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• Watch: A former drug user explains why safe injection sites matter

  22-06-2018 23:27 via montrealgazette.com
  Farin Shore, a former drug user and now an outreach worker at Cactus, explains how safe-injection sites work, and why it’s important to have them. Montreal obtained permission from Health Canada to open four of them last year, making it the second city in Canada to do so, after Vancouver. In their first year of existence, they helped 876 drug users for a total of 21,265 visits.
  
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• Fête nationale 2018: A guide to Montreal's festivities

  22-06-2018 23:06 via montrealgazette.com
  Q: What is the Fête nationale?
  June 24 was declared Quebec’s national holiday — hence the name “Fête nationale” — in 1977. The occasion is usually marked with performances and firework shows across the province, where it is also a statutory holiday. Although the Fête nationale is officially a one-day affair, festivities tend to start the night before. Indeed, a number of concerts are scheduled for June 23 this year.
  The Fête nationale celebra
  
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• The deadliest days on Quebec roads are about to begin

  22-06-2018 23:00 via montrealgazette.com
  Drive carefully: The 75 deadliest days on Quebec roads are about to begin.
  The Quebec branch of the Canadian Automotive Association said in a statement Friday on average, 100 people die on Quebec roads in the 75 days between the June 24 Fête nationale  and Labour Day, making summer the deadliest period of the year.
  During the summer in 2017, 92 people died in 88 collisions. That’s 26 per cent of the 359 total deaths on Quebec roads for the year.
  Speed, fatigue and distracted dri
  
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• Quebec will give Royal Victoria Hospital land to McGill University

  22-06-2018 22:51 via montrealgazette.com
  The Quebec government will cede part of the land occupied by the Royal Victoria Hospital to McGill University, the province announced Friday.
  In so doing, the government is also authorizing the university to undergo a vast renovation of part of the historic site along the southeastern flank of Mount Royal.
  McGill has long voiced its interest in occupying the land and properties housing the Royal Victoria, which were abandoned three years ago when the hospital operations were moved to the McGill
  
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• Youth charged with homicide in Nuns Island acquitted by a jury

  22-06-2018 22:04 via montrealgazette.com
  A jury has acquitted a youth who was charged with second-degree murder after having stabbed another teenager on Nuns’ Island more than year ago.
  Tiago Murias, one of two defence lawyers who represented the youth in a trial that began near the end of May, confirmed to the Montreal Gazette that his client was found not guilty following a trial at Montreal’s youth courthouse. The jury was in its third day of deliberation when it reached its decision on Friday.
  “We are very proud o
  
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• Ex-financial advisor barred from the profession faces criminal charges

  22-06-2018 21:28 via montrealgazette.com
  A former financial advisor, who was barred from the profession for life by a disciplinary tribunal, is now facing criminal charges.
  The Autorité des marchés financiers said it is launching criminal proceedings against Michael John Moore. He faces a total of 69 charges, including 34 counts of illegally practising as a securities broker, 34 counts of distributing securities without a prospectus and one count of obstructing an AMF investigation.
  In 2016, Moore’s permit to p
  
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• Canadiens' Trevor Timmins says NHL Draft would make a good movie

  22-06-2018 21:15 via montrealgazette.com
  Canadiens assistant general manager Trevor Timmins thinks someone should make a movie about the NHL Draft.
  It’s a great idea and focusing on the Canadiens at Friday night’s NHL Draft in Dallas (7:30 p.m., SN, TVA Sports) would be a good place to start. Heading into the draft, the Canadiens hold 10 picks, including the No. 3 overall selection in the first round and four second-round picks.
  “Has anyone ever watched Draft Day, that movie about the NFL?” Timmins said when he
  
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• A lot of intrigue with Canadiens holding No. 3 pick at NHL Draft

  22-06-2018 21:14 via montrealgazette.com
  Canadiens general manager Marc Bergevin says there’s one player available at Friday night’s NHL Draft in Dallas (7:30 p.m., SN, TVA Sports) who could definitely help his team right away next season.
  “I would say yeah, Dahlin,” Bergevin said with a smile and a laugh when he met with reporters Thursday in Dallas.
  Unfortunately for Bergevin and the Canadiens, Swedish defenceman Rasmus Dahlin is the consensus No. 1 pick and the Buffalo Sabres hold the first selection after wi
  
