07-28 - Stadium expansion irks heritage groups
Heritage activists and some Plateau Mont Royal residents are seeing and hearing more of the Montreal Alouettes than they can stand.

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07-29 - Smooth thieves pilfer pricey pothole filler
On Saturday, an apparently well-organized crew of thieves stalked a man who was in Montreal on his way to deliver a $55,000 piece of pothole-filling equipment from Kitchener, Ont., to Quebec City's public works department. They later stole the equipment, plus the driver's pickup truck.

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07-29 - 'Shots could have hit anyone': Villanueva witness
Through her tears, Erika Cruz described yesterday how witnessing the police shooting death of an unarmed teen had traumatized her family so much, they eventually moved out of the neighbourhood.

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07-29 - Wind farm seeks community support
If given the go-ahead, it would signal a new era of co-operation between the Kahnawake Mohawk reserve and South Shore residents.

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07-29 - Oka puts freeze on development
Chief Gordon Oke of the Mohawk Council of Kanesatake Wednesday welcomed a freeze imposed by the town of Oka on any development of a parcel of contested land near a forest that was at the heart of the 1990 land crisis.

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07-29 - New mom with ill son still risks deportation
A Guinean woman who was granted an 11th-hour reprieve from deportation in April has given birth to a boy, but there are continuing worries about the child's health, and his mother's future in Canada remains anything but certain.

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07-29 - Local pediatrician 'on front lines' of children's aid
Pediatrician Gilles Julien will be getting the funds he needs -up to a million dollars -to run his programs, but it will be too late to save a summer camp, street activities and language programs for underprivileged children.

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07-29 - Exclusive: Montreal to lose medical specialists
Montrealers who are already frustrated with long waits to see medical specialists may not be pleased to know that by 2011 the Quebec government apparently wants to cut the number of specialists on the island of Montreal.

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07-29 - Homolka's ex-lover loses another bid for freedom
National Parole Board orders repeat offender Lynda Véronneau to stay behind bars

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07-29 - Group eggs on city hall to let chickens come home to roost
They peck, preen, poop and produce eggs, and now a local group is working to get them back in your yard.

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07-29 - Curiously successful
Divers/Cité is a blessing for merchants in the Gay Village, but the Bikurious bike shop and part-time hair salon does good business in the community all year round

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07-29 - Cop draws 15-day suspension
A Montreal police officer has been suspended for 15 days for unlawfully arresting and pepper-spraying a Laval man in 2006, but Kamal Fakhoury says the suspension isn't enough in view of how he was treated.

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07-29 - 'Québécois name' too much for cop
The driver was a black man with a "Quebecois name."

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07-29 - Motorist arrested after hitting train
A motorist who walked away unscathed after his car hit a freight train in Pointe aux Trembles early Thursday has been arrested for drunk-driving.

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07-30 - Bellemare files new legal action to stop Bastarache commission
Undaunted after a Quebec Superior Court judge ordered him to testify before the chief electoral officer, former Liberal justice minister Marc Bellemare has filed a new legal request, asking Superior Court to pull the plug on the Bastarache commission.

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07-30 - Quebec highest acquittal rate in Country-- by a lot
Compared with the rest of Canada, Quebec holds distinct-society status for long delays in processing criminal-justice cases, a Statistics Canada study shows. What takes an average of 184 days in Quebec requires 127 days in Nova Scotia --- identified as the second-slowest jurisdiction.

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07-30 - Heritage guru Lambert calls mega-bar 'pollution'
Pollution is the way architect Phyllis Lambert describes a bar complex with room for 940 people that is proposed for western downtown.

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07-30 - Another feather in our cycling cap
London will out-Bixi Montreal today. Six thousand bikes -painted a dapper blue instead of our drab grey - will hit the British capital's streets, 1,000 more than Montreal boasts.

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07-30 - Mother denied bail in attempted murder
Johra Kaleki, the 39-year-old mother of four who is accused of trying to kill her eldest daughter, has been denied bail. Kaleki's 19-year-old daughter arrived home at 6:30 am June 13, causing her mother to fly into a rage.

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07-30 - Remembering the Fusiliers
Weldon Clark, 87, drove the 650 kilometres from Brampton, Ont., to Sherbrooke yesterday to attend a very special reunion.

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07-30 - Bellemare ordered to testify
Marc Bellemare lost the first round yesterday in a legal battle on several fronts set off by his allegations of dubious fundraising practices by the Quebec Liberal Party.

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