Sources for Reporting: Stats, Legal, & Government

• City of Montreal, News Releases and Public Notices
• The City of Montreal’s official home page
  Links to information about the City of Montreal, the administration, executive committee, municipal council, descriptions of municipal departments, contact people, demographic and economic information, municipal election results and more.
• Service de securite incendie de Montreal
  Montreal fire department.

• Montreal statistics 
  The starting point for finding a wealth of demographic, social, cultural and economic statistics on the City of Montreal.
• Agence de la sante et des services sociaux de Montreal
  Information, reports, resources and contacts for health and social issues in Montreal.
• Census 2016  Profiles by region, metropolitan area

See also additional statistical databases and resources 

• Montreal By-Laws
• Service de police de la Ville de Montreal
  Press releases and news from the Montreal police department

• Repertoire Communautaire 
  A directory of community service organizations organized by category (eg: housing, intercultural, elderly).
• Quebec 211, Information and Referral Centre of Greater Montreal
  A database directory of community and social services in Montreal and other regions of the province
• Volunteer Bureau of Montreal
  Lists community groups actively looking for volunteers by subject.

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• Quebec Government (main page)
  Press releases; invitations to the media, lists of agencies, ministeries, organizations. This is a portal page and with extensive links to Quebec government websites.
• National Assembly of Quebec
  Members of National Assembly, with brief biographical info; index by name or electoral division; lists of Committees and members; committee mandates and proceedings and calendar of proceedings; office holders; National Assembly proceedings; order paper and notices; debates, bills; votes and proceedings.
• Elections Quebec
  Results and statistics on past provincial general elections, referendums and by-elections, open data
• Commission d'acces a l'information du Quebec
  Provides the procedures and list of official contact persons to write to in order to obtain documents using the Act Respecting Access to Documents Held by Public Bodies and the Protection of Personal Information in the province of Quebec.

• CanLII Quebec
  Judgements of Municipal Courts, Court of Appeal, Superior Court, Court of Quebec, Human Rights Tribunal, Professionals Tribunal
• Decision des tribunaux du Quebec
  Full-text of judgments from Quebec courts. Allows searching by court (eg: Cour Superieur) and by date. See also the website of the Tribunaux du Quebec for links to the websites of the Superior Court of Quebec, the Court of Quebec and the Human Rights Tribunal.
• Quebec Civil Code
• Lois et Reglements du Quebec
  The full-text of Quebec laws, accompanying regulations and bills (projets de lois). See also CanLII Quebec.
• Ministere du securite publique
  Statistics on crime, the coroners office, publications and reports.

• Institut de la Statistique du Quebec
  Quebec statistics on many aspects including population, labour, health, living conditions, education, economics, finance, trade.
• Panorama des regions du Quebec

• Registre des entreprises du Quebec

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See also Government Information 

• CNW Group
  Canadian newswire stories and tools for journalists.
• The Canadian Encyclopedia

• Elections Canada
  Results of past federal general elections and by-elections
• Parliamentary Internet
  Bills, debates, journals, committee memberships and mandates, reports, of the House of Commons and the Senate; biographical information, calendars, Library of Parliament background reports on topical issues.
• Hill Times

• CanLII
  Full-text of judgements from federal, provincial and municipal courts
• Supreme Court of Canada Reports
  The full-text of Supreme Court of Canada judgments.
• Federal Court of Canada
  Decisions of the Federal Court of Canada.
• Consolidated Statutes and Regulations of Canada
  The full-text of the statutes and regulations of Canada.Also links to Constitution, Canadian Charter of Human Rights, and a table of public statues and responsible ministers
• Department of Justice, Reports and Publications

• Statistics Canada
  Latest economic indicators, consumer price index, population and community statistics. Worth highlighting are:
  
• The Daily
  The news bulletin of Statistics Canada for daily news on economic indicators as well as special reports.

• Sedar.com 
  Provides access to company and investment public filings with the Canadian Securities Administors. Searchable by company name.
• Edgar
  Provides access to Securities and Exchange Commission filings of U.S. and major Canadian companies

For additional resources with company information, see Company Information

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