Montreal news

• Montreal student caught in the middle of EMSB feud

  21-11-2018 23:49 via globalnews.ca
  Wed, Nov 21: The parents of a 12-year-old Montreal North boy are livid after their meeting with EMSB administrators was cancelled Wednesday because the school board refused to have commissioner Sylvia Lo Bianco present for the meeting. The family claims they’re caught in the middle of a feud between Lo Bianco and the school board....
  
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• Man allegedly sprayed by police speaks out

  21-11-2018 23:49 via globalnews.ca
  Wed, Nov 21: Nearly six months after allegedly being pepper sprayed by Montreal police, Daniel Louis is speaking out. As Global’s Felicia Parrillo reports, the 42-year-old claims he was the victim of racial profiling and is taking his case to the Quebec Human Rights Commission.
  
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• Quebec will help francophones in the rest of Canada, Legault says

  21-11-2018 23:47
  QUEBEC — Premier François Legault says Quebec is willing to do more to help francophone communities living outside the province obtain better services in French.
  But he conceded there are limits on what Quebec can do without appearing to meddle in the affairs of another province.
  “We cannot force the government of another province to do something, but we can help francophone groups in other provinces fighting to get more services,” Legault said, arriving for a meeting of
  
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• Not enough snow for snow removal

  21-11-2018 23:45 via globalnews.ca
  Wed, Nov 21: Montreal streets and sidewalks have been snow covered since last Friday and it doesn’t look like the snow will be removed anytime soon. As Global’s Dan Spector explains, the city has no plans to launch snow removal operations anytime soon.
  
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• Opinion: Minority-language-rights setbacks hurt all Canadians

  21-11-2018 23:15
  When I heard about the government of Ontario’s decision to eliminate the Office of the French Language Services Commissioner and to scrap plans for a French-language university in Toronto, I came to the sad conclusion that the trend to undermine language rights knows no borders.
  As we’ve seen, the shock wave created by this announcement has sparked outrage not only among Ontario francophones, but among Canadians across the country. Needless to say, I am profoundly dism
  
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• Rizzuto unfairly targetted because of family name, defence argues

  21-11-2018 23:04
  The police included Leonardo Rizzuto as a suspect in a drug trafficking investigation based mostly on his family name, a defence lawyer argued on Wednesday as the alleged Montreal Mafia leader’s trial began at the Montreal courthouse.
  The charges Rizzuto faces are related to how police found two handguns and five grams of cocaine inside his home in November 2015. At the time, they were making arrests in Project Magot, a lengthy investigation into organized crime and cocaine traffickin
  
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• Montreal man pepper sprayed by police files complaints, claims racial profiling

  21-11-2018 22:54 via globalnews.ca
  A Montreal man has filed a complaint with Quebec's Human Rights Commission after he was pepper sprayed by police.
  
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• Public Health says it’s not safe to eat romaine lettuce in Ontario and Quebec. So why isn’t it being recalled?

  21-11-2018 22:48 via globalnews.ca
  While there's a warning not to eat romaine lettuce, it can still be sold.
  
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• Cyberbullying investigation launched at Riverdale High School

  21-11-2018 22:40 via cbc.ca
  An investigation is underway at Riverdale High School in Pierrefonds after students reported an anonymous Instagram account was being used to post inappropriate comments about kids at the school.
  
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• Longueuil man twice convicted of child luring declared longterm offender

  21-11-2018 22:30 via cbc.ca
  Philippe Truchon, a 38-year-old Longueuil man twice convicted of luring and threatening teenage girls online, has been sentenced to four years and four months in prison and declared him a longterm offender.
  
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• Lack of romaine lettuce recall leaves grocers in the lurch

  21-11-2018 22:16 via cbc.ca
  Grocery chains across Canada moved quickly to take possibly E. coli contaminated romaine lettuce off their shelves on Wednesday, but the lack of a formal recall notice for the product has made things more difficult for them by muddying the waters of who will pay for the loss in sales.
  
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• Lack of romaine lettuce recall leaves grocers in a lurch

  21-11-2018 22:16 via cbc.ca
  Grocery chains across Canada moved quickly to take possibly E. coli contaminated romaine lettuce off their shelves on Wednesday, but the lack of a formal recall notice for the product has made things more difficult for them by muddying the waters of who will pay for it.
  
