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Montreal The move comes on top of an ongoing strike on overtime shifts and a three-day strike at two container terminals that ended earlier this month. Strike set to end Monday morningThe Canadian Press · Posted: Oct 27, 2024 12:38 PM EDT | Last Updated: 6 hours ago Port ofContinue Reading

Montreal The Liberals are blaming the Coalition Avenir Québec government’s budgetary decisions for the closures, adding immigrants will have a harder time becoming fluent in French and integrating into Quebec society without the classes. French language minister has placed blame on school service centres for closuresThe Canadian Press · Posted:Continue Reading

Montreal Starting next week, the province will begin accepting requests for medically assisted dying before a person’s condition, such as Alzheimer’s, renders them incapable of giving consent. Federal government urges province to wait for them to make countrywide changesBenjamin Shingler · CBC News · Posted: Oct 24, 2024 1:12 PMContinue Reading

Montreal Montreal Mayor Valérie Plante is not running for a third term next year, saying she could not guarantee Montrealers another mandate where she could give the job the “same level of energy.” Plante said she would stay on until the end of her mandate next year Matthew Lapierre · CBCContinue Reading

In the last few weeks, an elementary school in Montreal’s west-central Côte-des-Neiges neighbourhood has been mired in controversy. This past weekend, 11 teachers were suspended for allegedly creating a toxic environment for students and staff that goes back to 2016. On Tuesday, their teaching licences were also suspended. The allegations are the subjectContinue Reading

Montreal What do you think about the time change? Quebec wants to knowThe province is launching a public consultation to learn whether Quebecers want to keep switching between eastern standard time and daylight saving time. CBC News · Posted: Oct 22, 2024 1:45 PM EDT | Last Updated: 2 hoursContinue Reading

Montreal Montreal police say a car was deliberately set on fire in the driveway of home in the city’s West Island. Radio-Canada is reporting that the home belongs to Émile Benamor, the landlord who owns two buildings in Old Montreal that were the site of two fatal fires. Émile Benamor’sContinue Reading

When Sudanese Montrealer Thowiba Mansour found out that the federal government had set up a temporary program to reunite people in the war-torn country with their Canadian families, she was so excited that she couldn’t sleep.  “I was very happy, I was just planning how I would get my familyContinue Reading

Montreal A 46-year-old woman from Longueuil, Que., who allegedly threw boiling water at a 10-year-old boy as he walked by her home facing a charge of aggravated assault.  Stéphanie Borel, 46, was arrested, released same day on a promise to appearCBC News · Posted: Oct 11, 2024 11:05 AM EDT |Continue Reading