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• Update: 'Barrette has my trust,' Premier says after minister apologizes

  21-06-2018 23:55 via montrealgazette.com
  Premier Philippe Couillard threw his support behind Health Minister Gaétan Barrette on Thursday despite calls for his resignation by aboriginal leaders for recorded remarks that Barrette made in which he said he was sure that within six months an Inuit parent would be barred from a medevac flight because of intoxication.
  “I understand the reactions,” Couillard, who was flanked by Barrette, said in Montreal. “Mr. Barrette has just spoken. He’s sorry that his words h
  
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• Bylaw: No new alleyway parking spots for most of Plateau

  21-06-2018 23:53 via montrealgazette.com
  The administration of the Plateau Mont-Royal said Thursday that a bylaw banning any new parking spaces in alleyways will be implemented in 498 of the borough’s 505 zones.
  The bylaw bans the establishment of any new parking spots in public alleyways or lanes behind residences or businesses. The borough said existing parking spaces will not be affected.
  The Plateau’s administration said it wants to reduce the dependence on cars in the borough and turn alleyways into green spaces where
  
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• Growing cannabis: Couillard ready to go to court to defend Quebec ban

  21-06-2018 23:14 via montrealgazette.com
  Premier Philippe Couillard is ready to go to court to defend Quebec’s ban on growing cannabis at home, even if the federal law allows it.
  Couillard is convinced that his government acted within the limits of its jurisdiction, he told the media Thursday following a speech to 500 people at the Montreal Council on International Relations (CORIM).
  Couillard did not hide his disappointment with the Trudeau government’s decision to reject the amendment proposed by the Senate, which wo
  
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• PQ’s Lisée holds firm: Election first, sovereignty later

  21-06-2018 23:08 via montrealgazette.com
  WENDAKE — If people believe another Pierre-Karl Péladeau-style fist pump is all it takes to magically boost Quebec’s sovereignty movement, they are probably mistaken, the current party leader says.
  “It’s been tried, it’s been tried,” Jean-François Lisée quipped Thursday. “Been there, done that.”
  What the party will do, however, is stick to its current approach to the issue, he said: Try to win the fall election and use the firs
  
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• Hanes: Weep for the stolen children, and don't let your outrage subside

  21-06-2018 23:08 via montrealgazette.com
  If audio recordings of stolen children wailing for their parents and pictures of kids caged in steel kennels haven’t broken your heart during the past few weeks, then there’s a good chance you have no heart.
  Weep for the babies warehoused in “tender age shelters,” weep for the distraught toddlers denied hugs of reassurance or even their stuffed animals for support, weep for the parents who have been detained and criminally prosecuted without any clue where their
  
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• Rebuilding Louis-Hippolyte-La Fontaine Tunnel a four-year ordeal

  21-06-2018 22:52 via montrealgazette.com
  After the rebuilding of the Turcot Interchange and the Champlain Bridge comes Montreal’s next massive infrastructure project — repairing the 51-year-old Louis-Hippolyte-La Fontaine Tunnel connecting the island with Longueuil on the South Shore. Used by 120,000 vehicles every day, 13 per cent of them trucks, it is one of the most important conduits to and from the city. The rebuild is slated to begin in 2020, and the tunnel will remain open to traffic throughout.
  Building the tunnel s
  
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• Stu Cowan: History of Canadiens' 1st-round picks over 33 years is ugly

  21-06-2018 22:51 via montrealgazette.com
  There has already been a ton of speculation ahead of Friday night’s NHL Draft in Dallas on which player the Canadiens will select with the No. 3 overall pick, or whether they might make a trade.
  GM Marc Bergevin has said he is listening to offers for the pick the Canadiens won at the NHL Draft Lottery after finishing 28th in the overall NHL standings. When you look at the Canadiens’ track record over the years with their first-round picks, trading it away for a proven NHLer might not
  
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• Summertime fun: Free in Montreal this holiday weekend

  21-06-2018 22:30 via montrealgazette.com
  It’s finally the long weekend, and if you spent all your cash on beer or enough white and blue paint to cover your entire body, here are some things you can do for free.
  Fête Nationale à Montreal
  There’s a bunch of free events happening to celebrate Quebec’s biggest party. On Saturday, head over to the Place des festivals for the Grand Spectacle, a huge concert featuring acts such as Vincent Vallières and Brigitte Boisjoli.
  If you survive the night, there ar
  
