Jun 24 2016 — Giuseppe Valiante — Toronto Star — Priests and anyone else in “the orbit of the church” will be forbidden from being alone with children and other vulnerable people as part of a pilot project, the Roman Catholic archdiocese of Montreal said Thursday. The goal is to create a “safety net” for everyone associated with the Catholic Church in Montreal, canon François […]
Mar 19 2015 — Giuseppe Valiante — The Canadian Press — The NDP and the Liberals must stand against the Energy East pipeline if they hope to have success in Quebec come federal election time, says one of the faces of the province’s 2012 student movement. Gabriel Nadeau-Dubois, who surged to prominence with his articulate defence of low tuition, is lending his reputation and name recognition […]
Feb 11 2015 — Giuseppe Valiante — The Canadian Press — The Canadian chapter of the Jewish Defence League is expanding its operations into Montreal and its leader says he also hopes to influence voters in the upcoming federal election. The group’s national director said Tuesday the main goal of the Montreal office will be to unite Quebecers against what he calls the increased threat of […]
Jan 13 2015 — Giuseppe Valiante — The Canadian Press — The Conservatives’ best chance at breaking into notoriously anti-Tory Montreal appears to be in a longtime Liberal bastion that was represented for 20 years by a certain Pierre Elliott Trudeau. Mount Royal riding includes the two municipalities with the highest density of Jews in Canada, a group the Tories have fought hard to court since […]
Dec 31 2014 — Giuseppe Valiante — The Canadian Press — One of the two remaining Bloc Quebecois MPs says the party’s vice-president has resigned after a personality conflict with Leader Mario Beaulieu. Louis Plamondon said today that Annie Lessard has parted company with the embattled separatist party. Plamondon said he was not surprised by her departure. Beaulieu is a hardline separatist and former head of […]
Dec 18 2014 — Giuseppe Valiante — The Canadian Press — Pamela Porter pleaded guilty Thursday to two counts of laundering the proceeds of crime and was sentenced to 33 months for her role in an alleged bribery scandal connected to a superhospital project. With time already served, Porter has two years less a day to go in a sentence that was agreed to by the […]
Dec 18 2014 — Giuseppe Valiante — The Canadian Press — Quebec media mogul Pierre Karl Peladeau’s journey to become the father of a country begins in earnest in 2015. The controlling shareholder of Quebecor Inc. is the acknowledged front-runner in the Parti Quebecois leadership race, which will end in May. While some polls have suggested Peladeau is already the man Quebecers want as premier, the […]
Dec 15 2014 — Giuseppe Valiante — The Canadian Press — MONTREAL - Quebec's environmental review board has concluded that exploiting the province's shale gas deposits is not worth the risk.The agency's highly anticipated report — released Monday — stated there are too many potential negative consequences to the environment and to society from extracting natural gas from shale rock along the St. Lawrence River.The report […]
Dec 15 2014 — Giuseppe Valiante — The Canadian Press — Quebec’s environmental review board says shale gas exploration in the province is not worth the risk. The agency report concludes there are too many potential negative consequences to the environment and to society from extracting natural gas from shale rock deposits along the St. Lawrence River. The report cites risks to air and water quality, […]
Dec 5 2014 — Giuseppe Valiante — Quebec Premier Philippe Couillard defended his government's tax hikes and spending cuts Friday as the legislature began its winter break.Couillard vowed his government won't back away from its chartered course of balancing the budget by the 2015-16 fiscal year.The premier promised, however, that the final $1 billion in cuts the government needs to find will […]
Dec 3 2014 — Giuseppe Valiante — The Canadian Press — MONTREAL - A Quebec university media centre is expected to decide next week if it will study whether Pierre Karl Peladeau should continue owning the controlling shares in Quebecor Inc.The Liberal government has tabled a motion in the legislature asking the centre for media studies at Universite Laval to look into the "influential effects" on […]
Sep 30 2014 — Giuseppe Valiante — Sun Media — Senators remain unimpressed with the CBC’s latest attempt at transparency. The CBC recently released financial data on its website revealing that four of its employees have salaries of at least $300,000. Senators say they want more details. The Senate’s transportation and communications committee studying the CBC’s future argues that given the corporation’s $1-billion annual taxpayer […]
Sep 22 2014 — Giuseppe Valiante — Sun Media — The NDP’s overtime policy allows its staffers to volunteer on federal byelection and provincial election campaigns, while collecting their regular cheques from the House of Commons. House of Commons rules dictate that federal party employees cannot do partisan work and be paid by taxpayer funds.
Sep 17 2014 — Giuseppe Valiante — Sun Media — The Prime Minister’s Office says Liberal military adviser Andrew Leslie is directly responsible for a controversial military doctrine manual that suggests Israel committed war crimes in Gaza. PMO spokesman Carl Vallee told QMI Agency that Leslie “ignores the fact that Israel takes great precautions to protect civilians. The former general, and Justin Trudeau’s senior adviser, […]
Sep 16 2014 — Giuseppe Valiante — Sun Media — The Canadian Forces’ military doctrine suggests that Israel may have committed a war crime in 2006. The 2008 Land Operations conduct manual states that “indiscriminate harassing fire from Israeli artillery killed seven members of one family, including both parents and five siblings” during a military operation in the Gaza Strip in June 2006. The manual […]