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Vision Montreal Leader Louise Harel is demanding the mayor come clean about the state of the city's finances, as an election campaign that has been mired with scandal and accusations hit its final stretch. Nearly 1,000 people lined up before dawn on...
Tags: Vision Montreal, Fredy Villanueva, officer involved, election campaign, final stretch
Quebec is projecting a deficit of $4.7 billion this fiscal year, up from the $3.9 billion forecast in last spring's budget. The Montreal policeman who shot Fredy Villanueva told the first officer to arrive on the scene he was under attack when he pulled...
Tags: Montreal, Fredy Villanueva
A coroner's inquest into the police shooting death of Montreal North teenager Fredy Villanueva resumes on Monday under the watch of a new judge. Quebec kicked off its widespread vaccination campaign against the H1N1 virus Monday morning, targeting health-care...
Tags: Montreal North, Bank of Canada, Fredy Villanueva, question period, influenza vaccination, police shooting, h1n1 influenza, care workers, respiratory illness, higher risk
The coroner's inquest into the shooting of Fredy Villanueva by Montreal police hit another stumbling block Friday as the judge heading the inquiry, Robert Sansfaçon, announced he is stepping down for health reasons. Quebec's director of public health...
Tags: canada, health, swine flu, health officials, flu pandemic, seasonal flu, Fredy Villanueva, flu vaccination, Montreal North, flu shots, Ottawa
Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi will make an unofficial one-day stop in Canada next week on his way back to the Mideast, the Canadian government said Thursday. The office of Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper said Foreign Affairs Minister Lawrence Cannon...
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Lilian Villanueva, mother of Fredy Villanueva, holds her grandson, Diego, as Denis Mas, left, and Jeffrey Sagor-Météllus watch at a press conference in Montreal in May 2009. (Canadian Press) A coroner's inquest into the police shooting death of a Montreal...
Tags: Montreal Gazette, Fredy Villanueva
The 18-year-old was killed last Aug. 9 during an altercation with police in a parking lot in Montreal North. The death sparked a riot the following day in which one police officer was shot and injured and the neighbourhood fire station was torched. âWe...
Tags: Montreal North, Fredy Villanueva
Lilian Villanueva, mother of Fredy Villanueva, holds her grandson, Diego, as Denis Méas (left) and Jeffrey Sagor-Météllus, watch at a press conference in Montreal in May 2009. (Canadian Press) Montreal police said Friday they will be a visible presence...
Denis Meas (right) and Jeffrey Sagor Metellus, seen here leaving the Montreal courthouse earlier this week. (Canadian Press) Just moments before Sansfaçon suspended the inquest, the government did an about-face regarding legal fees, announcing it would...
Tags: police shooting, Universite de Montreal, Robert Sansfacon, security minister, public security, Fredy Villanueva
Montreal and Quebec — From Wednesday's Globe and Mail, Tuesday, May. PM EDT \ Premier Jean Charest's government has walked into an impasse that could inflame tense and impoverished Montreal North, and it was all predictable months ago. A judge abruptly...
Tags: Fredy Villanueva, police shooting, Montreal North, Judge Robert Sansfacon