CBC - Montreal (11 hours ago)
People living between Sutton, Que., and the town of Lac-Brome are concerned about Hydro-Québec's plans to modernize the local electrical network. They say the power utility is being unclear in its communication with residents and targeting an area known for its natural beauty.
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Latoya Belfon fell in love with storytelling as a teenager, but it took nearly two decades before she published her first book. Once she got over that hump, she never looked back, becoming a best-selling author, an advocate for anti-bias literature and encouraging aspiring Black authors.
ReadCBC - Montreal (2 days ago)
A CBC News investigation has found the two largest police forces in Quebec — the Montreal police and the Sûreté du Québec — have lost a total of four guns since 2020. While experts say mistakes can happen, critics believe police should be held to a higher standard when it comes to how weapons are managed.
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Starting Friday, the event highlights what it calls the contributions and excellence of Black people who are shaping Canada's future. We speak with the artistic director of Montreal's Black Theatre Workshop, Dian Marie Bridge, who will be leading a roundtable on the role of arts within culture.
ReadCBC - Montreal (6 days ago)
Following her mission to Washington, D.C., the head of Quebec's Federation of Chambers of Commerce, Véronique Proulx, is calling for more action to help protect local businesses from the potential impact of tariffs threatened by U.S. President Donald Trump.
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For years, Chantiers Chibougamau in northern Quebec has been recruiting skilled workers from the Philippines to work in its forest products plants. International competition for labour has prompted the company to pay for French lessons and build new housing to convince workers to stay.
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The pilot project is set to roll out in summer 2025 with 13 high-tech cars in the Outremont borough and Mile End neighbourhood. The city's parking enforcement agency says the goal isn't to give out more tickets, but rather to help workers do their jobs more efficiently. The agency notes some other Canadian cities are already using this tool.
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The Quebec Superior Court has found that Hydro-Québec acted in institutional bad faith in its dealings with the Innu First Nation of Uashat and Mani-Utenam, failing to honour an agreement reached with the community during the development of the La Romaine hydroelectric complex a decade ago.
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A Pakistani man accused of planning an ISIS-inspired mass shooting in New York has been ordered to appear in a Quebec court for a U.S. extradition hearing next month. Muhammad Shahzeb Khan is wanted by U.S. authorities to stand trial in connection with an alleged plot to attack a Jewish centre.
ReadCBC - Montreal (2 weeks ago)
Despite being caught leading a drone smuggling network while in prison, a convicted drug trafficker wasn't charged. He was released and later re-arrested, this time for his involvement in a drug selling platform that sold opioids to a minor who died of an overdose.
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Bruce Chang started using an abacus a year ago to improve his math skills. In December, he won a major international mathematics competition in India, attended by 6,000 participants from all over the world, in which Chang had to solve 200 questions in eight minutes.
ReadCBC - Montreal (2 weeks ago)
After the CUAET program closed for Ukrainians fleeing the war, Canada opened a special Ukrainian family reunification stream for permanent residence. Applicants say they're getting mixed messages from IRCC, and are desperately trying to track their "lost" applications.
ReadCBC - Montreal (2 weeks ago)
Israel and Hamas have reached a deal to pause the fighting in Gaza and secure the hostages' return, possibly bringing an end to 15 months of conflict that quickly became one the most divisive social issues in Montreal's recent memory, with protests, encampments, violence and vandalism.
ReadCBC - Montreal (2 weeks ago)
Fencing may have evolved over the centuries from what were once bloody duels to a sophisticated discipline, but its core value remains the same: it is an affair of honour. The Art of Fencing is a short documentary film with John Harvie leading us into the world of fencing at the the Escrime Mont-Royal fencing club.
ReadCBC - Montreal (2 weeks ago)
When Montreal's snow removal operations are in full swing, they involve thousands of workers and vehicles working over several days. The city also has ways for residents to find out when their street could get cleared, and where they could find their cars should they get towed.
ReadCBC - Montreal (2 weeks ago)
After enduring months of major construction around the Berri-UQAM Metro station, merchants in Montreal's downtown Quartier Latin neighbourhood are slamming the city's decision to shut down the intersection of St-Denis and Ontario streets for at least two weeks of work.
ReadCTV - Montreal (2 weeks ago)
Faced with Donald Trump's tariff threats against Canada, a Quebec union federation believes Canada must go "eye for eye, tooth for tooth,” play to its strengths and not put itself in a position of weakness vis-à-vis him, by avoiding responding to every one of his "outlandish” assertions.
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