The city of Montréal-Est says a judicial recount of its tied city council race confirmed the tie, so the winner will be decided by lottery on Monday ville.montreal-est.qc.ca/resultats-pr...

Ontario court says media outlets can sue OpenAI over copyright infringements. www.theglobeandmail.com/business/art...

Tony Stark returns to Virgin Radio 95.9 in Montreal starting Nov. 17, replacing Charli Paige as the afternoon host as she goes on mat leave www.iheart.com/podcast/962-...

David Common will take over from Heather Hiscox as host of CBC's Morning Live www.cbc.ca/news/enterta...

A new newspaper is being launched in Montreal: La Page Sportive will be a free weekly sports newspaper, distributed by Canada Post as part of Transcontinental's Raddar flyer, starting Nov. 10 www.newswire.ca/fr/news-rele... — It plans 60,000 copies for a six-month pilot project.

Montreal election maps that appeared in Tuesday's Gazette print edition. Interactive online versions are here: montrealgazette.com/news/local_p...

The REM is going to do a weekend free service open house on Nov. 15-16 for the new Deux-Montagnes branch — the same days STM service could be non-existent due to a driver's strike rem.info/en/evenement...

It's been three years since François Legault's CAQ won re-election in Quebec, and he's lost 10% of the MNAs his party elected. montrealgazette.com/news/provinc...

An interesting budget provision for the creative industry: An Artist's Resale Right. It's apparently meant for paintings that get resold for lots of money, but could the logic be extended to other works of art? We'll see what "eligible sale" will mean.

The most interesting part of budgets for me are always the lists of legislative measures (i.e. things that require new laws or changes to laws). budget.canada.ca/2025/report-... Have the right-wing conspiracy theorists jumped on this one yet?

Is this important? No. Is it likely to happen? No. Is this the only thing I really care about in this budget? Maybe.

Geneviève Pettersen claque la porte de Cogeco Média : lp.ca/gPaERx

Liberals go from a minority government to maybe a single seat in Yukon election. New conservative-leaning government likely to ignore popular vote to introduce ranked choice voting. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Quite the revirement. Updated vote count in Côte-St-Luc mayor's race reverses the result. Mitchell Brownstein loses ... by one vote. (A recount seems likely.) montrealgazette.com/news/local_p...

The Montreal municipal election in maps and charts montrealgazette.com/news/local_p...

'Fun' fact: Binance was (allegedly) instrumental in financing millions for Hamas. What's more, Zhao *designed the stablecoin specifically in order to secure his pardon,* then had Qatar use the coin to buy a stake in his company. www.bugeyedandshameless.com/p/guide-to-d...

Corus announces recapitalization plan that would dilute shareholder value 99% and give control of the company to debt holders. www.theglobeandmail.com/business/art...

With 100% of polls reporting, margin in Lachine borough mayor's race is a single vote.

Montreal agglomeration mayors who went down to defeat tonight: - Paola Hawa (Ste-Anne-de-Bellevue) - Tim Thomas (Pointe-Claire) - Beny Masella (Montreal West) and Jeremy Levi is trailing in Hampstead.

The final preliminary results are in for District 1 in Montréal-Est, and the result is ... a tie! 81 votes each for Audrey Bordeleau and Julie Larivée.

Radio-Canada declares Soraya Martinez Ferrada of Ensemble Montréal elected mayor. Her party is leading in 40 of 65 city council seats, versus 20 for Projet Montréal and 5 for borough-level parties that Ensemble didn't run candidates against.

Live Quebec municipal election broadcasts tonight: - RDI - LCN - CBC Radio One - CJAD 800 - 98,5fm and other Cogeco talk stations - Ici Radio-Canada Première All local TV stations will include coverage only in their usual late-night newscasts.

I did a democracy. Polls are open until 8pm if you haven't already (and are registered). Biggest wait time was the time it took me to unfold the four ballots and make my final choices. In and out in five minutes.

In 50 minutes, we'll go back in time an hour. ... Could we make it two? Got some things to fix.

Goliath 5, David 4 (11 innings).

