News/Canada/Montreal (Page 43)

Montreal Desjardins says that by the end of last year, in-person transactions represented a small fraction of overall business. In-person transactions represent a small fraction of overall business, says credit unionCBC News · Posted: Jan 31, 2024 11:24 AM EST | Last Updated: January 31 Desjardins operates 669 service countersContinue Reading

Montreal Researchers say 64 people in Quebec donated their organs after receiving medical assistance in dying between 2018 and the end of 2022, representing 14 per cent of all donations in the final year of the study. The Canadian Press · Posted: Jan 29, 2024 1:25 PM EST | LastContinue Reading

Yoshua Bengio has been thinking for a while about what happens if the technology he helped pioneer becomes smarter than humans — and escapes our control. “We could basically create new types of living entities that have their own preservation as a more important value than our own,” he said.Continue Reading

The Quebec provincial government “grossly underestimated” how much it will cost for businesses to adhere to new French-language law requirements for storefront signage, according to a Montreal legal expert. The new regulations have even caught the attention of the U.S. government.  “Anecdotally, I know that these kinds of changes run inContinue Reading

Montreal Lawyers for an environmental group on Wednesday urged a Quebec Superior Court judge to suspend the construction of a battery factory east of Montreal. Group says city lacked authority to approve tree-cutting for factory Matthew Lapierre · CBC News · Posted: Jan 24, 2024 11:04 AM EST | LastContinue Reading

Montreal An anonymous group claimed responsibility on an anarchist website, saying the motive for their “sabotage” was to protest a megaproject they say will destroy woods and wetlands and perpetuate car culture. Nails, metal bars inserted into trees, company says Stéphane Blais · The Canadian Press · Posted: Jan 23,Continue Reading

Montreal A now authorized class-action lawsuit against the Quebec government alleges that the province’s response to the first two waves of COVID-19 was improvised and that a pre-existing pandemic plan was ignored until it was too late. More than 5,000 people died in Quebec’s long-term care homes during period coveredContinue Reading

Montreal On Jan. 23, 2014, a deadly fire swept through the Résidence du Havre seniors’ home in L’Isle-Verte, Que., killing 32 people. Ten years later locals are turning the page on the tragedy. ‘We are not trying to forget our people, we are trying to forget what happened’ says long-timeContinue Reading

Montreal An environmental group filed an injunction request in an effort to stop the construction of Northvolt’s massive, multibillion-dollar electric vehicle battery plant east of Montreal. Environmental group worried about damage to wetlands if construction allowed to go ahead Antoni Nerestant · CBC News · Posted: Jan 19, 2024 9:57Continue Reading