Montreal news

• Man's death closes stretch of Highway 5 in downtown Gatineau

  06-01-2018 23:40 via cbc.ca
  Police are investigating after a man died Saturday afternoon on Highway 5 in Gatineau.
  
  Read more

• Fatal crash closes stretch of Highway 5 in downtown Gatineau

  06-01-2018 23:40 via cbc.ca
  Police are investigating a fatal Saturday afternoon crash on Highway 5 in Gatineau that's closed a major stretch of highway.
  
  Read more

• Quebec landlords push ban on smoking pot inside apartments

  06-01-2018 23:12 via cbc.ca
  Landlords in Quebec are taking steps to ensure their rental properties remain free of pot smoke, even though the drug will be legal in Canada come July 1st.
  
  Read more

• Quebec's Alex Harvey grabs third place at Tour de Ski

  06-01-2018 22:37 via montrealgazette.com
  VAL DI FIEMME, Italy — Canadian cross-country skier Alex Harvey reached the podium for the first time this season Saturday with a third-place finish at the Tour de Ski.
  Harvey’s bronze medal came in the penultimate stage of the seven-race competition. He finished the 15-kilometre classic-ski mass start race in 38 minutes 41.2 seconds.
  “This was a good result, especially in classic,” Harvey said. “It is my first podium in classic-skiing since the world championships
  
  Read more

• Advertisement

• Montrealers take refuge indoors during another cold snap

  06-01-2018 22:34 via globalnews.ca
  Some residents living In Montreal's Sud-Ouest borough decided to take part in a free indoor winter wonderland, during a cold snap.
  
  Read more

• Quebec truck driver charged after spilling lumber on Highway 401

  06-01-2018 22:28 via cbc.ca
  A Quebec truck driver has been charged with careless driving after he crashed through a steel barrier on Highway 401 near Kingston, Ont., and spilled lumber across the eastbound lanes.
  
  Read more

• Canadiens vs. Canucks: Five things you should know for Sunday's game

  06-01-2018 22:14 via montrealgazette.com
  Here are five things you should know about the Canadiens-Canucks game at the Bell Centre on Sunday (7 p.m., Sportsnet, RDS, TSN-690 Radio):
  The matchup: This is the second of two games in this cross-country rivalry. The Canadiens won the first game in Vancouver on Dec. 19 by a score of 7-5. In their seven games since that explosion, the Canadiens have posted a 2-5-0 record and have managed to score only eight goals. The Canadiens get a bit of a break from the schedule because they have had a few
  
  Read more

• Canada’s Alex Harvey reaches podium with third place finish at Tour de Ski

  06-01-2018 21:24 via globalnews.ca
  Alex Harvey heads into the Tour de Ski final in fourth position after skiing to a bronze-medal finish in stage six.
  
  Read more

• Advertisement

• Canoers gather to remember man who died in St. Lawrence River

  06-01-2018 20:53 via cbc.ca
  More than 50 canoers braved the cold in Quebec City Saturday morning to glide down the St. Lawrence River in memory of Daniel Malenfant, who died canoeing there in December.
  
  Read more

• Montrealers brave chilly walk up Mount Royal in honour of cross’ 375th birthday

  06-01-2018 20:50 via montrealgazette.com
  Members of Montreal’s Catholic community braved a chilly walk up Mount Royal Saturday to commemorate the 375th anniversary of the raising of the cross on the summit.
  Several dozen people sang Christmas carols as they marched in -20 C weather behind leaders carrying a wooden cross.
  The walk was led by Montreal Archbishop Christian Lépine as well as a man and a woman dressed as Montreal founders Paul de Chomedey de Maisonneuve and Jeanne Mance.
  Lépine said De Maisonneuve first
  
  Read more

• Flu season leads to overcrowding in Quebec ERs

  06-01-2018 20:30 via globalnews.ca
  Longueuil's Pierre-Boucher Hospital has forbidden ER patients to be accompanied in order to deal with overcrowding and limit the spread of infections.
  
