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Montreal Mayor Valérie Plante announced on Wednesday that she would not seek a third term in office.  Plante, who gained the mayoralty in 2017 after defeating incumbent Denis Coderre, was re-elected in 2021.  But now, she said, after seven years at the helm of the city, the job had taken its …

Montreal Mayor Valérie Plante is expected to testify Wednesday in a class-action lawsuit that claims the city hasn’t acted to combat systemic racial profiling by its police officers. The lawsuit is led by the Black Coalition of Quebec and Alexandre Lamontagne, a Black man who alleges he was brutally arrested …