Judgment increases protection for new home buyers

25Jan

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Judgment increases protection for new home buyers

PHOTO MARTIN CHAMBERLAND, ARCHIVES LA PRESSE The declaratory judgment is the result of a request filed by victims of the painful bankruptcy of the construction company Bel-Habitat last summer. These people had applied to the court in the hope of forcing the GCR organization to complete the construction of their house. Marie-Eve Fournier The Press Quebecers who buy a new home will now be better protect...

Patients returned home hours after complex surgeries

24Jan

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Patients returned home hours after complex surgeries

At Maisonneuve-Rosemont Hospital, surgeons perform delicate procedures and send patients home the same day. • Read also: 3299 hospitalized patients and 52 new deaths in Quebec The most recent example of this approach is a morning operation performed on a man with lung cancer. Despite the complexity of the surgery, the latter will leave the hospital in the afternoon. “We have done six interventions of this kind here. It started (...) in part because of the constraints that COVID imposed on us, ”says Dr George Rakovich, surgeon at Maisonneuve-Rosemont Hospital. To justify this new way of doing things in the field of pulmonary surgery, he explains that patients are generally “better at home than in the hospital”. In addition, due to the scarcity of hospital b...

23Jan

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United States Home Bound

Accused in the United States of having illegally exported to Iran, in 2016, machines that can be used to manufacture nuclear weapons, the Montreal businessman Reza Sarhangpour Kafrani maintains his innocence. • Read also: Exports to Iran cost him his business “There is no proof... there are no documents [qui prouvent] that I made an agreement with Iran," said Reza Sarhangpour Kafrani in an interview with The newspaper. According to him, he did nothing wrong because he only resold material that did not suit his needs. “This material in particular is very common for lab testing,” he explains. Mass spectrometers purchased in the United States in the fall of 2016 are used to test mineral concentrations in water and food, he said. However, the US governm...