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• 'It's very frustrating, and it's scary': Kanesatake grand chief calling for better security from the SQ

  Some Indigenous communities in Quebec that are patrolled by provincial police say the established system does not fully meet security needs and needs improvement.

  

• 'The sorrow doesn't go away:' Commemoration for victims of Quebec City mosque shooting

  On Jan. 29, 2017, six men were killed and five others injured shortly after evening prayer at the Quebec City Islamic Cultural Centre. Montrealers gathered Friday to commemorate the victims and call for action amid a rise in hate crimes.

  

• Holocaust remembrance: Survivor, born in Nazi concentration camp, recounts early years

  Angela Orosz is one of the youngest survivors of the Holocaust. On Dec. 21, 1944, she was born in a concentration camp. Between 1941 and 1945, Nazis and collaborators systematically murdered some six million Jews across German-occupied Europe and Nazi Germany. More than two-thirds of Europe’s Jewish population was killed.

  

• West Island photographer aims to build back after devastating fire

  In 2021, 22-year-old Taylor Halperin moved BEEhind The Lens Photography into a new home: a studio on St-Charles Boulevard in Pierrefonds-Roxboro. Early Wednesday morning, her studio and several businesses next door caught fire.

  

• Residents in one Montreal neighbourhood told they can't park in their own driveways

  An old bylaw has come back to haunt a neighbourhood in Hochelaga-Maisonneuve. Some residents have been notified that they can no longer park in their own driveway.

• 'A survival problem': Canadian-Armenian woman describes life in blockade amid Armenia-Azerbaijan unrest

  Huri Zohrabyan is among 120,000 people living in the disputed territory of Nagorno-Karabakh, a landlocked enclave populated mainly by ethnic Armenians but recognized internationally as part of Azerbaijan. In December 2022, the only road connecting the region to Armenia and the outside world was blockaded. As a result, food, medicine and gas are in dangerously short supply.

• Trans, non-binary community deplores Quebec delay in issuing gender-neutral health cards

  When a Superior Court judge overturned parts of Quebec's civil code in 2021 that prevented a person from changing their sex on their birth certificates, it was hailed as a major victory by trans and non-binary people.

• Correlation between teens' social media time and restrictive eating: Montreal study

  Researchers at Sainte-Justine Hospital in Montreal have found a correlation in teenagers between the amount of time spent on social media and restrictive eating behaviours or eating disorders.

• Montrealer gets second Oscar nod for work transforming Brendan Fraser in 'The Whale'

  A Quebecer has been nominated for an Academy award for his work in 'The Whale.' Adrien Morot is among the nominations for the 95th Academy Awards for Best Makeup and Hairstyling.

• Festive day in Chinatown as Montrealers celebrate Lunar New Year

  It was a colourful afternoon in Montreal's Chinatown as hundreds assembled to celebrate the Lunar New Year. The first celebration of its kind since the COVID-19 pandemic began, the festivities reenergized an area hard-hit by health restrictions and economic instability.

• Year of the Rabbit: Montrealers prepare for Lunar New Year celebrations

  The countdown to the Lunar New Year is on, and members of Montreal's Chinese community are getting ready to celebrate. The Year of the Tiger ends Saturday night and the Year of the Rabbit begins Sunday, and Chinatown is bustling and beautifully decorated for the weekend-long festivities at Sun Yat-sen Park.

• Quebec historian obtains photos of salvage operation for Empress of Ireland shipwreck

  The two photos that popped up for sale on eBay appeared at first glance to be nothing more than a piece of Quebec maritime nostalgia: men on a wharf in the early 20th century, with a caption reading simply "lighthouse, Gaspe 1910," but historian David Saint-Pierre, who was sent the link by a friend, immediately knew they were something more.