Two teenagers managed to pass themselves off as plainclothes police (or so the story says, despite the accompanying photo of a police patch), but were finally scooped up and may be impersonating prisoners soon.
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The expulsion from a francisation class of a woman wearing a face-concealing niqab has put a cat among the accommodation pigeons: the story suggests she asked for various rearrangements of the class for her comfort, but also that she had been asked to remove the face covering so that people could interact with her in what our culture tends to regard as the normal way, i.e. seeing each other’s facial expressions. This won’t be an easy one to resolve. She’s taking it to the Human Rights Commission.
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A study has found that Montreal police are strangely resistant to post-traumatic stress.
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Surprise surprise, Hydro-Quebec will give us a rate increase as of April – mind you, it’s only 0.2%.
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The green line has been down but is expected back up after 8:20.
In Le Devoir, a columnist castigates the STM for the fidgeting that has held back the production of new metro cars which the system badly needs.
Later note: Tweets indicate that the line came back up at 9:23.