It's Tuesday, May 5th. Good morning. Happy Cinco de Mayo. Also happens to be Taco Tuesday. We've got showers off and on, strong gusty winds, risk of a thunderstorm, but a warm high of 19. Right now it's 16, the dollar 73.42 cents U.S. I'm Stacey Englehart. A Quebec judge has cleared the way for a high-risk offender to appeal his sentence in the horrific Laval daycare bus crash. The man was found not criminally responsible for the 2023 deaths of two children. and granted an extension to challenge his high-risk status. A judge previously ruled Saint-Amand remains a threat to public safety. His legal team argues his strict confinement at a psychiatric hospital stifles his rehabilitation. Lawyers have until September 4th to file their arguments with the Quebec Court of Appeal. A cruise ship with nearly 150 people on board, including four Canadians, is waiting off of Cape Verde's coast in the Atlantic after three passengers died, three more injured, in a suspected outbreak of the rare hantavirus. Now it's mostly spread through rodent feces and not human-to-human contact and happened on a polar cruise from Argentina to Antarctica. Cape Verde is not allowing the ship to dock, so everybody alive and not are still on the boat. And Montreal is ramping up its spring cleaning blitz with a crackdown on messy storefronts and sidewalks in the Ville Marie borough. City inspectors have significantly increased enforcement, issuing nearly as many fines in early 2026 as they did in all of 2024. Steep penalties from $250 to $1,000 for residents who failed to sweep or clear the public areas adjacent to their properties. Light 1067 sports, NHL playoffs round two. Carolina beat Philly in overtime for a 2-0 lead. Vegas beat Anaheim in leads 1-0. Tonight, Colorado hosts Minnesota at 8. Colorado leads 1-0. The Habs start up their next series in Buffalo tomorrow at 7. PWHL semi-finals tonight. Montreal hosts Minnesota at 7. They trail the series 1-0. And baseball last night, the Jays lost to Tampa Bay 5-1. That series continues tonight, 640. Light 1067 weather, mostly cloudy today, a few showers off and on, risk of a thunderstorm, windy, and a warm high of 19. Tonight showers windy and seven, rain in the afternoon tomorrow, and a high of eight. Right now it's 13 degrees. From the Light 1067 News Center, I'm Stacey Englehart.
News Update, 8:00am, Monday May 5th, 2026
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