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• Private Montreal preschool helping autistic children risks closure - CityNews Montreal

  24-03-2025 22:31 via news.google.com
  Private Montreal preschool helping autistic children risks closure  CityNews Montreal
  
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• Small Quebec town introduces $200 tax for treeless yards in effort to combat heat islands

  29-03-2025 09:00 via cbc.ca
  
  A small Quebec town is using a novel approach to encourage residents to plant trees by charging a $200 annual surtax to homeowners who don't have at least one tree in their front yard. The municipality said the trees are necessary to mitigate the impact of heat islands in the community.
  
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• Parents, midwives mourn closure of family birth unit at Montreal's Notre-Dame Hospital

  29-03-2025 09:00 via cbc.ca
  
  The family birth unit emphasized physiological — or natural — medication-free births and collaborated with midwives, who shared their expertise and knowledge with the unit's nurses. Some say the closure is a missed opportunity for Montreal.
  
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• Call of the Wilde: Montreal Canadiens stifled in 4-1 loss to Carolina Hurricanes

  29-03-2025 02:55 via globalnews.ca
  
  The Hurricanes dominate Montreal usually and they did again, posting a 4-1 win. Brian Wilde has more.
  
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• Flair Airlines passenger speaks out after being forced off flight

  28-03-2025 23:52 via globalnews.ca
  
  A Montreal woman who just returned from a vacation to Mexico says her trip took a turn for the worse as she was heading home Sunday.
  
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• Canadian teen stands more than 7 feet tall and is getting basketball offers globally

  28-03-2025 21:56 via globalnews.ca
  
  Jérémy Gohier is only 14 years old, but it's easy to see why he's already making waves on the international basketball stage.
  
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• Montreal panel to highlight trans leadership in face of growing concerns over rights

  28-03-2025 21:35 via cbc.ca
  
  As trans rights face increasing scrutiny both in the U.S. and Canada, community leaders are gathering in Montreal to discuss the future of trans leadership. The Trans Pride Festival is hosting a panel discussion on March 29 , featuring voices like Victoria Legault, executive director of Aide aux Trans du Québec (ATQ), to address the challenges and opportunities ahead.
  
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• Family of late Quebec businessman sues helicopter company in 2019 deadly crash

  28-03-2025 20:56 via cbc.ca
  
  An American helicopter company is facing a $50-million lawsuit in connection with the death of Quebec businessman Stéphane Roy and his son Justin Roy Séguin. The pair were on their way home from a fishing trip when their helicopter crashed.
  
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• 'Heirloom' Habs hockey sweater made in 1965 was stolen — the family's pleading for its return

  28-03-2025 20:41 via cbc.ca
  
  Pete Lee's lovingly worn knitted sweater with the Montreal Canadiens logo on the back and the Rocket's No. 9 on the sleeves wasn't expensive. But for the London, Ont., resident's family, the Habs-inspired jacket's value is immeasurable.
  
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• Canada’s most wanted criminal arrested in Rome hideout

  28-03-2025 20:05 via globalnews.ca
  
  Italian authorities say police burst into a vacation home where a 29-year-old fugitive wanted in Canada gave himself up and handed police a fake passport.
  
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• Montreal police putting 30 more officers on ground in the Village to address security issues

  28-03-2025 17:00 via cbc.ca
  
  The SPVM is reorganizing officers at two stations so they can put more on the streets patrolling now, and 15 additional ones in fall 2025. Since the COVID-19 pandemic, business owners in the neighbourhood have flagged disturbances from people experiencing homelessness or mental illness, as well as criminal behaviour.
  
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• Chemical plant burns in southern Quebec, sparking concerns about toxic contamination

  28-03-2025 16:11 via cbc.ca
  
  Dozens of firefighters from multiple municipalities were fighting the blaze and residents who live nearby should avoid drinking their well water in Bolton-Est.
  
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• Canadian snowboard cross racer Éliot Grondin wins gold at world championships

  28-03-2025 14:01 via cbc.ca
  
  Canada's Éliot Grondin raced to a gold medal in the men's snowboard cross final at the world championships in Switzerland on Friday.
  
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• Quebec cancer patient's fight to save home shows how costly a diagnosis can be

  28-03-2025 09:00 via cbc.ca
  
  Bianca Buitrago-Poulin, 34, was diagnosed with chronic myelogenous leukemia two years ago, but her illness had been affecting her long before then. After more than a decade of working in geriatric care, symptoms were making it hard to hold down a job.
  