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• Bagpiper's ceremonial knife returned, case dropped

  21-06-2018 22:29 via montrealgazette.com
  Jeff McCarthy has his knife back.
  On Monday, the Montreal bagpiper walked into Police Station 50 on Ste-Catherine St. E., filled out the paperwork and was handed his sgian-dubh (pronounced skee-an do).
  In November 2016, while on break from performing at a McGill convocation ceremony at Place des Arts, McCarthy was stopped by police and handed a $221 ticket for wearing the small, ceremonial Scottish knife in his kilt hose sock as part of his traditional piping attire. The sgian-dubh was confiscat
  
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• Dalle Parc: City and Quebec to split some costs of park over Turcot Interchange

  21-06-2018 22:22 via montrealgazette.com
  The city of Montreal and the province have agreed to split the cost of public consultations to build an eventual park that will pass over the Turcot Interchange.
  Known as the Dalle Parc, the project originally envisioned the construction of a grassy walkway for cyclists and pedestrians linking Notre-Dame-de-Grace to the Lachine Canal, near Cavendish Blvd. at the corner of St-Jacques St.
  Estimated about a decade ago to cost $40 million, the project was in the original plans of the $4-billion Turc
  
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• Five Quebec craft beers you need to try this summer

  21-06-2018 21:56 via montrealgazette.com
  A summer hat trick: Montreal. Sunshine. Beer.
  For those hot days and sweltering nights, here is a list of five Quebec craft beers that are perfect for backyards, Balconville or your favourite terrasse.
  These beers were chosen in 2017 by Marilou Caty, director of the MBière School of Beerology.
  Floréal (5%)
  Lemon and camomile Witbier. A white beer with a smooth taste of fruit, herbs and oatmeal cookies. Lemony and peppery finish. Brasserie Générale, Queb
  
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• What's open and closed for Fête nationale

  21-06-2018 21:00 via montrealgazette.com
  Here is a partial list of what’s open and closed for Fête nationale on Sunday, June 24 and Monday, June 25.
  Federal and provincial offices in Montreal will be closed on Monday. Most Montreal city offices will also be closed Monday, including borough and Accès Montréal offices and points of service.
  Garbage, recycling, compost and bulky waste collection will take place according to the usual schedules in all boroughs.
  The municipal courthouse on Gosford St. will be close
  
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• Checking In: Distinct features take Le Germain Ottawa beyond boutique

  21-06-2018 21:00 via montrealgazette.com
  The recent launch of Le Germain Hotel Ottawa is a capital occasion and a very Canadian event.
  Groupe Germain Hôtels’s boutique properties consistently deliver appealing design, an engaged staff and breakfast at no extra charge. The brand, based in Quebec City, is refined but vibrant and stylish. That’s all good, but still the hotels embody a certain “je ne sais quoi.”
  “The intangible is the Germain culture, which is the key to our guests’ comfort,”
  
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• Montreal real estate: Why families are buying condos in Outremont

  21-06-2018 20:50 via montrealgazette.com
  The cycle of migration from suburb to city and back again seems as predictable in life as the flight of geese in the fall and spring. You grow up in the ‘burbs running from lawn to lawn with the neighbour kids. After high school, you flee what feels like bland nowheresville for the beguiling bright lights of the city … only to return a few years later when it’s time to have children of your own.
  According to a detailed snapshot of Montreal homebuyers released on Wednesday by t
  
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• Update: 'I have great respect for Indigenous communities,' Barrette says

  21-06-2018 20:37 via montrealgazette.com
  Health Minister Gaétan Barrette appeared to backtrack Thursday on controversial recorded remarks he had made in which he said he was sure that within six months a parent from a northern Inuit community would be barred from a medevac flight because of intoxication.
  Barrette stopped short of apologizing unreservedly for his remarks, suggesting that some people might have misinterpreted what he said.
  “I’m profoundly sorry that people are making that kind of assumption,” Bar
  
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• Quebec mosque shooting: 'Alexandre is not a monster,' Bissonnette's father says

  21-06-2018 20:27 via montrealgazette.com
  QUEBEC — Insisting his son is “not a monster,” Alexandre Bissonnette’s father blamed bullying and mental problems for the Quebec mosque massacre and lashed out at Crown prosecutors on Thursday.
  “Alexandre is not a monster,” Raymond Bissonnette told reporters in his first public comments since Bissonnette, 28, killed six Muslim men in a Quebec City mosque last year.
  He was reading a statement in the lobby of the Quebec City courthouse, standing next to Bis
  
