Quebecers are used to congestion headaches on Highway 40, but Saturday’s hold-up was nothing if not out of the ordinary: a horse broke free from its transport container and ran free in the fast lane. Marco Lelievre, a trucker, stopped his vehicle while driving through Repentigny, Que. after he saw the runaway horse.
Those planning on travelling in and around Montreal on the weekend may want to consider public transit or a bicycle to get around as there are a more than a few construction projects that will cause major road closures.
Who is Diandra D'Alessio? She's a Montrealer, a technical writer, a history lover -- and she's last night's Jeopardy winner. The self-proclaimed trivia buff made it out on top with $3,299 under her belt.
CTV News has learned Montreal's police force has put in a request with the Surete du Quebec (SQ) to provide provincial police backup over the summer to offset staff shortages and an expected increase in gun violence.
Mexican authorities say they've made an arrest in the killing of a Quebec man earlier this month in the Pacific coast beach town of Puerto Escondido. The Oaxaca state attorney general says in a statement issued Friday that an arrest warrant was executed for a man in Puerto Escondido identified only by his initials in connection with the homicide of Victor Masson.
A 21-year-old driver is still in critical condition Saturday morning after the car he was driving struck a tree and then hit a bus shelter in Montreal Montreal's Notre-Dame-de-Grâce neighbourhood Friday afternoon. Three passengers in the Infiniti car, all 20 years old, were also critically injured and sent to hospital, but they are now in stable condition.
A demonstration will be held Saturday afternoon in downtown Montreal to denounce racial profiling as well as mark three years since the death of George Floyd, a Black American man killed by a police officer on May 25, 2020.
The flames at the former Monastère du Bon-Pasteur building in downtown Montreal have been extinguished, but over a dozen firefighters remained on site Saturday morning to ensure the fire wouldn't reignite.
Quebec provincial police say a two-year-old girl has died after falling into a grain mixer on a farm north of Montreal. They say the accident occurred Friday at a family farm in St-Lin-Laurentides, about 85 kilometres from the city.
Just like last Saturday, another Montreal business was the target of arson over the weekend. A 911 call was made around 3:20 a.m. Saturday reporting smoke billowing from a business on Saint-Denis Street, near Crémazie Boulevard in the Villeray district.
A new report is casting doubt on the idea that Canada is facing a widespread labour shortage and bolsters the arguments by some labour economists that high job vacancies aren't due to a shortage of workers.
The Quebec Liberal Party (PLQ) is speaking out against the notion that it has no room for Quebec nationalists. Delegates and elected representatives gathered at the party's national council in Victoriaville Saturday to respond to concerns raised by Jérôme Turcotte, former president of the QLP's political committee. He believes the party does not make space for Quebec nationalists, and is plagued by a "Canadianizing nationalism."
A last-minute addition to Bill 96 that would require international students in some continuing education CEGEP programs to take a French exit exam will likely drive some away and exacerbate the province's labour shortage, some college directors are warning.
A civil rights organization and a national Muslim advocacy group are the latest to launch a legal challenge of Quebec's decree banning prayer rooms in public schools, the second one in recent weeks.
Francis Scarpaleggia is the Liberal Member of Parliament for Lac-Saint-Louis riding. He voted for his party's Bill C-13 (An Act to amend the Official Languages Act, to enact the Use of French in Federally Regulated Private Businesses Act and to make related amendments to other Acts) despite some criticisms from the Quebec Anglophone community, many of whom live in his riding.
Canadian singer Celine Dion has cancelled all of her concerts scheduled through to early spring 2024 due to an ongoing medical condition.
A group of community activists in NDG is trying to revive a former subsidized apartment complex on Cavendish Boulevard near Sherbrooke Street.
The Kanien'keha:ka (Mohawk) community on Montreal's south shore has joined the growing number of groups against Quebec's proposed Indigenous languages bill, criticizing the CAQ government's 'ingenuine consultation process.'
Montreal’s annual Comic Arts Festival is back in full swing this weekend. Around 250 artists are stationed along Saint-Denis Street between Gilford and Roy streets all day Saturday and Sunday.
The major fire that broke out in a heritage building in downtown Montreal Thursday afternoon was almost brought under control, fire officials said late Friday night. The fire at the building, which housed residential units, a daycare, community organizations, and a concert hall, has devastated the community.
It’s reunion weekend for Wagar High School. The popular Côte Saint-Luc school once boasted thousands of students but closed because of lack of enrolment in the 2000s.
Quebecers are used to congestion headaches on Highway 40, but Saturday’s hold-up was nothing if not out of the ordinary: a horse broke free from its transport container and ran free in the fast lane. Marco Lelievre, a trucker, stopped his vehicle while driving through Repentigny, Que. after he saw the runaway horse.
Who is Diandra D'Alessio? She's a Montrealer, a technical writer, a history lover -- and she's last night's Jeopardy winner. The self-proclaimed trivia buff made it out on top with $3,299 under her belt.
Summer weather is fast approaching. But before you dip a toe in the backyard pool, make sure it's up to code with Quebec's safety regulations.
Students at Lasalle Elementary School showed off a year's worth of work at an art exposition Thursday. Featuring over 6,000 individual and collaborative pieces by students ranging from kindergarten to grade six, the exhibition gave front-row access to parents, teachers, and community members.