  Read more

• Canadiens goalie Carey Price misses practice with flu bug

  06-01-2018 19:39 via montrealgazette.com
  Montreal Canadiens goalie Carey Price was the lone absence at the Brossard training facility Saturday, where the team has returned after a day off ahead of Sunday’s Vancouver Canucks game (7 p.m., Sportsnet, RDS, TSN-690 Radio).
  The flu is the official reason. The organization tweeted at around 1 p.m. that they would determine Sunday whether he would play Sunday. Antti Niemi will start if he’s out.
  Replacement Bryce Luker was called in Saturday morning, hitting the ice 15 minute
  
  Read more

• Wildside theatre fest redraws boundaries of Quebec's English community

  06-01-2018 19:35 via cbc.ca
  The Centaur's Wildside Festival is trying to broaden who comes to mind when you think of Quebec's English community.
  
  Read more

• Icy temperatures lead to treacherous road conditions across Quebec after winter storm

  06-01-2018 18:21 via cbc.ca
  Road conditions remained treacherous across Quebec on Saturday following the powerful storm that struck earlier this week and which continues to cause havoc for drivers.
  
  Read more

• Montreal community radio station CIBL-FM lays off all its employees

  06-01-2018 17:43 via montrealgazette.com
  A Montreal French-language community radio station has laid off all of its 13 employees as it looks for a way to restart its programming.
  A letter sent to CIBL employees on Friday said the station’s leadership is looking for new funding arrangements and described the layoffs as temporary.
  The station opened in 1980 and has launched the careers of several well-known Quebec media personalities, including Jean-Rene Dufort, Marie-France Bazzo and Bruno Blanchet.
  In 2012, the station moved its
  
  Read more

• Baby, it’s still cold outside

  06-01-2018 17:31 via montrealgazette.com
  Environment Canada’s warnings for extreme cold and blowing snow, combined with the Sûreté du Québec’s highway advisory make Saturday is a good time to stay close to home.
  The weather office issued an extreme cold warning for the island of Montreal, Laval and South Shore, including the areas from Châteauguay to La Prairie and Longueuil to Varennes.
  An arctic air mass combined with brisk winds is producing wind-chill values ranging from -38 C in southern and c
  
  Read more

• Almost $100K collected for Quebec woman with arms and legs amputated after crash

  06-01-2018 17:20 via globalnews.ca
  A young Quebec woman whose arms and legs were amputated after she was electrocuted following a car crash on Christmas Day underwent further surgery in Montreal on Friday.
  
  Read more

• Alex Harvey reaches podium for 1st time this season

  06-01-2018 17:10 via cbc.ca
  Alex Harvey turned in a season-best third-place finish in the sixth stage of the Tour de Ski held in Val di Fiemme, Italy, on Saturday.
  
  Read more

• Man accused of kidnapping woman in Quebec City

  06-01-2018 16:14 via montrealgazette.com
  A 39-year-old man is facing multiple charges in connection with the kidnapping of a woman Thursday night in Quebec City.
  Charles Brisson was charged with breaking and entering, death threats, assault with a weapon causing injury, kidnapping, forcible confinement, fleeing police and resisting arrest.
  The 22-year-old victim managed to escape after being abducted in her building and forcibly taken to Montmagny, 85 kilometres east of Quebec City.
  Police said the kidnapper smashed a patio door of the
  
  Read more

• Emergency rooms report overcrowding because of flu

  06-01-2018 16:06 via montrealgazette.com
  Hospital emergency rooms across Quebec are reporting overcrowding related to the flu.
  The situation is particularly critical in the Montérégie region south of Montreal, where four out of eight emergency rooms were at double capacity on Friday.
  The overcrowding was so bad that at the Pierre-Boucher Hospital in Longueuil, only children or those suffering cognitive impairment were allowed to be accompanied. The hospital said the measure was intended to prevent infections from spreadin
  
  Read more

• ICYMI: It's never too late to get healthy for the new year. Provigo's Registered dietitian Alessandra Barba shows… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  06-01-2018 16:00
  ICYMI: It's never too late to get healthy for the new year.Provigo's Registered dietitian Alessandra Barba shows… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
  Read more

