May 19 2022 — Sidhartha Banerjee, The Canadian Press — The Canadian Press — MONTREAL — The Public Health Agency of Canada says two cases of monkeypox in Quebec are the first confirmed cases in the country. The agency said in a release late Thursday that it is working with the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and public health officials in Quebec to investigate potential exposure […]
May 14 2022 — Sidhartha Banerjee, The Canadian Press — The Canadian Press — MONTREAL — Quebec was the first province in Canada to impose a mask mandate after the COVID-19 pandemic hit, and on Saturday, it became the last province to allow residents to go maskless in most indoor public places. In force since July 2020, the masking rule expired at 12:01 a.m., allowing patrons of stores, bars, […]
May 12 2022 — Sidhartha Banerjee, The Canadian Press — The Canadian Press — MONTREAL — The family of a man shot dead by Montreal police has reached a settlement with the city in connection with a lawsuit they filed over his death, family lawyers said Thursday. Pierre Coriolan died on June 27, 2017, when police shot him after they responded to a disturbance call at his home. Coriolan's […]
May 9 2022 — Sidhartha Banerjee, The Canadian Press — The Canadian Press — MONTREAL — Lawyers for the Quebec government have submitted details in court about six threats made against former Parti Québécois leader Pauline Marois on the day of the 2012 provincial election, a civil trial heard Monday. The threats were discussed by witnesses in a lawsuit brought before the Quebec Superior Court by four stagehands who […]
Apr 25 2022 — Sidhartha Banerjee, The Canadian Press — The Canadian Press — MONTREAL — Lawyers for the Quebec government asked a court on Monday for more time to unearth details about six threats allegedly made against former Parti Québécois leader Pauline Marois on the day of the 2012 Quebec provincial election. A civil trial has heard that in the hours before the election night shooting that left […]
Apr 8 2022 — Sidhartha Banerjee, The Canadian Press — The Canadian Press — MONTREAL — Police determined there was a low level of danger outside the Montreal venue on election night in 2012 where a gunman shot and killed a lighting technician, according to a retired provincial police officer who helped oversee security. Daniel Rondeau testified on Friday at a civil trial involving four stagehands who were present […]
Apr 6 2022 — Sidhartha Banerjee, The Canadian Press — The Canadian Press — MONTREAL — Newly released recordings of phone calls to a Quebec government health line from March 2020 reveal how desperate the owners of a long-term care home were as COVID-19 struck their establishment during the pandemic's first wave. The two calls from the owners of Residence Herron, where 47 people died in spring of 2020, […]
Apr 6 2022 — Sidhartha Banerjee, The Canadian Press — The Canadian Press — MONTREAL — Newly released recordings of phone calls to a Quebec government health line from March 2020 reveal how desperate the owners of a long-term care home were as COVID-19 struck their establishment during the pandemic's first wave. The two calls from the owners of Residence Herron, where 47 people died in spring of 2020, […]
Apr 5 2022 — Sidhartha Banerjee, The Canadian Press — The Canadian Press — MONTREAL — A stagehand who survived the 2012 Quebec election-night shooting that killed a colleague testified Tuesday he still wishes he could have done more for his fallen co-worker. Guillaume Parisien described to the court the events of Sept. 4, 2012, testifying that he was standing outside the downtown Montreal venue by the back stairs […]
Apr 4 2022 — Sidhartha Banerjee, The Canadian Press — The Canadian Press — MONTREAL — The chief judge of Quebec court has filed a motion with the Court of Appeal to get information under seal regarding a so-called secret trial held in the province and about which even she has been kept in the dark. In a court application filed Monday, a lawyer representing Judge Lucie Rondeau said […]
Mar 31 2022 — Sidhartha Banerjee, The Canadian Press — The Canadian Press — MONTREAL — Federal prosecutors on Thursday said they did nothing wrong in connection with a secret criminal trial that took place in Quebec and that was described by the province's Court of Appeal as contrary to the fundamental principles of justice. Without explicitly stating that federal Crown lawyers took part in the case, the Public […]
Mar 30 2022 — Sidhartha Banerjee, The Canadian Press — The Canadian Press — MONTREAL — The heads of major Quebec newsrooms penned an open letter Wednesday denouncing a criminal trial involving a police informant held entirely in secret and kept off the official court docket. The existence of the trial only became public because the police informant accused in the case appealed his or her conviction, and the […]
Mar 29 2022 — Sidhartha Banerjee, The Canadian Press — The Canadian Press — MONTREAL — Canadian fashion mogul Peter Nygard appeared virtually before a Quebec court judge from a Toronto jail on Tuesday on charges of sexual assault and forcible confinement dating back nearly 25 years. Nygard, in an orange jumpsuit with his hair tied back, took notes during the brief proceedings before Judge Anne-Marie Lanctôt. He was […]
Mar 26 2022 — Sidhartha Banerjee, The Canadian Press — The Canadian Press — MONTREAL — There was excitement at St. Michael’s Ukrainian church on a rainy, windswept morning in Montreal earlier this week when a donation of highly sought medical supplies for Ukraine arrived. A pair of volunteers dug into the items — scalpels, skin staplers, stitching equipment — carefully packing and labelling them in boxes bound for […]
Mar 23 2022 — Sidhartha Banerjee, The Canadian Press — The Canadian Press — MONTREAL — A Montreal man accused of viciously beating a 10-year-old girl who was walking home from school was ordered on Wednesday to undergo a psychiatric evaluation to determine his criminal responsibility at the time of the alleged offence. Tanvir Singh, 21, was assessed by a psychiatrist one week ago following a court appearance and […]