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• Quebec mosque shooting: Bissonnette's parents make public statement

  21-06-2018 20:19 via montrealgazette.com
  Here is the statement read by Raymond Bissonnette — Alexandre Bissonnette’s father — to reporters at the end of his son’s sentencing hearing in Quebec City on Thursday. He was with Manon Marchand, his wife and Bissonnette’s mother.
  I would like to thank you for giving us the opportunity to share our thoughts concerning the terrible event that has befallen on all of us.
  I have assisted during all the representations of the sentencing of my son, Alexandre.
  I listened
  
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• Mired third in the polls, PQ soul-searching begins with sovereignty talk

  21-06-2018 17:10 via montrealgazette.com
  WENDAKE – A second Parti Québécois MNA has expressed doubts about the party’s strategy of putting the independence idea on the back burner.
  “I think François Gendron was partly right,” Bertrand MNA Claude Cousineau said Thursday. “It (the PQ strategy) stands but I would have preferred we talk more about it (sovereignty).”
  Asked if the strategy was the best for the party to adopt given the current climate, Cousineau said the jury is still o
  
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• Death during police chase in Gatineau sparks BEI investigation

  21-06-2018 15:23 via montrealgazette.com
  The death of a 28-year-old man who was hit by a car during a police chase in Gatineau is being investigated by Quebec’s Bureau des enquêtes indépendantes.
  According to the BEI, the incident began around 1:30 a.m. on Thursday when Gatineau police were informed that a man intended to steal cars parked at the Casino du Lac-Leamy.
  The man allegedly fled when a police officer who recognized him from the description got out of his car and approached him. During the on-foot chase, th
  
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• Inuk leader disappointed by Barrette's comments about parents in Quebec's North

  21-06-2018 15:04 via montrealgazette.com
  Indigenous communities in Northern Quebec are accusing provincial Health Minister Gaétan Barrette of perpetuating stereotypes after saying that parents whose children must be airlifted to the south of the province could be barred due to intoxication.
  Barrette is heard in an audio recording obtained by Le Devoir and the CBC that within the next six months, he believes there will be at least one case of a person being barred from an air ambulance because the person is agitated, drugged or u
  
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• Montreal police cars and uniforms get an update for 175th anniversary

  21-06-2018 13:52 via montrealgazette.com
  In celebration of the Montreal police service’s 175th anniversary, the SPVM unveiled on Thursday a new coat of arms that will be displayed on the officer’s uniforms and cars.
  The crest, which now reads “since 1843,” will gradually be making its way onto officer’s shoulders, while the fleet of patrol cars will slowly undergo a more dramatic transformation.The new high-contrast design features a predominantly navy blue body with white roofs and reflective stripes that
  
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• SAQ managers mobilizing as strike over long weekend looms: report

  21-06-2018 13:28 via montrealgazette.com
  The SAQ is preparing for a workers strike that could begin as soon as Saturday, the Journal de Québec is reporting.
  While the results of the SAQ employees’ union vote to strike won’t be known until Friday, the newspaper says the state society is planning to mobilize its senior staff in the event of a strike. The plan would allow the SAQ to keep about 50 of its 404 locations open.
  SAQ spokesperson Mathieu Gaudreault would not confirm the Journal de Québec’s re
  
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• While you were sleeping: Man pays waitress with her stolen credit card

  21-06-2018 12:56 via montrealgazette.com
  Here’s what happened while you were getting some refreshing shut-eye.
  A seven-year-old girl drowned in St-Amable. According to the Richelieu-Saint-Laurent police, the girl was out of sight for a couple of minutes while her mother was preparing dinner. The mother went looking for her daughter and found her in the family pool. Police were called and officers tried to resuscitate the girl; she was declared dead in hospital.
  Premier Philippe Couillard has announced plans for a diplom
  
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• Laval police arrest seven men suspected of sexually exploiting minors

  21-06-2018 12:48 via montrealgazette.com
  Seven men suspected of sexually exploiting minors have been arrested following a targeted operation, Laval police announced Thursday morning.
  The police service said the men, all residents of the greater Montreal region between the ages of 25 and 66, have been released after signing a promise to appear at the Laval courthouse at the beginning of August.
  The minimum sentence for soliciting sexual acts from a minor is 6 months in prison, police say.
  As a preventative measure, police also say membe
  