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• Assault in Dollard-des-Ormeaux sends 72-year-old to hospital

  22-06-2018 20:20 via montrealgazette.com
  A 72-year-old man was sent to hospital with potentially life-threatening upper-body injuries after an argument turned violent in Dollard-des-Ormeaux on Friday.
  Montreal police said that the victim was stabbed at approximately 11:30 a.m. while fighting with the suspect, a 47-year-old man, near the intersection of Sunnybrooke Blvd. and Hyman St.
  The suspect fled in a car before police arrived on the scene. The two men reportedly know each other.
  Police said that an investigation is underway as the
  
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• Inside the CFL: Bombers QB Chris Streveler enjoying his 15 minutes of fame

  22-06-2018 20:15 via montrealgazette.com
  The elevator doors opened and the fresh-faced kid with the beard that requires trimming emerged. Chris Streveler had almost forgotten about his media appointments, he admitted, and wished he was wearing a suit, not a white T-shirt, shorts and sneakers.
  “I’m just trying to enjoy the process, as I would be if I was the third-string guy or whatever. Enjoy it, have fun and keep it light,” said Streveler, the Canadian Football League’s flavour of the month. “I don’
  
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• Quebec will give the Royal Victoria Hospital land to McGill University

  22-06-2018 19:59 via montrealgazette.com
  The Quebec government will cede the land occupying the Royal Victoria Hospital to McGill University, the province announced Friday.
  In so doing, the government is also authorizing the university to undergo a vast renovation of the historic buildings along the southeastern flank of Mount Royal.
  McGill has long voiced its interest in occupying the land and properties housing the Royal Victoria, which were abandoned three years ago when the hospital operations were moved to the McGill University He
  
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• A slippery barbecue? Swimsuits probably a bad idea on new Verdun slide

  22-06-2018 19:57 via montrealgazette.com
  Here is a picture of slides that have been installed at Verdun beach.
  Drink it in with your eyes.
  Note how the sun glimmers off its metallic surfaces.
  Imagine how many rays of suns did not bounce right off those shiny slides.
  All of which is to say: Don’t those new slides look a little, well, hot?
  Slides have been installed at the Verdun beach in Montreal.
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  Montreal will have three new beaches — but not yet
  
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• What the Puck: Canadiens inextricably linked to Quebec's language politics

  22-06-2018 19:55 via montrealgazette.com
  The Montreal Canadiens are much more than simply a hockey team.
  Here we are at the start of summer in Montreal, a time for planning holidays, making the most of precious warm-weather months and maybe enjoying a few World Cup games on outdoor terrasses. So what was the main topic of conversation in many bars, cafés and open-line radio shows on Friday? Who Habs GM Marc Bergevin was going to pick up at the draft this weekend in Dallas and whether or not captain Max Pacioretty was going to be
  
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• Accurso trial: Deliberating jury asks question about key witness

  22-06-2018 19:32 via montrealgazette.com
  The jury in the municipal corruption and fraud trial of construction magnate Antonio Accurso emerged from its fourth day of deliberation on Friday with a question concerning a key prosecution witness.
  The jury asked presiding judge Superior Court Justice James Brunton a question about Marc Gendron. The former executive with Tecsult, an engineering firm based in Laval, had testified that he collected money from companies that were part of the system of collusion that operated in Laval between 199
  
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• Quebec invests $50M to offer breakfast at schools in low-income areas

  22-06-2018 18:37 via montrealgazette.com
  Quebec’s Ministry of Education has pledged $50 million over five years to allow school boards to offer breakfast in low-income areas starting next school year, Minister Sébastien Proulx announced in Quebec City on Friday.
  He was accompanied by Daniel Germain, the founder and president of Breakfast Club Canada.
  This initiative will benefit 180,000 preschool and elementary school children from 700 schools across the province, the government said.
  To participate in the program, a
  
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• Hydro-Québec subsidiary now has American primary shareholder

