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Montreal restaurant forced to close after driver crashes into building

With the holidays fast approaching, one Montreal restaurant was forced to close its doors after a driver crashed into it on the weekend.

Foie-gras, smoked meat and poutine! Montreal restos make world's most legendary list

Au Pied de Cochon, Schwartz's smoked meat and La Banquise made the TasteAtlas's 100 Most Legendary Restaurants list.

Montreal Canadiens' Gallagher, wife expecting baby

A tiny Timbit is on their way for Montreal Canadiens alternate captain and right winger Brendan Gallagher and his wife, Emma Fortin.

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Foie-gras, smoked meat and poutine! Montreal restos make world's most legendary list

Au Pied de Cochon, Schwartz's smoked meat and La Banquise made the TasteAtlas's 100 Most Legendary Restaurants list.

Quebec hockey referees speak out about being subjected to violence on the ice

Hockey can be a violent sport but it’s not only the players receiving the blows. In a three-part report, Noovo Info uncovered stories of referees who have been badly injured on the ice, with some suffering scarring, head trauma and PTSD.

Montreal blacksmith says he has a 'place in paradise' as Notre-Dame reopens its doors

Five years ago, Notre-Dame Cathedral erupted in flames. A column of smoke rose above the Paris skyline as the historic cathedral, which took 182 years to build between the 12th and 14th centuries, was reduced to a smouldering shell.

As Australia bans social media for children, Quebec is paying close attention

As Australia moves to ban social media for children under 16, Quebec is debating whether to follow suit.

Buying a home? Here's everything you need to know about Quebec's 'welcome' tax

Anyone who has bought a home in Quebec knows the rollercoaster high of making that big, life-changing purchase – and the sudden crash that occurs when the welcome tax bill comes in the mail, alongside its 30-day payment deadline.

'Broken lives and families': former members of Quebec religious community speak out

Several former members of fringe religious community the Mission de L’Esprit Saint are urging the Quebec government to intervene following claims that it was a cult that brainwashed some members. Their stories are being told in a new documentary by Noovo Info.

Canadian border officers seize record number of stolen vehicles in Quebec

It's official — Quebec has set a new record for the most stolen vehicles recovered in one year by Canadian border agents.

Historic federal prison in Laval could soon become housing

The historic Saint-Vincent-de-Paul federal prison, built in 1873 in Laval, Que., could become housing after Canada opened it up for development.

Not just a new shirt: how a Montreal trans woman embraced her femininity through clothes

After struggling with her identity after coming out as a trans woman, Jeanette Scott turned to a personal stylist so that she could be more comfortable in her femininity.

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CAQ condemned for closure of French-language classes

Quebec updates list of 'designated' English-speaking, multilingual health centres

Report recommends more courses in French at English-language universities

Young Quebecers care less than older people about being served in English: survey

'Desperate gesture': Quebec group denounces Supreme Court move on historic decisions

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Montreal plans to turn Molson Brewery site into residential neighbourhood

The old industrial Molson Brewery site downtown Montreal will be transformed into a residential neighbourhood with a public park and some 5,000 housing units.

Around 700 affordable apartments in eastern Montreal to get renovated

Work is underway in Montreal’s Hochelaga neighbourhood to preserve an affordable housing community in place since the 1950s.

Montreal posts big home sales gains in November as median prices continue to rise

Montreal-area home sales rose 47 per cent in November compared with a year ago as the province's real estate board says the region saw the second-most activity for the month since 2000.

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Demanding employee at long-term care home wear a mask is not harassment: Quebec tribunal

A seniors long-term care home (CHSLD) employee who claimed she was fired because she claimed psychological harassment lost her case, when the evidence showed instead that it was her repeated refusal to wear a mask during outbreaks of COVID at the centre that prompted the employer to terminate her probationary period.

Why this Quebec family doctor practises in the private health-care system

Quebec has tabled new legislation to try to keep young doctors from moving into the private system. But one Montreal doctor who's gone private thinks she's found a way to give her profession and her patients what they need.

Quebec opens Dorval residence for adults with physical, intellectual disabilities

Quebec has opened a new alternative home in Dorval that will help those with physical or intellectual disabilities find long-term housing.

'Everyone' should have a naloxone kit for fentanyl overdoses: Montreal paramedics

Faced with the risk of fentanyl intoxication -- a highly lethal opioid -- in the general population, Urgences-Santé is in favour of 'everyone' having the antidote commonly known as naloxone in their possession.

Hundreds of people might have been exposed to measles at Montreal NATO summit: public health

Public health officials said Friday that hundreds of people may have been exposed to an unvaccinated person with a confirmed case of measles during the NATO parliamentary assembly in Montreal last month.

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Bent signs bolted to the rail threaten fines and imprisonment should violators cross the boundary into the United States, a warning many people are choosing to ignore simply by walking around the barrier.

From wreckhouse winds to blizzards, mix of weather in forecasts for parts of Canada

Canadians will experience contrasting weather on Thursday, from warmer temperatures in the Maritimes to extreme cold in parts of Ontario, the Prairies and the North.

Banks tell 2 Ontarians too much time has passed to cash decades-old cheque, GIC

Two Ontarians who recently found unclaimed money from decades-old investments were told by their banks there were no records of them in their systems.

She took a DNA test for fun. Police used it to charge her grandmother with murder in a cold case

According to court documents, detectives reopened the cold case in 2017 and then worked with a forensics company to extract DNA from Baby Garnet's partial femur, before sending the results to Identifinders International.

What do we know about the mysterious drones reported flying over New Jersey?

A large number of mysterious drones have been reported flying over parts of New Jersey in recent weeks, sparking speculation and concern over who sent them and why.

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WATCH LIVE Danielle Smith announces new team to patrol Alberta-U.S. border

Alberta Premier Danielle Smith says her government will create a team of specially-trained Alberta Sheriffs tasked with patrolling the Alberta-U.S. border.

Rescue group saves 11-year-old girl floating alone in the Mediterranean for days after shipwreck

An 11-year-old girl from Sierra Leone was found floating in the Mediterranean Sea off Italy's southernmost island of Lampedusa, believed to be the only survivor of a shipwrecked migrant boat that had departed from the port of Sfax in Tunisia, a humanitarian group said Thursday.