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• Partial solar eclipse to greet early risers in eastern Canada on Saturday

  28-03-2025 09:00 via cbc.ca
  
  Attention those in eastern Canada: Do you still have those solar eclipse glasses from last year's total eclipse? If so, grab them and get up early on Saturday morning for a wonderful sight.
  
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• Call of the Wilde: Montreal Canadiens fall in critical 6-4 loss to Philadelphia Flyers

  28-03-2025 02:56 via globalnews.ca
  
  The Montreal Canadiens faced a hungrier club than they were expecting in the Flyers, and they weren't ready for it. Brian Wilde has more.
  
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• 11 Quebec residents charged in connection with auto thefts in Durham Region

  27-03-2025 23:43 via cbc.ca
  
  Eleven people from Quebec have been arrested and charged by Durham Regional Police in connection with an auto theft investigation that began at the start of this year.
  
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• Mandy Gull-Masty resigns as grand chief, announces run for Liberals in northern Quebec

  27-03-2025 23:32 via cbc.ca
  
  Mandy Gull-Masty was elected as the first female Grand Chief of the Cree Nation Government in Quebec in 2021. Speaking at a regular meeting of the Cree Nation Government on Thursday, Gull-Masty cried as she announced she had accepted the Liberal nomination.
  
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• Immigration, economy top Quebec premier's federal election wish list

  27-03-2025 22:56 via cbc.ca
  
  Quebec Premier François Legault isn't playing political favourites and remained tightlipped about who he'd like to see win the federal election. Still, he has a list of demands he wants the federal parties to consider.
  
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• Quebec senior found living in squalor had been under ex's control for decades, police say

  27-03-2025 22:18 via cbc.ca
  
  Police in Quebec’s Eastern Townships are making a case of alleged mistreatment public as a reminder of the importance of properly caring for seniors.
  
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• Eleven suspects from Quebec charged in alleged Toronto-area auto theft ring: police

  27-03-2025 21:01 via globalnews.ca
  
  Police say nearly a dozen people from Quebec have been charged as part of an investigation into organized auto thefts east of Toronto.
  
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• Legault won’t say his choice in federal election after wanting Conservative minority in 2021

  27-03-2025 20:42 via globalnews.ca
  
  It's a change of strategy. In 2021, Legault said the Liberals and the NDP were "dangerous" and strongly suggested he wanted the Conservatives to win a minority government.
  
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• Montreal archdiocese launches real estate arm ‘for community benefit,’ heritage preservation

  27-03-2025 20:28 via globalnews.ca
  
  The creation of the Roman Catholic Real Estate Corp. of Montreal, announced Thursday, is the first non-profit subsidiary created by a Catholic archdiocese.
  
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• Revamp of Maisonneuve-Rosemont Hospital 'not going fast enough,' Quebec health minister admits

  27-03-2025 20:04 via cbc.ca
  
  Maintenance costs are growing at Maisonneuve-Rosemont Hospital in Montreal's east end while construction for the long-awaited modernization project appears to be delayed — again.
  
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• Quebec government will push through Blainville toxic waste dump legislation

  27-03-2025 19:34 via cbc.ca
  
  The Quebec government will invoke closure and pass the bill expropriating land in Blainville, Que., to expand a Stablex landfill, Radio-Canada has learned.
  
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• Quebec government pushing through Blainville toxic waste dump legislation

  27-03-2025 19:34 via cbc.ca
  
  The Quebec government is holding an extraordinary session of the National Assembly to pass a bill expropriating land to expand a Stablex landfill.
  
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• Quebec government adopts Blainville toxic waste dump legislation, critics vow to take law to court

  27-03-2025 19:34 via cbc.ca
  
  Unless Quebec Superior Court intervenes, the Stablex hazardous waste landfill in Blainville will soon be able to be expanded for an additional 40 years of storage.
  
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• Canada's most wanted fugitive arrested in Italy

  27-03-2025 19:19 via cbc.ca
  
  Dave "Pik" Turmel, who has been on the run for over a year, is believed to be the leader of the Blood Family Mafia.
  
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• Canada's most wanted fugitive arrested 'in his hideout,' Italian police say

  27-03-2025 19:19 via cbc.ca
  
  Dave "Pik" Turmel, who had been on the run for over a year, is believed to be the leader of the Blood Family Mafia.
  
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• Quebec reaches herd immunity against HPV: Montreal researcher - CityNews Montreal

  27-03-2025 17:46 via news.google.com
  Quebec reaches herd immunity against HPV: Montreal researcher  CityNews Montreal
  
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