The search for victims continues in Old Montreal Wednesday, nearly a week after a major fire left at least two dead and five missing. Rescuers are slowly but surely combing through the historic building, which contained multiple illegal Airbnb units at the time of the fire.
As the search for victims of a five-alarm fire in Old Montreal stretched into its fifth day on Tuesday, friends and family members are getting frustrated with the pace of the investigation and lack of answers.
It may officially be spring, but wintery weather is hanging on. A Colorado low moving into Quebec is expected to bring light freezing rain this evening, after the evening rush hour
A small earthquake hit the Gulf of St. Lawrence in Quebec Wednesday morning. Earthquakes Canada reported that a 3.6 magnitude earthquake hit 11 kilometres south-southeast of Maliotenam, on the north shore of the St. Lawrence River, about eight hours northeast of Quebec City.
After an extended closure, Montreal's Notre-Dame-des-Neiges Cemetery will reopen on March 31. The cemetery said it wants to reach an agreement with its union workers as soon as possible, so it can resume all services.
Quebec's education ministry plans to investigate allegations of sexual violence at schools. Speaking at the National Assembly on Tuesday, Education Minister Bernard Drainville said "multiple denunciations and allegations of misconduct of a sexual nature or inappropriate behaviour" have been brought to the ministry's attention.
A 16-year-old girl reported missing in Montreal earlier this month has been spotted in Calgary.
Eight more Quebecers have died from COVID-19, according to the latest government report Wednesday, which also showed a slight increase in hospitalizations.
CTV News Montreal's Caroline Van Vlaardingen spoke to BDO Canada tax specialist Ernie Furt about what Quebec's new budget means for taxpayers. You can watch the full interview above and read the full transcript below.
Montreal's Champlain Bridge will be lit up using only blue and green lights to help birds during migration this spring.
Quebec Premier François Legault is questioning the process used to evaluate the state of disrepair of schools. The 2023-2024 budget tabled Tuesday indicates that the proportion of schools in poor condition rose from 59 to 61 per cent in one year, despite the record amounts invested.
President Joe Biden's administration is not dismissing out of hand the idea of renegotiating the bilateral 2004 treaty that governs the flow of asylum seekers across its northern border, says Canada's ambassador to the U.S.
The former CAQ candidate in Sherbrooke, Caroline St-Hilaire, has been appointed administrator of the Organisation internationale de la Francophonie (OIF). St-Hilaire will hold the organization's second most important position and be based in Paris.
Quebec Finance Minister Eric Girard on Tuesday kept his party's election promise to cut income taxes, as he projected economic growth to drop dramatically in 2023.
A 31-year-old neuroscientist is believed to be among the six people missing after a massive fire in Old Montreal last week. An Wu was staying at the heritage building on Place d'Youville to attend a conference, according to friends and family.
The Montreal Canadiens got their revenge in the second of back-to-back games with the Tampa Bay Lightning by posting a 3-2 win on Tuesday. Kirby Dach scored after missing 16 games with a lower-body injury. Jonathan Drouin and Mike Matheson added goals for Montreal. Nick Suzuki collected two assists.
CTV News Montreal's Kelly Greig spoke to Quebec Finance Minister Eric Girard about the budget he tabled on Tuesday. Here's the transcript of that interview.
Mayor Valerie Plante said Monday she requested a meeting with an Airbnb executive after a building in Old Montreal — a short-term rental hot spot — was destroyed by a fire that has left six people missing.
Air Canada has announced its voluntary registration with the Office québécois de la langue française under the Charter of the French Language, following several months of discussions with the Office.
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has just released a new report and its alarming conclusions are a must-read for anyone who cares about what kind of planet we’re going to leave to our kids, writes former NDP Leader Tom Mulcair.
Montreal's Champlain Bridge will be lit up using only blue and green lights to help birds during migration this spring.
Thousands of Montrealers lined St. Catherine Street to welcome back the first full St. Patrick's Day parade since 2019.
Julie Bourque is thriving. The young woman, who is currently doing an internship at a daycare centre, where she disinfects the facilities in the morning and helps out with 18-month-old babies in the afternoon, has a boyfriend.
An arson case has been thrown out, and the accused acquitted after a Quebec Superior Court judge found the police investigator created an atmosphere of oppression by, among other errors, using female pronouns and dead names throughout the interrogation of a trans man.