  22-06-2018 18:17 via montrealgazette.com
  Hydro-Québec and an American auto parts supplier, Dana, will be creating a new joint venture following a $165-million investment into the Crown corporation’s subsidiary, TM4.
  Hydro-Québec will still retain 45 per cent of the subsidiary’s capital as the Ohio-based supplier gains the ability to offer electric motors and other parts and systems.
  TM4’s motors have already appeared in Dana’s catalogue, which supplies parts for more than 10,000 customers — s
  
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• Macpherson: What Legault and the CAQ don't want anglos to hear

  22-06-2018 18:02 via montrealgazette.com
  Ventriloquists have nothing on the Coalition Avenir Québec. François Legault’s party can talk out of both sides of its mouth at the same time, and in two different languages.
  In Legault’s opening remarks at his news conference at the adjournment of the National Assembly last week, he made a point of saying a few words in English.
  Mind you, Legault’s invitation to anglophones to “work all together” with his party rang hollow. The CAQ leader had already
  
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• Bill Zacharkiw's Wines of the Week: June 22, 2018

  22-06-2018 18:00 via montrealgazette.com
  Every week, Bill Zacharkiw identifies his top wine picks available at the SAQ and offers ideas for food pairings.
  Under $16
  Ventoux 2016, Prestige Édition 1912m, Château Pesquié, France red, $15.55, SAQ # 743922. More elegant than most Ventoux wines. This is cool-climate Rhône where you get all the dynamic fruit and dried herbs you would expect, but with finer tannins offering up great length and focus. Really impressive, especially at this price. Residual sugar: 1.6 g/
  
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• Bill Zacharkiw: Quebecers can finally take pride in their wine

  22-06-2018 18:00 via montrealgazette.com
  The time for apologizing about Quebec wine is over.Over the past few months, I have tasted a number of Quebec wines that have impressed me. This is not because they were “good for a Quebec wine,” but because they were tasty and unique wines that could more than hold their own on a global scale.The vines are older, which helps make a better wine. There are also more “vinifera” vines being planted — European grape varieties like chardonnay and pinot noir &md
  
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• Montreal will have three new beaches — but not yet

  22-06-2018 17:46 via montrealgazette.com
  Montreal is a jewel of an island in the middle of a sparkling river, and for years, politicians have been promising to create new beaches so that island residents can reclaim the shorelines and actually swim in its waters.
  Here’s an update on those projects.
  Verdun beach
  This section of the shoreline behind the Verdun Auditorium will be transformed into a beach in time for next summer’s swim season.
  Like many projects planned for Montreal’s 375th birthday last summer, the Verdu
  
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• 2018 Montreal International Jazz Festival: 10 picks for 10-day love-in

  22-06-2018 17:40 via montrealgazette.com
  Another year, another argument over whether the Montreal International Jazz Festival is really a jazz festival at all.Ian Anderson’s sold-out commemoration of Jethro Tull’s 50th anniversary (July 7, Salle Wilfrid-Pelletier of Place des Arts) and a multi-artist tribute to the Beatles’ White Album (Number 9, July 2 at Cinquième Salle of Place des Arts) provide ammunition for the finger-wagging traditionalists.But the presence of Herbie Hancock (July 2, Salle Wilfrid-Pellet
  
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• Montreal's Red Roof homeless shelter facing shutdown as funds dry up

  22-06-2018 17:31 via montrealgazette.com
  One of Montreal’s longest-running homeless shelters is in dire straits.
  Donations have dried up and so too has government funding. As it stands, St. Michael’s Mission barely has enough cash on hand to cover rent and payroll for the seven employees who keep the place running.
  “We’re living hand to mouth right now,” says George Green, the shelter’s executive director. “It’s not clear how much longer we can keep going.”
  Green says St. Michael&rs
  
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• The Right Chemistry: Antivenom efforts snake along

  22-06-2018 17:30 via montrealgazette.com
  The police officer stopped the sedan on a Tennessee highway in 2013 for having windows that were tinted too dark. He noticed a couple of ornate boxes in the car and asked what they contained. Back came the surprising answer, “rattlesnakes and copperheads.” Sitting in the back seat with the snakes was pastor Jamie Coots, a Biblical literalist, who was subsequently charged with “Illegal Possession of Class 1 Wildlife.” Biblical literalists base their faith on a passage in M
  
