Quebec parents file $1.6M suit after teacher allegedly puts students’ art for sale online
The lawsuit alleges the students at Westwood Junior High School found out in February that the teacher was selling their artwork online without their consent.
Mar 25
‘Stunned’ parents take legal action after students’ artwork allegedly put up for sale
The parents of two Montreal-area junior high school students claim their children's teacher allegedly listed their artwork for sale without their consent.
Canada
Feb 14
Family says police slow to investigate alleged racial attack near Montreal
Three women aged 18 and under say a man verbally assaulted them with racial slurs and then attacked their car with an axe while they were sitting in a driveway.
Canada
Dec 27, 2023
South Shore man claims he was a victim of racial profiling
A South Shore man claims he was the victim of racial profiling at the hands of the Longueuil police department, which has faced accusations of racial profiling before.
Canada
Sep 21, 2023
‘Gross incompetence:’ Man ticketed for contraband cigarettes says he was racially profiled
Video of the incident shows part of the exchange between the man and local Quebec police, who fined him over $1,100 for obstructing an officer, possession of contraband and more.
Canada
Jul 28, 2023
City of Longueuil, Que. gets postponement of contempt of court charges
The City of Longueuil argued for a postponement of its hearing in front of the Quebec Human Rights Tribunal related to contempt of court charges it could face
Canada
Mar 23, 2023
Local Montreal play carries on despite upset over controversial puppet
A puppet featured in the play, which is a caricature of the artist, has caused a lot of controversy among Black community members.
Canada
Feb 26, 2023
Calls grow to change streets named after Christopher Columbus on island of Montreal
Columbus Avenue, a small avenue measuring less than 140 metres long that is located off Hymus Boulevard, is raising some controversy in the West Island city.
Politics
Feb 1, 2023
Quebec sisters afraid to go school, say racism complaints ignored
A Black student and her mother claim she has endured racist incidents at her private school for years and the school has ignored the complaints.
Canada
Feb 1, 2023
Lobby group seeks public inquiry, release of video in Montreal man’s jail death
Nicous D'Andre Spring, 21, was illegally detained at Bordeaux jail on Dec. 24 when guards fitted his head with a spit hood and pepper-sprayed him twice. He died later in hospital.
Canada
Jan 7, 2023
Family of Montreal man killed while unlawfully jailed wants systemic racism inquiry
Nicous D'Andre Spring, 21, died after being fitted with a spit hood and pepper-sprayed twice by jail guards the day after he should have been released from detention.
Crime
Jan 5, 2023
Quebec invests $900,000 to train police to avoid racial profiling
The Quebec government plans to invest hundreds of thousands of dollars to train police officers how to avoid racial and social profiling
Canada
Dec 7, 2021
Man seeks $30,000 in damages in ‘racial profiling’ complaint
The driver was a black man with a "Quebecois name." That's one of the reasons a Longueuil police officer gave for pulling over Joel Debellefeuille.
Jul 29, 2010
Greenfield Park man says police profiled him for third time
A Greenfield Park man says Longueuil Police have pulled him over for the third time for "driving while black," and race relations advocates are demanding a full inquiry into the department's behavior.
Canada
Oct 28, 2015
5 Montreal stories you must read this week: October 30
From rotating strikes and massive bailouts, here are the top five stories Global News covered in Montreal this week.
Oct 30, 2015
Justin Trudeau among 313 Canadians banned from Russia
The news came shortly after Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy addressed Canada's House of Commons, during which he repeated his call for a NATO-led no-fly zone over Ukraine.
Canada
Mar 15, 2022
Montreal-area father calls daughter’s homework assignment racist, ‘in shock’ over it
George Stetka said the students were asked to describe two cartoon-like depictions of gangsters. One included a Black woman, the other a racialized man.
Canada
Feb 2, 2022
Longueuil man’s racial profiling case heads to Human Rights Tribunal
The case of Joel Debellefeuille is heading to the Human Rights Tribunal after the City of Longueuil refused to compensate him for $12,000 in damages and comply with other recommendations made by the Quebec Human Rights and Youth Rights Commission.
Canada
Apr 29, 2018
Quebec tribunal orders Montreal suburb of Longueuil to pay $12,000 in racial profiling case
Judge Christian Brunelle found that the officer's actions could only be "rationally explained by the prejudices he maintained, whether consciously or not, towards a Black man driving a luxury car.''
Canada
Nov 22, 2020
Another win for Longueuil man who accused police of racial profiling
Longueuil resident Joel DeBellefeuille has won another victory in his discrimination case against the Longueuil police.
Canada
Apr 24, 2018