They were surreal sights: mountains of ice, some as high as several storeys, pummeling Montreal's Old Port. For Montrealers in the 19th century, the ice shove was both a spectacle and a real and present danger.

"If there is something I am not, it is a racist," said Gatan Barrette, adding he's sorry if people "misinterpreted" remarks about the likelihood of having to bar parents "under the influence" from accompanying children on medevac flights from the north.

Despite decades of calls for provincial regulation from within the industry, massage therapy remains largely a patchwork of minimum requirements and codes of conduct and the profession is entirely self-regulating.

For years, Montrealers paid millions in overtime for police officers to keep traffic moving at construction sites. As we head into one of the busiest construction seasons the city has ever seen, cadets will be doing traffic-cop duty at more intersections.

Dr. Raymond Rezaie has been fined $10,000 and will lose his licence for six months for writing notes excusing CEGEP students from school and prescribing them medication for depression or anxiety without thoroughly examining them first.

Normand Morin, a former vice-president of SNC-Lavalin, has been charged with soliciting illegal campaign donations from the firm's employees and reimbursing them from company coffers.

Leader Franois Legault says ensuring more people "integrate" into Quebec's cultural and labour force will be good for the province, but other parties are critical of the plan.