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• Montreal-area housing starts expected to drop in 2019

  21-11-2018 21:50
  While housing starts in the Montreal region are on-track to rise this year, the Association des professionnels de la construction et de l’habitation du Québec is forecasting a 12-per-cent decline in 2019.
  Housing starts are forecast to rise eight per cent this year, to 26,277, after rising by 38 per cent from 2016 to 2017.
  Even with the 12-per-cent drop expected next year, the forecasted 23,229 starts will be still be higher than 2016 levels.
  The construction of condos is
  
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• Brownstein: Ste-Catherine St. plan sounds familiar alarm

  21-11-2018 21:39
  Look on the bright side: The Valérie Plante administration has pledged to hold a feasibility study and even do some public consultation before going ahead, after 2022, with a second phase of revamping a chunk of Ste-Catherine St., between Atwater Ave. and Bleury St. This plan would reduce that part of the thoroughfare to one lane of traffic and would eliminate nearly 500 parking spots.
  That beats all to heck the Plante approach to the pilot project on Mount Royal, wherein the Camillien-Ho
  
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• Couple alleges racial profiling after excessive honking arrest by Montreal police

  21-11-2018 21:38 via cbc.ca
  A Montreal couple who were pepper sprayed in their car by police after being stopped for excessive honking during Grand Prix festivities last June say they were victims of racial profiling.
  
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• Your weekly Wednesday book selection: Stories set in Japan, Nunavut and the post-internet world

  21-11-2018 21:00 via cbc.ca
  This month CBC Homerun's book columnists Heather O'Neill and her daughter, filmmaker Arizona O'Neill, have 5 suggestions for readers — all of them written by women.
  
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• Your weekly book selection: Stories set in Japan, Nunavut and the post-internet world

  21-11-2018 21:00 via cbc.ca
  This month CBC Homerun's book columnists Heather O'Neill and her daughter, filmmaker Arizona O'Neill, have 5 suggestions for readers — all of them written by women.
  
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• Patriquin: Separatism's decline leaves franco minorities vulnerable

  21-11-2018 20:32
  It makes perfect sense that Ontario Premier Doug Ford has taken aim at many of the rights and institutions of his province’s linguistic minority. The practitioner of what looks like a particularly cynical brand of populism, Ford is also adept at retail politics. And as Ontario’s electoral map shows, Ford hardly needs the province’s 550,000 French-speakers to stay afloat.
  Broadly speaking, Ontario francophones are clustered around Ottawa as well as in the province’s north
  
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• Montreal set to achieve highest urban economic growth in Canada in 2018

  21-11-2018 20:20
  Montreal is expected to have achieved a higher level of economic growth than any other major Canadian cities in 2018, according to the Conference Board of Canada.
  Montreal’s real gross domestic product is expected to grow by 2.9 per cent this year, the think tank said on Tuesday. This is the first time since the Conference Board started tracking municipal economic growth in 1987 that Montreal has topped the list.
  The Conference Board credited the growth to investment in non-residentia
  
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• Canadiens become foster family to Mira puppy

  21-11-2018 20:17
  The Canadiens are getting a new puppy.
  The club announced on Wednesday that it is teaming with the Mira Foundation to become the foster family to a Saint-Pierre Labernese puppy for one year. The Canadiens will be responsible for socializing the puppy under Mira’s guidelines to become a future guide dog or service dog. Since its creation in 1981, Mira has provided more than 3,000 people with guide and service dogs to help with their disabilities.
  For the next year, the Canadiens&rsquo
  
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• Canadiens Game Day: Claude Julien shakes up his fourth line

  21-11-2018 20:13
  NEWARK, N.Y. — Canadiens coach Claude Julien made it clear after Monday night’s 5-4 overtime loss to the Washington Capitals that he wasn’t happy with the performance of his fourth line, which was basically benched after the second period.
  So you knew changes were coming and when the Canadiens play the New Jersey Devils Wednesday night at the Prudential Center (7 p.m., SN1, RDS, TSN 690 Radio). Centre Matthew Peca will be watching the game from the press box, while Michael Chap
  
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• Legault defends his Ontario power-export plan as 'win-win' for all

  21-11-2018 19:52
  QUEBEC — Allowing Ontario workers to help build dams in Quebec to increase exports is a “win-win” for both provinces, says Premier François Legault.
  Despite an immediate backlash from Quebec’s powerful union movement, Legault defended the idea that he floated during his meeting with Ontario Premier Doug Ford earlier this week.
  Arriving Wednesday for a meeting of the Quebec cabinet, Legault reminded reporters that Ontario is preparing to invest $20 billion in renova
  
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• Quebec City mosque shooter Alexandre Bissonnette to be sentenced Feb. 8

  21-11-2018 19:51 via globalnews.ca
  Alexandre Bissonnette, the man responsible for the Quebec City mosque shooting, will learn his sentence in the new year.
  
