Montreal news

• Montreal police search for missing 13-year-old girl

  09-07-2017 23:08 via montrealgazette.com
  
  Police are searching for a missing 13-year-old girl from Montreal, and are asking for the public’s assistance in locating her.
  Barbara Nadine Thézier has been missing since July 6. She was last seen in St-Michel.
  Thézier is one metre and 52 centimetres tall, she weighs 77 kilograms and has black hair and brown eyes.
  She could be in St-Michel, Villeray or Parc Extension.
  Anyone with any information on Thézier or her whereabouts is asked to contact Info-Crime Montr&eacut
  
  Read more

• Montreal woman injured in Times Square car crash recovering

  09-07-2017 22:48 via cbc.ca
  
  A Canadian mother of three who was injured when a speeding car plowed into pedestrians in New York City is awake after spending weeks in a coma, according to her family.
  
  Read more

• Canadian woman injured in Times Square crash recovering in Montreal after emerging from coma

  09-07-2017 22:38 via globalnews.ca
  
  Elena Avetisian, a mother of three, woke up two weeks ago and has been transferred from New York City to a hospital in Montreal.
  
  Read more

• Sûreté du Québec search for woman in L'Assomption River

  09-07-2017 22:10 via montrealgazette.com
  
  Sûreté du Québec officers are searching for a woman in her 30s who may have drowned in the Lanaudière region. 
  Police divers are searching in the L’Assomption River for the woman, who was at a camping site on Bernard St. in Ste-Mélanie. 
  Around 6 a.m., the SQ received a call about a missing woman. Searches are ongoing, police say.
   
  
  Read more

• Advertisement

• Participants in two-day cycling trek raise $4.1M to help advance cancer research and care in Quebec

  09-07-2017 22:00 via globalnews.ca
  
  Over its nine-year history, the Enbridge Ride to Conquer Cancer has raised over $51 million dollars for cancer programs at the Jewish General Hospital and its partners across the province.
  
  Read more

• Woman dies in Terrebonne seniors' home fire, police investigating

  09-07-2017 21:57 via montrealgazette.com
  
  A 94-year-old woman has died of severe burn wounds after a fire tore through her seniors’ residence in Terrebonne Sunday morning. 
  Forty-three seniors had to be evacuated from the Oasis seniors’ residence, located on St-Louis St. Twelve others were hospitalized for smoke inhalation.
  When firefighters arrived at about 1:30 a.m., flames were sky high and several residents were on their balcony, asking for help. Police and firefighters were able to remove them quickly.
  About&n
  
  Read more

• Is Hudson’s Willow Inn haunted?

  09-07-2017 21:53 via globalnews.ca
  
  A group of ghost hunters are investigating the Willow Inn to find out if the building is haunted.
  
  Read more

• Week-ends du monde festival aims to celebrate Montreal's cultural diversity

  09-07-2017 21:31 via montrealgazette.com
  
  Week-ends du monde festivities at Montreal’s Jean-Drapeau Park are back starting this weekend, July 8-9 from noon to 10 p.m.
  Events are free, and the festival is intended to celebrate Montreal’s cultural diversity through dance, music, and food.
  Yes – you heard “dance.” Parc Jean-Drapeau tweeted this video of yesterday’s celebrations. On vous attend à la Fiesta Latina aux Week-ends du monde#WEM2017 #ParcJeanDrapeau #culture #musique #danse #latino
  
  Read more

• Advertisement

• First Muslim cemetery in Quebec City region inaugurated

  09-07-2017 19:25 via globalnews.ca
  
  The provincial capital’s first Muslim cemetery was inaugurated Sunday, with more than 500 plots in an existing cemetery in Saint-Augustin-de-Desmaures set aside for those of Muslim faith.
  
  Read more

• Quebec City area inaugurates its first Muslim cemetery

  09-07-2017 19:01 via montrealgazette.com
  
  Nearly six months after six men were killed in an attack on a mosque in Quebec City, the region will inaugurate its first Muslim cemetery on Sunday.
  The Lépine Cloutier/Athos funeral home is dedicating a portion of  its cemetery “Les Jardins Québec” in Saint-Augustin-de-Desmaures to deceased Muslims. About 500 lots will be reserved for citizens of Muslim faith.
  Funeral home president Yvan Rodrigue said in April that he had planned this project several months b
  