• Patient who left hospital in Côte des Neiges found safe

  06-01-2018 15:23 via montrealgazette.com
  A hospital patient who was the subject of a missing-person bulletin has been found safe and sound.
  The 30-year-old man, who suffered from psychological problems, left a hospital in Côte-des-Neiges Friday evening, wearing only a hospital gown, with no shoes and without his medication. Police issued an alert, raising fears for his safety in sub-zero temperatures.
  He was found at 5:30 a.m. Saturday morning in a downtown restaurant on Ste-Catherine St. when police officers recognized him from
  
  Read more

• Delivery of the Montreal Gazette might be delayed Saturday

  06-01-2018 14:45 via montrealgazette.com
  Due to poor driving conditions related to the current storm across Quebec, the Saturday edition of the Montreal Gazette could be up to two hours late.
  Thank you for your patience and our apologies for this inconvenience.
  
  Read more

• While you were sleeping: Support for crash survivor, heating challenge, post-gold problems

  06-01-2018 14:03 via montrealgazette.com
  Some things you might have missed while you were sleeping.
  Sending money, support: A Quebec woman who lost her arms and legs because of electrical burns and frostbite after surviving a car crash on Chrismas Day had additional surgery Friday but a campaign to raise funds for her has reached $90,000. Sabryna Mongeon, 18, had already had extensive amputation surgery soon after the crash, but her older sister, Samantha Mongeon, 21, said doctors later determined they also needed to remove Sabryn
  
  Read more

• This old Charlesbourg house: Uncovering history and heritage beauty

  06-01-2018 14:00 via montrealgazette.com
  Before Yvette Boulanger and Hélène Massé acquired this house in 1994, it was a six-unit rental with what few might have recognized as good bones. But their instincts uncovered a rich history and heritage features that they worked hard to restore.  
  When they bought the house, it was named after Émile Gauthier, mayor of Charlesbourg in the mid 20th-century. But, suspecting it was much older, the two women began researching and discovered it had been
  
  Read more

• The dog that helps the homeless

  06-01-2018 14:00 via montrealgazette.com
  Two men are hunched over on chairs at a downtown homeless shelter, talking quietly and looking a bit beaten down, when a two-year-old Labernese approaches and sits before them.
  First, there are smiles. Then, unprompted, Argon extends his right paw to one of them. The men look at each other. Laughter erupts.
  “This dog blows me away,” Yvan Lafleur, 52, says a few minutes later.
  The first time he met the dog, Lafleur says, Argon came up to him without hesitating, sat between his fe
  
  Read more

• Government pensions: What (and when) to expect payments in 2018

  06-01-2018 13:30 via montrealgazette.com
  If you are a new pensioner or are already receiving a government pension, this is the time of year you may wish to become familiar with both the payment amounts and dates you might expect to receive them.
  This year, recipients of the Quebec Pension Plan (QPP) (retirement, disability, orphan’s, surviving spouse’s pensions) who have signed up for direct deposits can expect to generally receive their payments on the last working day of each month. Specifically, in 2018, these dates will
  
  Read more

• New head coach Rémi Garde will put his stamp on Impact in 2018

  06-01-2018 13:00 via montrealgazette.com
  The Impact will have a new look when they kick off the 2018 Major League Soccer season.
  The question is: Will they be better?
  After losing the Eastern Conference final to Toronto FC in 2016, the Impact failed to even make the playoffs in 2017 with an 11-17-6 record, finishing ninth in the conference.
  The changes for 2018 start with new head coach Rémi Garde replacing Mauro Biello, who was fired. Captain Patrice Bernier is also gone, retiring to become an assistant coach with the Impact Ac
  
  Read more

• Josh Freed: Only sensible resolution is one to make your life easier

  06-01-2018 13:00 via montrealgazette.com
  It’s six days into 2018 and I’m still keeping my New Year’s resolutions — because my only resolution was to have no resolutions.
  All over the world, tens of millions of people have made heroic promises like: “I will jog five miles a day, give up smoking, stop drinking, spend less money and learn Mandarin.” Or, “I will lose 50 pounds, although I only weigh 110.”
  Yet by January 19 almost half will abandon their promises, according to surveys —
  
  Read more

• Flu vaccine may have low effectiveness against dominant strain, Canada's top public health doctor says

  06-01-2018 12:01 via cbc.ca
  Although it's "too early to actually tell," Canada's chief public health officer says the manufacturing process may have caused a mutation that reduces the flu vaccine's effectiveness against H3N2, a strain that tends to cause more severe illness among the elderly and children.
  