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• Brownstein: Teen mentor turns job snubs into inspiration: 'Never give up'

  21-06-2018 12:03 via montrealgazette.com
  Ali Allahyari knows all about the frustrations of trying to find work. He estimates that between the ages of 15 and 22 he sent out more than 150 job applications, for which only two prospective employers ever called him back.
  Allahyari, now 23, concedes he got lucky with one of the two employers to contact him after he had graduated from high school. It was as a result of a friend who worked at a fast-food franchise, where Allahyari would soon toil for two years while attending CEGEP.
  The second
  
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• Opinion: Support for Indigenous entrepreneurs pays dividends

  21-06-2018 12:00 via montrealgazette.com
  June 21 is National Indigenous Peoples Day and this year it’s appropriate to recognize the remarkable accomplishments of Indigenous entrepreneurs. Their contributions to our economy and the well-being of their people are of tremendous importance to Canada’s future.
  Indigenous participation in the economy is one of the great social and economic endeavours of our time. Action to raise incomes and living standards for First Nations, Inuit and Métis peoples is central to mending o
  
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• Montreal weather: A sunny summer day

  21-06-2018 12:00 via montrealgazette.com
  Sunny all day, and it’s also looking good for Friday.
  Environment Canada predicts a high of 22 Celsius, and a UV index of 8 or very high.
  Tonight: Clear and expect an overnight low of 12 C.
  Don’t forget to submit your photos of Montreal via Facebook, Twitter and Instagram by tagging them with #ThisMtl. We’ll feature one per day right here in the morning file. Today’s photo was posted on Instagram by @pamplemouss27.
  Quote of the day:
  You have to have th
  
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• Kanesatake after-school program: ‘We can’t afford to lose this’

  21-06-2018 12:00 via montrealgazette.com
  It didn’t take long for the children to wrestle away control of the Native Friendship Centre from the grown-ups.
  Within minutes of their arrival, they took over the centre’s kitchen: chopping vegetables, spreading icing on a cake and running the food down four flights of stairs to the dining hall.
  Within an hour, the kids — age 9 to 12 — had cooked up enough meals to feed dozens of homeless men and women as well as elders in Montreal’s urban Indigenous community. An
  
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• Young girl drowns in St-Amable, just east of Montreal

  21-06-2018 04:38 via montrealgazette.com
  SAINT-AMABLE — A seven-year-old girl drowned just after 5 p.m. on Wednesday in St-Amable in Montérégie.
  According to the Richelieu-Saint-Laurent police, the girl was out of sight for a couple of minutes while her mother was preparing dinner.
  The mother went looking for her daughter and found her in the family pool.
  Police were called and officers tried to resuscitate the girl; she was declared dead in hospital.
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• In case you missed it, here's what happened in Montreal on June 20

  21-06-2018 04:30 via montrealgazette.com
  A look at the day’s events in and around Montreal:
  Montreal, St-Lambert vow to work together on concert-noise complaints
  Montreal and St-Lambert promised Wednesday to work together to address long-standing complaints by South Shore residents about loud music coming from Parc Jean-Drapeau.
  “From now on, we will work hand in hand to manage noise related to summer concerts,” officials from the two municipalities and the Société du Parc Jean-Drapeau, which r
  
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• Earl De La Perralle: For Sun Youth co-founder, the organization was his family

  21-06-2018 02:44 via montrealgazette.com
  There’s a story about Earl De La Perralle that Sid Stevens likes to tell because it shows just how invested he was in the Sun Youth Organization, which the two co-founded and ran together for decades.
  He had taken his daughter, Kara, to a football game at Jeanne Mance Park; one of his teams was playing. She was four years old. And so involved was he in the game — it was a championship game and his team won — that he was halfway home to Rosemere before he realized he had left Ka
  
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• Premier Couillard takes tough stance in defence of Quebec

  21-06-2018 02:43 via montrealgazette.com
  QUEBEC — Premier Philippe Couillard has announced plans for a diplomatic mission to the United States to preach the advantages of free trade and limit the damages on the home front of American protectionism.
  And he has taken a cue from a growing campaign on social media and asked Quebecers to think twice before buying American goods — food in particular — when there are equivalent Canadian and Quebec alternatives.
  “We all have the capacity to make choices, and the additio
  
