Lawyers for the City of Montreal asked the Court of Appeal on Tuesday to overturn a landmark class-action ruling on racial profiling by police, saying it’s too complicated to determine how much each member is eligible to receive.
Ruba Ghazal is calling on Quebec’s new female premier, Christine Fréchette, to do more to prevent intimate partner violence cases. The province has recorded nine deaths linked to intimate partner violence so far this year.
A pedestrian is dead after a collision with a street sweeper in a residential neighbourhood of Boucherville on Montreal’s South Shore Tuesday morning. Police later confirmed the victim is a woman in her 70s.
The car crash occurred in Laval, Que., on Jan. 5 around 7:30 p.m. on Highway 335, between Dagenais Boulevard and Saint-Saëns Street.
Adopted earlier this month, Bill 9 bans workers in publicly funded daycares from wearing religious symbols on the job. Many daycare operators say they’re still in the dark about how the law is supposed to work.
Montreal police say the quality of counterfeit currency is getting closer and closer to real bills. The Bank of Canada says it’s not just a problem in the city, but across the country.
The federation representing Quebec’s specialist doctors says it has reached a tentative agreement with the provincial government, potentially ending a long contract dispute that has seen physicians pull back from key administrative duties in recent months.
