The Global News team in Montreal rounds up the most eye-catching stories from the news this week.
It’s one year after the Parti Quebecois was dramatically elected and Pauline Marois achieved her dream of becoming the province’s first woman premier.
Read more about how the year has gone.
Quebec’s corruption inquiry is set to resume Tuesday after a two-month-long summer break with plans to examine unions and the Hells Angels.
Read more about what happened this week here.
City officials said Wednesday that $50 million a year would be needed just to maintain the current infrastructure in Montreal, noting that 56 per cent of structures were built before 1970 and of these, 24 are in a critical state of disrepair.
Will this be enough? Find out here.
One Montreal mayoral candidate is using the public transportation system to reach out to voters.
Do you think this is a good way to connect with Montrealers?
Proposed legislation in Quebec is causing controversy with the federal Finance Department – all because of a word.
Find out what it was here.
After braking to save a family of ducks, 25-year-old Emma Czornobaj is facing a trial in the deaths of two motorists who were killed when she stopped her car.
Read the full story here.
Veteran English Montreal School Board history teacher John Commins speaks out about the Parti Quebecois’ plans to improve the province’s history curriculum.
Watch the extended interview here.
Clearpoint Elementary School in Pointe-Claire does something special to commemorate the event that helps make the new arrivals to the school feel very special.
Find out more here.
Quebec’s environment minister gave the green light to a clean up plan submitted by Reliance Power Equipment Ltd. to deal with the health threat of PCB storage at its site in Pointe-Claire.
Watch Elysia Bryan-Bayne’s report here.
The star-studded line up for Montreal’s International Black Film Festival was unveiled.
Find out more here.
Researchers may have found the cause of a dramatic and abrupt shift in the prehistoric global climate that wiped out many of Earth’s large mammals, including camels, giant sloths, saber-toothed cats and mastodons.
Find out what this has to do with Quebec here.
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