🚑 Breaking & Incidents
- Quebec police are seeking help to find a missing 13-year-old girl from Châteauguay. Quebec provincial police issued an alert for a 13-year-old reported missing from Châteauguay; investigators are asking the public to provide tips and sightings to assist the search.
- A pedestrian struck by a vehicle in Saint-Marc-des-Carrières has died in hospital. Local emergency responders transported the pedestrian from the Saint-Marc-des-Carrières collision to hospital, where officials later confirmed the person’s death.
🏛️ Government & Politics
- Montreal city council will debate a bylaw that would ban insults against police officers. City council has placed the controversial bylaw proposal on its agenda to consider banning insults directed at police officers; councillors will vote on whether to adopt the measure.
- South Shore mayors are pressing for better local transit and a greater voice in the regional system. A coalition of South Shore mayors publicly urged improvements to local transit service and asked for increased representation in the regional transit decision-making process.
- Quebec party leaders have turned attention to fracking on Day 24 of the provincial election campaign. Leaders in the Quebec election campaign addressed fracking as an issue on campaign Day 24, bringing the energy debate into the provincial race.
🎨 Community & Culture
- Activists marched in Montreal to demand action to end violence against women. A public demonstration took place in Montreal where activists marched to call for concrete measures to end violence against women.
- POP Montreal is marking its 25th anniversary and reflecting on its influence on Canadian indie music. The festival celebrated its 25th edition and assessed how POP Montreal has shaped the Canadian indie scene over a quarter-century.
- Mother-son duo Lisa Perley-Dutcher and Jeremy Dutcher are working to revitalize their language. Lisa Perley-Dutcher and musician Jeremy Dutcher are collaborating on language revitalization efforts for their Indigenous language.
- A Quebec line dancing school says it has seen a boom in attendance. A local Quebec line dancing school reported increased enrolment and described line dancing as a growing recreational activity in the region.