  Read more

• Opinion: Now, more than ever, CRTC has a key role to play

  09-07-2017 19:00 via montrealgazette.com
  
  Never over the last 50 years have the decisions of the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission been as hotly contested. Over the last two months, no fewer than five appeals to federal cabinet have been launched, requesting the cancellation of decisions made by the outgoing chair of the commission, Jean-Pierre Blais. There is no precedent for such an avalanche of cabinet appeals and such a degree of general exasperation.
  In late June, the Canadian Media Producers Association,
  
  Read more

• Inspection agency recalls two more brands of butter sold in Quebec

  09-07-2017 18:19 via montrealgazette.com
  
  The Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) is recalling two new brands of butter due to possible contamination with the listeria monocytogenes bacteria.
  These products, in 454 grams format, have been sold in Quebec and should not be consumed, the Agency said: Beurre du Lac brands (CUP 0 62260 00455 6 and code 143 032), and Perron (CUP 7 72622 72454 0 and code 143 069).
  The current CFIA warning updates a July 5 recall of another brand of butter, St Laurent (62260 00454 9).
  Rec
  
  Read more

• Celine Cooper: What would you put in a Montreal time capsule?

  09-07-2017 18:00 via montrealgazette.com
  
  A construction crew unearthed what appeared to be a Second World War-era bombshell in New York City’s Flatiron District last week.  
  No need to worry, though — a bomb squad was called to the scene and quickly ruled out any security threats. Turns out the would-be explosive was a 1980s time capsule assembled by partygoers at Danceteria, a legendary club in mid-town Manhattan.Time-stamped in a pre 9/11 N.Y.C. era of youth, glitter and excess, the capsule had been assembl
  
  Read more

• 12 hospitalized after suspicious fire in seniors home

  09-07-2017 17:44 via globalnews.ca
  
  Provincial police are investigating after a suspicious fire in a seniors residence sent 12 people to hospital, including a 94-year-old woman whose life is in danger after she suffered serious burns.
  
  Read more

• 1 dead, 11 hospitalized after suspicious fire in seniors home

  09-07-2017 17:44 via globalnews.ca
  
  Provincial police are investigating after a suspicious fire in a seniors residence in Terrebonne sent 12 people to hospital, including a 94-year-old woman who passed away after suffering serious burns.
  
  Read more

• Quebec to hold consultations on spring flooding

  09-07-2017 17:34 via montrealgazette.com
  
  Quebec will be holding public consultations Monday in areas touched by spring flooding.
  The spring floods affected 5,300 homes in 278 municipalities. Between 500 to 800 of those were either destroyed or deemed uninhabitable. More than 4,000 Quebecers were evacuated. In the Montreal area, severely affected regions include Pierrefonds-Roxboro, Ahuntsic-Cartierville, Île-Bizard-Ste-Geneviève, Ste-Anne-de-Bellevue and Senneville.
  Seven weeks after the floods, the Orchestre Symphonique d
  
  Read more

• In search of thoughts and opinions, Quebec to hold consultations on spring flooding

  09-07-2017 17:34 via montrealgazette.com
  
  Quebec will be holding public consultations Monday in areas touched by spring flooding.
  The spring floods affected 5,300 homes in 278 municipalities. Between 500 to 800 of those were either destroyed or deemed uninhabitable. More than 4,000 Quebecers were evacuated. In the Montreal area, severely affected regions include Pierrefonds-Roxboro, Ahuntsic-Cartierville, Île-Bizard-Ste-Geneviève, Ste-Anne-de-Bellevue and Senneville.
  Seven weeks after the floods, the Orchestre Symphonique d
  
  Read more

• Seniors evacuated from home ravaged by fire in Terrebonne

  09-07-2017 17:01 via montrealgazette.com
  
  A Terrebonne elder care facility was evacuated early Sunday morning due to a fire.
  Forty-three seniors had to be evacuated from the Oasis seniors’ residence, located on Saint-Louis St. One resident was taken to hospital with severe burns and officials fear for his life. Twelve others were hospitalized for smoke inhalation.
  When firefighters arrived at about 1:30 a.m., flames were sky high and several residents were on their balcony, asking for help. Police and firefighters were a
  
  Read more

• Level the playing field for smaller sports groups, coach tells city

  09-07-2017 17:00 via montrealgazette.com
  
  Active in the athletics community for decades, weightlifting coach John Margolis is calling on the city of Montreal to improve support for the smaller sport clubs that he says are being pushed aside by the larger, more popular organizations.  
  Last month, he appeared before the city councils of Montreal and  Côte-des-Neiges—Notre-Dame-de-Grâce borough to push for a long-range, master plan to support smaller sport organizations.
  “I would just like to initiat
  
