Quebec News

MONTREAL — Quebec's head coroner has ordered an inquest into the jail death of a Black man in Montreal following an altercation with correctional staff just before Christmas.

MONTREAL — The Montreal Canadiens have placed 2022 first-overall pick Juraj Slafkovsky on injured reserve, along with forwards Joel Armia and Jake Evans.

MONTREAL — Lightspeed Commerce Inc. is cutting about 300 jobs. The e-commerce company says the move represents about 10 per cent of its head count-related operating expenditures, with half of the cost reduction coming from management.

MONTREAL — Goodfood Market Corp. reported a first-quarter loss of $11.7 million compared with a loss of $21.6 million in the same quarter a year earlier as its revenue fell, but margins improved.

MONTREAL — Communication between people is less effective when it's done through technology as opposed to in person — and remote video chatting may even require a greater level of concentration, a new study by Montreal researchers suggests.

MONTREAL — The remains of three people have been found at the site of last week's explosion and fire at a propane distribution company north of Montreal.

MONTREAL — An influx of talent helped CF Montreal kick off the second week of its pre-season camp on Monday.

Quebec provincial police say they are investigating the death last week of a health-care worker from Cameroon as a homicide. The body of Nadine Flora Alinanyinyi, 34, was found Thursday in her apartment in Mont-St-Hilaire, Que.

VAUDREUIL-DORION, Que. — Quebec provincial police say they are investigating after the bodies of a man and a woman were found inside a home in Vaudreuil-Dorion, Que., just west of Montreal. Authorities say they were called to the home around 1 p.m.

MONTREAL — Members of a grieving community north of Montreal gathered Sunday for a mass in solidarity with the families of three people who remained missing following a fire and explosion at a propane distribution company last week.