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• Police arrest second suspect after arson attack on Pornhub executive’s home

  04-12-2025 23:52 via montrealgazette.com
  Another man has been charged in connection with a 2021 arson attack that destroyed a luxury home under construction in the Ahuntsic–Cartierville borough. The multi-million dollar home was owned at the time by an executive for Pornhub. Read More
  
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• Patients speak out against suspension of Dr. Amir Khadir over Lyme disease treatment

  04-12-2025 23:27 via montrealgazette.com
  Patients of former Québec solidaire MNA Dr. Amir Khadir came to his defence Thursday following his temporary suspension from practicing medicine, arguing he's one of a few health-care professionals in the province devoted to helping those with chronic conditions following infections. Read More
  
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• How a pipeline deal in Alberta somehow led to a language controversy in Quebec

  04-12-2025 23:25 via cbc.ca
  A controversial pipeline agreement between Prime Minister Mark Carney and Alberta Premier Danielle Smith triggered a chain of events that included a cabinet resignation, a cabinet shuffle and — eventually — a fiery debate about the French language in Quebec.
  
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• Canadiens and Jets to play outdoor game in Winnipeg in October 2026

  04-12-2025 23:21 via montrealgazette.com
  It's time to bring out the toques, the Canadiens are playing another outdoor game next season. Read More
  
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• STM maintenance workers insist overtime strike won't affect service

  04-12-2025 21:38 via montrealgazette.com
  The union of maintenance workers at the Société de transport de Montréal says it is taking pains to ensure the public won't be affected if it has to take further work action. Read More
  
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• Hanes: 'Clock is ticking' for family medicine groups as Bill 2 talks collapse

  04-12-2025 21:34 via montrealgazette.com
  The future of primary care rests on a knife's edge in Quebec after negotiations that had resumed last week between the government and the medical federation representing family doctors broke down again Thursday over a new remuneration model being imposed on physicians. Read More
  
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• Liberal MNA calls for inquiry on "organized crime's grip" on bars and restaurants

  04-12-2025 21:17 via montrealgazette.com
  Quebec Liberal MNA and public safety critic Jennifer Maccarone is calling for a parliamentary commission into how many of Quebec's bars and restaurants appear to have been targeted recently by organized crime groups seeking to extort merchants through arson, shootings and other forms of violence. Read More
  
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• 10th edition of Read Quebec invites you to pitch your book idea

  04-12-2025 20:24 via cbc.ca
  Present your idea to English-language publishers from across the province as part of this year's book fair. Rebecca West, executive director of the organization behind the event, the Association of English-language Publishers of Quebec (AELAQ), says the book fair has grown from a modest affair to a weekend-long festival bringing the literary scene in Quebec together.
  
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• As temperatures plummet, temporary shelter opening in YMCA building

  04-12-2025 19:51 via montrealgazette.com
  The city of Montreal is taking measures to help unhoused people face the coming cold snap, including opening a temporary 135-space shelter in the downtown YMCA building. Read More
  
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• As cold weather moves in, Montreal enacts measures to help unhoused people

  04-12-2025 19:51 via montrealgazette.com
  The city of Montreal is taking measures to help unhoused people face the coming cold snap, including opening a temporary 135-space shelter in the downtown YMCA building. Read More
  
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• 36 years after Polytechnique massacre, Quebec researcher warns of dangers of online ‘incel’ forums

  04-12-2025 19:27 via cbc.ca
  Océane Corbin, a PhD student in communications at UQAM, spent years immersed in an international incel forum analyzing violent and misogynistic online comments. She warns of a community built on misogyny and explains how to have conversations around these issues with young men.
  
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• Judge to decide in January if Montrealer who killed his parents, grandmother is not criminally responsible

  04-12-2025 19:24 via montrealgazette.com
  A Quebec Superior Court judge will decide in January whether the young man who killed his parents and his grandmother inside the family's home in Rosemont two years ago was unable to tell right from wrong when he carried out the slayings. Read More
  
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• Here’s how traffic in Canadian cities fared against the world’s worst

  04-12-2025 19:08 via globalnews.ca
  Some of Canada's biggest cities are among the world's worst for traffic congestion, according to a new report. Though none cracked the top 10 or even the top 20.
  
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• As Laval police kick off anti-extortion operation, 2 cafés are hit by gunfire

  04-12-2025 19:03 via cbc.ca
  One day after Laval police began an operation to crack down on extortion, two cafés were targeted by gunfire. The shootings took place within 20 minutes of one another.
  
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• Parti Québécois fears Ottawa 'will cheat' in a third sovereignty referendum

  04-12-2025 18:52 via montrealgazette.com
  QUEBEC — Reacting to a report that senior federal government officials are preparing for a possible third independence referendum, Quebec's two sovereignist parties said Thursday that they feared Ottawa could "cheat" ahead of a vote. Read More
  
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• Quebec has ended talks on Bill 2, family doctors' federation says

  04-12-2025 18:06 via montrealgazette.com
  The federation representing Quebec's general practitioners announced Thursday morning that the provincial government has ended negotiations on Bill 2, a controversial plan to revise how physicians are paid in the province. Read More
  
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• Ottawa begins to consider the possibility of a Quebec referendum

  04-12-2025 17:59 via cbc.ca
  The Parti Québécois's dominance in the polls for nearly two years and its leader Paul St-Pierre Plamondon's promise to hold a referendum on Quebec sovereignty during his first term have reverberated all the way to Ottawa.
  
