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  The Bill 96 effect: CEGEP student warns others to get their English eligibility certificate before it's too late

  A John Abbott College student has learned the hard way that applying for a certificate of eligibility for English instruction before graduating high school has become even more critical under the new French language law in Quebec.

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  Days in complete darkness: What it's like to visit an underground retreat in Quebec

  Would you spend up to $1,200 to stay in absolute darkness for three to seven days? That's the invitation from a meditation teacher and personal growth entrepreneur in Quebec's Eastern Townships.

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  'I don't know when we'll go': Montrealer's travel plans upended amid fraying Canada-India ties

  Until this week, Sukhwinder Dhillon was set on making his first trip back to India in years sometime in the next few months. 'My father passed, and my brother passed,' said the 56-year-old Montrealer. 'I want to go now.'

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  Good Samaritan helps reunite Montreal woman with pet bird that flew away from home

  A Plateau woman has been reunited with her pet bird after it flew away in early June and it's all thanks to the quick thinking of a Good Samaritan.

• 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.”

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.