“Really frightening trend,” says Laura Aguiar, Iskweu coordinator, during a vigil held in Montreal to remember missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls. Johanie Bouffard reports.

“I’m lucky,” says Thomas Sawer, a tourist in Montreal, after rushing out of his hostel on Friday due to a fire in Old Montreal. Police are investigating, noting there may be more victims and the fire is suspicious in nature. Swidda Rassy reports.

The Bloc Québécois are trying to push C-319 – a pension top-up for seniors 65 to 74. But one economist estimates it’ll cost the rest of us between $200-$400, and benefit a generation that StatsCan says is less poor than any other.

“It’s a priority for us to be on the ground, to help them feel safe,” said Vincent Richer of the Montreal police, as the SPVM steps up visibility ahead of the Oct. 7 anniversary of the Hamas attack on Israel. Alyssia Rubertucci reports.