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Robert Vairo’s ‘That’s what I’m thinking’

COVID-19 What went wrong? Not sure I'm seeing this clearly but it seems to me the federal government and our politicians in general should have been much better prepared for COVID-19. As we know, more than...

Senator Housakos says: “Get ahead of the curve!”

Dimitris Ilias Senator Housakos talks about COVID-19 having a unique perspective. As a politician, being a senator in the Canadian parliament and as the husband, of a respiratory therapist fighting daily in double and triple...

LPD issuing tickets for breaking COVID-19 distancing rule

Martin C. Barry Officers with the Laval Police Department have been busy lately issuing tickets for at least $1,000 each to individuals seen gathered while not obeying the mandatory two-metre distancing rule decreed by the...

Laval News Volume 28-08

The current issue of the Laval News volume 28-08 published April 15th, 2020,(Click on the image to read the paper.)

LPD seeks Laval-des-Rapides burglary suspect

The Laval Police have a pretty good idea what the suspect linked to a home burglary in Laval-des-Rapides last fall looks like, because they have a security camera image of him. Now all they...

Could post-COVID-19 Canada become a ‘surveillance state’?

Martin C. Barry Although the COVID-19 crisis is probably far from over, Montreal lawyer and human rights activist Julius Grey is warning that the unfolding emergency could become permanent if attention isn’t focused on the...

Marc Demers undecided on whether to cancel Fête nationale

Martin C. Barry Although major public events are being cancelled all over the world to slow the spread of the COVID-19 virus, Mayor Marc Demers and other administration officials say they are waiting until next...

Thumbs-up from CFIB for Ottawa’s COVID-19 wage subsidy

The subsidies ‘will maintain the link between the employer and the employee,’ says Canadian Federation of Independent Business Martin C. Barry Despite the fact some small and medium-size businesses across the country remain dissatisfied with Ottawa’s...

Former LPD chief outraged by CHSLD Ste-Dorothée’s ‘incompetence’

‘The management clearly was lacking leadership,’ Jean-Pierre Gariépy says Martin C. Barry The former chief of the Laval Police Department, whose wife was recently transferred to CHSLD Sainte-Dorothée to recover from a brain aneurysm, suggested last...

Beware phony N95 face masks, says Health Canada

Health Canada is warning Canadians about the risks of using fraudulent and unauthorized N95 respirator masks, as they may not protect consumers against COVID-19. The federal agency advises that you check whether your N95 respirator...

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