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Lafleur asks judge to halt proceedings against him

MONTREAL He is used to standing before cheering crowds of fans who treated him like a hockey hero, but on Wednesday Guy Lafleur stood before a near-silent courtroom to say he knew what it felt like to be treated like a criminal. Mr. Lafleur, a Montreal ...

From INGRID PERITZ, Globe and Mail,  27 Nov 2008

ADQ plays the identity card

MONTREAL AND BLAINVILLE, QUE. Mario Dumont has thrust the Quebec identity issue into the provincial election race by attacking a controversial course that teaches the province's schoolchildren about world religions. The Leader of the Action ...

From INGRID PERITZ AND LES PERREAUX, Globe and Mail,  10 Nov 2008

The two solitudes of swearing: In Quebec, the f-word's not so bad

MONTREAL It is the most crude of curses in the English language, a four-letter expletive usually avoided in polite company. Yet in Montreal, the f-word is apparently not a swear word at all. A municipal court judge has ruled that a man who repeatedly ...

From INGRID PERITZ, Globe and Mail,  7 Nov 2008

Globe writer ordered to cease reporting

MONTREAL A Quebec Superior Court judge yesterday ordered Globe and Mail reporter Daniel Leblanc to cease reporting on negotiations between Ottawa and a firm targeted by a massive federal lawsuit in the sponsorship program. Mr. Justice Jean-François de ...

From INGRID PERITZ, Globe and Mail,  6 Nov 2008

Crown appeals Montreal drowsy driving acquittal

MONTREAL One winter afternoon in 2006, Erica Cadieux put her baby in a stroller and went for a walk in a quiet suburban neighbourhood of Montreal. Only a block from home, the 34-year-old mother was fatally mowed down on the sidewalk by an SUV. The ...

From INGRID PERITZ, Globe and Mail,  30 Oct 2008

Montrealer was founding father of bodybuilding

MONTREAL He was a school dropout from Montreal who took bodybuilding out of sweat-soaked gyms and helped usher in the modern-day fitness boom – and rubbed shoulders with the likes of Arnold Schwarzenegger, Ronald Reagan and Saddam Hussein in the ...

From INGRID PERITZ, Globe and Mail,  19 Oct 2008

Rizzuto handed probation, suspended sentence

Montreal Nicolo Rizzuto, the 84-year-old patriarch of one of Canada's most infamous crime families, is free to walk out from jail only two years after his highly publicized arrest. A Quebec judge this morning accepted the joint suggestion of Crown and ...

From INGRID PERITZ, Globe and Mail,  16 Oct 2008

Montreal officers can keep their pants on, ruling says

MONTREAL A labour conflict between Montreal and its police officers has boiled down to pants – specifically, guerrilla-style combat pants. The city's restive police officers this week resorted to commando chic in their contract dispute with the city. ...

From INGRID PERITZ, Globe and Mail,  25 Sep 2008

Assault charge revives kirpan debate

MONTREAL A Sikh boy faces criminal charges alleging that he used his kirpan to threaten two classmates near a Montreal high school, reigniting the volatile debate in Quebec over whether the religious dagger is a symbol or a weapon. A 13-year-old boy, ...

From INGRID PERITZ, Globe and Mail,  25 Sep 2008

A brouhaha in the bookery

MONTREAL The spines are cracked, some of the covers missing, the pages coated in decades of dust. But the names on the cover include Dickens, Shakespeare and Swift, and their sale by a Quebec historical society has set off a firestorm over whether they' ...

From INGRID PERITZ, Globe and Mail,  17 Sep 2008

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