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  Montreal man says grandfather's grave marker missing from cemetery

  A Montreal man is wondering what happened to his grandfather's grave marker. It used to be in the Notre-Dame-des-Neiges Cemetery, but now, he says, it’s nowhere to be found. “I was like, ‘this is weird, there's nothing here,’” Andre Drouin told CTV News. “I went up and down 15 times just to make sure I wasn't going loco.”

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  Meet the Montreal LEGO artist recreating the city's most iconic buildings

  The Orange Julep, Schwartz’s Deli, and even a Couche Tard depanneur -- they're landmarks in Montreal, but that’s not all they have in common. Enter the world of local LEGO artist Addy Parsons, the Ottawa-born Montrealer with a talent to render the city’s most iconic buildings in brick form.

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  Quebec man training for burpee world record in honour of late brother

  Sam Finn is training to do 1,010 burpees in under an hour (that's 17 burpees a minute -- or one every 3.5 seconds) to raise awareness about soft tissue sarcoma, a rare and aggressive form of cancer that claimed his brother Cedric's life in 2017.

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  Solar power: This Quebecer pays $50 per month for hydro

  Que. resident Jose Legris pays $557 per year in energy costs. His house is warm in the winter and cool in the summer. He has a modern kitchen, an electric car, and even a summer spa – all for less than $50 a month.

• 'Every victim counts': Suspected femicides in northern Quebec went unnoticed by the press

  The number of suspected femicides in Quebec quietly rose over the spring, with the deaths of two Indigenous women going largely unreported by the media until recently.

• Montreal's Mount Royal Park is getting a makeover. What would architect Olmsted say?

  The park's architect, Frederick Law Olmsted, is responsible for some of the most celebrated public green spaces in North America, including New York's Central Park. But what the famous landscape artist would think of the closure of Camillien-Houde Way is unclear, says University of Pennsylvania professor emeritus and Olmsted biographer Witold Rybczynski.

• Claude Cormier, landscape architect behind rainbow balls in Montreal's Village, dies at 63

  Claude Cormier, Quebec's most renowned landscape architect whose projects have revitalized public spaces across North America, has died. He was 63.

• Mercier Bridge between Montreal and Kahnawake lined with Indigenous artwork

  The Honore-Mercier Bridge has lined both spans of the bridge with work from Kanien'kehá:ka (Mohawk) artists since 2017. This year, eight artists from Kahnawake, two from Kanesatake and one from Oneida have work on display.

• Homelessness has skyrocketed in Quebec. Which areas were hit the hardest?

  In terms of sheer numbers, Montreal is by far the most affected, accounting for the majority of homeless people in Quebec. But the rate of homelessness is rising at significant rates elsewhere in the province, spreading beyond the longtime hotspots.

• Angela Price has tumour removed from groin, advocates for check-ups

  Angela Price had a tumour removed from the inside of her thigh, she announced in a series of stories on Instagram on Wednesday, describing the melanoma and all the procedures she's endured.

• Road over Mount Royal to be closed to traffic as part of redevelopment project

  The City of Montreal plans to close Camillien-Houde Way over Mount Royal to through traffic and transform it into a path for cyclists and pedestrians.

• Montreal's ghost bike group marks 10 years, goes provincewide

  The organization that installs white bicycles in memory of cyclists who have died in Montreal over the past ten years is going provincewide.