  Read more

• Hotel camping, frozen chairlifts and a budding romance: Stories from the 1998 ice storm

  06-01-2018 12:00 via cbc.ca
  At the peak of the ice storm, half of Quebec's population had no power —some for weeks. It was the biggest and costliest natural disaster in Canadian history. And yet Quebecers recall funny and heartwarming moments, as well. Here are some of those stories.
  
  Read more

• Hotel camping, a budding romance and the race to restore power: Stories from the 1998 ice storm

  06-01-2018 12:00 via cbc.ca
  At the peak of the ice storm, half of Quebec's population had no power —some for weeks. It was the biggest and costliest natural disaster in Canadian history. And yet Quebecers recall funny and heartwarming moments, as well. Here are some of those stories.
  
  Read more

• Canada takes world juniors gold with 3-1 win over Sweden

  06-01-2018 04:28 via globalnews.ca
  It's Canada's first title since 2015.
  
  Read more

• Tyler Steenbergen's late goal gives Canada gold at world juniors

  06-01-2018 04:26 via cbc.ca
  Tyler Steenbergen scored the winner with just 1:40 to play in regulation as the Canadians downed Sweden 3-1 on Friday in the gold-medal game in Buffalo.
  
  Read more

• Police search for barefoot Montreal man wearing hospital gown in frigid temperatures

  06-01-2018 04:14 via cbc.ca
  Montreal police are searching for a 30-year-old man who walked out of a hospital in the Côte-des-Neiges neighbourhood wearing only his hospital gown and black pants.
  
  Read more

• 30-year-old man missing from hospital found

  06-01-2018 04:14 via cbc.ca
  Montreal police have found a 30-year-old man who walked out of a hospital in the Côte-des-Neiges neighbourhood wearing only his hospital gown and black pants.
  
  Read more

• Lac-Mégantic accused called 'conscientious, competent'

  06-01-2018 03:40 via montrealgazette.com
  SHERBROOKE — The morning of the Lac-Mégantic rail disaster, Montreal, Maine and Atlantic employee Steve Jacques walked into the company’s Farnham offices oblivious to what had happened during the night. 
  There, only hours after the deadly derailment, he found veteran railway traffic controller Richard Labrie.
  Though usually organized and orderly, Labrie was in disarray. Documents were all over the place. His face, void of any colour, seemed to be decaying.
  Jacques cracked
  
  Read more

• Tenants struggle to get landlords to crank up the heat as mercury dives

  06-01-2018 03:31 via montrealgazette.com
  As temperatures dip back down below -20 C for the weekend, many Montrealers are resolving to stay indoors to stay warm, but for some tenants, staying warm at home is no easy feat.
  Abdul Waheed Ahmed, his wife and three children have been wearing blankets around their one-bedroom apartment on Bloomfield Ave. in Parc Extension for the past 10 days. Since Dec. 29, the tub and bathroom sink in the apartment won’t drain due to frozen pipes and the ambient temperature in the apartment has g
  
  Read more

• Fire department called after partial wall collapse in N.D.G.

  06-01-2018 01:51 via montrealgazette.com
  The fire department had to secure the area surrounding an apartment on Sherbrooke St. and Marlowe Ave. on Friday after one of its walls partially collapsed.
  About 20 rows of bricks came tumbling off the building’s east wall, but most appear to have been caught by a metal balcony that runs along the third floor.
  The building’s owner said no one was injured, but could not say what caused the bricks to come loose.
  Tenants of the Nôtre-Dame-de-Grâce building called the fire d
  
  Read more

• Update: Lac-Mégantic accused called 'conscientious, competent'

