For the eighth consecutive year, Captain Robert Piché will serve as the honorary president of the annual campaign for Oeuvre Soupe Maison (Lachine). Piché — the Quebec airline pilot who, in 2001, famously glided his Air Transat Airbus A330 to a safe landing in the Azores after it lost all po…

Saint-Laurent residents and employees can now participate in the collective recycling effort by dropping off their personal protective equipment, including single-use masks and gloves, in one of the new Terracyle boxes that have been set up in municipal buildings.

The Office Québécois de la langue anglaise (OQDLLA) announced in an October 30 release that it is launching services to help Québécois businesses with their English communications.

This month, four municipal buildings in Saint-Laurent received high-level certification under Recyc-Québec’s ICI on recycle + program. This recognition attests to the concrete efforts by employees in recent years to support healthy waste management at every establishment. Accordingly, Saint-…

Is COVID-19 ruining your Halloween plans? Haunted Montreal is not going to let the pandemic wreck the Halloween Season for everyone. Since the Government of Quebec has banned all “gatherings” in the COVID-19 Red Zone, Haunted Montreal is offering a Virtual Halloween Ghost Tour  from the safe…

A colourful mural, paying tribute to Saint-Laurent's multiculturalism, has recently enhanced the Norgate sector. Located a stone's throw from the Centre des loisirs, this new creation — entitled Jade et ses homies (Jade and her homies) by Saint-Laurent native and muralist Bryan Beyung — can …

The Royal Canadian Legion’s 2020 National Poppy Campaign will begin on October 30th this year, following the tradition of launching it on the last Friday in October.

Beginning September 28 until November 8, Renaissance will be holding its big fall donation campaign, an annual event that encourages the population to responsibly dispose of items they no longer need and that could be used by others.

More than 280 people took part virtually on Saturday, Sept. 26 in the fourth annual ‘Course pour la compassion’ , a walk/run to benefit the Teresa Dellar Palliative Care Residence. Together, they raised a record-breaking $104,438 net — all of which will be directed to providing quality palli…

To mark World Patient Safety Day, Saint-Laurent Borough Hall was lit up in orange the evening of Thursday, September 17 to show respect and recognition for all health care workers. The objective was also to raise awareness of the importance of health care workers' safety and its importance f…

The Teresa Dellar Palliative Care Residence was officially inaugurated on Thursday Sept. 10. Paying tribute to co-founder Teresa Dellar, M.S.C., MSW, PSW, FT, who died on August 19, 2019, the name change honours her work bringing palliative care to the community, 20 years of inspirational, c…

The 10th Annual Golf Tournament of the West Island Palliative Care Residence (WIPCR), which was held on August 31, 2020 at the prestigious Royal Montreal Golf Club, generated net profits of $375,000 for the Residence, said a September 1 release.

The current pandemic has tested the adaptability of community organizations in terms of their delivery of services, producing a variety of creative permutations and combinations.

The Young Bar of Montreal's (YBM) Legal Helpline is back for the benefit of the people of the province of Québec! On August 29 and 30, between 9 a.m. and 4 p.m., volunteer lawyers and notaries will answer citizen's questions by phone and provide them free legal advice as well as information …

After the massive explosion in Beirut on August 4, which resulted in a great number of deaths, thousands of injured and hundreds of thousands of homeless people, Saint-Laurent has decided, as a gesture of solidarity, to lower its flags at half-mast in order to share in the pain of the Lebane…

The Pointe-Claire Village Commercial Association (PCVCA) announced in an August 4 press release the launch of a crowdfunding campaign to support local businesses and organizations affected by COVID-19.

Thanks to a donation from the Sikh Community of Montreal to the Montréal Sacré-Cœur Hospital Foundation, it is possible to purchase a high-performance air filtration unit for the ENT and Cervical-Facial Surgery Department of the Hôpital du Sacré-Cœur- de-Montréal.

Amazon’s first fulfillment centre in Quebec officially celebrated its “day one” earlier this month with its newest employees. After a morning of learning, associates received the first item into the new building: a Hot Wheels Rooftop Race Garage.