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• Talks break off between Quebec and family doctors, only weeks before reforms set to take effect

  04-12-2025 17:45 via cbc.ca
  Negotiations between the Quebec government and family doctors have broken off once again, less than a month before a set of reforms are set to go into effect that would alter the way doctors are paid.
  
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• Montreal-area home sales fall 8.5% in November: Real estate board

  04-12-2025 17:32 via globalnews.ca
  Quebec's real estate board says 3,542 properties changed hands throughout the month in the Montreal census metropolitan area, down from 3,870 in November 2024.
  
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• As backlash grows, PQ leader doubles down on 'loyalty' comments over Miller appointment

  04-12-2025 17:28 via montrealgazette.com
  A statement this week by the leader of the Parti Québécois that certain leaders of cultural associations who congratulated newly named federal Culture Minister Marc Miller are "disloyal" to Quebec is drawing fire from those he admonished and his political adversaries. Read More
  
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• Cowan: Kudos to Canadiens for righting a wrong with Andrei Markov

  04-12-2025 17:16 via montrealgazette.com
  It really is a shame that Andrei Markov never reached the 1,000-game mark with the Canadiens. Read More
  
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• 'Authoritarian and undemocratic': 318 groups unite against Legault's proposed Quebec constitution

  04-12-2025 16:44 via montrealgazette.com
  Speaking with one voice, more than 300 Quebec organizations are telling Premier François Legault to scrap his proposed constitution for the province, calling it deeply flawed and a threat to fundamental rights. Read More
  
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• 'Authoritarian and undemocratic': 300 groups unite against Legault's proposed Quebec constitution

  04-12-2025 16:44 via montrealgazette.com
  Speaking with one voice, more than 300 Quebec organizations are telling Premier François Legault to scrap his proposed constitution for the province, calling it deeply flawed and a threat to fundamental rights. Read More
  
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• Quebec constitution plan is 'not partisan' electoral exercise, justice minister charges

  04-12-2025 16:26 via montrealgazette.com
  QUEBEC — Faced with opposition from both within and outside political circles, Justice Minister Simon Jolin-Barrette has gone on the offensive to defend Bill 1, the government's proposed new constitution. Read More
  
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• Call of the Wilde: Ivan Demidov on verge of breakout as Habs down Jets

  04-12-2025 15:46 via globalnews.ca
  Two losses. That's the point at which an NHL team must recover to stop the bleeding. Teams with a lot of three-game losing skids often don't make the playoffs.
  
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• Legault government set to ban vote-buying in wake of allegations against Quebec Liberals

  04-12-2025 15:28 via cbc.ca
  Premier François Legault’s government is expected to table a bill on Friday that would prohibit the exchange of a donation for a vote during a political party's leadership race.
  
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• Legault government set to ban pay-for-vote scheme in wake of allegations against Quebec Liberals

  04-12-2025 15:28 via cbc.ca
  Premier François Legault’s government is expected to table a bill on Friday that would prohibit the exchange of a donation for a vote during a political party's leadership race.
  
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• Quebec holds consultations on controversial proposed constitution

  04-12-2025 15:12 via cbc.ca
  A draft constitution tabled two months ago by the Quebec government was supposed to be a unifying declaration of Quebecers' common values, but it has instead been denounced as ill-conceived, divisive and authoritarian. Consultations on the proposed legislation begin Thursday.
  
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• Consultations on controversial Quebec constitution bill begin today

  04-12-2025 15:12 via cbc.ca
  A draft constitution tabled two months ago by the Quebec government was supposed to be a unifying declaration of Quebecers' common values, but it has instead been denounced as ill-conceived, divisive and authoritarian. Consultations on the proposed legislation begin Thursday.
  
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• Back-to-back bar fires in Montreal's east end under investigation

  04-12-2025 15:08 via montrealgazette.com
  Montreal police arson investigators started their Thursday with two incidents occurring within 90 minutes of each other at bars in the city's east end. Read More
  
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• Dunlevy: Ms. Lauryn Hill and Montreal go way back

  04-12-2025 14:44 via montrealgazette.com
  Lauryn Hill has been giving Montreal love, and getting love from Montrealers for over 30 years — 31 years to be precise, almost to the day. As she swung through for a pair of rousing concerts at Place des Arts’s Salle Wilfrid-Pelletier on Wednesday evening, one had to marvel at the amazing consistency of a supposedly esoteric and unreliable artist who reached the highest heights of the music industry before all but turning her back on it. Read More
  
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• STM administrative workers accept contract offer

  04-12-2025 13:26 via montrealgazette.com
  The 1,280 administrative workers of the Société de transport de Montréal have voted 75 per cent in favour to accept a new contract with the transit authority, the union announced Thursday. Read More
  
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• LaSalle bar targeted by gunfire

  04-12-2025 13:15 via montrealgazette.com
  A Montreal police canine unit was deployed and a crime scene set up after a bar in the borough of LaSalle was targeted by gunfire early Thursday. Read More
  
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• Trent: Trump, Mamdani and the perils of social media

  04-12-2025 12:55 via montrealgazette.com
  If the health of democracy worries you, examine what recently happened in New York City, where an avowed socialist was elected mayor of the high temple of capitalism. Read More
  
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• Consultations set to begin on controversial Quebec constitution bill

  04-12-2025 12:27 via globalnews.ca
  Critics say the constitution bill would erode human rights and limit dissent, and could reopen an unnecessary debate on abortion.
  
