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CTV News
18 hours ago
- CTV News
Driver stopped going 194 km/h on Hwy. 50 in Gatineau, Que.
A Surete du Quebec police car is seen at their headquarters in Montreal on Tuesday, Sept. 10, 2024. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Christinne Muschi A 20-year-old Gatineau, Que. man is facing $3,700 worth of fines after being stopped speeding 193 km/h in Gatineau. The Sûreté du Québec says an officer observed a vehicle travelling 193 km/h in a 100 km/h zone on Highway 50, near the Draveurs Bridge, at approximately 4 a.m. Saturday. Police say the driver received tickets totalling $3,703 and 18 demerit points for speeding, driving a vehicle without the proper class driver's licence and driving with more passengers than there were seatbelts in the vehicle. The vehicle was also impounded for 30 days. Last week, police stopped a Gloucester man going 204 km/h on Highway 5 near Chelsea, que. The 27-year-old received a $1,911 ticket and 24 demerit points. His licence has been suspended for seven days, and his motorcycle was towed, police said.
Toronto Sun
14-07-2025
- Toronto Sun
Woman sitting at picnic table in Quebec dies after teen driver hits wrong pedal in parking lot
Published Jul 13, 2025 • Last updated 1 day ago • 2 minute read A Surete du Quebec patch is seen at a news conference in Quebec City, Thursday, Feb. 29, 2024. Photo by Jacques Boissinot / THE CANADIAN PRESS STE-SOPHIE — A 73-year-old woman died Saturday after being struck by a vehicle while sitting at a picnic table outside a snack bar and ice-cream shop in Ste-Sophie, a Laurentian community about 70 kilometres northwest of Montreal. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. THIS CONTENT IS RESERVED FOR SUBSCRIBERS ONLY Subscribe now to read the latest news in your city and across Canada. Unlimited online access to articles from across Canada with one account. Get exclusive access to the Toronto Sun ePaper, an electronic replica of the print edition that you can share, download and comment on. Enjoy insights and behind-the-scenes analysis from our award-winning journalists. Support local journalists and the next generation of journalists. Daily puzzles including the New York Times Crossword. SUBSCRIBE TO UNLOCK MORE ARTICLES Subscribe now to read the latest news in your city and across Canada. Unlimited online access to articles from across Canada with one account. Get exclusive access to the Toronto Sun ePaper, an electronic replica of the print edition that you can share, download and comment on. Enjoy insights and behind-the-scenes analysis from our award-winning journalists. Support local journalists and the next generation of journalists. Daily puzzles including the New York Times Crossword. REGISTER / SIGN IN TO UNLOCK MORE ARTICLES Create an account or sign in to continue with your reading experience. Access articles from across Canada with one account. Share your thoughts and join the conversation in the comments. Enjoy additional articles per month. Get email updates from your favourite authors. THIS ARTICLE IS FREE TO READ REGISTER TO UNLOCK. Create an account or sign in to continue with your reading experience. Access articles from across Canada with one account Share your thoughts and join the conversation in the comments Enjoy additional articles per month Get email updates from your favourite authors Don't have an account? Create Account Emergency services were called to the Ste-Sophie Blvd. establishment at about 1 p.m., Sûreté du Québec spokesperson Stéphane Tremblay said on Sunday. The victim was transported in critical condition to a hospital, where her death was declared later that afternoon. The driver of the vehicle, a 16-year-old male, was uninjured but taken to a hospital to be treated for nervous shock. He had a learner's permit and was accompanied in the vehicle by at least one parent, said Tremblay. Security camera footage of the incident showed the young driver approach a parking spot in front of the establishment slowly: He then appears to have stepped on the accelerator instead of the brake and hit the picnic table at Les Sentiers des Saveurs at which the victim, a St-Jérôme resident, was seated. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. The initial police report said no criminal element was suspected and attributed the event to a wrong move made as a result of inexperience. The vehicle crashed through the establishment's glass window. A young girl who was with the victim was slightly injured, Tremblay said. The temperature hit 32 degrees Celsius in Ste-Sophie on Saturday and dozens of people were in line waiting for ice cream or other refreshments when the collision took place. There were a number of witnesses to the incident and Les Sentiers des Saveurs closed for the rest of the day. Several witnesses and patrons posted comments on the establishment's Facebook page on Saturday praising the actions of staff and those who came to the aid of the victim. A post on Sunday said: 'Following yesterday's events, if any of you who were present at the site or if a loved one was, do not hesitate to contact 811 a crisis management cell is there to take care of you. … Let's look out for each other.' An investigator specializing in accident reconstruction was at the scene Saturday to establish the causes and circumstances of the event and photos of the scene were taken, Tremblay said. As well, the coroner asked for an assessment of the vehicle. The coroner is automatically involved when a collision involves a fatality, he explained. NFL Editorial Cartoons Golf Uncategorized Golf
