Montreal morning news, October 9.14 The former general manager of Hudson has been arrested on fraud charges. UPAC agents picked up Louise Léger-Villandré, this morning. She has been charged 19 criminal offences (fraud, breach of trust, and creating and using false documents). She was town manager from 1997 to last year. = A poll suggests Canadians overwhelmingly support changing the law to allow assisted suicide. The Ipsos Reid survey has determined 84 per cent support Dying with Dignity. The poll comes a week before the Supreme Court of Canada begins hearings into whether or not Canadians should be granted the constitutional right to euthanasia. = The Parti Québécois says the Liberals and Coalition Avenir Québec are ganging up on MNA Pierre Karl Péladeau. The party says its because they fear his popularity. The Quebec legislature is to vote on whether or not a politician can own a major media company. = A study of aging anglos in Quebec has learned, older women feel cut off by language barriers and have to rely on family and friends for help. ...but professional, active, younger anglophones feel cut off, too. = Lots of activity centered on Sacre Coeur Hospital in the north end this morning; ...a Code Orange simulation is underway.. The exercise is testing emergency response to a simulated plane crash in a part of the island, not accessible by road. = Montreal police are reminding young women to be cautious, when taking a cab. A young woman has come forward, saying a cabbie who took her home last Saturday, jumped into the back seat and started molesting her. She fought back like a tiger and fled, but left her cellphone in the car. She didnt like the way the jerk was behaving and had recorded his cab number on her phone. Police say this has happened to a few other women recently. = In St-Lazare last night, 3 men went to a home where they knew marijuana plants were being cultivated. They assaulted the 2 people living there, then tied them up, stole stuff and left; ...only to find the getaway driver had got their getaway car, stuck in the mud. They left it behind and fled. = A 56-year-old Laval-des-Rapides man has died of injuries he suffered yesterday when his car fell on him. His wife found him when she got home yesterday afternoon. = Today is the day Mai Duong will undergo a stem cell transplant, a procedure that may save her life. The young Montreal Vietnamese mom has leukemia. = When in a traffic jam; ...time to get jammin. abcnews.go/US/motorists-turn-traffic-jam-jam-session/story?id=25698158 = Montreal weather Sun, cloud showers and 11 today Sun, cloud and 12 tomorrow
Posted on: Thu, 09 Oct 2014 13:29:51 +0000
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