Montreal Gazette

Last month, the Office de consultation publique de Montréal announced details of its February 2025 public consultation about the city’s plan on homelessness and social cohabitation. It issued a consultation document listing multi-faceted challenges regarding the “conditions of success aimed at ensuring the harmonious integration of resources dedicated to people in situations of homelessness in the city’s neighbourhoods.” Read More

Canadiens captain Nick Suzuki admits it's a little weird having a photo of his former teammate and captain Shea Weber looking down at him now from the wall of the team's locker rooms at the Bell Centre and at the CN Sports Complex in Brossard. Read More

The first person arrested as a suspect in the murder of cryptocurrency influencer Kevin Mirshahi says she had nothing to do with his death and is requesting to be released on bail while her case is pending. Read More

Support is growing for the Ly family, which is fighting the expropriation of its humble Rosemont duplex by Montreal’s transit authority to make way for a métro system ventilation station. A petition addressed to Mayor Valérie Plante decrying the situation has garnered more than 1,000 signatures in four days, offering a glimmer of hope to Trivi Ly.  Read More

A defence lawyer argued Thursday morning his client on trial for manslaughter at the Montreal courthouse was acting in legitimate self-defence during a fight in LaSalle that left a 48-year-old man dead three years ago. Read More

Shoot some darts, shoot some hoops, shoot some pool, shoot some duckpins on a bowling alley, shoot some hairpin turns on a VR racetrack. Even shoot some cockroaches — animated, of course — crawling through a kitchen. Read More

Two women working in a government-accredited daycare in Laval's Vimont district have been arrested and face criminal charges after at least five children under the age of 5 were allegedly assaulted at the centre, local police said on Thursday. Read More

QUEBEC — Insisting the current deterioration in public finances is temporary, Finance Minister Eric Girard tabled an economic update Thursday that indexes the income tax and social assistance benefits to the advantage of Quebecers. Read More

Students at some Montreal CEGEPs and universities say they’ll boycott classes Thursday and Friday as part of a pro-Palestinian protest over the Israel-Hamas war. Read More

Suddenly, it looks like the rebuilding Canadiens actually know how to play defence. Read More

Periods of rain have settled in and are expected to continue into the weekend. At least one doesn't have to shovel rain. Read More

Montreal police arson investigators have been called in after a car was set on fire early Thursday in the borough of Anjou. Read More

The on-island part of the Réseau express métropolitain will be shut down all weekend for maintenance work, as will ramps near the Champlain Bridge in Brossard. Here are trouble spots to look out for: Read More

Longueuil police have turned to the public in an effort to determine whether a 28-year-old man suspected of sexual assault and the pimping of minors had other victims. Read More

Santa has supported unions since the Great Elven Uprising of 1884. That's what I like to think, anyway. Read More

West Island mayors say that Montreal’s consultation on water fluoridation was triggered by a 2020 petition submitted by Ray Coelho — a man they describe as a “far-right” extremist. Read More

If running a household while managing a career were an Olympic sport, I’d have a shelf full of gold medals. But it’s not, so instead, I’m rewarded with laundry, half-eaten lunches and a never-ending professional to-do list. Read More

City budgets are normally a forward-looking exercise, a spending plan for the year ahead and a blueprint for upcoming investments. Read More

Re: "Santé Québec isn't the cure for what ails health care" (Allison Hanes, Nov. 20) Read More

Montreal’s executive committee chairperson called on Premier François Legault to act on the homelessness and opioid crisis on Wednesday, criticizing the premier’s perceived silence. Read More