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• Track ‘finished for years’: McGill flagged $50M in sports-facility repairs before axing teams

  04-12-2025 12:00 via montrealgazette.com
  A month before McGill University announced it would eliminate more than half of its varsity and competitive sports teams, the school’s top athletics official warned the Board of Governors that its tracks, fields and pool were deteriorating and in need of multimillion-dollar repairs. Read More
  
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• Lower wages and employment rates for anglos cost Quebec $1.5 billion a year: study

  04-12-2025 12:00 via montrealgazette.com
  The ongoing employment and income gaps between English- and French-speaking Quebecers is costing Quebec an estimated $1.5 billion in lost income annually, a new study shows. Read More
  
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• Canadian families could pay $1,000 more for groceries in 2026, report warns

  04-12-2025 12:00 via globalnews.ca
  Canadians could face grocery bills up to $1,000 higher in 2026 as food prices rise 4-6 per cent, with restaurants and meat seeing the biggest jumps.
  
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• About Last Night: Watch Markov get an ovation, Xhekaj fight vs. Jets

  04-12-2025 12:00 via montrealgazette.com
  On Andrei Markov appreciation night, the Montreal Canadiens stopped the bleeding on defence in a tightly contested 3-2 shootout win over the Winnipeg Jets on Wednesday at the Bell Centre. Read More
  
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• Authoritarian or essential? Quebec constitution hearings start today

  04-12-2025 11:30 via montrealgazette.com
  QUEBEC — Described by some as authoritarian or a re-election tool, and with almost no mention of minority rights, the Legault government's proposed Quebec constitution comes under the microscope Thursday as hearings into the bill open at the National Assembly. Read More
  
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• Music as medicine: Montreal researchers study choir therapy for stroke patients with speech loss

  04-12-2025 10:00 via cbc.ca
  A randomized controlled trial involving 12 weekly choir sessions for participants who have developed aphasia from strokes, aims to find out if singing together helps them re-gain their ability to speak and write.
  
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• Food prices could increase in 2026, with meat leading the way: report

  04-12-2025 10:00 via cbc.ca
  Food prices in Canada could increase by four to six per cent next year, largely led by pricier meat products, according to a forecast by researchers at Dalhousie University.
  
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• Hidden Game: Caufield scores in shootout to beat Jets

  04-12-2025 06:29 via montrealgazette.com
  Are players-only meetings a solution for what ails a struggling hockey team? That depends on whether you look at the glass being half-full or half-empty. Read More
  
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• Montreal mayor revives debate over police body-worn cameras

  04-12-2025 02:27 via globalnews.ca
  New mayor Soraya Martinez Ferrada says her team is working with the police department and the Quebec government to equip frontline officers — with well-established guidelines.
  
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• Liveblog: Watch Canadiens give Andrei Markov a two-minute ovation

  04-12-2025 01:15 via montrealgazette.com
  The Montreal Canadiens (13-9-3) will look to shake off Tuesday's thumping against the Ottawa Senators when they take on the Winnipeg Jets (13-12-0) at the Bell Centre on Wednesday night. Read More
  
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• Liveblog replay: Canadiens beat Jets 3-2 in shootout on Andrei Markov night

  04-12-2025 01:15 via montrealgazette.com
  The Montreal Canadiens (13-9-3) will look to shake off Tuesday's thumping against the Ottawa Senators when they take on the Winnipeg Jets (13-12-0) at the Bell Centre on Wednesday night. Read More
  
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• Liveblog: Canadiens honour Andrei Markov before taking on Jets

  04-12-2025 01:15 via montrealgazette.com
  The Montreal Canadiens (13-9-3) will look to shake off Tuesday's thumping against the Ottawa Senators when they take on the Winnipeg Jets (13-12-0) at the Bell Centre on Wednesday night. Read More
  
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• Liveblog: Canadiens and Jets tied 2-2 on Andrei Markov night

  04-12-2025 01:15 via montrealgazette.com
  The Montreal Canadiens (13-9-3) will look to shake off Tuesday's thumping against the Ottawa Senators when they take on the Winnipeg Jets (13-12-0) at the Bell Centre on Wednesday night. Read More
  
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• Quebec man sentenced in accidental shooting death of 3-year-old

  04-12-2025 00:29 via cbc.ca
  Yacine Mehennaoui, 21, was sentenced Wednesday to four and a half years in prison for criminal negligence in the death of a three-year-old child in Bois-des-Filion, Que., in November 2023.
  
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