“We’re doing the most we can,” Mayor Valérie Plante said while presenting Montreal’s 2025 budget, but noted homelessness is a shared responsibility with the provincial and federal governments. Montreal executive committee chair Luc Rabouin urged Premier François Legault to prioritize the issue of homelessness as he helped present the city’s 2025 budget on Wednesday, November … Read more
The $7.28-billion budget will increase the average residential tax bill by 2.2 per cent, and it contains about $100 million in measures to alleviate the housing crisis. Mayor Valerie Plante is flanked by Luc Rabouin, left, executive committee president, and Benoit Dagenais, director general of the city of Montreal, as she arrives to present her … Read more
Former Donald Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani can’t stop defaming two Georgia election workers he already owes a whopping $148 million, their legal team claims in a letter to a federal judge. Attorneys for the election workers who sued Giuliani are now asking that the embattled former mayor of New York City be held in contempt … Read more
The decision follows a report by The Gazette revealing that Santé Québec planned to slash these workers’ hours by Dec. 1. “I am committed to avoiding wall-to-wall approaches,” says Santé Québec president Geneviève Biron. “In recent days, I have heard the heartfelt cry of many employees in dual employment situations.”Photo by CarlosDavid.org /Getty Images Québec’s … Read more
Fire burned a quarter of avocado acreage in Ventura County. How one farmer hopes to rebuild Thousands of Hass avocados littered the soil in Sergio Acevedo’s orchard Saturday in this community northeast of Camarillo. The Mountain Fire had scorched some of the fruit, leaving it shriveled or in ashes. But the ferocious winds that followed … Read more
A Los Angeles Police Department K-9 officer clamps down on a handler’s arm during a demonstration in 2023. (Myung J. Chun/Los Angeles Times) A woman who shoplifted thousands of dollars in cosmetics has won a nearly $1-million settlement from a Northern California city after a police dog bit and tore at her scalp while police … Read more
Matt Gaetz arriving with Vice President-elect JD Vance for a meeting with Senate Republicans on Nov. 20, 2024. Photo by Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images The Issue: President-elect Donald Trump nominating former Rep. Matt Gaetz to be attorney general. The stunning nomination of former Florida Rep. and erstwhile resident House jester Matt Gaetz to be the nation’s … Read more
Lewis Randy Williamson found the girl’s body off of Highway 243. Esther Gonzalez, 17 at the time, had been raped, killed and dumped in a snowbank on the side of the highway. Williamson called the Riverside County sheriff on Feb. 9, 1979, and reported his discovery. Investigators noted at the time that he was argumentative. … Read more
A deranged nutjob slashed a Danish tourist in the face in an apparently random attack on the Upper West Side Wednesday morning, according to sources. The screwball was caught on camera dashing after the 55-year-old victim on West 86th Street off Columbus Avenue around 10:40 a.m., before he came up from behind and slashed the … Read more
Senate Majority Leader-elect John Thune on Tuesday criticized what he described as Democrats’ difficulties in supporting Israel and added that “reinforcements are on the way” as Republicans prepare to reclaim the majority in the chamber on Jan. 3. “To our allies in Israel and to the Jewish people around the world, my message to you … Read more
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