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Police Arrest Montreal Couple Suspected of Selling Fake Certificates To Orderlies

The Service de police de la Ville de Montreal's economic crimes unit arrested a Montreal couple suspected of manufacturing and selling false training certificates for patient attendants, according to a notice on the police website.

The couple, who police say are the owners of a vocational training and placement centre in the Villeray–Saint-Michel–Parc-Extension borough, appeared at the Montreal courthouse today.

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A Pedestrian Died After Being Hit By A Car In Montreal On Tuesday

Around 5 p.m. on Tuesday, a call was placed with the SPVM to inform them of a collision between a vehicle and pedestrian in Montreal on boulevard du Golf, near boulevard des Sciences.

The victim was a 49-year-old man who was unconscious when police arrived on the scene and then transported to the hospital.

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Racist Graffiti Was Discovered In A Montreal Hospital Staff Room

On March 17, management at the CIUSSS Centre-Sud's Notre-Dame Hospital was informed that racist graffiti had been found on the walls of a locker room used by staff and medical personnel. 

Eric Forest, a spokesperson for the CIUSSS Centre-Sud, told MTL Blog that the graffiti was directed at staff and medical staff in a particular area of the hospital.

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Protesters Want Justice For A Quebec Woman Who Died After Posting About Hospital Concerns

Filming from her hospital bed at Charles-LeMoyne Hospital in Longueuil, Mireille Ndjomouo breathed heavily between each phrase as she pleaded for help on March 7. 

The 44-year-old woman from Cameroon — established in Montreal for the last four years, according to the Journal de Montréal — died two days later. Her call for help resembled that of Joyce Echaquan, an Indigenous woman who exposed nurses' slurs on Facebook before dying in a Quebec hospital.

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A New 'World's Best Hospitals' Ranking Is Out & Just One In Montreal Made The List

Newsweek has released its annual ranking of the "World's Best Hospitals" and six Canadian institutions made the list.

Among them, the Jewish General Hospital is Montreal's only entry, placing in the 101-200 range.

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A 23-Year-Old Montreal Man Was Arrested This Morning After Allegedly Stabbing His Mother

At about 1:35 a.m. on Sunday, January 17, a 911 call was placed to Montreal police for a 49-year-old woman who was stabbed in her home in the Plateau-Mont-Royal borough on rue Gilford.

The victim has allegedly been taken to the hospital and was still in critical condition when MTL Blog called the SPVM for updates at around 9:30 a.m.

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A Montreal Hospital Has Seen A Huge Spike In Sledding Accidents So Far This Season

With fewer activity options than maybe ever in the city of Montreal, the Montreal's Children's Hospital Trauma Centre is reporting "a record high number of children and teens injured while sledding and tobogganing this winter."

The hospital says that the number of children in sledding accidents so far this season is already equal to seasonal totals for some years.

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An Instagram Story Shows Stretchers In The Jewish General Hospital Garage — CORRECTION

An Instagram story recently posted to social media by a medical student shows stretchers set-up in the Montreal Jewish General Hospital garage.

Despite its caption remarking, "So many patients that we have reached [the point] of receiving [patients] in the hospital garage," the hospital clarified that this protocol is not related to Quebec's surging hospitalizations.

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6 Jaw-Dropping Stories That Prove 2020 In Quebec Wasn't ALL About COVID-19

The curtains have finally closed on 2020, otherwise informally known as the worst year in modern history. Although COVID-19 updates in Quebec have taken over your news feed this year, the last 365 days have also been filled with other news — stories of hope and achievement, highs and lows. 

No matter how you've chosen to spend the first day of 2021, we've rounded up some of the year's biggest, most amazing news stories that aren't about COVID-19.

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Quebec Is Putting Hospital Beds In Hotels & Banquet Halls Because We're Near Overcapacity

In a press conference on December 18, Quebec Health Minister Christian Dubé warned the population that the COVID-19 situation in Quebec hospitals is "very critical."

Hospitals in Quebec reached a "cap" of 1,000 COVID-19 patients in-hospital, Dubé said.

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Quebec Has Rejected 'Joyce's Principle' Because It Means Acknowledging Systemic Racism

A First Nation is voicing anger and frustration after the province rejected a proposal for better health care access for Indigenous people because it would mean acknowledging the existence of systemic racism in Quebec. 

The Atikamekw Nation presented the proposal called "Joyce’s Principle" to the province on November 16. On November 24, a motion was presented by Liberal MP Gregory Kelley to recognize and apply the principle, a motion which was rejected, seemingly because it explicitly calls for a clear acknowledgment of systemic racism by the state.*

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Montreal Had 4 Shootings Over The Course Of Just A Few Hours Last Night

The SPVM is currently investigating multiple shootings that happened in Montreal on the night of Sunday, November 29, that resulted in several victims ending up in the hospital.

SPVM Spokesperson Raphaël Bergeron says the first incident occurred just a little after 5:30 p.m. when gunshots were heard in Montréal-Nord near the intersection of rue Pascal and rue Lapierre.

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