Bellemare can testify -but won't

The Quebec cabinet has lifted the obligation of secrecy on current and past ministers so that Marc Bellemare may testify freely at the Bastarache commission.

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• Bastarache commission could backfire on Charest
• Quebec cabinet secrecy restrictions liften
• 'Put an end to this comedy of errors,' Marois says of Bastarache hearings
• Bellemare calls commissioner 'biased'
• Bastarache won't give interviews
• Charest wants Bellemare to talk

Feds pledge $1.5 billion for arts

Federal Heritage Minister James Moore came to town yesterday to play Santa, announcing that the greater Montreal area is the recipient of $20.2 million in arts and culture spending to be spread among 111 arts, heritage and community projects.

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The charge: Assault with a bicycle

Health worker Scott Weinstein -arrested Thursday at a Montreal protest of police tactics at the G20 summit in Toronto -has been charged with assaulting a Montreal police officer with his bicycle.

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• G20: Spectacle vs. substance
• Anti-military group claims bombing
• Canadians love their myths
• G20 spectacle: lessons learned
• Militant protesters condemn police actions during G20

Ghana fans heartbroken but proud

As Uruguay's Sebastian Abreu stepped up to take what would be the winning spot-kick against Ghana in the World Cup quarterfinal match, a man in the corner of Montreal's Ghanaian community centre waved a flag and shouted over pessimistic murmurs until the room fell silent.

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• Video: The suspence of the Ghana-Uruguay game
• Ghana makes agonizing exit
• Goal Posts: Ghana's out
• Ghanaians rise, fall with team fortunes
• Africa cries for Ghana

Third arrest in N.D.G. killings

A third man has been arrested in connection with a double slaying in the parking lot of a fast-food restaurant on St. Jacques St. W. in Notre Dame de Grace.

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Joseph waives his right to parole hearing

A man recently described as one of the most dangerous street gang leaders in the city appears content to spend more time behind bars.

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• Major change in Montreal Mafia: Experts

Villanuevas, friends were angry at cops: witness

Key witness in fatal shooting of unarmed teenager in Montreal North in Augustd 2008 may never have happened if his friends who were playing dice in a parking lot had not advanced toward the police officer who was trying to arrest the young man, he told a coroner's inquest today

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• Fredy Villanueva shooting witness contradicts intial statement
• Villanueva witness says cops hit him
• Villanueva friend grilled on memory
• Villanueva victim contradicts police

Police investigate baby's death in Verdun

Police are investigating the death of a 20-month-old baby boy in Verdun.

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Montérégie detox centre evacuated after bomb threat

A detoxification centre was evacuated during a bomb scare in Upton, in the Montérégie.

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Plateau Mont Royal introduces lower speed limits

Several boroughs across the city are reducing speed limits this summer, including Plateau Mont Royal, where new slower speed limits in residential areas take effect Monday.

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