| | | Good evening, these are your top stories for Wednesday, March 16, 2022. Go to cbc.ca/news to read more stories. | | | | | Mar 16 , 2022 • 19:40 EDT | Quebec court Judge Jean-Louis Lemay has been asked to deliver what could be Quebec's harshest-ever punishment for drunk driving when he sentences Éric Légaré in mid-April. | Read more | | | | Mar 16 , 2022 • 19:00 EDT | For CBC's Creator Network, Montreal musician, comedian and TikTok creator Eve Parker Finley looks through old classified ads to see how affordable housing was in this idealized era of Montreal renting. | Read more | | | | Mar 16 , 2022 • 17:57 EDT | The bail hearing for the man suspected of beating a 10-year-old girl Monday as she walked home from school in Pointe-aux-Trembles has been postponed while the suspect undergoes a psychiatric evaluation. | Read more | | | | | Mar 16 , 2022 • 10:53 EDT | Quebec Health Minister Christian Dubé tabled a bill in the National Assembly Wednesday to lift the pandemic state of emergency while still retaining some provisions related to managing the health-care system. | Read more | | | | Mar 16 , 2022 • 14:49 EDT | In an internal letter obtained by CBC News, Agriculture Minister André Lamontagne said the government is working on draft legislation to ban devocalization, tail docking, declawing and ear pruning of cats and dogs. | Read more | | | | Enjoying this newsletter? You may also like CBC News Morning Brief, the news you need to know to start the day. Delivered weekday mornings. Sign up here | | | Share this newsletter | | or subscribe if this was forwarded to you. | | | | That's all for now. Check cbc.ca/news throughout the day for the most recent headlines. | | | | | |