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• Marc Miller replaces Steven Guilbeault as official languages, Canadian identity minister

  01-12-2025 21:17 via montrealgazette.com
  Liberal MP and federal Immigration Minister Marc Miller has replaced Steven Guilbeault as Minister of Canadian Identity and Culture and Minister responsible for Official Languages. Read More
  
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• Via Rail passengers stranded on train to Toronto for 13 hours finally out

  11-12-2025 17:42 via globalnews.ca
  A mechanical failure on a Via Rail passenger train from Montreal to Toronto caused major overnight delays and left riders stranded in eastern Ontario.
  
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• Does Habs blue-liner Arber Xhekaj have his swagger back? | HI/O Bonus

  11-12-2025 17:28 via montrealgazette.com
  Canadiens defenceman Arber Xhekaj has been playing very solid hockey recently. Read More
  
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• Growing divide between affordable and luxury apartment vacancies, Montreal survey shows

  11-12-2025 17:20 via montrealgazette.com
  Apartment vacancies are way up in Montreal, fuelled by new construction, but the growth in rent prices has accelerated and has made it more difficult for low-income households to access housing, a new report by Canada Mortgage and Housing Corp. reveals. Read More
  
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• Opinion: I was an adviser to Valérie Plante. I saw what many did not

  11-12-2025 17:15 via montrealgazette.com
  In 2017, after 375 years, Montreal elected Valérie Plante as its first female mayor. She was not a conventional career politician and arrived with a different way of doing politics.  Read More
  
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• Quebec's 'brownie bill' passes, banning vote buying in leadership races

  11-12-2025 17:14 via montrealgazette.com
  QUEBEC — Legislators rushed through approval of a law on Thursday to plug a hole in Quebec's electoral code that, until now, had made vote buying in party leadership races legal. Read More
  
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• 'I'm going nowhere,' Rodriguez says as pressure mounts on him to quit

  11-12-2025 17:02 via montrealgazette.com
  QUEBEC — Despite calls for his resignation from even senior party members, a defiant Pablo Rodriguez said Thursday he has no plans to quit the Liberal leadership. Read More
  
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• Quebec government reaches agreement in principle with family doctors

  11-12-2025 16:40 via globalnews.ca
  The province has also agreed to postpone the application of contentious legislation designed to impose a new remuneration system on doctors. 
  
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• Holiday season strike begins for Montreal transit maintenance workers

  11-12-2025 16:32 via globalnews.ca
  Montreal transit riders are being warned of delays as STM maintenance workers begin a month-long overtime strike Thursday, raising the risk of vehicle shortages and service cuts.
  
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• Gazette home delivery delayed Thursday because of road conditions

  11-12-2025 16:31 via montrealgazette.com
  Subscribers to The Gazette's home delivery service might not get their paper until early afternoon on Thursday because of significant weather issues. Read More
  
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• Family physicians reach tentative deal with Quebec

  11-12-2025 14:26 via cbc.ca
  Quebec family doctors say they have reached an agreement in principle with the province. The Fédération des médecins omnipraticiens du Québec (FMOQ) announced the tentative deal this morning.
  
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• Family physicians reach agreement in principle with Quebec over Bill 2

  11-12-2025 14:26 via cbc.ca
  Quebec family doctors have struck a tentative agreement with the province, only weeks before the implementation of controversial reforms that threatened clinic closures and the departure of GPs to other provinces.
  
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• Bill 2: Quebec strikes tentative deal with family doctors

  11-12-2025 14:19 via montrealgazette.com
  The Quebec government and family doctors have reached an agreement in principle, the Fédération des médecins omnipraticiens du Québec announced Thursday. Read More
  
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• Winter weather advisory in effect for Greater Montreal area Thursday

  11-12-2025 13:54 via cbc.ca
  Environment Canada is warning of potentially difficult road conditions on Thursday with a yellow winter weather travel advisory in effect for the Greater Montreal area.
  