Toronto Sun
13-07-2025
- Toronto Sun
Quebec police search for group of migrants after crash near Canada-U.S. border
Published Jul 13, 2025 • Last updated 5 minutes ago • 1 minute read Surete du Quebec flag at the entrance to the SQ headquarters in Montreal. Photo by Pierre Obendrauf / Montreal Gazette MONTREAL — Police say they are looking for a group of migrants who were inside a vehicle that collided near the Canada-U.S. border in southern Quebec. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. THIS CONTENT IS RESERVED FOR SUBSCRIBERS ONLY Subscribe now to read the latest news in your city and across Canada. Unlimited online access to articles from across Canada with one account. Get exclusive access to the Toronto Sun ePaper, an electronic replica of the print edition that you can share, download and comment on. Enjoy insights and behind-the-scenes analysis from our award-winning journalists. Support local journalists and the next generation of journalists. Daily puzzles including the New York Times Crossword. SUBSCRIBE TO UNLOCK MORE ARTICLES Subscribe now to read the latest news in your city and across Canada. Unlimited online access to articles from across Canada with one account. Get exclusive access to the Toronto Sun ePaper, an electronic replica of the print edition that you can share, download and comment on. Enjoy insights and behind-the-scenes analysis from our award-winning journalists. Support local journalists and the next generation of journalists. Daily puzzles including the New York Times Crossword. REGISTER / SIGN IN TO UNLOCK MORE ARTICLES Create an account or sign in to continue with your reading experience. Access articles from across Canada with one account. Share your thoughts and join the conversation in the comments. Enjoy additional articles per month. Get email updates from your favourite authors. THIS ARTICLE IS FREE TO READ REGISTER TO UNLOCK. Create an account or sign in to continue with your reading experience. Access articles from across Canada with one account Share your thoughts and join the conversation in the comments Enjoy additional articles per month Get email updates from your favourite authors Don't have an account? Create Account Authorities were called early Sunday to the scene in Hemmingford, Que., north of the New York border, where an SUV with two people collided with a vehicle carrying at least 10. The 48-year-old driver of the SUV was arrested for impaired driving. Provincial police spokesperson Sgt. Stephane Tremblay alleges the people in the second vehicle are believed to be migrants who illegally crossed the border from the United States. He says four people from the migrants' vehicle were taken to hospital with non-life-threatening injuries, while between six and eight fled the scene on foot. Tremblay says provincial police and RCMP are working together to track down the missing people. Golf Toronto & GTA Toronto & GTA World Toronto Raptors
Hamilton Spectator
11-07-2025
- Politics
- Hamilton Spectator
Thirty-five years later, the fight continues
In spring 1990, Wanda Gabriel, then a young mother on the verge of turning 30, began building a home in Kanesatake, having moved back that January to reconnect herself and her children with their roots. Months later, she would find the house's scaffolding crawling with soldiers, resting from reconnaissance in the forest, looking for Mohawk Warriors. 'I think the soldiers thought the woods were full of Warriors,' said Gabriel. It was not unlike the first time she left the community for groceries after the start of the Siege of Kanehsatake, what is known in perfunctory textbook entries and mainstream media as the Oka Crisis. 'The police had put up barricades all around us. I was going to get food. The first barricade, there were four SQ (Surete du Quebec) officers with guns pointing at me and my four kids: 'Get out of the car. Where are the Warriors? We're looking for Warriors.' They stripped the car,' she said. 