Simon Nakonechny

The City of Montreal wants a group of urban campers on Notre-Dame Street gone by the end of the month. The tent city has mushroomed from a handful, to several dozen tents over the summer.

The bike path initiative was unanimously approved as part of a 200-part omnibus bill earlier this summer and installed late last month. Now councillors are teaming up to vote for the immediate removal of the path.

Empty office buildings and a dead tourism industry are certainly factors, the group of merchants says, but growing anti-Asian racism plays a role as well.

Montreal police said the girl was with another person inside a stopped car Sunday night. They were talking to people outside when a second car drove up and someone opened fire. Now Meriem Boundaoui’s friends and family are left heartbroken by her death.

The date of the pending byelection for the provincial seat of Marie-Victorin still hasn’t been set, but for the major parties and their candidates, the race for what’s long been a Parti Québécois stronghold is already in full swing.

The Mauricie region overwhelmingly voted for the Coalition Avenir Québec in the previous provincial election. This is what some of them had to say about protecting the French language.

In a message at the top of OtterBox’s home page, the Colorado-based accessory manufacturer says, that “due to the French language requirements of Bill 96, we have temporarily suspended shipments to Quebec, Canada.”

These younger mayors are willing to push the limits and speak their minds when it comes to issues like climate change, the housing crisis and investments in public transit.

The man who’s known as the godfather of artificial intelligence says he’s pitched governments on the idea in order to keep up with — and keep tabs on — private tech giants.