Montreal Gazette

As a plane carrying hundreds of live, long-tailed macaque monkeys made its way from Cambodia to Montreal's Mirabel Airport Friday, thousands of emails from concerned Canadians landed in the inbox of Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault calling for an end to the importation of these endangered primates for biomedical experimentation. Read More

CALGARY — The Canadian Premier League intends to expand by two teams in 2026. Read More

If there's such a thing as a reluctant Hall of Famer, it could be Shea Weber. Read More

You have to build to rebuild. Read More

Goalkeeper Jonathan Sirois and defenceman Joel Waterman have been selected by the Canadian men's national team for the November international break. Read More

OTTAWA — The federal government will apologize to Inuit in Quebec's Nunavik region for the killing of sled dogs between the mid-1950s until the late 1960s. Read More

A settlement agreement has been reached in a class-action lawsuit against a deceased Greenfield Park hockey coach accused of sexually abusing youths under his watch for decades. Read More

Express your opinions at your own risk in the Parti Québécois. The separatist party may be leading the polls in Quebec, but internally, one of its members and potential candidate has been suspended because he is a dissident. Read More

The province is on the right track in trying to make transit operators more efficient, but there needs to be a long-term vision on transit, the city's mayor said Friday. Read More

Leaders within the Jewish community are calling on the city of Montreal and its police force to take more forceful action against antisemitic attacks amid an increase in violent incidents in the wake of the Israel-Hamas war. Read More

The Montreal police investigative crimes unit seeks help identifying two suspected individuals who threatened citizens with a firearm after breaking into their home. Read More

Money earmarked for homelessness can't be sitting around lying unspent, Montreal Mayor Valérie Plante said Friday. Read More

The moustache has returned to Cody Fajardo's face — partly because it's Movember and he wants to bring awareness to cancer — but the Alouettes quarterback also admits to being superstitious. Read More

In June, I cautioned in The Gazette that the opening of the Maison Benoît Labre’s injection centre next to a kindergarten playground would harm children if not done properly with credentialed staff following best practices. My caveats acknowledging the fundamental rights of people to be housed and to receive quality treatment seemed insufficient for those critical that I dared to raise concerns about this organization. Unfortunately, time has borne out those worries. Read More

A lawyer representing Jagmeet Grewal, the truck driver who caused a crash in Laval that killed four people and seriously injured four more, argued he should have time shaved off whatever sentence he receives because his Charter rights were violated during the police investigation into what happened. Read More

Growing up in Montreal as the son of Jamaican immigrants, Lloyd Rose was not exposed to anything remotely vegan.  Read More

A teacher who has worked at several West Island schools has been charged with sexually assaulting a minor more than a decade ago. Read More

For the second time in less than a year, the Société des alcools du Québec will increase prices in February by raising its markup. The latest increase will not be applied to wines selling for less than $12. Read More

LÉVIS — Quebec's Liberals are proposing to draft a constitution that would entrench the rights of the English-speaking community to services in English at the same time as affirming that French is the public language. Read More

A man was wounded by SWAT team gunfire Thursday afternoon during an operation by Longueuil police in the borough of Greenfield Park. Read More