'I didn't take my kids out many times after that.' That was just a day or two after the morning of July 11, when the SQ raided and fired on Kanien'kehá:ka land defenders who were enforcing a barricade on a dirt road in the Pines to prevent the expansion of the nine-hole Oka Golf Club into sacred Mohawk territory, including the Pine Hill Cemetery. Events rapidly escalated through the early morning. SQ corporal Marcel Lemay was killed in the confrontation. Soon, members of sister community Kahnawake had blocked the Mercier Bridge connecting Montreal and the South Shore. Kanesatake dug in, the government's actions on July 11 plunging the community into a 78-day standoff against the city of Oka, the province of Quebec, the country of Canada, and all their combined muscle. 'It's something that should never have happened. That's all I can say,' said Ellen Katsi'tsakwas Gabriel, Wanda's cousin, who served as spokesperson during the Siege and was present on that morning. 'The police were cowards. They showed that. They ran away. They tried to kill us. It (tear gas) turned back on them, which to me should be a sign that maybe you're not doing something right. I think it was a difficult day for a lot of people.' The episode is a testament to the arrogance of colonial forces, accustomed for centuries to wantonly stealing and occupying Kanesatake Mohawk Territory - land thefts that still remain unresolved to this day. The Siege of Kanehsatake remains fresh in the minds of many Kanehsata'kehró:non, the trauma it wrought creeping into all manner of divisions and conflicts. In past months and years, just a fraction of unsolved, even uninvestigated arsons, have been documented in The Eastern Door; gunfire is not uncommon; environmental destruction on a shocking scale has been left to fester at G&R Recycling, ostensibly because of political friction, and even then the government is slothful to intervene when the Lake of Two Mountains becomes a dumping ground. For many, it sends the message that Kanesatake is on its own, leaving the community ripe for those who seek to prey on division. Scores of Kanehsata'kehró:non will privately confide they don't feel safe in their own community because of these forces and the members who are complicit. As the community gathers today to commemorate that chapter's 35th anniversary, many worry that the Pines so many sacrificed so much to protect are under threat not just by outside forces, but from within, with a never-ending expansion of cannabis stores razing sacred pine trees in a community starved for land – entrepreneurs getting ever bolder in their transformation of Kanesatake into a playground for outsiders who have no respect for its history, culture, or territory. But it's Canada's enduring grip on stolen Kanesatake lands that furnish this reality. 'This is the divide-and-conquer strategy that all settler colonialists do,' said Ellen. 'They failed to deal with the land dispute because they have lawyers working for the band council that screw it up. The government does not want us to succeed. The government wants us to implode. There's no difference from the colonizers of 500 years ago to the colonizers of today. They're just more slick at erasing our people, erasing our history.' This settler colonial mentality, Ellen said, attempts to relegate events like 1990 to a footnote, barely worth learning about. 'For me, the government just continues its genocidal acts that make them the victim as well, and that we're still the violent ones, instead of the other way around, that they're actually the ones who are the violent ones,' she said. Ellen and Wanda are among the organizers of an anniversary event in Montreal's Place du Canada at 5 p.m. today (Friday), to highlight the larger impacts of the events of 1990, the allies who raised their voice at the time, and to present a list of calls to action, to let everyone know the struggle is not over. 'I think solidarity, demonstrations, pressure government to do the right thing. Those are really important parts of the struggle that Indigenous people face, because the government doesn't listen to us, but they will listen to their constituents,' Ellen said. In Kanesatake, Kawisaiénhne Albany is among the organizers of a march starting at the lacrosse box at 10 a.m. today and finishing there two hours later. 'It's just a remembrance of what took place, what fight we had, and to never forget what happened. To make sure it doesn't happen again, hopefully,' she said. 'For me, personally, it's the same thing, a fight that never stops,' she said. 'It's just a generational thing in my family, where we just stand up because the land is important. That's our duty as women is to protect the land.' Albany counts herself among the Ionkwatehontsénhne women's group that protects a plot of land in the Pines, designated as the Onen'tó:kon Preservation Spot. She has repeatedly spoken out as cannabis store owners have encroached upon it, most recently Big Chiefs - one of the sponsors of a festive July 11 event, geared toward the community's children, also at the lacrosse box. 