  06-01-2018 01:12 via montrealgazette.com
  SHERBROOKE — The morning of the Lac-Mégantic rail disaster, Montreal, Maine and Atlantic employee Steve Jacques walked into the company’s Farnham offices oblivious to what had happened during the night. 
  There, only hours after the deadly derailment, he found veteran railway traffic controller Richard Labrie.
  Though usually organized and orderly, Labrie was in disarray. Documents were all over the place. His face, void of any colour, seemed to be decaying.
  Jacques cracked
  
  Read more

• Cohen's last book, Cardin's first album: great expectations for 2018

  06-01-2018 01:06 via montrealgazette.com
  Leonard Cohen’s final book will keep his flame burning 
  — Ian McGillis
  Leonard Cohen has felt every bit as present in our culture since his death as he did when still with us, and that is not about to change in 2018.Three months ago, news came from Cohen’s longtime Canadian publishers McClelland & Stewart that next October will see the release of a work that occupied Cohen until literally days before his passing on Nov. 7, 2016. It’s no disservice to any living w
  
  Read more

• Checking In: New England ski areas offer crazy loonie deals

  06-01-2018 01:00 via montrealgazette.com
  Our best ski and snowboard friends throughout New England are extending a welcome.
  Several downhill areas and lodging establishments in Vermont, New Hampshire, Maine and upstate New York have special deals for Canadians, offering either at-par or discounted rates, for lift tickets or lodging, or both.
  At the heart of heavenly woodsy environments and impressive mountain ranges, outdoor fans can go downhill skiing and snowboarding or explore cross-country skiing, snow tubing, skating and snowshoei
  
  Read more

• Montreal’s Pâtisserie De Gascogne suddenly closes

  06-01-2018 00:57 via globalnews.ca
  Pâtisserie de Gascogne closed all seven stores and a production centre in the Montreal area, Thursday, after operating for decades in the city.
  
  Read more

• Writer Michel Tremblay to be honoured by LGBT Chamber of Commerce

  06-01-2018 00:48 via montrealgazette.com
  The LGBT Chamber of Commerce of Quebec will present it Grand Phénicia award to the writer and playwright Michel Tremblay in May. 
  Actress Caroline Néron will make the presentation at the 14th edition of the Phénicia awards, which recognize the achievements of those who have contributed to the success of the LGBT business community. 
  Chamber of Commerce president Steve Foster said the organization wants to honour Tremblay’s 50 years of work in Quebec and aroun
  
  Read more

• Lesley Chesterman: What went wrong for Pâtisserie de Gascogne?

  06-01-2018 00:37 via montrealgazette.com
  I hear about restaurant closings almost weekly, but when the news hit late Thursday afternoon that Pâtisserie de Gascogne was shuttering all its stores, I couldn’t believe it.
  Founded in 1957 by Francis Cabanes and his wife, Lucie, who emigrated from France in 1952, Gascogne was Montreal’s eminent pastry shop whose reputation was well known in international circles. In fact, you’d be hard pressed to find a pastry shop with as stellar a reputation in Canada, or arguably No
  
  Read more

• Global News at 5:30: Jan 5

  06-01-2018 00:25 via globalnews.ca
  The Friday, January 5, 2018 edition of Global News at 5:30 on Global Montreal.
  
  Read more

• Quebec has lowest unemployment rate ever seen

  06-01-2018 00:12 via globalnews.ca
  Fri, Jan 5: Quebec is seeing its lowest-ever unemployment rates in the province. Jean-Guy Côté, Quebec Institute associate director, tells Global’s Elysia Bryan-Baynes about Quebec’s booming economy.
  
  Read more

• Pat Hickey's 2017-18 Canadiens mid-season report card

  06-01-2018 00:11 via montrealgazette.com
  The Canadiens have reached the halfway mark in the season with a dismal 17-20-4 record and it’s time to hand out the mid-term report cards.
  In keeping with current pedagogical practice, we’ve abandoned the old-fashioned concept of letter grades in favour of assessments that take into account both performance and expectation.
  Exceeding expectations
  Brendan Gallagher: The top player in this category is Gallagher, the undersized fireplug who has a team-leading 15 goals. He sets an examp
  
  Read more

Follow @MontrealCANews on Twitter!