Montreal mayor, STM say efforts being made to curb rise in transit violence
Montreal transit officials and the city’s new mayor say they are taking steps to address growing concerns about safety on the city’s bus and Metro systems following a CBC analysis showing a rise in transit-related assaults in major Canadian cities.
Quebec to table new secularism bill today banning prayer rooms in universities, CEGEPs
The bill is expected to include a ban on prayer rooms in universities and CEGEPs, along with an expansion on a face-covering ban to educators in the province’s public and subsidized daycares.
With businesses struggling, how can Montreal’s Chinatown avoid fading away?
While the district has faced challenges staying vibrant and culturally consistent for years in the face of encroaching development, gentrification and demographic changes, the closing of a 75-year-old restaurant has prompted concerns to resurface.
Could U.S. authorities get their hands on data from Quebec’s new daycare platform?
The province’s new platform for registering children for places in public daycares is being managed by an American tech company, sparking concerns about parents’ data because of a law passed during Donald Trump’s first term as U.S. president.
With new bill coming, a brief history of secularism under Legault’s government
François Legault’s Coalition Avenir Québec government is preparing to table another bill aimed at tightening the province’s secularism framework, extending a years-long effort to limit religion in the public sphere. Here’s how we got here.
Family medicine clinic in Hudson, Que., to close citing Quebec’s Bill 2
A family medicine clinic in Hudson, Que., west of Montreal, will close citing the implementation of Quebec’s controversial Bill 2.
SQ ends search for missing Cégep de Rimouski teacher after finding body
The search for Éric Avon, a 48-year-old teacher at Cégep de Rimouski, has ended. Provincial police say they found a body of a person that matches the teacher’s description Wednesday afternoon in a wooded area of Beauséjour Park in Rimouski.
Montreal aims to turn abandoned east end cinema into affordable housing
Soraya Martinez Ferrada announced Wednesday that by exercising its right of first refusal, the City of Montreal will be able to demolish the former Cinéma Paradis and transfer the land to a non-profit organization.
$50K reward offered for info on Ontario man who disappeared in Mont-Tremblant, Que.
An anonymous donor is offering a $50,000 reward for information leading to the whereabouts of an Ontario man who disappeared under mysterious circumstances. Liam Toman, 22, was last seen in the resort village of Mont-Tremblant, Que., on the night of...
Ban on public prayer among measures in latest Quebec secularism bill
Six years after the CAQ government adopted its landmark secularism law, known as Bill 21, and only a month after adopting a bill which expanded Bill 21’s prohibition of religious symbols, the province is once again taking aim at the...