'One of our things is we're going to emphasize how in '90, they fought really hard, and the whole purpose of the fighting was to keep our land. Now we have people who have these huge stores who, it seems, they never have enough. They want to keep taking.' Albany, just 27 years old, was raised to honour the legacy of 1990. It was something learned at home and in the community, not in Ratihén:te High School, which she attended starting from grade eight. 'It's telling because when you bring up things that have happened in this community going pretty far back, people don't know anything anymore,' she said. A lack of education in the community about the events of 1990 is a concern that was expressed to The Eastern Door by multiple people who lived through the Siege of Kanehsatake. * * * On the morning of July 11, 1990, Marie David got the call that something was happening at the barricade. When she arrived, expecting to see people running around, she found Kanehsata'kehró:non making peanut butter sandwiches for breakfast. 'They were upset that they were met with such violence,' remembers David. 'But they were still committed. 'I don't know what's happening, but we're going to stay. Let them come. They'll take the barricade down and we'll just put it back up again.' 'Of course, that never happened. They came in with the bullets. The dividing line was on the police side - it was chaos, it was tense, it was aggressive. On our side, it was much calmer. Worried about what their intentions were, but not wanting to put them in a position where they had to act. But it still happened.' She remembers coming down Center Road (Ahsennenson) to the Pines, unable to access the main road. 'I had never seen so many community members out. They were there because of what happened, the initial – I don't know if it was tear gas that early in the morning – but there were a lot of community members on this side,' she said. 'Walking through the Pines to the front where we had the barricade, I couldn't see anybody. I was scared to walk through the Pines by myself. I didn't know if there were police snipers out there. 'But once I got to the area where the lacrosse field is, it was like, okay, I felt safer now.' When asked what she remembers about 1990, her first answer was to recall what she called the nicest thing – the way the community came together. In fact, she expressed serenity about some aspects of that summer. She could walk three KM right down the middle of the road to the Pines and feel safe. 'Everybody that stayed in the community during that time remembers it as being a peaceful time, when we were a real community,' she said. 'I miss that. And I wish that the younger generation could experience that. I hear people say it's too dangerous to live here. They can't drive around with their kids because people are speeding down the road.' So much has changed, not just in the last 35 years, but even in the last several. 'Back then, I had so much hope for the community. Now I look around and I see how the Pines have been decimated by these pot shops. So much of the land has been polluted by these pot shops, these business owners who have no regard for the land,' she said, lamenting the lost beauty, life, and medicine in the Pines. For Wanda, 1990 was a transformative experience. She had been the head cook at the Onen'tó:kon Healing Lodge when she was thrust into the position of being one of the liaisons, negotiating for, among other things, the flow of food - she would let the government know that even as the military reported that food delivery was going well, soldiers were in the habit of poking and busting the supplies. On the morning of July 11, she was going to work at the treatment centre. She received a call not to go to work - something was happening in the Pines. By the time she got there, the climax of the confrontation had passed. She was told they had to block the roads. 'Your road up there is open, maybe you should go block it,' someone said. She went home and got her oldest daughter, Melissa, 13 years old at the time, and they blocked the road with their family car. 'If I look back, I was in shock for a couple days. It was hard to make sense of it all.' When the Siege of Kanehsatake was over, Wanda, who had dropped out of high school, decided to pursue counselling and social work, ultimately achieving a master's degree by the time she was 41. 'Having lived that experience, I really wanted to understand how it could happen, why it happened,' she said. She learned from the Onkwehón:we who flocked to Kanesatake, many from other Indigenous communities. The concepts of healing they brought with them had a profound impact on her. She became a student of Indigenous healing, in addition to learning the Western concepts. 'I was walking in two worlds, that's what I felt like,' she said. 'I always feel like a spiritual and emotional bomb went off for us, like a nuclear bomb. That's how I see it. And you know how when a nuclear bomb goes off in a certain area, what it does to the area, how it affects the area. 