Author: Courrier Laval News
Advance voting will take place today, as well as tomorrow for those wanting to vote early. Voting locations will be open from 9:30 a.m. to 8 p.m., and will all be accessible to people with reduced mobility. Voters can find out where to go in order to vote in advance by consulting the registration notice they received in the mail. They can also consult the Website www.elections.quebec, or call 1 888 ELECTION. ID Required You must present an ID in order to vote. The health insurance card, driver’s license and Canadian passport are among the accepted pieces of identification. Voters…
Three Laval residents, as well as their Montreal colleague, will share the sum of $200,359 after winning the Lotto Max on Friday, Aug. 26. Karine Boon, Martine Patenaude and Diana Sroujy, from Laval, as well as their work colleague Elizabeth Brault, from Montreal, are winning $50,090 each. The lucky ticket was bought at the Couche-Tard convenience store, located at 1845, Saint-Elzéar Boulevard (west). Stroke of Luck It’s Patenaude, the manager of this lottery group made up of colleagues, who verified the Lotto Max ticket by using the Loteries mobile app. She had to wait until she returned to work the…
The Service de police de Laval (SPL) is looking for Sylvain Latour, 57, from Saint-Félix-de-Valois. Latour would have left a family member’s home living in Laval on Sept. 21. His relatives haven’t heard from him since, and are worried about his health, as he would have made worrying comments. He was travelling in a vehicle, and therefore can travel great distances. Description and Vehicle Latour is a white man who speaks French. He is 1.85 meters tall (6 feet), and weighs about 70 kilos (154 pounds). He has brown eyes and grey hair. The SPL specifies that Latour owns a…
On Sept. 17, Élections Québec announced that 381 of the 880 candidates (43 per cent) officially accepted in the context of the electoral campaign are women. La Cuvée, an organization whose mission is to considerably increase the presence of women in decision-making positions, is delighted there’s a significant proportion of women candidates in the elections. Data from the last ballot dated Oct. 1, 2018 shows an increase, since there were 40 per cent of female candidates four years ago. “We’ve seen progress in Quebec in recent years concerning the place of women in positions of power, and this trend seems…
The Centre intégré de santé et de services sociaux (CISSS) of Laval announced an increase of 209 confirmed cases of COVID-19 over the past week. That brings Laval’s total to 76,793 confirmed cases since the start of the pandemic. However, let’s recall that the general population can now obtain rapid screening tests, and that screening centres offer PCR tests to only specific groups of the population, which could explain such a variation in the data from the last 34 reports. Unfortunately, 1,160 Laval citizens died from it, which represents an increase of one compared to the previous seven days. As…
Urgences-Santé’s support staff is announcing a one-week strike, starting tonight. Those 120 workers are ensuring the proper functioning of ambulance services of the Montreal Metropolitan Community (MMC), in particular the maintenance of the ambulance fleet and the medical equipment on board the vehicles. Their last salary increase dates back more than two years, as their collective agreement expired on March 31, 2020. “After more than two years of negotiations, no one will tell us we’re not patient,” said via press release the president of the Syndicat du personnel de soutien d’Urgences-santé (CSN), Marc Dulude. “The employer says he has no other…
The Ministry of Transport has announced night closures of Route 335, that will be put in place this week. Those closures are required in order to continue the construction of the Saint-Saëns interchange, carried out as part of the extension of Highway 19. Route 335 will be closed between Saint-Saëns Street (east) and Dagenais Boulevard (east). The closure will be in effect, southbound, from Wednesday, Sept. 21, at 9 p.m., until the next day at 5 a.m. The north direction will be closed from Wednesday, Sept. 21, at 10 p.m., to the next day at 6 a.m. Route 335’s closure…
An analysis published by HelloSafe reveals that the average car insurance premium for Laval residents is the third highest in Quebec behind the Nord-du-Québec and Montreal regions. The average annual premium will be $873 in the region, which represents an increase of 5.66 per cent between 2020 and 2021. The provincial average is more around $775. This amount is up by 5.87 per cent. This data, obtained by HelloSafe, are coming from the general results of the Rapport statistique sur l’assurance automobile 2021, which is published each year by the Groupement des Assureurs Automobiles (GAA) du Québec. High Risks Laval (9.76 per…
During a press conference held this week in Montreal, leader of the Conservative Party of Quebec, Éric Duhaime, unveiled the measures proposed by his political group regarding the protection of the French language, including its strategy for the francization of immigrants. Samson Report The Party’s proposals are inspired by the Samson Report, submitted in 2016 by Claire Samson, outgoing MP for Iberville. This report aimed to take stock of the policies aimed at promoting French. It concluded, at the time, that “the decline in francization in Quebec is not attributable to immigrants’s lack of interest in French, nor to the…
The Government of Canada announced yesterday that Monday, Sept. 19, would be a Canadian National Day of Mourning to mark the death of Queen Elizabeth II. It will be a public holiday for employees of the Public Service of Canada. Sept. 19 will coincide with the planned state funeral in London, UK, and the end of the official period of mourning in the country. In a press release issued by the federal government, we’re mentioning that “Canadians from coast to coast will have the opportunity to honor the memory of Her Majesty”. “She is the only sovereign most Canadians have…