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• Trauma response: Quebec launches helicopter ambulance pilot project

  22-06-2018 17:24 via montrealgazette.com
  The government of Quebec announced Friday it will start using helicopter ambulances in three regions of the province to transport trauma patients as part of a pilot project.
  The project responds to a long-standing plea from trauma specialists who decried the fact Quebec is the only province in Canada without a pre-hospital helicopter program, and Montreal the only urban centre not to have one.
  “It is essential to address the time it takes to transport seriously injured patients from rural
  
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• Update: Quebec will demand crane operators pay damages for losses

  22-06-2018 17:07 via montrealgazette.com
  The provincial government will be sending construction unions a formal notice demanding they pay any damages caused by the illegal strike of crane operators, Quebec Transportation Minister André Fortin said in a statement Friday.
  Fortin said he finds it unacceptable that the workers have not returned to their jobs, leaving worksites empty for a week, despite being ordered back to work Thursday.
  Construction workers and supporters have since planned to demonstrate in Montreal on Friday in
  
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• Video: Mosque shooter Bissonnette's parents decry ‘political' sentence

  22-06-2018 16:32 via montrealgazette.com
  Raymond Bissonnette, the father of Quebec City mosque shooter Alexandre Bissonnette, spoke to reporters for the first time after his son’s sentencing hearing came to an end on Thursday.
  He read a statement as Bissonnette’s mother, Manon Marchand, stood next to him holding back tears.
  He criticized prosecutors for “demonizing” his son and discounting the bullying he had suffered in school.
  “Alexandre is not a monster,” he insisted.
  Bissonnette called the prosec
  
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• Montreal construction workers rally behind striking crane operators

  22-06-2018 15:39 via montrealgazette.com
  Construction workers and supporters plan to demonstrate in Montreal Friday morning in support of crane operators, who despite being ordered back to work Thursday, have not returned to job sites.
  The demonstrators said they appreciate the “exemplary determination” of crane operators who are striking to denounce changes made to their training procedures on May 14.
  The demonstrators, along with the crane operators, say that the changes will negatively affect the safety of both the
  
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• Even beaches aren't immune to Montreal-area construction delays

  22-06-2018 15:23 via montrealgazette.com
  Montreal is a jewel of an island in the middle of a sparkling river, and for years, politicians have been promising to create new beaches so that island residents can reclaim the shorelines and actually swim in its waters.
  Here’s an update on those projects.
  Verdun beach
  This section of the shoreline behind the Verdun Auditorium will be transformed into a beach in time for next summer’s swim season.
  Like many projects planned for Montreal’s 375th birthday last summer, the Verdu
  
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• Social Notes: 2018 Canadian Grand Prix party patrol

  22-06-2018 15:00 via montrealgazette.com
  You might think the year following the glittering 50th anniversary of the Formula One Grand Prix du Canada would be a little more chill. Think again, Noties! This year’s edition was just as exhilarating, especially on the celebratory front. So please, fashion your seatbelts, and rev up for our best GP social roundup ever. Ready, set, party overdrive! 
  Rolls-Royce Motor Cars Quebec dealer principal Gad Bitton and Rolls-Royce Motor Cars CEO Torsten Muller-Otvos at the private openi
  
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• While you were sleeping: Wife returns husband to jail following error

  22-06-2018 12:49 via montrealgazette.com
  Here’s what happened while you were getting some refreshing shut-eye.
  Quebec crane operators were ordered back to work. The Administrative Labour Tribunal granted the demand made by the Quebec Construction Commission (CCQ) to put an end to the strike. According to the decision given Thursday evening, it is urgent to send the operators back to work because “it appeared evident that construction sites had been suffering major impacts as a result of work stopping.” The C
  
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• Winnipeg Blue Bombers at Alouettes: Five things you should know

  22-06-2018 12:00 via montrealgazette.com
  Here are five things you should know about the Winnipeg Blue Bombers-Alouettes game at Molson Stadium on Friday (7 p.m., TSN, RDS, CJAD Radio-800).
  Matchup: Both teams lost their opening games last week as the Canadian Football League regular season opened. The Bombers, playing at home, had to endure two long weather-related delays, lasting almost three hours, before being edged 33-30 by the Edmonton Eskimos. It was the second-longest game in league history, ending at 1:18 a.m. local time. The g
  
