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Mapping unmarked graves: Why the Mohawk Mothers are fighting McGill University

A Québec superior court recently ruled that excavation can continue on certain parts of the site of Montréal’s former Royal Victoria Hospital. The ruling comes after a group of Indigenous women known as the Mohawk Mothers called for an emergency court hearing to halt excavations at the site.

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Alaphilippe, De Lie, Woods and Girmay headline GP Québec and GP Montréal

Hindley, Adam and Simon Yates, and Kwiatkowski to race in Canada

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Artificial intelligence can be used to design engaging and interactive public art

Montréal’s public art program attracts people to specific locations throughout the city, encouraging visitors to linger. This helps stimulate the economy, as people often also visit nearby retailers.

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New report suggests there's no real effort to end racial profiling in Montréal

A damning new report on racial profiling in Montréal suggests the city and its police force have given up on fighting the problem.

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The invisible effects of human activity on nature

Discussions at the recent COP15 biodiversity conference in Montréal highlighted once again the impact of human activities on wildlife. Many species are forced to migrate, are seeing their populations declining, or worse, are finding themselves on the brink of extinction. For example, the populations of woodland caribou (Rangifer tarandus) are…

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The world’s coolest second cities, from Milan to Mumbai

Skip the headline act and opt for a more stimulating stay in one of these underrated second cities

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After allegations against Win Butler, an existential crisis lingers for Montréal

Ever since frontman Win Butler was accused of sexual misconduct by several people in 2022, Arcade Fire's hometown scene has struggled with how to respond.

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_Montreal Gazette_: A case for the local ownership of community news media

Montréalers awoke on Feb. 16 to the news that a local businessman and lawyer was trying to buy the Montreal Gazette, the city’s only anglophone daily newspaper.

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Basquiat: A multidisciplinary artist who denounced violence against African Americans

The exhibition Seeing Loud: Basquiat and Music, currently running at the Montréal Museum of Fine Arts, demonstrates that the work of Jean-Michel Basquiat, which is usually associated with painting, also calls upon other media, including music — the main theme of this exhibition — literature, comic strips, cinema and animation,…

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Two years after the defund the police movement, police budgets increase across Canada

The worldwide protests against police racism and violence in the summer of 2020 brought greater public attention to police spending.

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Indigenous conservation funding must reflect Canada’s true debt to First Nations, Inuit and Métis

The United Nations Biodiversity Conference (COP15) wrapped up in Montréal on Sunday. The ratification of the so-called 30x30 proposal to protect 30 per cent of the Earth’s territories by 2030 was a central focus during the 12 days of negotiations at the international summit.

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To attain global climate and biodiversity goals, we must reclaim nature in our cities

The climate and biodiversity crises we have been experiencing for the past few decades are inseparable. The scientific research presented at the back-to-back international summits on climate and biodiversity held in Sharm El-Sheikh in Egypt and in Montréal, Canada, respectively, has made this abundantly clear.

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COP15's Global Biodiversity Framework must advance Indigenous-led conservation to halt biodiversity loss by 2030

In the early hours of Dec. 19 — the last day of the 15th Conference of the Parties (COP15) conference in Montréal — the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) adopted their new post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework.

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COP15: A call to action for investors to help us meet vital biodiversity goals

The UN Secretary-General, António Guterres, opened the UN Convention on Biological Diversity (COP15) in Montréal with a stark message: “Without nature, we are nothing. Nature is our life-support system, and yet humanity seems hell bent on destruction.”

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COP15 biodiversity summit in Montréal: Canada failed to meet its 2020 conservation targets. Will 2030 be any better?

The 15th Conference of the Parties (COP15) of the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) is underway in Montréal. Like the COP27 climate conference held in Egypt last month, the goal of this conference is to get member nations to make agreements that can help reverse or slow down…

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What’s new in Montréal? Discover for yourself

The French-speaking city of Montréal hasn’t let the pandemic slow its progress toward more sustainable attractions and travel offerings. As the host this month's 2023 Virtuoso Symposium, the city is poised to become a powerhouse of Canadian tourism.

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Street performers in Montréal are being displaced and excluded

Like many cities around the world, Montréal has embraced busking to generate a sense of friendliness and cultural vibrancy in the city.

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Gun violence can be reduced with a strategy focused on deterrence

Canada has seen an increase in gun violence in recent years. In the past few months, Montréal and its suburbs have seen numerous shootings, with some fatalities, including bystanders. There have also been several shootings near Vancouver and Toronto.

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How the St. Lawrence Seaway will continue to become more important to Québec's economy

The St. Lawrence Seaway is made up of a broad network of interconnected infrastructures. Channels, canals, port facilities and fleets illustrate the connections between transportation equipment, industrial production and the artificial, human-made environment.

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Flyers acquire defenseman Tony DeAngelo from Hurricanes for draft picks

MONTRÉAL — In an effort to turn around the Flyers’ fortunes on the blue line, Flyers general manager Chuck Fletcher got to work early on the second day of the draft through the trade market.

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Flyers select U.S. NTDP center Cutter Gauthier with the No. 5 overall pick in NHL draft

MONTRÉAL — After a historically bad season, the Philadelphia Flyers earned a top-five draft pick. On Thursday, they used it to bring in a young talent, selecting power forward Cutter Gauthier with the fifth overall pick.

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A new earthquake warning system will prepare Canada for dangerous shaking

Large earthquakes can wreak enormous violence upon lives, livelihoods, infrastructure and the environment. High-density urban populations in the relatively small, seismically active areas of British Columbia and the Québec City-Montréal-Ottawa corridor leaves residents extremely vulnerable to earthquakes.

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Bill 96 will harm Indigenous people in Québec. We need more equitable language laws

One of the reasons I moved to Québec in 2015 was because of the mélange of languages in which many Quebecers — especially in Montréal — live and work. Some are able to change languages from sentence to sentence; others will switch in the middle of sentences or speak in…

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Ubisoft Montréal is taking over Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time Remake development

Development is moving on from Ubisoft's Pune and Mumbai studios.

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Studying how people spend their time reveals how societies differ and change over time

As I’ve been organizing this year’s International Association of Time Use Research (IATUR) conference in Montréal, I’ve been asked: What do you mean by time use research?

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