Quebec Premier François Legault wants Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to appease Donald Trump by tightening border security and clamping  down on the illegal drug trade in response to the president-elect's threat of imposing 25 per cent tariffs on Canadian and Mexican imports.

Chants and speeches broke the quiet that surrounded the shuttered campus of Dawson College in downtown Montreal Thursday, as student protesters held a rally calling for Quebec post-secondary institutions to divest from companies with ties to Israel and called on the federal government to take a stance against the war in Gaza.

A former special forces soldier is suing the federal government, alleging he was shunned by his unit and pushed out of the military after he denounced Canadian troops' alleged involvement in the killing of unarmed people in Afghanistan.

Pierre Fitzgibbon, the provincial minister for economy and energy and a prominent figure of the ruling Coalition Avenir Québec cabinet, is stepping down a week before the fall parliamentary session begins and with several big projects in motion.

Aerial images now show three floors of the residential building in southwestern Montreal exposed and caved-in downwards, as if some giant hand had pressed a finger into its roof. A red bicycle with a milk carton as a basket somehow hung vertically among the debris.

A threatening email was sent early Wednesday morning to dozens of Jewish institutions across Canada, including several in Montreal, prompting an RCMP investigation. 

The portion of water main pipe that broke last week, resulting in a geyser that flooded dozens of homes and businesses east of downtown, was expected to last another decade, according to an analysis ordered by the City of Montreal after the pipe's last inspection in 2018.