The city is considering allowing food vendors back on the streets. Jacques-Alain Lavallée, a spokesman for Ville-Marie borough, says the city is weighing the pros and cons carefully. If given a green a light we would see the vendors hit the streets in the summer. The street meet carts would only by allowed to operate in designated areas. 

Jacques Chagnon was elected as Quebec’s new national assembly speaker.  In his opening speech he talked about the need to stop the acrimony in the legislature.

A veteran Liberal MNA, Chagnon was elected after Yvon Vallieres stepped down unexpectedly last week.

In Fukushima Japan engineers were able to stop radioactive water from leaking into the sea. A spokesperson for Tokyo Electric Power says the leaks were stopped after they injected a mixture of liquid rock and hardening agent.

However, due to a lack of storage space Tokyo Electric says they will still have to pump contaminated water into the sea. The water has low levels of radiation and will continue to be released until Friday.

A Montreal North minor-league hockey coach convicted of sexual abuse is blaming Hockey Quebec for allowing him near children. 55-year-old Gilbert Dubé has been sentenced to five years in jail for sexually abusing four children on his teams.

Dubé was also convicted in 1993 for sexual touching.

He told reporters before his sentence hearing Tuesday that Hockey Quebec should have checked his background before permitting him to coach. Dubé says he's come into contact with over 400 youths during his 20 years of coaching. 

Although he's pleaded guilty to six counts,  Dubé vows he has protected most of the young players.

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