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A National Assembly committee has decided not to recommend presumed consent for organ donation, proposing instead that it meet again to examine the possibility. Read More

QUEBEC — Engaged in negotiations to save the Northvolt battery factory project, the Legault government says it will not add a penny to the project and will not give up its securities on the sums invested in the struggling Swedish company. Read More

The sunshine is forecast to give way by evening to clouds and a few showers. Read More

The Chamber of Commerce of Metropolitan Montreal on Tuesday named lawyer Philippe Johnson chair of its board of directors for 2024-2025. Read More

Tuesday night's celebration of the 1970s Montreal Canadiens quickly turned into a reminder of how the mighty have fallen as the current-day Habs lost 7-2 to the New York Rangers at the Bell Centre. Read More

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Investigators with the Montreal police major crimes squad were called in after a woman in her 50s died early Wednesday in a residence in the borough of Anjou. Read More

Montreal police arson investigators are probing a fire early Wednesday that saw a car torched in a parking lot in the borough of Anjou. Read More

The LCBO recently entered a contract with a Quebec company to make paper bags, but the government said it had ignored direction to focus on Ontario producers.

Re: ByWard Market officials consider buying synthetic ice skating rink, Oct. 14; and Letter, Stop assuming we all love hockey, Oct. 19. Read More

Scottie Barnes and the Toronto Raptors kick off the new NBA season tonight as they host the Cleveland Cavaliers.

An unknown issue with a registration form landed Melissa Bluman-Soued and her mother, who is blind, in line at the English Montreal School Board for hours last week. Read More

One of the first articles I ever wrote for The Gazette was about the benefits of water fluoridation. Now, 11 years later, we are back where we started. As the City of Montreal contemplates stopping the West Island's water fluoridation program, I will try to make the case that fluoride is good for dental health and that it does not affect the brain development of young children.  Read More

First Nations people in Canada weren't allowed to vote in provincial and federal elections until 1960 — a little over 60 years ago. While many now exercise that right, others choose not to take part in what they consider colonial systems.

Ontario Premier Doug Ford said he plans to remove bike lanes from three Toronto streets, whatever the data submitted by city officials.

When Juan Gomez-Perales heard an island on Lambs Lake in Nova Scotia's Annapolis County was up for sale around a year ago, he knew he wanted to preserve it. 

One of the world's best powerlifters is from Newfoundland and Labrador. Stef Kean achieved her second world record in powerlifting in October while competing at the Commonwealth Championships in Africa.

Politics is not a four-letter word, and being political is not a bad thing when it comes to educating Canadian youth. But you wouldn’t know it by the Ontario government’s reaction to the recent incident involving middle-school students from the Toronto District School Board (TDSB) attending a protest. Read More

Four years after the province announced a 235-bed jail to be built in Kemptville to alleviate overcrowding at the 50-year-old Ottawa-Carleton Detention Centre, opponents of the project are sensing a whiff of victory. Read More