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• Police say 10 workers injured after scaffolding collapse in the Eastern Townships

  At least 10 workers were injured, three of them seriously, when a multi-story scaffolding collapsed early Tuesday morning in the town of Windsor, in the Eastern Townships.

  

• Lachine Hospital to shut down ICU, close emergency room 16 hours a day starting next month

  'You cannot tell a patient with a heart attack that it is too late because it is 4:15 p.m.,' wrote Dr. Paul Saba, President of the Council of Physicians of the Lachine Hospital.

  

• Montrealers won't pay for an Expos stadium - at least according to new Florida billboard

  No matter how many baseball fans there are in Quebec pining for a day when the sport might return to Montreal, there’s another group arguing vociferously against putting up the money to make that happen.

  

• For first time in pandemic, Nunavik on red alert with COVID-19 cases soaring

  COVID-19 cases are ballooning in Nunavik, the northern region of Quebec, with several towns on lockdowns with curfews and people banned from travelling in or out. Vaccination rates are very low.

  

• Legault opens door to another delay for mandatory vaccines among health-care workers

  Premier Francois Legault opened the door on Monday to another postponement of the mandatory vaccination of health-care workers.

• Neighbour testifies about seeing Granby girl, 7, hours before she was killed

  A man testified Monday that he got a ring at his door one night from an angry neighbour looking for an 'escaped' girl, who was later found. Hours later, she was killed, court heard.

• NFL awards a Montreal start-up $550,000 to work on its design for a safer football helmet

  Despite having no expertise in football helmets only two years ago, a Montreal start-up, KOLLIDE, has just scored big, winning a $550,000 grant from the National Football League (NFL) to advance its design of a new helmet they hope will ultimately help reduce the risk of concussions during games.

• Massive Montreal real estate deal would include several malls for $5.7 billion

  A major real estate company will buy and privatize, for $5.7 billion, the major real estate fund Cominar, which holds Place Alexis Nihon, Rockland Centre, Complexe de la Gare Centrale and several other malls in Laval, Longueuil and elsewhere in Quebec, among its 310 properties.

• Montreal police adding nine more security cameras to network

  Montreal police are adding nine new security cameras to its network in an effort to crack down on gun violence.

• Quebec coroner to hear from final witnesses in long-term care inquest

  A coroner's inquest into a suburban Montreal long-term care home where 47 people died during the pandemic's first wave is hearing from a handful of witnesses this week before it concludes.

• Quebec reports 324 new COVID-19 cases, five deaths, slight uptick in hospitalizations

  The numbers announced Monday are down from Friday's, but hospitalizations grew slightly, with a net increase of nine people in hospital for the virus and four more in intensive care.

• Montreal's mayoral candidates talk money for the REM and bodycams as campaign heads into final two weeks

  Less than two weeks to go before Montreal’s municipal elections, the two front-runners were out making promises Monday morning.

• 'It's actually an amputation': Petition seeks to ban cat declawing in Quebec

  Montreal animal health technician Alexandra Yaksich says that after a decade in the field, she still sees declawed cats come through the door on a regular basis.

• Lion Electric Co. receives conditional order for 1,000 electric school buses

  The Lion Electric Co. says it has received a conditional order for 1,000 electric school buses from Student Transportation of Canada, whose parent company is controlled by Quebec's pension fund manager.