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• Canada gets failing grade for detaining migrant children: researchers

  21-06-2018 01:04 via montrealgazette.com
  Compared with the U.S., Canada may seem like paradise on Earth for families seeking asylum.
  But we still have a long way to go to live up to that reputation, say researchers, who give Canada a failing grade when it comes to our practice of detaining children for immigration purposes — including in jails and correctional facilities.
  At a conference in Montreal on Wednesday, World Refugee Day, Hanna Gros of the University of Toronto and Delphine Nakache of the University of Ottawa prese
  
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• Super Aqua Club owner to face charges of sexual assault

  21-06-2018 00:40 via montrealgazette.com
  Réjean Julien Proulx, the owner of the Super Aqua Club waterpark in Pointe-Calumet, was arrested Friday on charges of sexual assault and sexual exploitation towards a 16-year-old boy.
  Proulx appeared before a judge at the St-Jerôme courthouse on Wednesday and was released on bail.
  Police are worried that there may be other possible victims and are asking them to please come forward.
  Potential victims are being asked to contact the Sûreté du Québec at 1-800-659-42
  
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• Ottawa will support steel, aluminum producers: Freeland

  21-06-2018 00:26 via montrealgazette.com
  The federal government will provide support for Canadian aluminium and steel producers affected by U.S. import tariffs, Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland said in Montreal on Wednesday.
  “We understand the situation, we understand that the tariffs are illegal and unjust, and we understand the importance of defending and supporting the industry and its workers and we are going to do so,” she said.
  While Freeland used her government’s support for the softwood lumber i
  
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• Homeless centre was facing budget cuts at time of suicide, coroner told

  21-06-2018 00:21 via montrealgazette.com
  Facing a shrinking budget and an uncertain financial future, the NAHA Centre had no choice but to cut staff in late 2015.
  Until then, the centre, which houses 15 to 20 homeless men, had managed to scrape together enough funding from private and public partners to employ two social workers who oversaw residents. Now it had to go down to one.
  Around the same time, Mario-Nelson Boucher, 44, arrived at its doors after spending 23 years in federal and provincial prisons. He seemed motivated
  
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• Construction to close René-Lévesque between Guy and de la Montagne

  21-06-2018 00:20 via montrealgazette.com
  The westbound lanes of René-Lévesque Blvd. will be closed between Guy and de la Montagne Sts. from 11 p.m. on June 22 until 4 a.m. June 26, the public works department says.
  René-Lévesque eastbound will be reduced to one lane of traffic throughout the same time period.
  The closures are due to construction.
  
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• Stu Cowan: 'Coach Earl' had impact on a lot of young athletes at Sun Youth

  21-06-2018 00:17 via montrealgazette.com
  “Coach Earl” wasn’t just a coach to the kids who played for him on the Sun Youth Hornets minor football teams over the years.
  “He was a father figure and a big-brother figure for all of us who played for him,” Jean-Marc Edmé, who played midget football at Sun Youth, said about Earl De La Perralle. “He was a great man.”
  De La Perralle, a co-founder of the Sun Youth Organization and its executive director, died Tuesday at age 73.
  Edmé only st
  
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• Poll: Will you wait for English version of Denys Arcand's latest film?

  21-06-2018 00:11 via montrealgazette.com
  Montreal writer-director extraordinaire Denys Arcand’s latest opus, La chute de l’empire américain (The Fall of the American Empire), is coming out next week.
  For English fans of the celebrated Québécois auteur, the glitch will be that the film will be shown in French only for now in Quebec. Séville, the movie’s distributor, will not screen a single copy with English subtitles.
  Late fall is the earliest a subtitled version would be availabl
  
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• NFB makes progress in its Indigenous Action Plan

  21-06-2018 00:09 via montrealgazette.com
  The National Film Board says it has made progress in showcasing Indigenous talent, but admits there is still work to be done.
  The NFB supported 35 projects by Indigenous artists in the first year of its 2017–2020 Indigenous Action Plan, representing 10 per cent of its total production expenditures.
  The plan aims to cover at least 15 per cent of production costs for projects completed by Indigenous artists by 2020.
  The NFB also launched an Indigenous Cinema portal on its website this year,
  
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