Montreal Gazette

NEW YORK — With Donald Trump sitting just feet away, Stormy Daniels testified Tuesday at the former president's hush money trial about a sexual encounter the porn actor says they had in 2006 that resulted in her being paid to keep silent during the presidential race 10 years later. Read More

QUEBEC — In the wake of the resignation of Émilise Lessard-Therrien from her position as co-spokesperson, Québec solidaire's national women's council denounced the muzzling of women and “the growing influence of people undemocratically elected” within the party. Read More

OTTAWA — An appearance by the CEO of the Canadian Broadcasting Corp. at a parliamentary committee turned personal Tuesday, even before Catherine Tait faced a barrage of questions from Conservative MPs over executive bonuses. Read More

Canadiens general manager Kent Hughes is not a very superstitious man. Read More

OTTAWA — The federal Liberals are trying to crack down on a scourge of auto thefts across the country, even as the government is struggling to keep its own vehicles away from thieves, new data show. Read More

OTTAWA — India's envoy to Ottawa says Canadians need to rebuild the country's brand as a destination for bright minds, lamenting that a number of international students have died after being exploited. Read More

The Canadian government used a Haitian executive's property for helicopter evacuations of its citizens as violence escalated there last month, even while refusing to remove him from a sanctions list, a Federal Court application says. Read More

OTTAWA — More than 15 civil society groups are urging the justice minister to hive off proposed changes to the Criminal Code and Canadian Human Rights Act from a bill aimed at tackling online harms. Read More

Montreal's municipal employees pension fund plans to withdraw its investments from fossil fuels and 230,000 trees are expected be planted in the east end of the city. Read More

CAIRO — Hamas has formally accepted a ceasefire deal that could end the war in Gaza. Israel, however, insists that its core demands were not met in the proposal mediated by Egypt and Qatar. Read More

Clad in raincoats and rain boots, four daycare-aged children were laughing as they splashed in a puddle on McGill's lower field on Monday morning. On Tuesday afternoon, that spot was used by a group of civil engineering students learning how to use transit measuring devices (also known as theodolites) for land surveying. Read More

Montreal police and the Quebec prosecutor’s office are launching a pilot project to help authorities better address domestic violence-related strangulations, which they say are among the strongest indicators a victim may eventually be killed by their abuser. Read More

TORONTO — Drake's sprawling Toronto mansion was surrounded by police on Tuesday after a security guard working outside the rapper's residence was seriously injured in an overnight shooting. Read More

ROME — Laval's Leylah Fernandez made an early exit from the Italian Open on Tuesday with a 6-4, 6-1 first-round loss to Romanian veteran Ana Bogdan. Read More

The Titanic’s maiden voyage may have been doomed in 1912, but the same can’t be said for the James Cameron blockbuster the ship’s sinking was to spawn 85 years later. Nor for the more recent jukebox musical parody of the film, the Off-Broadway hit Titanique, which offers a rather obtuse and whimsical view of the ocean tragedy with a fictional Céline Dion taking centre stage. Read More

Artturi Lehkonen has earned a new nickname with the Colorado Avalanche — Warrior. Read More

The man charged with the murder of Jannai Dopwell-Bailey, a 16-year-old boy killed outside his school in Côte-des-Neiges nearly three years ago, appeared to write poems or rap lyrics about the homicide days before he was arrested. Read More

HAMILTON — Substitute Bryce Duke's 52nd-minute goal gave CF Montreal a 1-1 draw — and a valuable away goal — in the opening leg of its Canadian Championship quarterfinal with Forge FC on Tuesday. Read More

This is a very big week for soccer in Montreal. Read More

Top-ranked Toronto chose Minnesota as their opponent in the first round of the Professional Women's Hockey League playoffs, which means Montreal will face Boston in the other series, which begins Thursday at Place Bell in Laval (7 p.m., TSN1, TSN5, RDS, TSN 690, YouTube). Read More