Historic 200th St. Patrick's Day parade ready to roll through Montreal | Montreal transit agency to stop allowing unhoused people to use Metros for shelter | 'Can you hear me now?': Montrealers share their pandemic memories, 5 years later
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Good evening, these are your top stories for Thursday, March 13, 2025.
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Historic 200th St. Patrick's Day parade ready to roll through Montreal; A giant St\. Patrick makes its way along a street during the St\. Patrick's Day parade in Montreal, Sunday, March 17, 2024\. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Graham Hughes

Historic 200th St. Patrick's Day parade ready to roll through Montreal

March 13 , 2025 at 02:00:00 p.m. EDT • :

Montreal's St. Patrick's Day parade first started on Saint-Paul Street in 1824, and a couple centuries years later, this annual tradition is still going strong.
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Montreal transit agency to stop allowing unhoused people to use Metros for shelter; An STM constable is seen at a Metro entrace\. Security concerns have risen sharply in Montreal's public transit system since the pandemic\. The STM chair said the Metro is being unfairly relied upon as a "last-resort shelter\."

Montreal transit agency to stop allowing unhoused people to use Metros for shelter

March 13 , 2025 at 01:30:00 p.m. EDT • :

The Montreal agency overseeing the city's public transit network is adopting a policy forcing people within its Metro system to circulate and not linger until the weather gets warmer at the end of April. 
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'Can you hear me now?': Montrealers share their pandemic memories, 5 years later; A composite image of a dark photo of a woman wearing a mask and the This is Montreal logo\.

'Can you hear me now?': Montrealers share their pandemic memories, 5 years later

March 13 , 2025 at 12:10:59 p.m. EDT • :

In this episode of This is Montreal, five Montrealers reflect on what they remember most about the early days of the pandemic and how their lives have changed since.
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Cross-border Montreal shopper feels 'punished' after being stung by tariffs on return home; Canadian shoppers are getting charged 25 per cent tariffs on some U\.S\. goods when they're returning to the country because of the ongoing trade war\.

Cross-border Montreal shopper feels 'punished' after being stung by tariffs on return home

March 12 , 2025 at 02:00:00 p.m. EDT • :

Canadian cross-border shoppers are getting charged a surtax on some goods on their return home because of the trade war with the U.S. Here's what you need to know if you're planning to buy food across the border.
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Single-vehicle crash on Montreal's Highway 40 sends 4 to hospital; Police collision reconstruction experts were at the scene trying to determine the exact cause of the crash\. The highway has since been reopened\.

Single-vehicle crash on Montreal's Highway 40 sends 4 to hospital

March 13 , 2025 at 08:45:04 a.m. EDT • :

Police were notified of the incident around 1:30 a.m. Thursday. The vehicle transporting two men and two women, aged between 18 and 35, crashed into a wall near the Highway 15 South on-ramp. The highway has since reopened.
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If a military conflict came to Canada's North, it might look something like this; Troops from the 34th Canadian Brigade undergo a conflict simulation in Chisasibi Cree Nation in early March 2025\. The Canadian military is ramping up training in winter conditions amid geopolitical tensions over the Arctic\.  

March 13 , 2025 at 04:00:00 a.m. EDT • :

If a military conflict came to Canada's North, it might look something like this

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Freeland to be transport minister, Guilbeault Quebec lieutenant in Carney cabinet: sources; Liberal Leader Mark Carney talks to media as he leaves the prime minister's office and makes his way to a caucus meeting in Ottawa, Monday, March 10, 2025\.  

March 13 , 2025 at 11:43:58 a.m. EDT • :

Freeland to be transport minister, Guilbeault Quebec lieutenant in Carney cabinet: sources

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Here are the U.S. products Canada is targeting in response to Trump's tariffs on steel and aluminum; The United States Steel Mon Valley Works Clairton Plant is in Clairton, Pennsylvania, on Sunday, October 13, 2024\.  

March 13 , 2025 at 12:13:18 p.m. EDT • :

Here are the U.S. products Canada is targeting in response to Trump's tariffs on steel and aluminum

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Quebec police investigating death of man at ski hill in Mont-Tremblant; The crash happened in Beauceville, Que\., which is about 72 kilometres southeast of Quebec City in the Chaudière-Appalaches region\.  

March 12 , 2025 at 12:38:29 p.m. EDT • :

Quebec police investigating death of man at ski hill in Mont-Tremblant

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Missing Longueuil, Que., teen found safe and sound, police say; Longueuil police are investigating after a man in his 30s died in a house fire\.  

February 20 , 2025 at 02:45:09 p.m. EST • :

Missing Longueuil, Que., teen found safe and sound, police say

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