How Montrealers are speaking out against Islamaphobia

by Shari Okeke

Daybreak's Shari Okeke sits down with Montrealers who say they can no longer stay silent when they witness racial slurs or hateful comments

At Quebec City carnival, the making of an ice canoe champion

by Angelica Montgomery

A new team was able to claim victory at the annual Carnaval de Quebec ice canoe competition, a gruelling test involving paddling across the ice St-Lawrence and climbing over ice floes.

$60M Lotto Max jackpot won by Quebecer

The $60 million jackpot in Friday night's Lotto Max draw was claimed by a lone ticket sold in the province. Exactly where it was purchased has yet to be revealed.

Chocolate fair hits Marché Bonsecours this weekend

by Sean Henry

The smell of chocolate is filling the Marché Bonsecours this weekend.

Canadian denied entry to U.S. after being questioned on mosque connections

Yassine Aber is the fifth Canadian citizen of Moroccan heritage to this week be refused entry at Quebec's border with the United States.

Friday February 10, 2017

As It Happens Vermont city clerk extends invitation to Canadian turned back at U.S. border

After our interview with a Muslim woman who was turned away from the U.S. border, a local official in Montpelier, Vt., offers to show her around his city and buy her lunch. As it Happens guest host Helen Mann speaks with City Clerk John Odum.

Montreal artists hold benefit concert for families of mosque shooting victims

by Sabrina Marandola

A group of Montreal artists have rallied and, in less than two weeks, put together a concert to benefit the families of those killed or injured in the Quebec City mosque attack.

Opinion How the word 'terrorism' lost its meaning: Neil Macdonald

by Neil Macdonald

Terrorism is political invective, nothing more. It’s a great favourite of demagogues, widely accepted by audiences, and is almost always applied exclusively to the other, never to ourselves.

Alan DeSousa announces bid for Stéphane Dion's old seat

The mayor of Montreal's St-Laurent borough, Alan DeSousa, confirmed his candidacy for the Liberal party nomination in Saint-Laurent Friday.

Suspected Montreal mosque vandal charged with mischief

A Montreal man has pleaded not guilty to a charge of mischief in connection with a mosque that was vandalized in Pointe-Saint-Charles.

Trial of Michael Gero, accused of killing girlfriend Sherri Thomas, begins in Montreal

by Kate McKenna, Geneviève Garon

The long-awaited murder trial of an NDG man accused of killing his girlfriend in 2013 started Friday morning in the Montreal courthouse.

'Punch a Zionist' tweet by McGill student politician prompts concern for campus safety

A McGill student politician's tweet saying "punch a Zionist today" has sparked calls for safer campuses, along with his resignation from student politics at the Montreal university.

Montrealers denied entry to U.S. after questions about religion take case to feds

by Stephen Smith

Montrealers Fadwa Alaoui and her cousin, Fadela Boutaleb, were refused entry to the U.S. on Saturday while trying to cross into Vermont for a daytrip to Burlington.

Preserve home or transfer it to museum — surviving Dionne quintuplets tell North Bay

The two surviving Dionne quintuplets are urging officials in northeastern Ontario to preserve the home where they were born, suggesting there is a "moral obligation" to safeguard a part of Canadian history.

Gerry Sklavounos's office window pasted with sex-victims' rights slogans

The stickers also say “Feminist killjoy” and “justice pour les victimes d'agressions sexuelles" and are stuck to a window on the ground floor, right beneath a campaign-style poster featuring Gerry Sklavounos’s headshot.

Canada's economy added 48,000 jobs in January

Canada's unemployment rate dipped to 6.8 per cent last month as the economy added 48,000 jobs, Statistics Canada reports.

A full moon, an eclipse and a comet — all in one night

by Nicole Mortillaro

Friday night there will be a rare occurrence of three astronomical treats.

Ghomeshi's lawyer to speak at Bishop's University, despite some opposition

by Kevin Bissett

A speech by Marie Henein, Jian Ghomeshi's lawyer, will go ahead at three Canadian universities Friday evening despite opposition from some students in Nova Scotia.

'I am a victim of internet hacking and spamming,' says daycare founder arrested for child porn

Christopher Pattichis, a daycare administrator arrested Wednesday during a police raid at his home for possession of child pornography, says he is not only innocent — he is also a victim.

Recap Max Pacioretty posts 4-point night, Canadiens down Coyotes in OT

by Bob Baum

Alex Galchenyuk scored 2:13 into overtime to give the Montreal Canadiens a 5-4 victory over the Arizona Coyotes that snapped their four-game losing streak Thursday night. Max Pacioretty had two goals and two assists, one on the winning play. Montreal was shut out in its two previous games.

Trump 'sympathetic' but publicly silent on Quebec City mosque attack

by Meagan Fitzpatrick

President Donald Trump focuses on potential terror attacks, but he hasn't publicly said or tweeted anything about the Quebec City mosque shooting. His representatives use the Quebec event to support his embattled travel ban — even though the suspect is a Canadian citizen.

Hydro-Québec should do more to preserve forest in proposed line to U.S., review says

Quebec's environmental review board wants Hydro-Québec to do more to preserve a stretch of forest in its plan for a transmission line to New Hampshire.

National policy for care of veal cattle not good enough, says Montreal SPCA

by Jaela Bernstien

Montreal's SPCA says the draft version of a Canada-wide policy for the treatment of veal cattle doesn't go far enough to protect calves' welfare. The animal rights group points to one case of animal abuse three years ago in Pont Rouge, Que.

Hidden treasures: The allure of Montreal's 'Midget Palace'

by Sarah Leavitt

It's not a politically correct term now, but in the mid 1900s, Montrealers and tourists alike fell in love with an attraction in the city known as "The Midget's Palace." Check out the final instalment in our series on hidden treasures in Montreal museums.

Suspect in vandalism of Pointe-Saint-Charles mosque nabbed by police

Montreal police have arrested 48-year-old Sylvain Gingras in connection with the vandalizing of a mosque in Pointe-Saint-Charles last week.

'Everything was hurting so bad': How one Muslim man snuck across the U.S. border into Canada

In the dead of winter, a Muslim man with a backpack and a bike snuck across the U.S. border into Canada. This is his story.