For the past three years, access to Pie-IX Boulevard in Montreal-Nord was no easy feat. Major renovation work in the commercial artery left many businesses inaccessible to their customers as streets closed and public transportation options were diverted.

On Monday, undergraduate students at the School of Social Work voted in favour of a strike which would mean refusing to attend in-person classes until at least Feb. 25 a full month after the administrations scheduled return on Jan. 24.

Some Quebecers are so disheartened by the stories of abuse in Indian residential schools that they are sending a message to the Roman Catholic Church by submitting apostasies, a formal renunciation of their religion.