Une voiture coincée dans la rivière des Mille Îles a été repêchée par hélicoptère (VIDÉO)
Elle était là depuis mars dernier. 😲
Presque devenu une attraction touristique, le véhicule coincé dans la rivière des Mille Îles depuis mars 2026 a finalement été repêché, à la suite d'une opération policière d'envergure qui s'est déroulée ce 21 octobre, soit sept mois plus tard.
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La voiture abandonnée en plein milieu des rapides, à Terrebonne, a enfin quitté l’eau, et pas de la façon la plus classique : elle est repartie suspendue au bout d’un câble, sous un hélicoptère.
Les services de police de Terrebonne/Sainte-Anne-des-Plaines/Bois-des-Filion et de Laval avaient prévenu la population le matin même qu’une opération conjointe aurait lieu vers 9 h. C’était leur deuxième essai : une première tentative, à la fin juillet, avait échoué parce que les conditions ne permettaient pas d’intervenir de façon sécuritaire.
Cette fois, c’était la bonne. Le maire de Terrebonne, Mathieu Traversy, a confirmé la fin des travaux sur les réseaux sociaux, en soulignant qu’il s’agissait d’une « opération complexe » et en remerciant les équipes mobilisées. Et les images de la manœuvre, elles, sont assez impressionnantes.
Récupérer une auto dans une rivière, ce n’est déjà pas simple. Mais à cet endroit précis, « les berges et l'impact environnemental rendaient l’approche difficile », selon ce qu’a expliqué le capitaine Vincent Charbonneau, du Service de police de Terrebonne, à Radio-Canada.
La solution retenue : faire appel à un remorqueur professionnel et en remorquage, et à un hélicoptère assez puissant pour hisser le véhicule hors de l’eau.
L’opération a obligé les autorités à ériger un large périmètre de sécurité, notamment sur le boulevard des Mille-Îles, du côté de Laval. Le voisinage avait aussi été prévenu que le bruit et le souffle des pales risquaient de se faire sentir.
Une épave qui faisait jaser

Depuis des mois, la carcasse intriguait les gens du coin, et l’opération de mercredi a fait réagir en masse sur les réseaux sociaux. Plusieurs ont salué la fin de ce qu’une personne a qualifié de « toute une épopée », tandis qu’une autre a lancé que l’auto était « presque rendue la 8e merveille du monde ».
Mais la grande question qui revient dans les commentaires, c’est la facture. « Maintenant, envoyez la facture des opérations au propriétaire! », a écrit un internaute, dans un commentaire qui a récolté des dizaines de réactions. La Ville n’a pas précisé publiquement le coût de l’opération ni qui l’assumera.
Narcity Québec s’est renseigné auprès de la Ville de Terrebonne pour savoir qui paiera le tout. L’article sera mis à jour dès qu’une réponse sera obtenue.
Pour ce qui est de la suite de l'enquête, les autorités ont mentionné que l'identité du propriétaire de cette Nissan Altima était connue, mais n'allait pas être divulguée pour le moment. Narcity Québec a aussi contacté le Service de police de Terrebonne/Sainte-Anne-des-Plaines/Bois-des-Filion afin d’en savoir plus sur les prochaines étapes du dossier, notamment sur la possibilité que des accusations soient déposées, puisque la thèse de l’accident a été écartée. L’article sera mis à jour dès qu’une réponse sera obtenue.
L’épave a peut-être quitté la rivière, mais elle risque de faire parler d’elle encore un bout.
Why has B.C.'s snap election caught both main parties unprepared?
When a snap election is called, at least one side would normally be prepared.
But that hasn’t been the case in British Columbia, resulting in a provincial election campaign like no other, political watchers say.
The campaign has seen interim B.C. Conservative leader Lorne Doerkson going without media availabilities on several days, including on Tuesday and Wednesday in the home stretch, ahead of Saturday's final voting day.
The NDP has meanwhile pivoted its messaging from focusing on U.S. President Donald Trump, to affordability, to the need for a stable majority.
And campaigning has also been notably muted with relatively few large-scale rallies, although both major parties have events scheduled this week.
Even the NDP campaign bus, which was adorned with Eby's smiling face in 2024, is an anonymous-looking coach, devoid of slogans.
