News/Canada/Montreal (Page 38)

On a Thursday in January, Normand Meunier arrived at the hospital in Saint-Jérôme, Que., with a respiratory virus. Weeks later, he would emerge with a severe bedsore that would eventually lead him to seek medical assistance in dying (MAID). Meunier, 66, had been a truck driver before a spinal cord injury in 2022Continue Reading

Montreal General practitioners worry the health ministry’s proposed regulations will mean more paper and less time to see people who don’t have family doctors but who need medical care. Rule change ‘largely eliminates’ clinical judgment of doctors treating patients, family doctor federation saysCBC News · Posted: Apr 09, 2024 8:57Continue Reading

Montreal A threatening phone call to officials at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts forced the evacuation of visitors and staff from the building late Sunday morning, police say.  Police established a security perimeter, say no threat detectedCBC News · Posted: Apr 07, 2024 2:12 PM EDT | Last Updated:Continue Reading

Montreal·Updated All schools under the English Montreal School Board, the Lester B. Pearson School Board and the Sir Wilfrid Laurier School Board are closed due to a mixture of snow and power outages.  More than 251,000 Hydro-Québec customers in the dark, with 53,000 in Montreal Sabrina Jonas · CBC News · Posted:Continue Reading

Montreal Those behind the Journal L’Itinéraire celebrated its 30th anniversary with a party and the publication of a special edition of the magazine which, since 1994, has been sold by those in precarious living or financial situations. Editor-in-chief says magazine gives a voice to the voicelessCBC News · Posted: AprContinue Reading

Montreal Lightspeed’s share price has barely budged since 2019, and that’s one of the reasons its founder says the company had to make ‘some hard decisions’, including cutting 280 jobs. Cuts represent about 10% of Lightspeed’s staff-related operating spendingThe Canadian Press · Posted: Apr 03, 2024 2:05 PM EDT |Continue Reading

Montreal·Updated A police operation at the Port of Montreal has led to the recovery of 598 stolen vehicles since December, many of them stolen from southern Ontario and slated for sale overseas. Vehicles stolen from southern Ontario recovered in shipping containers in Montreal Matthew Lapierre · CBC News · Posted:Continue Reading

Montreal Charles-Frédérick Ouellet’s photo of a Quebec forest firefighter standing on top of a rock amid burnt trees has won the North and Central American Single Photograph at the 2023 World Press Photo contest. Charles-Frédérick Ouellet’s photo of firefighter embodies ‘grief and gravity’: jury Verity Stevenson · CBC News ·Continue Reading

Montreal A group of Quebec Tim Hortons franchisees is taking the brand’s owner to court over lower-than-expected profits they claim are due to constraints in licensing agreements. Constraints in licensing agreements to blame for lower-than-expected profits, group alleges Thomas MacDonald · The Canadian Press · Posted: Mar 31, 2024 8:44Continue Reading