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 New oilsands watchdog a victory for science
As the oil sands industry invests billions of dollars to more than double its production by 2020, Alberta and Ottawa worry that the growing outcry over the environmental impact of this "dirty oil" will harm its export markets and impede its growth.
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 Collapse was an accident: firm V-P
Three Quebec engineering firms, whose consortium was fingered by Transport Quebec on Friday in the collapse of a tunnel undergoing repair on the Ville Marie Expressway in July, will likely not see the incident put a dent in their other government contracts.
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 Responsibility not ours: Pierre Moreau
Moreau's explanation for the Ville Marie Tunnel collapse had all the hallmarks of Transport Quebec's traditional ways - deflecting blame and favouring the status quo.
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 PQ rejects transport minister's Viger Tunnel explanation
Nicolas Girard, the Parti Québécois transport critic, rejected the explanation Friday by Transport Minister Pierre Moreau’s that three private engineering firms, and not his department, are responsible for the collapse July 31 of a lighting beam in an underground section of Montreal’s Ville Marie expressway.
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 McGill responds to asbestos allegations
McGill University issued a terse response Friday to allegations some of its researchers have, over several decades, colluded with the asbestos industry to play down or cloud the fibrous mineral’s devastating health impacts.
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 The ever-changing value of a university 'A'
Amanda Hadid knew that her management program at McGill University was going to be academically rigorous, but she wasn’t prepared for how hard it is to get high marks, or how good it finally felt to get a B+ in one course last semester.
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 Charges laid in mortgage probe
Two Montrealers face fraud charges following an investigation by the RCMP into a mortgage scam that cost victims more than $4 million.
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Sun Youth Organization has agreed to act as "a drop-off point – no questions asked" for the return of a stolen diary, jewellery and other personal effects of the late Diane Grégoire, Helio Galego said Friday morning.
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 Bad ice shatters shinny hopes
The cancellation of a major pond hockey tournament this weekend near Montreal, one among several called off this winter in the northeast, is giving rise to fears playing shinny on Mother Nature's rinks may soon fall victim to global warming.
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 Louise Harel 'lied,' Michael Applebaum charges
Louise Harel, opposition leader at Montreal city hall, "lied" when she claimed an engineering firm had usurped the identity of a municipal employee, says Michael Applebaum, chairman of the city executive committee.
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 Repair process blamed for Viger Tunnel collapse
The collapse in summer 2011 of the Ville Marie Expressway's Viger Tunnel was caused by the “conception” of repairs being conducted at the time, Quebec Transport Minister Pierre Moreau said Friday.
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 Scientists censure McGill over asbestos
Dozens of prominent medical researchers and scientists from across Canada and around the world have signed a letter demanding that McGill University sever its ties with the asbestos industry.
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 Mugesera cast as 'modern Hitler': lawyer
Guy Bertrand, the Quebec lawyer for Léon Mugesera, charged in Rwanda with plotting genocide, accuses the African nation of trying to turn his client into a "modern-day Hitler."
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 Law in Chicago seen as example for Quebec
The Quebec government calls Bill 35, its new anti-corruption legislation, the toughest law governing public-sector construction contracts in North America. But that's apparently not so.
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 Mugesera charged with inciting genocide
Léon Mugesera, an ex-Quebecer wanted by Rwanda for his alleged role in the 1994 genocide and deported by Canada after a 16-year legal battle, goes to court on charges of planning and inciting genocide.
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 Ex-professor Fabrikant loses bid to sue MDs
Valery Fabrikant, a former Concordia University professor who killed four of his colleagues in 1992, has lost his fight to take his bid to sue his doctors to the Supreme Court of Canada.
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