  Read more

• Laval police erased cellphone video of violent arrest, says disabled black man

  09-07-2017 15:48 via montrealgazette.com
  
  A disabled, black, English-speaking man has laid complaints against two Laval police officers for violently arresting him without cause and erasing a video of the incident from his cellphone.
  Pradel Content, 39, took a video of two Laval police officers who made a U-turn on Highway 15 to tail his car on May 14.
  Content, who lived in Florida for 17 years, said he was going for his daily Tim Hortons run and was heading towards a gas station to buy cigarettes in his Cadillac Escalade. The officers
  
  Read more

• Fitness: What it takes to tackle the Tour de France

  09-07-2017 14:39 via montrealgazette.com
  
  Three thousand, five hundred and forty kilometres over 21 days, through four countries, 635 cities and over five mountains with a punishing finish that demands riders complete 222.5 km on Day 19, is park of what makes the Tour de France such a beast of a race.
  Who are the 198 cyclists who on most days spend four to six hours on their bikes posting speeds of 45-60 km per hour on the flats and 20 km per hour climbing mountains so high and so steep even the average car labours to reach the summit?
  
  Read more

• Before and after: From dated bungalow to dream 'condalow'

  09-07-2017 14:00 via montrealgazette.com
  
  When Fany and Mitchell Ettinger’s children left the family home in St-Laurent, the couple faced a decision many baby boomers struggle with: stay in a home that suddenly has too many bedrooms, or move.
  But for the Ettingers, that choice was easy. “Who needs a house with a swimming pool and four bedrooms upstairs, for just two people?” Mitchell asks. “We weren’t talking about downsizing, because we didn’t necessarily want less space; rather, we wanted space that
  
  Read more

• While you were sleeping: Free .Paak, a G20 wrap, human speed and ability

  09-07-2017 13:49 via montrealgazette.com
  
  I hate to break it to you, but if you weren’t listening to Anderson .Paak and the Free Nationals live in Montreal last night – you missed out.
   Anderson.Paak performs during the outdoor blowout concert at the Montreal International Jazz Festival, in Montreal.
  Free, energetic funk-soul – does it get any better?  Luckily T’Cha Dunlevy covered the show, let him bring you to the scene by clicking here. 
  Prepare to be dazzled by human powered speed and gene
  
  Read more

• Jazz fest concert review: Anderson .Paak ends festivities with funk-soul finale

  09-07-2017 13:18 via montrealgazette.com
  
  They saved the best for last. The 38th Montreal International Jazz Festival has been a banner year for free outdoor blowouts, but the fourth and final main event won out in terms of both drawing power and artistic merit.
  American soul singer-songwriter-rapper Anderson .Paak (his last name is stylized with a decimal, for”detail,” according to the artist) is not yet a household name but he’s well on his way.
  He was a featured guest on west coast hip hop legend Dr. Dre’s 201
  
  Read more

• Quebec City Muslims now have a place to bury dead, after years of trying

  09-07-2017 13:00 via cbc.ca
  
  The Lépine Cloutier/Athos funeral home in Saint-Augustin-de-Desmaures, about 25 kilometres west of downtown Quebec City, is now offering burial grounds for local Muslims. It is the first place to do so outside the Montreal area.
  
  Read more

• Woman, 94, dies after fire ravages seniors home in Terrebonne, Que.

  09-07-2017 12:54 via cbc.ca
  
  A 94-year-old woman who was badly burned in a fire that ravaged a seniors home in Terrebonne, Que., has died. Police are treating the Sunday morning blaze as suspicious.
  
  Read more

• Dramatic rescue as fire ravages seniors home in Terrebonne, Que.

  09-07-2017 12:54 via cbc.ca
  
  Thirty-five elderly residents of a senior citizens home had to be evacuated from their home early Sunday morning when fire consumed the residence on St-Louis Street in Terrebonne, on the north shore east of Montreal.
  
  Read more

• Authorities can't say if sprinklers worked in fatal Quebec seniors home fire

  09-07-2017 12:54 via cbc.ca
  
  A sprinkler system had been recently installed at a Terrebonne, Que., seniors residence where a deadly fire claimed one life Sunday morning, but it's unclear if it was functional. A 94-year-old woman who was badly burned the fire has died.
  