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• Montreal North business firebombed overnight

  11-12-2025 13:21 via montrealgazette.com
  Arsonists broke the window of a business on Bruxelles Ave. early Thursday and threw in an incendiary device, according to Montreal police. Read More
  
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• Montreal storm that tried its best turns morning commute into a slippery, slushy mess

  11-12-2025 13:07 via montrealgazette.com
  Montreal remains under a yellow weather alert, warning of blowing and accumulating snow on roads. Visibility was poor during the morning commute, and roads slick. Read More
  
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• Pratte: Memo to PSPP: Let’s keep our politics civil

  11-12-2025 12:55 via montrealgazette.com
  Last Oct. 30, on the 30th anniversary of the 1995 referendum, I was invited — along with about 20 representatives of the sovereigntist and federalist camps — to appear on Radio-Canada’s public affairs program 24/60. Read More
  
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• Pratte: Let’s keep our politics civil

  11-12-2025 12:55 via montrealgazette.com
  Last Oct. 30, on the 30th anniversary of the 1995 referendum, I was invited — along with about 20 representatives of the sovereigntist and federalist camps — to appear on Radio-Canada’s public affairs program 24/60. Read More
  
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• What the Puck: Montembeault's atrocious play forced Canadiens' hand on Fowler

  11-12-2025 12:00 via montrealgazette.com
  It's not surprising that Canadiens management called up Jacob Fowler from Laval Tuesday night. The surprise is that it took them this long. Read More
  
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• Hanes: 'The coming hours' will decide the future of family medicine in Quebec

  11-12-2025 12:00 via montrealgazette.com
  Montreal doctors are desperately pleading with the Quebec government to revoke or suspend implementation of Bill 2 in a last-ditch effort to prevent a mass exodus of physicians, the closure of numerous family medicine clinics and the collapse of primary care — a chain reaction that could be set off by the end of the week if nothing budges. Read More
  
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• Bill 2 didn't just anger doctors. It left hundreds of millions in health-care funding in limbo

  11-12-2025 10:00 via cbc.ca
  Hundreds of millions of dollars meant to be invested in Quebec’s beleaguered health-care network remains in limbo more than a month after the Legault government abolished the institute overseeing the funds without warning.
  
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• Nunavik ends year with record number of TB cases, as officials promise funding announcement to come

  11-12-2025 09:00 via cbc.ca
  As of Dec. 10, the region has recorded 112 active cases – the highest reported level in recent history. Provincial and federal officials say ongoing discussions about eliminating tuberculosis across Inuit Nunangat are going well.
  
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• Montreal climate activists seek to have bridge-scaling charges dropped

  11-12-2025 04:28 via globalnews.ca
  Both men are charged with mischief and obstructing a police officer. If convicted, they could face several months of house arrest.
  
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• Quebec tables bill that would ban gang colours, creates public sex offender registry

  11-12-2025 03:47 via globalnews.ca
  The new bill prohibits wearing or displaying any patches or symbols promoting a list of criminal entities established by the Public Security Department. 
  
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• Quebec Liberals under investigation by anti-corruption police UPAC

  11-12-2025 02:38 via globalnews.ca
  The Liberals are facing allegations of possible vote-buying during a leadership race earlier this year that saw Rodriguez take the reins of the party. 
  
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• Opinion: Quebec’s political class is fuelling social fracture

  11-12-2025 01:00 via montrealgazette.com
  Quebecers are increasingly confronted with a troubling question: Where is this province being led by its political class? Read More
  
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• Quebec high schools aren’t eligible for crossing guards. Parents want that changed

  11-12-2025 00:56 via montrealgazette.com
  After a Royal West Academy teen on his way to school one morning in October 2024 wasstruck by a car on a crosswalk near an intersection that had long been flagged by residents as dangerous, parents went into high gear in their quest for a crossing guard. The high school student, who was 14 at the time, was lucky: His injuries were minor. The outcome could have been tragic. Read More
  
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• Montreal parents petition for crossing guards at dangerous school intersections

  11-12-2025 00:56 via montrealgazette.com
  After a Royal West Academy teen on his way to school one morning in October 2024 was struck by a car on a crosswalk near an intersection that had long been flagged by residents as dangerous, parents went into high gear in their quest for a crossing guard to be stationed at Westminster Ave. and Ainslie Rd. The Montreal West high school student, who was 14 at the time, was lucky: His injuries were minor. The outcome could have been tragic. Read More
  
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• Severe flu season started early in Quebec. Here’s what you need to know

  10-12-2025 23:41 via cbc.ca
  Quebec’s public health data shows flu cases began rising weeks earlier compared to last year. Experts say the strain has mutations — making it prone to a higher level transmission.
  
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• Montreal pediatric clinic to close, calling Bill 2 ‘the nail in the coffin’

  10-12-2025 22:06 via globalnews.ca
  Tiny Tots in Decarie Square, operated by ELNA Medical Group, will begin phasing out operations in the new year, and it is working on relocating options to ensure care.
  
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