Hamish Telford, an associate professor of political science at the University of the Fraser Valley, said he had noticed the "lack of preparation."
"This is especially surprising since the NDP called this election. You would think, if they were going to call a snap election, that they at least would be prepared, and that they would obviously catch the Conservatives off guard," said Telford.
"This was an election of their making, and they are not entirely ready for it," he added.
Telford said the NDP had initially been anticipating Eby running against Kerry-Lynne Findlay, a divisive and unpopular leader of the Conservatoves. But Findlay resigned and was replaced by Doerkson.
Eby called the snap election anyway.
Telford said he would have advised the NDP not to go through with it.
"They should have called the election off, but evidently things were too late, or they had built up too much momentum and couldn't stop themselves." said Telford.
Angelo Isidorou, who is chief strategist for the Conservatives, said snap elections can be messy compared with fixed-date polls.
"In this case, this is what makes this very unique … not only is it a snap election, but it was an election that took place at the same time as municipal elections, which never happens. So, it was all very chaotic," said Isidorou of the Oct. 17 municipal polls across B.C.
He said the "biggest difference" between a snap election and a fixed-date election is the "predictability."
"It's difficult being in Opposition because you don't know when the election is going to come, and when an election is called, you only have maybe over a week to recruit candidates and get them on the ballot because there's a deadline. When there's a fixed election, you can predict all of this," said Isidorou.
"In this case, it wasn't, and I think what surprised me the most is really how not prepared the NDP was," said Isidorou, adding that otherwise, the NDP would have fielded a full slate of 93 candidates in every riding.
Elections BC said the NPD was one short of a full slate, after failing to nominate a representative in Peace River North.
But vetting may have suffered in the rush to field candidates.
While the Conservatives managed to fill their 93-riding slate, two candidates have since been disavowed by the party.
Jordan McIntosh, the 18-year-old former Conservative candidate for Vancouver-Strathcona, was dumped last Thursday over online posts that included saying Hitler killed "lots of Jews" not because he "hated them specifically" but because there were so many of them.
Another candidate, Joachim Agou, was ejected from the party earlier this month for online comments saying the driver of a car that rammed a pro-Palestinian protest group in Switzerland should have "reversed too."
Political scientist Michael Prince said the election has "elements of some really unusual features."
He said it was puzzling to see parties still fall into the trap of recruiting inappropriate candidates.
"They haven't really thoroughly vetted their history of social media posts," said Prince, the Lansdowne professor emeritus of social policy at the University of Victoria.
"We've seen, particularly on the Conservative side, candidates that have been removed by the leader or have stepped down very quickly," he said. "So, that's kind of the new unusual, but it's been something that's unfortunately pretty typical over the last several elections."
This report by The Canadian Press was first published Oct. 22, 2026.
By Nono Shen | Copyright 2026, The Canadian Press. All rights reserved.
Lower courts' reasoning 'neuters' Emergencies Act, government tells Supreme Court
The federal government says the courts engaged in "second-guessing with the benefit of 20/20 hindsight" when they ruled it lacked legal justification to use the Emergencies Act four years ago to quell protests.
Lawyers for the government make the argument in a submission seeking a Supreme Court of Canada hearing of the federal case for invoking the emergencies law to deal with protest actions in the national capital and at key border points.
The top court is slated to rule Thursday on whether to grant the government leave to appeal.
For about three weeks in January and February 2022, downtown Ottawa was filled with protesters, including many in large trucks that blocked streets around Parliament Hill.
While many protesters demonstrated against COVID-19 health restrictions, the "Freedom Convoy" protests also attracted some with a variety of grievances against then-prime minister Justin Trudeau and his government.
Trucks also jammed key border crossings to the United States, including routes at Windsor, Ont., and Coutts, Alta.
On Feb. 14, 2022, the government invoked the Emergencies Act, which allowed for temporary measures, including regulation and prohibition of public assemblies, the designation of secure places, direction to banks to freeze assets, and a ban on support for protest participants.
It was the first time the law had been used since it replaced the War Measures Act in 1988.
In a Feb. 15 letter to premiers, Trudeau said the federal government believed it had reached a point "where there is a national emergency arising from threats to Canada's security.''
The Public Order Emergency Commission, which carried out a mandatory review after the act was used, concluded in early 2023 that the federal government had met the very high legal standard for using the law.