An Air Canada flight right now

Bo Bichette's home run off Ohtani flew so high over Toronto that half the country is tracking when it'll land at Pearson Airport. #BlueJays

Montréal Carabins defeat Concordia Stingers 51-2 and Rouge et Or defeat McGill Redbirds 47-25 in Quebec university football semifinals. U de M and Laval will face each other for the Dunsmore Cup as they have every year since 2012.

Not knowing who to vote for in this municipal election, I decided to ask local candidates from the five parties about some local issues. Here's what they said: blog.fagstein.com/2025/10/31/m...

The current, most widely used alphabet was initiated by the Montreal-headquartered International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), though it is also known as the NATO phonetic alphabet. This entertaining video explains its genesis very well: www.youtube.com/watch?v=UAT-...

Some media outlets are harping on the high proportion of undecided in the polls leading up to the Nov. 2 Montreal election, as if these votes were up for grabs. In reality, most eligible voters are apathetic. They stay home. .../2 #MontrealElection

This is a thorough feature looking at how we can improve how we build new housing units and get away from the tiny condos. www.theglobeandmail.com/investing/pe... — though I'm a bit concerned that suggestions include compromising on fire safety and accessibility.

Ça ne sera pas simple autour des stades métropolitains demain, alors que le Canadien, les Roses, les Carabins, les Alouettes et le Rocket jouent TOUS à domicile. Devant le chaos prévu, les Roses ont ajouté deux bus gratuits pour venir chercher leurs fans à MTL. www.lapresse.ca/sports/2025-...

Just remembering when I changed my Facebook name to Andrea Boo 👻 for Halloween without realizing it only lets you change it once every 60 days and was stuck messaging sources like that until Christmas

While Starts have generally declined in Montreal since the bylaw came into effect, many of the city's suburbs have had similar declines and, so far this year, home building is on the rise in the city. montrealgazette.com/news/local_p... #polmtl

The #CRTC revokes, at the licensee WildBrain's request, the broadcasting licences of Family Channel www.crtc.gc.ca/eng/archive/... WildBrainTV www.crtc.gc.ca/eng/archive/... and Télémagino www.crtc.gc.ca/eng/archive/... which cease operations today. Background: blog.fagstein.com/2025/08/25/c...

The #CRTC approves an application by Vista Radio to buy CJGY-FM Grande Prairie, Alta. (Reach 96.3) from Golden West Broadcasting for $1.25 million. www.crtc.gc.ca/eng/archive/...

The #CRTC finds the Vancouver market cannot support a new commercial radio station, and so will return an application by Rogers to convert CKKS-FM-2 (a retransmitter of Kiss 105.7 Chilliwack) into its own Vancouver station www.crtc.gc.ca/eng/archive/...

'It's just empty words': Unhoused people hold out little hope for change despite campaign promises

Bell Media locks up an extension on regional TV rights to Winnipeg Jets games for [REDACTED] years. www.bellmedia.ca/the-lede/pre...

"conférence de pression" is a fantastic phrase www.lapresse.ca/actualites/p...

Two home runs on three pitches is fun. #BlueJays

It might not come to this, but TVA may have a decision to make on Saturday. The Canadiens will be on TVA Sports, that's a no-brainer, but TVA Sports 2 currently has UFC Fight Night scheduled. Could it drop that regular feature of Saturday nights for a potential World Series Game 7? We'll see.

CBC confirms it will partner with Sportsnet, TSN and RDS for 2026 Olympic coverage, meaning up to 12 TV channels in English (realistically about 6-7) and 4 in French to broadcast the games. cbc.radio-canada.ca/en/media-cen...

Doctors are leaving Quebec as a result of its new remuneration law: « C’est définitif, je ne reste pas ici » lp.ca/yEOl1v

The STM says its new redesigned West Island bus network is ready, but it won't publish the routes until the spring, when it's ready to launch with the Anse-à-l'Orme branch of the REM www.stm.info/fr/presse/co...

The ARTM will run parallel bus services during the first few months of the new REM service. STL in Laval will launch its revised bus network on Nov. 15, meanwhile the STM is waiting until spring for its reconfigured West Island network. www.newswire.ca/fr/news-rele...

Oh, you like baseball huh? Well, we’re going to sit here while you smoke this whole pack of baseball and THEN we’ll see how you feel.