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An RCMP officer based in Quebec has been charged with uttering threats online toward U.S. President Donald Trump while he was deployed to oversee security operations at the G7 summit last year in Alberta. According to the RCMP, the officer, 34-year-old Evenson Dumerlus of St-Jean-sur-Richelieu, Que., allegedly posted a video on his Snapchat account “in which he made threatening comments”...
It’s not a teenage dream — former prime minister Justin Trudeau was spotted dining with American pop star Katy Perry in Montreal. Trudeau was photographed with Perry inside a high-end restaurant Monday night, according to a report by TMZ.
A Quebec man says he is outraged after the U.S. Coast Guard accused him of fishing in American waters and then arrested him before putting him in a jail cell for nearly two hours. Edouard Lallemand, 60, said he nearly drowned during the ordeal last Sunday afternoon after the Coast Guard’s boat “pushed” his boat, causing it to capsize. Days...
Marc Garneau has died at the age of 76. He was the first Canadian to go into space and flew on three space shuttle missions. From 2001 to 2005, he was president of the Canadian Space Agency. Garneau then entered politics and was elected to the House of Commons in 2008. He served as the Liberal minister of foreign affairs...
A small town in southern Quebec says American authorities have decided to close the Canadian access to an historic library that sits on the border between the two countries. Inside the Haskell Free Library and Opera House there is a worn strip of black tape on the floor marking the U.S. and Canadian border. The building’s main entrance is on...
When Donald Trump vowed to clamp down on immigration as part of his campaign for president of the United States, the RCMP was listening closely. Canada's federal police force has been preparing for months on a contingency plan for a potential massive influx of migrants across the border following Trump's promise of "mass deportations" of millions of undocumented immigrants(opens in...
Three men were injured after trying to subdue a man armed with a knife during afternoon prayers at a Montreal-area mosque Friday afternoon. The incident happened at around 1:40 p.m. at the Centre Culturel Musulman in Châteauguay, an off-island suburb of Montreal.
A video circulating on social media platforms this weekend showed Foreign Affairs Minister Melanie Joly in a tense confrontation with a man on the street in Montreal over the Israel-Hamas war. The man who filmed the video implored Joly to "lift the cap on the number of Palestinian refugees" that Canada should welcome while she was walking on Laurier Street...
Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre showed a lack of respect for elected officials by calling the mayors of Montreal and Quebec City "incompetent" on social media, Valérie Plante said Friday. The Montreal mayor said she was "quite disturbed" by the Tory leader's comments on Thursday when he accused her and Mayor Bruno Marchand for stalling new housing construction in their respective...