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CBC
2 days ago
- CBC
Montreal police searching for missing 73-year-old man
Social Sharing Montreal police are asking the public for help finding a 73-year-old man who suffers from heart problems. Robert Joncas was last seen on July 19 around 9 p.m. in Montreal's Saint-Léonard borough, according to a Service de police de la Ville de Montréal (SPVM) news release. He is a white man who is four feet, seven inches tall and weighs 119 pounds. He has a white horseshoe hairline and green eyes. Police said Joncas could be wearing blue jeans, a green T-shirt and a red cap. They said he speaks French and might be travelling on foot. The SPVM is asking anyone with information about his whereabouts to call 911.
CTV News
14-07-2025
- Climate
- CTV News
This Montreal street keeps getting flooded; residents' despair and bills are growing
Garages, basements and other pieces of property were damaged again in Montreal's Saint-Leonard borough. In Montreal's Saint-Leonard borough, many homes on Belmont Street were again flooded on Sunday night. It is the second year in a row that homeowners have seen their basements and garages fill up with water, the street blocked off, and furniture destroyed. Many on the street had finished repairing and renovating their living spaces from flooding in 2024. Resident Karim Chemaa said it's scary because residents do not know if flooding will happen in the coming months or years. 'It could happen another time,' he said. 'We don't know.' City politicians held news scrums on Monday to speak about the flood response and what is being done to respond to the regular heavy rains that cause flooding. 'Unfortunately, I'm not mayor of Montreal,' said Ensemble Montreal leader Soraya Martinez Ferrada. 'I'm a citizen of the east part of Montreal, I've been flooded myself four times. I understand the frustration. I understand that when it rains, you want to be there because you're scared of what's going to happen to your house.' @ctvmontreal Residents on Belmont Street in Montreal say they're angry after their basements were flooded for the second year in a row. tiktok viral trending mtl montreal weather rain storm flood ♬ original sound - CTV Montreal - CTV Montreal Montreal Mayor Valérie Plante said the heavy rain on Sunday and the rain last year during storm Debbie regularly puts incredible pressure on the city's sewer systems. 'No system can, in fact, absorb so much rainwater so quickly, despite all the efforts our administration is making to make our city more resilient to this kind of torrential rain,' she wrote on X. She said the city is investing heavily in adapting to the regular downpours. 'We are moving in the right direction, and quickly, but zero risk does not exist, and this is a new reality to which we must respond,' she said. 'Today, my team and I will be at work to assess the situation and assist Montrealers who are affected by the flooding.' Plante said on Monday that there are dozens of small areas in Montreal, such as Belmont Street, that are regularly flooded and that they are not all the same. 'Sometimes they are very small, it can be just a piece of a street and other places it's more like a few streets altogether, and for each of those vulnerable areas, the potential solutions are varied,' she said. 'What we're trying to do now is to consider everything.' She added that some boroughs were more affected than others, particularly in the north of the city. Those affected can contact 311 for help.
CTV News
12-07-2025
- CTV News
Woman in critical condition after SUV crashes into Montreal clinic
An SPVM police vehicle is seen in Montreal on Thursday, Aug. 29, 2024. (Christinne Muschi/The Canadian Press) A woman is in critical condition after being trapped under an SUV that crashed into a physiotherapy clinic in Montreal's Saint-Léonard borough on Friday afternoon. Emergency services were called to the scene around 2 p.m. on Bélanger Street, near De Choisy Street. The 59-year-old woman was conscious but had injuries to her upper and lower body. Paramedics rushed her to hospital. Police said around 9 p.m. that the woman is still in critical condition but stable. According to Montreal police (SPVM), the 31-year-old driver suffered a nervous shock but did not require hospitalization. Initial information suggests that the driver was attempting to park her vehicle when she made a wrong move and crashed into the clinic. The vehicle could be seen from inside the building with its windows smashed in. A perimeter has been set up to protect the scene, and the investigation is ongoing. Witnesses to the incident have been interviewed by police, and checks will be made on any surveillance cameras located near the scene. With files from Dario De Felice
CTV News
09-07-2025
- CTV News
Vehicle set on fire in Montreal, police suspect arson
A vehicle was set on fire in the driveway of a home in Montreal's Saint-Leonard borough, Wednesday, July 9, 2025. (Cosmo Santamaria/CTV News) A vehicle was set on fire in the driveway of a home in Montreal's Saint-Leonard borough early Wednesday morning. Montreal police (SPVM) received a 911 call at 12:30 a.m. about the incident on Lisieux Street near Jean-Talon Street. 'When the police arrived on the scene, they located the vehicle on fire,' said Caroline Chèvrefils, a spokesperson with Montreal police. 'The burned vehicle was a total loss.' She adds that there was no damage to the property, nor was an incendiary device found. 'According to the first information, everything suggests it's an arson,' said Chèvrefils, adding the vehicle was towed for expert examination. There were no reported injuries, and there have been no arrests. The file has been transferred to the Montreal police arson squad.
Spectator
28-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Spectator
A lovely album: Saint Leonard's The Golden Hour reviewed
Grade: A+ The kids with their synths and hip producers, dragging the 1980s back: I wish they would stop. It was, in the main, an awful decade for music, the bands trite yet portentous, the stupid burbling bass guitars, hubris-stricken vocals and tinny drums. The kids retread all the dross. Yet if you were actually around and sentient in that avaricious decade, as was Saint Leonard, you could find a certain chill beauty in hidden corners. Not the New Romantics, not Japan, not SAW. Just small niches here and there of inventiveness and clever pop. Saint Leonard – Kieran Leonard to his mum – draws down all that was good about the cool side of the early 1980s: the motorik beats, the synths that were only three steps above a theremin, the primitive stuttered drums appropriated from Germany. You can find Cabaret Voltaire, Berlin-era Bowie and very early Ultravox within here. And the later part of the decade? David Lynch and Angelo Badalamenti's lush, minimalist, collaboration with Julee Cruise. Maybe a little debauched Gina X. The good stuff, in other words. It helps, of course, that Saint Leonard can write a tune – both 'Martini Symphony' and 'Threshold' are simply great pop songs – but also has the confidence in his melodies to allow room for them to breathe, such as the Sprechgesang on the beautiful 'The Florist'. This is a lovely album, but it is too clever, too sincere, too knowing in its musical pedigree to grab the attention of the radio programmers. Which is, I think, a great shame. Because bad though the 1980s were for music, they were always better than naive retreads of Depeche bloody Mode and the scarifying Kylie.
