News/Canada/Montreal (Page 10)

Mayada Ageeb has been holding protests in downtown Montreal every two weeks, calling for Quebec and Canada to do more to rescue the families of Sudanese Canadians from a war that has been raging for nearly two years and which has displaced more than 12 million people.  The situation inContinue Reading

U.S. president Donald Trump’s tariff threats and digs at Canadian sovereignty are forcing Canadian politicians of all stripes to adapt, and in Quebec, the opposition Parti Québécois is facing a particularly tough challenge. Leader Paul St-Pierre Plamondon has put Quebec independence front and centre, promising a referendum on sovereignty withinContinue Reading

Montreal The Prime Minister’s Office says in a news release that the Governor General has appointed Danièle Henkel as an independent senator to fill a Senate vacancy for Quebec. Danièle Henkel tapped to fill vacancy for the province Catherine Morrison · The Canadian Press · Posted: Feb 14, 2025 6:00 PM ESTContinue Reading

Two years ago, on a late November morning, Sylvie Hudon woke up shaking like a leaf. The 66-year-old, who is paralyzed from the waist down, was trembling from what she says were the early signs of sepsis. She hadn’t seen it coming. Just the day before, nurses visiting her Quebec City homeContinue Reading

Near the eastern tip of the island, a dump truck backs into Montreal’s newest recycling sorting centre and unloads reams of paper, cardboard, plastic, glass, tins — and anything else people have put in their blue bins. From there, the mass of material is loaded onto conveyor belts, then throughContinue Reading

Montreal A Montreal business owner, Firoz Patel, will spend another three and a half years in U.S. federal prison after being sentenced for laundering $43 million US worth of Bitcoin following an earlier conviction for operating an unlicensed money-transmitting business.  Firoz Patel attempted to hide 450 Bitcoin from U.S. prosecutors,Continue Reading

Montreal The union representing Amazon workers at a warehouse that was shut down last month is calling for a boycott and preparing a legal challenge against the company. “This is not the way we do business in Quebec,” the union president said. ‘This is not the way we do business inContinue Reading

Montreal A 56-year-old Californian man has agreed to plead guilty to operating the drone that crashed into a Quebec water bomber plane fighting the Palisades Fire in Los Angeles earlier this month.  Peter Tripp Akemann was charged by U.S. federal prosecutors in Los Angeles Friday morning Verity Stevenson · CBC NewsContinue Reading

Montreal·Welcome to Canada A clinic in Montreal’s Parc-Extension neighbourhood, one of the most diverse in the city, uses a video translation service. Doctors say it has helped them better understand the needs of patients. Project praised by doctors and patients as it expands to other clinics, hospitalBenjamin Shingler · CBCContinue Reading