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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. Category: News Province: Quebec Newspaper: Montreal Gazette Feed: News Date: 2012-02-04 17:02:56

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. Category: News Province: Quebec Newspaper: Montreal Gazette Feed: News Date: 2012-02-04 17:02:55

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. Category: News Province: Quebec Newspaper: Montreal Gazette Feed: News Date: 2012-02-04 17:02:55

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. Category: News Province: Quebec Newspaper: Montreal Gazette Feed: News Date: 2012-02-03 21:18:45

Woman, 30, dies in car accident in St. Simon A 30-year-old woman died Friday after her car veered off the road and hit a pole on Highway 20 in St. Simon, about 90 kilometres northeast of Montreal. Category: News Province: Quebec Newspaper: Montreal Gazette Feed: News Date: 2012-02-03 21:18:43

Police seek man in stabbing incident Police are looking for a man in his 30s alleged to have stabbed another man in St. Henri Friday afternoon. Category: News Province: Quebec Newspaper: Montreal Gazette Feed: News Date: 2012-02-03 21:18:42

Two Montreal men face fraud charges in mortgage scam Two Montrealers face fraud charges following an investigation by the RCMP into a mortgage scam that cost victims more than $4 million. Category: News Province: Quebec Newspaper: Montreal Gazette Feed: News Date: 2012-02-03 21:18:41

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. Category: News Province: Quebec Newspaper: Montreal Gazette Feed: News Date: 2012-02-03 21:18:41

Shafia father files appeal, mother to file later Mohammad Shafia, the father convicted of killing his three teenage daughters and first wife in a polygamous marriage, has filed an appeal, according to a media report. Category: News Province: Quebec Newspaper: Montreal Gazette Feed: News Date: 2012-02-03 21:18:40

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. Category: News Province: Quebec Newspaper: Montreal Gazette Feed: News Date: 2012-02-03 14:49:23

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. Category: News Province: Quebec Newspaper: Montreal Gazette Feed: News Date: 2012-02-03 14:49:21

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. Category: News Province: Quebec Newspaper: Montreal Gazette Feed: News Date: 2012-02-03 14:49:21

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. Category: News Province: Quebec Newspaper: Montreal Gazette Feed: News Date: 2012-02-03 14:49:20

CAQ donor list must be redone The Coalition Avenir Québec is having more startup problems. Category: News Province: Quebec Newspaper: Montreal Gazette Feed: News Date: 2012-02-03 14:49:19

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. Category: News Province: Quebec Newspaper: Montreal Gazette Feed: News Date: 2012-02-03 14:49:19

Suicides spurt in Quebec jails in January Three inmates in the Quebec jail system took their own lives during January. That's a big jump from the full-2011 figure of eight such self-inflicted deaths. Category: News Province: Quebec Newspaper: Montreal Gazette Feed: News Date: 2012-02-03 14:49:18

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. Category: News Province: Quebec Newspaper: Montreal Gazette Feed: News Date: 2012-02-03 14:49:17

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. Category: News Province: Quebec Newspaper: Montreal Gazette Feed: News Date: 2012-02-03 07:21:52

Citizens' group pushes for open government A group of committed citizens is serious about making open government a reality in Quebec. Category: News Province: Quebec Newspaper: Montreal Gazette Feed: News Date: 2012-02-03 07:21:51

Crown seeks 5-year term for actor in cocaine case Tony Conte appeared optimistic about the sentence he will receive this month for taking part in a conspiracy to traffic cocaine. Category: News Province: Quebec Newspaper: Montreal Gazette Feed: News Date: 2012-02-03 07:21:51

Victim of Earl Jones wants loan annulled Closing arguments in a lawsuit filed by a victim of disgraced money man Earl Jones ended Thursday with neither side giving an inch. Category: News Province: Quebec Newspaper: Montreal Gazette Feed: News Date: 2012-02-03 07:21:50

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." Category: News Province: Quebec Newspaper: Montreal Gazette Feed: News Date: 2012-02-03 07:21:50

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. Category: News Province: Quebec Newspaper: Montreal Gazette Feed: News Date: 2012-02-03 07:21:49

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. Category: News Province: Quebec Newspaper: Montreal Gazette Feed: News Date: 2012-02-02 19:22:53

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. Category: News Province: Quebec Newspaper: Montreal Gazette Feed: News Date: 2012-02-02 19:22:52

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