Montreal Gazette

There has been an increase in “atypical” pneumonia, especially among school-age children and teenagers, warns an expert who says this is probably just the tip of the iceberg. Read More

One of the three men on trial in a case where they are charged with carrying out a triple murder in Rivière-des-Prairies three years ago admitted on the stand he often showed up for drug deals armed with a loaded automatic firearm in the months leading up to the day the homicides were carried out. Read More

Quebec's permanent anticorruption unit (UPAC) has added its voice to those of local police forces warning the public about a fraud commonly referred to as the "bank rep scam." Read More

Quebec's College of Physicians is calling for an immediate suspension of any further private sector expansion into medical care. Read More

Québec solidaire house leader Gabriel Nadeau-Dubois announced on Monday he will be leaving public life from December to March to concentrate on the arrival of his second child. Read More

Quebec will table a law forcing family doctors and medical specialists trained in Quebec to work in the public system during the first years of their career, provincial Health Minister Christian Dubé announced on Sunday. Read More

So, did you watch the ADISQ Gala Sunday night? Read More

About 5,000 unionized employees of the Société des alcools du Québec (SAQ) will not be showing up for work on Monday, after their union accused management of not taking their contract demands into account at the negotiating table. Read More

Re: "Planter boxes or parking spots?" (The Gazette, Oct. 29) Read More

Vaccine production is nearly three years behind schedule at a federally owned plant in Montreal and the future of a deal between Ottawa and an American company to make COVID-19 vaccines here is now under review. Read More

The Nov. 5 U.S. presidential election is a day away, and some Quebecers along the U.S. border will be following the results closely. Others have told The Gazette they couldn’t care less who wins. Read More

Hope you enjoyed that extra hour of sleep in the wee hours of Sunday, because it may be one of the last times Quebec rolls back the clocks. Read More

Joe Ortona, who has challenged Premier François Legault’s government on secularism, French language regulations and control over the anglophone school network, was soundly re-elected as chair of the English Montreal School Board on Sunday. Read More

Francesca Albanese, the United Nations special rapporteur overseeing the occupied Palestinian territories, addressed the Canadian government during a visit to Montreal on Sunday and reminded it of its obligations in terms of international law. Read More

In 1976, as Montreal basked in the glory of hosting the Summer Olympics, two future U.S. presidential candidates walked the streets of a city that would shape their paths in different ways. Read More

The city of Montreal has hired private security guards to patrol Chinatown and other areas of downtown to support police in a pilot project set to run for two months. The $120,000 project, started in mid-October. The guards, who work for the company Sirco, are also patrolling the Village and Old Montreal. Read More

TROIS-RIVIÈRES — Quebec's police oversight agency, the Bureau des enquêtes indépendantes (BEI), has launched an investigation following the death of a man during a police intervention Saturday night in Trois-Rivières. Read More

Canada Post says talks are continuing with the union that represents postal workers and neither side has given notice of a work stoppage. Read More

A member of the Parti Québécois's political committee is being threatened with expulsion. Read More

LA CONCEPTION — The Sûreté du Québec says fatigue may have played a role in a crash early Sunday that left one person dead and three injured in La Conception, a municipality near Mont-Tremblant Park in the Laurentians. Read More