The Trudeau government's move was also scrutinized in Federal Court.
The Canadian Civil Liberties Association and several other groups and individuals argued that Ottawa lacked sound statutory grounds to deploy the emergency measures.
The government said the steps taken to deal with the turmoil were targeted, proportional and time-limited, and complied with the Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
Richard Mosley, the Federal Court judge who heard the case, concluded the decision to invoke the Emergencies Act did not bear the hallmarks of reasonableness — justification, transparency and intelligibility — and was not supported in relation to the relevant factual and legal constraints.
Ultimately, there "was no national emergency justifying the invocation of the Emergencies Act," Mosley said in his January 2024 ruling.
In January of this year, a three-judge panel of the Federal Court of Appeal unanimously affirmed that ruling.
The Court of Appeal said that as disturbing and disruptive as the blockades and the "Freedom Convoy" protests in Ottawa could be, "they fell well short of a threat to national security."
In its written submission requesting a Supreme Court hearing, the government says the Federal Court and the Court of Appeal "applied the wrong principles on judicial review."
The courts should have asked whether — based on the information available at the time — federal officials acted reasonably in concluding a public order emergency existed, the submission says.
"Instead, they asked, with the benefit of hindsight, whether there were reasonable grounds to believe that a public order emergency existed."
In the end, both courts applied their own view of what was reasonable, the government says.
"This non-deferential approach hamstrings governments' ability to respond effectively to future crises, neuters the Act" and conflicts with the Supreme Court's administrative law rulings over the years, the submission says.
"It amounts to second-guessing with the benefit of 20/20 hindsight," the government adds.
"In the end, no one disputes that emergency measures should be a temporary means of last resort. But that does not mean those measures should be available only in the most dire and extreme circumstances."
In its submission to the Supreme Court, the Canadian Civil Liberties Association says the government should be denied leave to appeal because it is attempting to relitigate "the same issues and arguments the Court of Appeal dismissed."
This report by The Canadian Press was first published Oct. 22, 2026.
By Jim Bronskill | Copyright 2026, The Canadian Press. All rights reserved.

Élisabeth Rioux répond aux gens qui lui disent qu’elle devrait « manger quelque chose »
« Ces commentaires sont toujours dans ma tête. »
L'entrepreneuse et créatrice de contenu Élisabeth Rioux a fait une intervention sur son compte Instagram le 12 décembre dernier. C'est sous une vidéo d'elle pendant un voyage qu'elle s'est ouverte au sujet des internautes qui ont des propos dégradants à l'égard de son apparence physique.
Élisabeth a décidé de répondre sans tabou aux personnes qui partagent des commentaires de bodyshaming sous ses photos : « "Anorexique", "Tu devrais aller manger quelque chose", "Tu ressembles à un squelette", etc., etc. sont tous des commentaires que j'ai reçus sous ma dernière publication. Ces commentaires sont toujours dans ma tête. », a-t-elle écrit en anglais.
Elle a ensuite avoué avoir un sentiment d'incompréhension lorsqu'elle reçoit des messages de la sorte : « Je ne comprends pas pourquoi les gens ressentent le besoin de commenter le poids de quelqu'un. Ça ne va pas aider, ça ne peut que faire mal alors pourquoi? Juste pourquoi? »
L'entrepreneuse a terminé son intervention en confiant qu'elle a toujours été comme ça et qu'elle n'a besoin de personne pour lui dire quand se nourrir :
« En tout cas, à tous ceux qui n'arrêtent pas de commenter "Va manger" sous mes photos, sachez que je mange beaucoup, le fait est que… Je vais aussi beaucoup aux toilettes (littéralement deux à quatre fois par jour), c'est mon métabolisme, j'imagine, je ne sais pas, j'ai toujours été comme ça. J’espère que maintenant tu es rassuré et arrête de penser que tu dois me rappeler de manger. »
Ce n'est pas la première créatrice de contenu à partager ce genre de message. Claudie Mercier d'Occupation Double Afrique Du Sud, Emy-Jade Greaves et plusieurs autres ont déjà abordé ce genre de propos, que ce soit pour répondre aux avis sur leur style vestimentaire, leurs habitudes de vie ou leur corps.