Quebec Coroner

• Quebec coroners urge Montreal to install metro platform screens to prevent suicides

  Quebec coroners urge Montreal to install metro platform screens to prevent suicides as deaths average 10 per year.

  Health

  Oct 22, 2025
  
• Quebec man who killed his young twins displayed domestic violence signs: coroner

  A Quebec coroner is recommending improved domestic violence training for the province's police officers.

  Canada

  Jun 17, 2025
  
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• Quebec won’t drop legal alcohol limit despite fourth coroner’s recommendation

  Quebec is the only province that has not established a legal limit lower than the .08 — 80 mg of alcohol per 100 ml of blood — set in the Criminal Code.

  Canada

  Apr 23, 2025
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• Quebec coroner calls for tougher drunk driving penalties in line with rest of country

  A Quebec coroner says if the province's penalties were in line with the rest of the country, a dangerous driver who killed a motorcyclist in 2020 would not have been on the road.

  Crime

  Apr 22, 2025
• Quebec coroner calls out ‘hero firefighter’ culture in flooding deaths

  Coroner Andrée Kronström made the comments in her report on the deaths of two firefighters who perished trying to save a couple during intense flooding in Quebec.

  Canada

  Apr 2, 2025
• Public inquiry ordered into Old Montreal fire that killed mom, daughter

  Quebec's chief coroner is launching a public inquiry into the deaths of a mother and daughter in a fire that ripped through a century-old building in Old Montreal last week.

  Crime

  Oct 8, 2024
• Police testify at coroner’s inquiry into murder of sergeant by man with history of mental illness

  A Quebec coroner's inquiry is hearing Monday from police officers who had interacted with a mentally ill man in the months before he killed a provincial police sergeant.

  Crime

  Mar 11, 2024
• Quebec coroner calls for specialized mental health tribunal after 2022 killing spree

  Coroner Géhane Kamel makes several recommendations including transforming the province's mental health review board into a specialized tribunal as is the case in Ontario.

  Canada

  Feb 29, 2024
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• Quebec officer dead: Coroner inquest hears suspect’s parents wanted son hospitalized

  Provincial Public Security Minister François Bonnardel called for the public inquest to seek recommendations that will improve how authorities respond in the future.

  Canada

  Feb 12, 2024
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• ‘The war has begun’: Quebec coroner hears of stalking, custody concerns in familicide

  "He was stalking her,'' Najla Ben Ammar told the inquiry looking into the December 2019 killings of Dahia Khellaf, 42, and her sons, Adam, 4, and Aksil, 2.

  Crime

  Oct 25, 2023