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• Opinion: Some Canadian tennis stars aren't heroes to taxpayers

  21-11-2018 19:40
  Canadian tennis star Denis Shapovalov is an exciting player, and I’m a huge fan. Beyond his extraordinary talent, 19-year-old Shapovalov demonstrated additional impressive sides of his personality in recent months. He showed compassion and sportsmanship when he played his friend Félix Auger-Aliassime in the first round of the U.S. Open; it was moving to watch him comfort Auger-Aliassime after the latter had to quit. Later, after losing in the third round to Kevin Anderson, Shap
  
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• Quebec mosque shooter Alexandre Bissonnette to be sentenced in February

  21-11-2018 19:35 via cbc.ca
  Alexandre Bissonnette, sentenced to life in prison for killing six Muslims inside a Quebec City mosque in 2017, will find out on Feb. 8, 2019, whether he will ever be eligible for parole.
  
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• Residents furious 3 Griffintown garages inaccessible toward end of month

  21-11-2018 19:30 via globalnews.ca
  Griffintown residents are worried that a bad parking situation is about to become much worse, as three condo parking garages are closing in late November.
  
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• Quebec justice minister pledges reform of family law in first term

  21-11-2018 19:14
  Quebec Justice Minister Sonia LeBel has pledged to reform the province’s family law provisions during the first term of the Legault government.
  LeBel’s promise comes after eight former justice ministers — Liberal and péquistes — signed an open letter calling for the province’s family law provisions to be modernized and reflect new social realities.
  Law professor Alain Roy, who authored the open letter, says that modern realities are such that an update o
  
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• Crown appeals acquittal of Quebec City police officer involved with fatal 2015 crash

  21-11-2018 19:13 via cbc.ca
  Const. Isabelle Morin sobbed as her acquittal verdict was read out in a Quebec City courtroom on Oct. 30, but her legal battle isn't over yet.
  
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• Driver pepper sprayed during Grand Prix claims racial profiling

  21-11-2018 19:08
  A man arrested and pepper sprayed by police for honking his car horn during Grand Prix weekend has filed a complaint with the Quebec Human Rights Commission.
  Daniel Louis says that on a night when countless cars parade down Ste. Catherine St. and honk their horns, he was targeted because of the colour of his skin.
  Police contend Louis was asked to show his identification so they could cite him for excessive noise and that his refusal to do so triggered the arrest.
  “I was reaching for my pa
  
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• Montreal Sock It To Me campaign collects socks for the homeless

  21-11-2018 19:07 via globalnews.ca
  One Montreal man started an initiative to hopefully make the lives of the homeless a little bit easier.
  
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• Olivia O’Malley

  21-11-2018 19:01 via globalnews.ca
  Olivia is an associate producer on Global News Morning.
  
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• Brian Wilson's music was made for these times, and all time

  21-11-2018 18:30
  It’s been five decades since the Beach Boys faced their first big identity crisis.
  Cream’s Wheels of Fire and Electric Ladyland by the Jimi Hendrix Experience were released within a few months of each other in 1968 — two double albums filled with extended jams and psychedelic explorations.
  That’s the music you’re likely to hear in contemporary films or television series set in the ’60s. What you won’t find on such a soundtrack is anything from the B
  
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• ILL-Abilities founder gave a wheelchair-bound boy the gift of dance

  21-11-2018 18:15
  The Ill-Abilities International Dance Crew celebrated its 10th anniversary with a performance at Les Grands Ballets Canadiens de Montréal headquarters last weekend. The crew features dancers with physical challenges and is headed by choreographer, dancer and motivational speaker Luca “Lazylegz” Patuelli.
  Patuelli was born with arthrogryposis and has limited leg strength. He has inspired many young people with physical limitations over the years, including Pincourt re
  
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• Sobeys, Metro pulling romaine lettuce from Canadian stores in response to E. coli warning

  21-11-2018 18:12 via globalnews.ca
  Sobeys and Metro have stopped selling romaine lettuce, in response to a public health warning about potential E. coli.
  
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• Major grocery chains pulling romaine lettuce from Canadian stores in response to E. coli warning

  21-11-2018 18:12 via globalnews.ca
  Sobeys, Loblaw and Metro have stopped selling romaine lettuce, in response to a public health warning about potential E. coli.
  
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• Update: Atwater Tunnel remains closed for clean-up, inspection

  21-11-2018 18:08
  The Atwater Tunnel, fully flooded on Tuesday after a work crew cut through a nearby water main, has been pumped out but remains closed pending a clean-up and inspection.
  Sud-Ouest borough mayor Benoit Dorais reported via his Twitter account Wednesday morning that while the 10 pumps deployed to drain the tunnel had done their work, a large quantity of mud and residual water remained and were being dealt with by city blue collar employees.
  Meanwhile, inspections of the tunnel itself have begun.
  Mo
  
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• Teens accused in Nuns’ Island death can’t talk to each other without lawyers

  21-11-2018 17:48 via globalnews.ca
  The two teens, both aged 17, stared straight ahead during the hearing as their families looked on.
  
