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Montreal police launch sexual assault hotline amid rise in abuse reports
But other police forces in Canada have no plans for a similar phone line
The Strange Twists of a High-Profile Quebec Hate Speech Arrest
The tweets that got a Montreal man arrested and charged for inciting hate may have been misinterpreted by police.
Edward Snowden Calls Police Spying on Quebec Journalists a ‘Threat to Democracy’
The world’s most famous whistleblower addressed a Montreal crowd amid revelations of police spying on journalists.
Cops in Montreal's 'morality squad' accused of sex misconduct and perjury
And that's just the tip of the iceberg. Montreal's cops have come under fire for how they have policed student protests, they have been caught in cruisers with "tipsy ladies" sitting on their laps, and have been tied to organized crime.
Montreal Cops Sign Landmark Agreement to Improve Relations with Aboriginal Community
It's the first of its kind in Canada.
UQAM’s Clamp Down on Protests Leads to Calls for Rector’s Dismissal
"There's definitely some freedom that is taken away from those students, and the fact there are masked individuals is because UQAM has started to criminalize dissent."
I Watched the Montreal Cops Invade a Protester-Occupied University Building
A night of rage, tension, chanting, and violence.
Montreal Cops Kettled a Women-Only Anti-Austerity Protest
It was just one of the many left-wing anti-austerity protests to hit the Canadian city this week.
The Recent Effort to Survey Montreal's Homeless Highlights the City's Lack of Vagrancy Awareness
How can you create programs for the homeless when you are using 17-year-old population numbers?
Leaked Documents Reveal the Quebec Cop who Killed a Child Was Tailing an Ex-Liberal Party Leader
After news broke that a Quebec provincial police officer who killed a five-year-old in a car crash during a high-speed chase wouldn't face any repercussions, the Canadian public was horrified. Now a new report suggests the crash may have occurred...
I Spent a Night Patrolling with LightStep, Montreal's Real-Life Superhero
For the past two years, Montreal's streets have been patrolled by a short, slim, vegan, queer radical feminist crusader named LightStep.
Quebec Is Also Wrestling with Police Violence and Impunity
"Firing at a criminal who is himself firing at the police or another person is one thing. Firing a gun at a person who is obviously mentally unstable is something else."