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Montreal police are investigating after two workers at a construction site were injured in a hit-and-run collision Wednesday night. Authorities were called to the scene around 10:20 p.m. after a driver hit two traffic controllers in the Rivière-des-Prairies–Pointe-aux-Trembles borough. Police spokesperson Gabriella Youakim said the impact sent a 39-year-old man …

It’s a typical day in the birthing centre at St-Mary’s hospital in Montreal. There are 10 nurses working, one nursing assistant and a doctor, with six patients checked in. Nurses are routinely checking in on soon-to-be-mothers — taking care of them, but also making them feel at ease. “It’s a …

There are a lot of things Janice LaGiorgia loves about having a pedestrian street. During the pandemic, when she was feeling at her lowest, she said she’d leave her Verdun apartment and head toward Wellington St. “I would go out and I would walk and it made me feel so much …

The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts (MMFA) has launched a new, permanent collection of Sikh art in its Arts of One World Wing. Most of the items were donated from the collection of Narinder Singh Kapany, known as the father of fiber optics, with the help of Mandeep Roshi Chadha, …

Hernst Laroche has a lot of stamps on his passport. During his eight-year professional basketball career, the Montrealer has played in the Czech Republic, Tunisia, Argentina, France and Ukraine. His latest stop, however, is his most cherished. He’s home now. Laroche will be one of the team captains for the …

David Hawkins wasn’t alive during the height of the AIDS crisis in the mid-1980s, but decades later, his organization is still working on dispelling harmful myths associated with the disease.  “All these years later, it is still seen as being the gay disease, and it’s stuff like that that people still point …