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Former McGill University student union president Darshan Daryanani said he is getting "closer to closure" now that he has reached an out-of-court settlement in his $750,000 defamation suit against the Students' Society of McGill University, 12 of its representatives and three other students, all of whom he claims sullied his reputation unjustly. Read More

A 76-year-old cyclist died Friday evening after being struck by an SUV on Gouin Blvd. near the ramp for Highway 40 West on the eastern tip of Montreal Island, Montreal police said. Read More

Re: "How will consolidated approach to health care affect Quebecers?" (The Gazette, Nov. 15) Read More

A 73-year-old pedestrian who was hit by a vehicle Friday afternoon in the West Island was in a stable condition by the evening but remained in critical care, Montreal police said. Read More

With the political crisis over remarks made by Québec solidaire MNA Haroun Bouazzi growing, party co-spokesperson Gabriel Nadeau-Dubois Friday issued an appeal for calm but has stopped short of calling on him to apologize. Read More

It's a good weekend for a stroll downtown. Read More

Fintech company Nuvei Corp. says it has completed its previously announced plan to go private. Read More

The underdog role suits Regina Rams head coach Mark McConkey just fine. Read More

Santé Québec is ordering hospitals and other facilities across the province to slash nearly $1.5 billion from their budgets in the coming months — an amount that is 50 per cent greater than previously reported, say managers who fear this will result in even longer wait times for surgery. Read More

Unionized workers ramped up pressure tactics on Friday morning in Quebec's early childhood centres, or Centres de la petite enfance (CPE). Read More

It was Oct. 16, 1987. I was seated near ringside in a mostly empty Convention Center in Atlantic City an hour or two before fight time, awaiting a bout featuring Montreal’s Matthew Hilton on the undercard of the big show — Mike Tyson vs. Tyrell Biggs for the heavyweight championship of the world. Read More

Sophie Deraspe's extraordinary new film, Bergers, stars Félix-Antoine Duval as a burned-out Montreal advertising executive who drops out of the rat race to become a shepherd in Provence. But the supporting cast in this stunning-shot French-language feature also includes thousands of sheep, a bunch of herding dogs, goats and one rather memorable donkey who is being reluctantly pulled along by a shepherd. Read More

HACHINOHE, Japan — Ivanie Blondin helped Canada to a team sprint gold medal before picking up an individual bronze Friday as Canada opened the long-track speed-skating season with three medals at the ISU Four Continents championships. Read More

The Liberals are trying to pull off the precarious balancing act of appealing to francophone voters, with whom their support is mired in single digits, while charming their anglophone community supporters. Their stunt involves devising a Quebec constitution, in which the French Language Charter (Bill 101) would be enshrined, reinforcing French as the common language to be promoted and protected. However, they would first eliminate some of the irritants in Bill 101 that were recently added via Bill 96, and promise to guarantee the rights of anglophones to services in English and to limit the use of the notwithstanding clause. Read More

Georges Laraque, the former Canadiens winger turned radio commentator, had an interesting bit of news this week. Read More

It is a lifesaver, stocked in every emergency room! N-acetylcysteine (NAC) is amazingly effective as an antidote to acetaminophen poisoning. Read More

Montreal's two children's hospitals are asking parents to avoid pediatric emergency rooms unless their child needs immediate care amid what the hospitals describe as a surge in the number of patients. Read More

Cole Caufield was leading the NHL in goals after scoring 12 in his first 16 games — including two in Monday's 7-5 win over the Sabres in Buffalo. That put him on a pace for a 62-goal season. Read More

The last supermoon of the year will rise at 3:55 p.m., and it'll be a doozy. Read More

Montreal police arson investigators have been called in after a car was set on fire early Friday while parked outside a residence in the borough of Anjou. Read More