'I feel that's what happened in Kanesatake. The spirit got so hurt, like collectively. That's what trauma does. If you don't heal the trauma, the pain of that continues to feed. Many people have not had a chance to share their story from that time. Everybody has a piece of the story. A scary story. People were in terror, and they haven't had a chance to share it or say it.' The day Wanda discovered that the Canadian Armed Forces had chosen for their respite the scaffolding of her future home – the one in which she still lives, which still overlooks a swath of green – she was on her way back from the food bank at the Ratihén:te gym. Her fantasy, when the standoff ended, was that Kanehsata'kehró:non would pack themselves into that same high school gymnasium, lock the door, and talk everything out. 'That hasn't happened,' she said. 'That hasn't happened yet.' In the summer of '90, when she saw the soldiers lounging on the steel skeleton that encased her home, those reflections were still ahead of her. Incensed, she turned around and went straight to her mother's house, where she was living. She told her mom and husband about it, asking if those soldiers had permission to be there. They didn't, of course. Wanda didn't want to hear that there was nothing to be done about it. She was too angry. Thirty-five years later, sitting above the lush green landscape behind her backyard, she remembers what she told them when she went back. 'Get the fuck out of here.' marcus@ Marcus Bankuti, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter Error! Sorry, there was an error processing your request. There was a problem with the recaptcha. Please try again. You may unsubscribe at any time. By signing up, you agree to our terms of use and privacy policy . This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google privacy policy and terms of service apply. Want more of the latest from us? Sign up for more at our newsletter page .
Toronto Sun
09-07-2025
- Politics
- Toronto Sun
Quebec won't accept some applications for sponsorship of immigrants until 2026
Published Jul 09, 2025 • 1 minute read Surete du Quebec flag at the entrance to the SQ headquarters in Montreal. Photo by Pierre Obendrauf / Montreal Gazette MONTREAL — The Quebec government says it won't accept new applications from residents who want to sponsor their spouses, common-law partners or adult children for immigration until next year. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. THIS CONTENT IS RESERVED FOR SUBSCRIBERS ONLY Subscribe now to read the latest news in your city and across Canada. Unlimited online access to articles from across Canada with one account. Get exclusive access to the Toronto Sun ePaper, an electronic replica of the print edition that you can share, download and comment on. Enjoy insights and behind-the-scenes analysis from our award-winning journalists. Support local journalists and the next generation of journalists. Daily puzzles including the New York Times Crossword. SUBSCRIBE TO UNLOCK MORE ARTICLES Subscribe now to read the latest news in your city and across Canada. Unlimited online access to articles from across Canada with one account. Get exclusive access to the Toronto Sun ePaper, an electronic replica of the print edition that you can share, download and comment on. Enjoy insights and behind-the-scenes analysis from our award-winning journalists. Support local journalists and the next generation of journalists. Daily puzzles including the New York Times Crossword. REGISTER / SIGN IN TO UNLOCK MORE ARTICLES Create an account or sign in to continue with your reading experience. Access articles from across Canada with one account. Share your thoughts and join the conversation in the comments. Enjoy additional articles per month. Get email updates from your favourite authors. THIS ARTICLE IS FREE TO READ REGISTER TO UNLOCK. Create an account or sign in to continue with your reading experience. Access articles from across Canada with one account Share your thoughts and join the conversation in the comments Enjoy additional articles per month Get email updates from your favourite authors Don't have an account? Create Account The Immigration department says in a news release that it has reached its cap for sponsorship in those categories. As a result, the families of those immigrants would have to wait until June 25, 2026 to apply. The government announced last year that it would process a maximum of 13,000 family applications from immigrants seeking to reunite with relatives over the two-year period from June 2024 to 2026, after approving more than 16,500 in 2022 and more than 10,000 in the first six months of 2023. The current processing time to sponsor a spouse or partner living outside the country is 37 months in Quebec, compared to 11 in the rest of Canada. Quebec says it is still accepting applications for other classes of family members, such as children under 18. RECOMMENDED VIDEO Olympics Basketball Uncategorized Toronto & GTA Toronto & GTA