  Read more

• Son retraces the Canadian adventures of six single women from Illinois

  09-07-2017 12:30 via montrealgazette.com
  
  In the summer of 1934, six single and fiercely independent women from Bradford, Illinois piled into a Model T Ford owned by Darlene Dorgan and set out on a road trip. 
  They called themselves the Bradford Model T Girls, but were also known as the Gypsy Coeds.
  Every summer for nine years, Dorgan and her friends hit the road in the Ten-Buck Flivver they christened the Silver Streak. The road trips brought them to Canada twice. In 1939, the Silver Streak came to Dorval.
  Retired marketing execut
  
  Read more

• 'Somebody's thinking about these boys': New memorial in German town to honour doomed RCAF bomber crew

  09-07-2017 12:00 via cbc.ca
  
  The memorial is the product of a 42-year effort by Edmonton resident Lloyd Truscott to learn the details of how his uncle and the rest of the crew from 408 "Goose" Squadron died on a midnight raid targeting Hamburg.
  
  Read more

• From the archives: The Great Fire of Montreal

  09-07-2017 12:00 via montrealgazette.com
  
  This story was first published on July 12, 2003, in the Montreal Gazette.
  The Great Fire of Montreal: No one died but much misery was caused by the huge fire that engulfed the city in 1852. It didn’t help that the fire chief was incompetent. His career lasted no longer than the buildings he should have protected
  The fire is still raging at the hour we write, God only knows where it will stop. Our city seems to be doomed.
  The Gazette, Friday, July 9, 1852
  The despair in those brief lines so
  
  Read more

• Parks Canada preparing for busy Canada 150 season, including patrons behaving badly

  09-07-2017 11:00 via cbc.ca
  
  Parks Canada is raising public awareness and adding patrols to prepare for a potential spike in visitors this summer, as a new report shows a steady increase in bad behaviour at campgrounds and other sites.
  
  Read more

• Montreal to host Canadian Track and Field Championships in 2019 and 2020

  09-07-2017 04:31 via montrealgazette.com
  
  OTTAWA — Athletics Canada has chosen Montreal as the host city for the Canadian Track and Field Championships in 2019 and 2020.
  The Fédération québécoise d’athlétisme made the announcement Saturday night.
  The best junior and senior athletes and para-athletes will compete at Complexe Claude-Robillard in July 2019, to select athletes for the world championships in Doha, Qatar. The 2020 nationals will select the team for the 2020 Olympics in Tokyo.
  &nb
  
  Read more

• PHOTOS: Carifiesta Montreal brightens city streets

  09-07-2017 02:00 via cbc.ca
  
  Montrealers brought their brightest colours to Carifiesta Montreal on Saturday.
  
  Read more

• Parade celebrates sights and sounds of the Caribbean

  09-07-2017 01:06 via globalnews.ca
  
  Downtown Montreal was alive with the sights and sounds of the Caribbean Saturday afternoon, as the 42nd annual Carifiesta Parade made its way along Ste-Catherine Street.
  
  Read more

• Laval man claims racial profiling

  09-07-2017 01:06 via globalnews.ca
  
  A black man from Laval claims police arrested him without cause and erased a video he took of the incident. As Global’s Felicia Parrillo reports, Pradel Content has filed complaints with The Quebec Human Rights Commission and the Police Ethics Commissioner.
  
  Read more

• Kahnawake hosts annual powwow

  09-07-2017 01:06 via globalnews.ca
  
  Kahnawke held its 27th annual powwow Saturday to celebrate indigenous culture through music, dance, food and crafts.
  
  Read more

• Child’s play for a good cause

  09-07-2017 01:06 via globalnews.ca
  
  A West Island obstacle course designed by kids for kids, combined fun with fundraising Saturday morning in Pointe-Claire’s Cedar Park Heights.
  
  Read more

• Disabled Laval man says police deleted video of violent interaction

  09-07-2017 00:43 via cbc.ca
  
  A black man is accusing Laval police of racial profiling after he says he was pushed and handcuffed at a gas station and had video of the incident deleted from his cellphone.
  
  Read more

• Body found in Yamaska River

  09-07-2017 00:03 via montrealgazette.com
  
  A body was found in the Yamaska River, in St-Damase, Saturday.
  The Sûreté du Québec said they received calls around noon about the body and retrieved the body while on a boat. 
  The coroner has identified the body but the SQ said the individual’s identity will not yet be revealed out of respect for the individual’s family.
  
  Read more

Follow @MontrealCANews on Twitter!