Alyssia Rubertucci

To mark the start of Children’s Grief Awareness Month, representatives of Myra’s Kids Foundation — which helps children learn to cope and give them hope after a significant death — were at Westmount High School Friday, shedding light on the reality of children’s grief. “Grief cannot be seen, so there’s no scar on a child’s […]

Some 5,000 union members at the Société des alcools du Québec (SAQ) will not be at work on Monday, as their union accuses the employer of ignoring its demands at the negotiating table. The SAQ Store and Office Employees Union has confirmed that its members will hold their fifth day of strike action on Monday […]

Voters within the English Montreal School Board (EMSB) territory soundly re-elected Joe Ortona and his team as chair and commissioners of the board. The EMSB released the results of Sunday’s school board elections. There was a 22 per cent voter turnout. Ortona captured 13,289 votes, while 4,674 ballots were cast for his opponent, Katherine Korakakis, president […]

New doctors trained in Quebec universities will have to spend the first years of their practice in Quebec’s public network. Those who would like to go to practice in the private sector, in another province or elsewhere in the world as soon as they finish their studies in Quebec will be exposed to “consequences,” according […]

Montreal police are investigating after two parked cars caught fire in the Ville-Marie borough on Sunday evening. Around 6:15 p.m., police received the first call about a burning vehicle parked on René Lévesque Boulevard, near Saint-Dominique Street. On site, firefighters were already putting out the fire and the damage to the vehicle was minor. About […]

A Montreal woman is suing her former supervisor at John Abbott College after she was sexually assaulted in 2021. She was 17 years old at the time and a social science student. For a psychology class in the fall of 2021, she was taking part in a volunteer program on campus that the perpetrator supervised. […]

The case of three pro-Palestinian activists was before a judge at the Montreal courthouse Tuesday. The activists were arrested and charged with criminally harassing federal Immigration Minister Marc Miller in early September. Samar Alkhdour Elkahlout, one of the activists facing charges, has been taking part in regular sit-ins outside Miller’s Montreal office in the Southwest […]

Montreal Mayor Valérie Plante, along with gun control advocacy group PolySeSouvient, made up of survivors of the 1989 Polytechnique massacre, are calling on the federal government to intervene and provide tighter gun control laws across Canada. “Today we are invited here because we know that [Bill] C-21 was not complete,” said Nathalie Provost, survivor of […]

Good news for commuters using exo trains: Lucien-L’Allier station will reopen next month and trains on three lines will once again stop downtown. On Friday, Quebec Transport Minister Geneviève Guilbault helped make the announcement as she toured the station, which has been closed for renovations since April 1. “The work is going faster than expected, […]

Days after a homeless encampment on Montreal’s Notre Dame Street was faced with imminent eviction, Quebec’s deputy premier and transport minister, Geneviève Guilbault, addressed the delay to dismantle it. “We agreed on Dec. 1st as the more appropriate moment to proceed,” Guilbault said at a press conference regarding exo commuter trains on Friday. “Maybe it […]