A new video game studio in Montreal and Toronto is developing a franchise and hopes to change the way studios are set up and run. China-based NetEase Games launched Bad Brain Game Studios in the two cities to develop a new AAA "open world, multi-platform experience built with Unreal Engine 5 and is inspired by cult 1980s movies, mixing elements of adventure and horror."
In a time when digital is king, Robert Miniaci works tirelessly to make sure film keeps on rolling. The Montrealer is one of the few projectionists left in the world who can repair, maintain and even build analog film projectors. Most of his contemporaries are now in their 80s, so Miniaci's work is in high demand.
A small design management firm run by a couple in a LaSalle apartment is showing the marketing world that size and shine aren't essential when it comes to doing big things. The Montreal firm was hired by the LA entertainment studio founded by Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith recently.
Jazz pianist Oliver Jones from Little Burgundy and Montreal's Diane Dufresne were among the four new music acts that entered the Canadian Music Hall of Fame on May 18, 2023 in Calgary.
The Montreal Pride Festival will return for its 17th edition from August 3 to 15th, with over 150 artists performing at 15 free shows—as well as the traditional parade that was cancelled at the last minute in 2022.
Surgeons at the Montreal Children's Hospital have started using a new approach to help young patients recover from surgery that has already led to shorter hospital stays and fewer opioid prescriptions. The Enhanced Recovery After Surgery (ERAS) model is an approach that puts the full recovery of the patient at the centre of any procedure.
The fear of seeing seriously ill patients lose access to drugs given in exceptional circumstances, was once again raised in a parliamentary committee on Bill 15. This time, it was the pharmacists who work in institutions who expressed their misgivings to the Minister of Health, Christian Dubé.
Quebec announced Monday that five more private seniors' homes will be funded by the provincial government, which aims to nationalize all long-term care homes (CHSLDs) by 2025.
A Montreal engineer is developing technology to fight an all-too-familiar issue: period pain. Applied to the abdomen in patch form, Nanette Sene's device uses heat and microelectronic technology to relax the muscles and block pain signals to the brain.
New research from Montreal shows nociplastic pain can develop in children and adolescents.
A group of community activists in NDG is trying to revive a former subsidized apartment complex on Cavendish Boulevard near Sherbrooke Street.
Quebec Solidaire introduced a motion Thursday to ban 'no-pet' clauses, which the party called 'unacceptable' as moving day approaches.
Construction of rental housing in Quebec is forecasted to fall by 40 per cent in 2023, according to a report from the provincial homebuilder's association (APCHQ). It's a significant slowdown compared to 2022, when rental construction fell by 13 per cent.
CTV News has learned Montreal's police force has put in a request with the Surete du Quebec (SQ) to provide provincial police backup over the summer to offset staff shortages and an expected increase in gun violence.
Mexican authorities say they've made an arrest in the killing of a Quebec man earlier this month in the Pacific coast beach town of Puerto Escondido. The Oaxaca state attorney general says in a statement issued Friday that an arrest warrant was executed for a man in Puerto Escondido identified only by his initials in connection with the homicide of Victor Masson.
Just like last Saturday, another Montreal business was the target of arson over the weekend. A 911 call was made around 3:20 a.m. Saturday reporting smoke billowing from a business on Saint-Denis Street, near Crémazie Boulevard in the Villeray district.
Montreal police (SPVM) are investigating after a 52-year-old man was shot and injured early Friday morning in Pointe-Claire, in the West Island.
Quebec provincial police are looking into a video posted on social media appearing to show one of their officers running through a stop sign in a marked vehicle at an intersection where a young girl was killed in a hit-and-run.
A pair of kayakers was in for quite a surprise when a basking shark swam under their boat in the south of Ireland on May 22.
Police in Hamilton, Ont. are dealing with a barricaded person who they say is involved in the deaths of two people.
Exercising as you age can help maintain memory and fight cognitive decline, according to a new study.
People who develop prediabetes when they’re younger are likely to have a higher risk for dementia in later life, a new U.S. study has found.
Celebrated Team Canada hockey players Marie-Philip Poulin and Laura Stacey have announced their engagement.
An attorney for an 11-year-old Mississippi boy who was shot by a police officer after he called 911 for help said Thursday there was 'no way' the boy could have been mistaken for an adult.
Texas' Republican-led House of Representatives impeached state Attorney General Ken Paxton on Saturday on articles including bribery and abuse of public trust, a sudden, historic rebuke of a GOP official who rose to be a star of the conservative legal movement despite years of scandal and alleged crimes.
Killer whales severely damaged a sailing boat off the coast of southern Spain, the local maritime rescue service said on Thursday, adding to dozens of orca attacks on vessels recorded so far this year on Spanish and Portuguese coasts.
It is a world wrapped in mystery - the seventh planet from the sun, Uranus, seen up close just once nearly four decades ago by a passing NASA probe and still warily guarding its secrets.
Mexican authorities say they've made an arrest in the killing of a Quebec man earlier this month in the Pacific coast beach town of Puerto Escondido. The Oaxaca state attorney general says in a statement issued Friday that an arrest warrant was executed for a man in Puerto Escondido identified only by his initials in connection with the homicide of Victor Masson.