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• How Quebec private schools are taking on sexting

  21-11-2018 17:48 via cbc.ca
  Quebec private schools have developed a plan aimed not just at preventing teen sexting, but also at effectively responding to problems when they do occur.
  
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• It's unacceptable to curb francophone rights in ROC: Montreal, Quebec mayors

  21-11-2018 17:29
  Mayors representing cities and municipal associations in Quebec, Ontario and New Brunswick on Wednesday published a statement in which they call for the recognition and protection of francophone rights across Canada.
  Montreal Mayor Valérie Plante and Quebec City Mayor Régis Labeaume are among those calling for those rights to be fully protected and denouncing any political action that would see them infringed.
  The mayors say that any attempt to curb those rights is unacceptable in
  
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• Montreal real-estate sales climb unabated, but price increases could slow

  21-11-2018 17:10
  Housing sales in the Montreal region are expected to reach record highs in 2018 and 2019, the Quebec Federation of Real Estate Boards said on Tuesday.
  But while both the number of residential properties sold and the median selling price of those properties are expected to rise, the rate of price increases is expected to be down from a 2017 peak.
  The QFREB is predicting the median selling price of a single-family home in the Montreal region will rise by 3.2 per cent this year to $320,000, based o
  
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• Dollarama recalls plastic dolls for high levels of hazardous chemical

  21-11-2018 17:02
  For the second time this year, discount retailer Dollarama has issued a recall for a toy made in China and containing high levels of a chemical product hazardous to human health.
  Health Canada announced that the retailer is recalling 52,000 MONTJOY toy kits, each of which contain a doll and 12 accessories. The kits were sold between Oct. 16, 2017 and Oct. 5 of this year.
  The article number — 08-3048458 — can be seen in the right upperhand corner of the package and the code CUP 667888
  
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• Alleged Montreal Mafia leader Rizzuto faces trial on gun, drug charges

  21-11-2018 16:50
  The trial of Leonardo Rizzuto on charges related to two firearms and a small amount of cocaine found inside his home three years ago is underway at the Montreal courthouse.
  The charges are related to what police found inside Rizzuto’s home in November 2015. At the time, they were making arrests in Project Magot, a lengthy investigation into organized crime and cocaine trafficking led by the Sûreté du Québec.
  When the arrests were made, the SQ alleged that Rizzuto, the s
  
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• Quebec gets its first Netflix original film amid tax, cultural content concerns

  21-11-2018 16:49 via cbc.ca
  Patrice Laliberté, an upstart director with no full-length credits to his name, is part of the small filmmaking team selected to make the first Netflix original feature film out of Quebec.
  
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• Montreal filmmaker set to make first Netflix original film from Quebec

  21-11-2018 16:23 via globalnews.ca
  Netflix doesn't control the amount of content that gets streamed -- its subscribers determine that daily.
  
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• Holiday recipes from PC

  21-11-2018 16:18 via globalnews.ca
  The holiday season is around the corner and it’s time to start thinking menus. Chef Martin Patenaude joins Global’s Laura Casella and Kim Sullivan with delicious and easy recipes that are sure to impress your guests.
  
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• Mental health support for kids and teens

  21-11-2018 16:09 via globalnews.ca
  An estimated 1.2 million Canadian youth are affected by mental illness, but there are more ways than ever for them to get help. Erica Diamond joins Global’s Laura Casella to discuss what to look for in your child’s behaviour, and how a simple text could change everything.
  
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• Helping for the holidays

  21-11-2018 16:00 via globalnews.ca
  November can be a drag with the shorter and colder days, but Global’s Kim Sullivan finds out ways you can be happier by helping local organisations in need.
  
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• Finding her son 34 years later

  21-11-2018 15:50 via globalnews.ca
  After 34 years, a man reunited with the birth mother he never knew. The pair join Global’s Laura Casella to talk about their experience and the upcoming documentary about how they found each other.
  
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• Infant not sleeping? Study says that’s okay.

  21-11-2018 15:30 via globalnews.ca
  A new study suggest parents shouldn’t worry if their infant doesn’t sleep through the night. Global’s Laura Casella finds out more from McGill University’s Marie-Hélène Pennestri.
  
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• Voters warned of fraudulent text messages promising payment for supporting CAQ

  21-11-2018 15:28 via cbc.ca
  Elections Quebec is warning residents of a possible phishing scam that went out by text message to phones across the province earlier this month.
  
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