencer, who commands a large online following, has never held public office. He has become known as the owner of music venue Beachclub and for his reviews of poutine across Quebec. He’s also in the water business, owning more than a third of the licensed water volume in Quebec,
  
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