Montreal is getting a new aquarium that is set to open next year. Ecorecreo Group is leading the development of the 'world-class' attraction in midtown's Royalmount complex.
A small shop in Montreal that opened for Black History Month will be staying open longer than originally planned after it exceeded expectations and is drawing customers interested in unique and locally owned businesses.
A CTV News Montreal camera operator is being hailed as a hero after he helped a man escape a burning home over the weekend.
Most students come to McGill University in their 20s to get an education. But not Miriam Tees. She was born in the '20s and just celebrated her 100th birthday.
Forty-seven seniors died during the COVID-19 pandemic after they were abandoned at the Herron care home in Dorval, Que. Antonietta Pollice survived. And on Saturday, she celebrated a milestone: her 100th birthday.
Fresh foods sold in Canada can be contaminated by a chemical found in sticker labels, according to a study led by a Montreal researcher.
The agreement in principle that was reached between Héma-Québec and one of its unions representing nurses late last week has been ratified.
Julie Bourque is thriving. The young woman, who is currently doing an internship at a daycare centre, where she disinfects the facilities in the morning and helps out with 18-month-old babies in the afternoon, has a boyfriend.
More and more women are experimenting with online gambling for the first time, a phenomenon that will require further research in the coming years, says researcher Sylvia Kairouz. A 2021 study of 4,500 Quebecers found that a higher proportion of women reported starting or migrating to online gambling during the pandemic, although more men than women reported engaging in such activities.
Quebec nurses will see their income drop in two weeks if nothing changes between now and then. Three premiums will expire on March 30, including a 3.5 per cent premium for all care professionals. This premium had been obtained during the last negotiations of the collective agreements.
Quebec Solidaire (QS) considers it intolerable for landlords to evict tenants in order to convert their homes to Airbnb, especially in the midst of a housing crisis. QS spokesperson Gabriel Nadeau-Dubois is calling on the Legault government to quickly amend the Civil Code to prohibit evictions for the purpose of converting to tourist accommodation.
The opposition at City Hall is accusing the Valerie Plante administration of not doing enough to make homes more affordable for middle-income Montrealers and is calling for reform to the city's 'home purchase assistance program.'
For the past five years, their numbers have increased throughout Quebec, but the pool of real estate agents in the province is expected to drop as home sales continue to cool since the pandemic.
Montreal police say they have arrested two people suspected of vandalizing some 18 vehicles in the police fleet. The vehicles were vandalized during a 'series of misdemeanours' committed on March 8
A 78-year-old man died Monday following a residential fire in Verdun.
The young man shot while walking on a sidewalk late Sunday night in northeast Montreal died of his injuries a few hours later in hospital.
Two teenagers have been arrested following a stabbing that left a 16-year-old with serious injuries, say Montreal police.
More than 15 people inside a restaurant in Montreal's St. Laurent borough got a fright when the window of the business was riddled with bullets.
U.S. President Joe Biden is coming to Canada Thursday evening, kicking off his short but long-awaited official visit to Canada. Here's what CTV News has confirmed about what will be on the agenda, and what key players are saying about the upcoming visit.
The Canadian real estate market has been sluggish since last year, when prospective buyers started putting off plans to purchase homes as the Bank of Canada aggressively hiked interest rates eight consecutive times. But realtors see many edging toward a purchase once more.
Canada's population grew by more than one million over the course of one calendar year, breaking previous records, a new Statistics Canada report says.
Sky-gazers will be treated to a parade of planets near the end of month when Jupiter, Mercury, Venus, Uranus and Mars will appear together in the night sky.
The federal government will give Ukrainians until mid-July to apply for a free temporary visa to Canada under an emergency program brought in place last year following Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
Prince William made an unannounced trip to Poland on Wednesday to thank British and Polish troops involved in providing support to Ukraine, before meeting refugees who have fled the conflict with Russia to hear of their experiences.
Manhattan prosecutors postponed a scheduled grand jury session on Wednesday in the investigation into Donald Trump over hush money payments during his 2016 presidential campaign, at least temporarily slowing a decision on whether to charge the ex-president, according to four people familiar with the matter.
Nearly 200 years after Ludwig van Beethoven's death, researchers pulled DNA from strands of his hair, searching for clues about the health problems and hearing loss that plagued him.
Canada's rental housing shortage will quadruple to 120,000 units by 2026 without a significant boost in stock, Royal Bank of Canada said in a report Wednesday.
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