Matt Gilmour

1 week ago | ctvnews.ca | Matt Gilmour

The owner of an independent gas station on Montreal’s South Shore feels removing the floor price on gasoline will hurt small businesses like his and lead to less competition in the long run. Jean-Philip Dauray is vice president of the Maurice Full Service Gas Station in Varennes, Que. The price at the pump on Friday was $1.65 per litre, 12 cents cheaper than the Ultramar across the street. “We are a small business. It’s the third generation that has managed a business,” he said.

2 weeks ago | ctvnews.ca | Matt Gilmour

At the Cummings Centre in Montreal’s Côte-des-Neiges neighbourhood, retirees are hard at work building household items to help raise money. But while their hands are busy, many have their minds on the markets. “Our investments are our future. Even though that’s going to be a shorter future than a lot. But it’s our future. Watching things tumble is very disheartening,” said Marty Cooper.

1 month ago | ctvnews.ca | Matt Gilmour

Swastikas and other racial slurs have been appearing on the walls inside a residential building in Cote-St-Luc, for several weeks. “It’s frightening,” said Sheldon Lang, who lives at Equinoxe Marc-Chagall, a high-end condo building where about 90 per cent of the residents are Jewish. “There are a lot of elderly people in the building,” he said, “many single women in their 80s plus.

1 month ago | ctvnews.ca | Matt Gilmour

Dozens of businesses in Île-Bizard say they lost money during this summer’s Presidents Cup tournament and are demanding compensation, blaming the City of Montreal’s decision to limit access to the island’s only bridge. Local business owner Kal Abunowara said the decision halted operations at his auto shop, Kal Auto. “The cars that were here. We’re just sitting here waiting for parts that were never making it into the island.

1 month ago | ctvnews.ca | Matt Gilmour

A Pointe-aux-Trembles man has been awarded $10,000 in damages by Quebec’s Human Rights Tribunal after it found his neighbour had been racially harassing him for nearly a decade. The harassment included repeated use of racial slurs, including the n-word, and false reports to the police. The ruling was handed down earlier this month, but Clifford Boucard says the taunts from his neighbour have continued.