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• Canada Day celebrations: What's happening in and around Montreal this year

  With Canada Day right around the corner, here is a list of events where you can celebrate Canada’s 155th birthday in the Greater Montreal area:

  

• Woman with multiple sclerosis struggles after apartment adaptations make life worse

  Beverley Rothstein suffers from multiple sclerosis (MS) and is struggling after the adaptations to her bathroom have made her situation worse and she may be evicted.

  

• Quebec homeowners say Ottawa must address decades of erosion caused by ship traffic

  The higher parts of Angelique Beauchemin's land, she said, are sinking an inch or two a year as they slope ever more steeply toward the river. While she's not a scientist, she says her biggest fear is that one day there will be a landslide and the white house at the top of the hill where she's lived for decades will tumble down.

  

• Inside the Quebec plant where processor chips are made

  For 50 years, an IBM plant in Bromont, Que. has been making the processing chips that power the world's technology.

  

• Sky lights up as fireworks festival returns to Montreal

  To the frustration of those trying to get across the Jacques-Cartier Bridge and the delight of almost everyone else in the city, the Loto-Quebec International Fireworks Competition returns to Quebec starting Saturday night.

• Family holds memorial for Montreal teen Adalya Dorvil, a 'ray of sunshine'

  Friends and family of a 17-year-old girl who died in what police are calling an accident on the shore in LaSalle gathered Saturday to remember the Montreal teen who her mother said was 'was full of life.'

• Quebec's St-Jean Baptiste Day celebrations return after pandemic hiatus

  Quebec residents will be celebrating the provincial St-Jean Baptiste Day in-person today for the first time since the COVID-19 pandemic forced organizers to cancel most festivities over the past two years.

• Montrealer Bennedict Mathurin goes sixth in NBA draft in banner year for Canadian basketball

  Mathurin, who grew up in Montreal North and whose parents are from Haiti -- he speaks English, French, Spanish and Creole -- hugged his mom and sister before walking up to the stage. His pick, one of two Canadians snapped up in the first round, was celebrated across the country.

• Montreal police to fight gun violence by building ties with communities, city says

  The City of Montreal and its police force have developed a new strategy to fight gun crime in Rivieres-des-Prairies and communities hardest hit by the recent violence.

• Family grieves 17-year-old Adalya Dorvil, a 'kind soul,' after body recovered in water

  People are mourning 17-year-old Adalya Dorvil after her body was found along the LaSalle shoreline Tuesday, at the bottom of a cliff, in a very difficult recovery process that took over two hours. Much about her death still hasn't been explained.

• Without family doctors, disabled Quebecers losing benefits because no one will sign paperwork

  Many Quebecers have it hard finding a family doctor, but at least their income doesn’t depend on it. Thousands with lifelong disabilities risk losing, or have lost, crucial benefits because they can’t find a doctor willing to sign paperwork.

• Montreal and Kahnawake celebrate Indigenous Peoples Day

  Montreal Mayor Valerie Plante and Mohawk Council of Kahnawake Kahsennenhawe Sky-Deer were in the city's Old Port Tuesday as part of Indigenous Peoples Day celebrations taking part across Canada.