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• Montreal weather: Put those shades on

  22-06-2018 12:00 via montrealgazette.com
  The sun is out all day.
  Environment Canada predicts a high of 26 Celsius, and a UV index of 9 or very high.
  Tonight: A few clouds with increasing cloudiness around midnight, and expect an overnight low of 18 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 @nicobodri.
  Quote of the day:
  The summ
  
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• Award-winning Scanline VFX to open studio in Montreal

  22-06-2018 12:00 via montrealgazette.com
  A visual-effects studio that won an Emmy for its work on Game of Thrones and has been nominated for two Academy Awards is expanding to Montreal.
  Munich-based Scanline VFX said it plans to open a studio in Windsor Station next month. For the first few months, the studio will employ about 30 people, some of whom will be transferred from other studios, with others hired locally.
  That could grow to 100 people by the end of the year, said Scott Miller, the COO of Scanline’s Los Angeles, Va
  
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• Barrette announces $95 million expansion of Lachine Hospital

  22-06-2018 11:30 via montrealgazette.com
  Quebec Health Minister Gaétan Barrette announced a $95 million expansion project of the Lachine Hospital on Thursday.
  Construction is scheduled to begin in the fall of 2020, and is to be completed by the spring 2023.
  “The Lachine Hospital project has just taken an important step forward, of which we are very proud,” Barrette said.
  “This project is directly in line with recent government actions aimed at offering the best possible health care and social services infr
  
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• In case you missed it, here's what happened in Montreal on June 21

  22-06-2018 04:30 via montrealgazette.com
  A look at the day’s events in and around Montreal:
  Bylaw: No new alleyway parking spots for most of Plateau
  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 admini
  
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• No quick fix for sustained success, Habs' Bergevin says

  22-06-2018 03:20 via montrealgazette.com
  DALLAS — Marc Bergevin would like to turn things around in a hurry, but he said one of his jobs is to make sure the Canadiens are a success in the long run.
  “I’m not looking at a one-year (fix),” Bergevin said Thursday after he emerged from an NHL general mangers meeting. “I don’t want to get better for this year, and (then) what happens? I want to do it as quick as possible and I will if that’s there, but I have to look at the long-term benefit of the M
  
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• Terror conviction for making bomb threats to avoid exam at Concordia

  22-06-2018 03:09 via montrealgazette.com
  Hisham Saadi, the graduate student who tried to get out of an exam by issuing bomb threats that forced Concordia University to evacuate three buildings last year, was convicted of a terror-related charge at the Montreal courthouse on Thursday.
  Quebec Court Judge Mélanie Hébert convicted Saadi, 48, of having committed acts that, considering the context, were susceptible to causing fear that terrorist acts were about to be committed. The decision came just minutes after defence lawye
  
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• NHL DRAFT PREVIEW: Analyzing the Montreal Canadiens' top prospects, trades

  22-06-2018 02:44 via montrealgazette.com
  The Montreal Gazette’s Pat Hickey and Postmedia’s Michael Traikos discuss the Montreal Canadiens and the NHL Entry Draft.
  The draft will be held on June 22–23, at the American Airlines Center in Dallas, Texas.
  
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• Quebec crane operators ordered back to work

  22-06-2018 02:40 via montrealgazette.com
  Quebec crane operators must return to work. The Administrative Labour Tribunal granted the demand made by the Quebec Construction Commission to put an end to the illegal strike.
  According to the decision given Thursday evening, it is urgent to send the operators back to work because “it appeared evident that construction sites had been suffering important impacts as a result of work stopping.”
  Crane operators across Quebec began striking on Monday. The commission says the strike is i
  
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• Montreal-area beach projects coming along slowly but surely

  22-06-2018 02:22 via montrealgazette.com
  Montreal is a jewel of an island in the middle of a sparkling river, and for years, politicians have been promising to create new beaches so that island residents can reclaim the shorelines and actually swim in its waters.
  Here’s an update on those projects.
  Verdun beach
  This section of the shoreline behind the Verdun Auditorium will be transformed into a beach in time for next summer’s swim season.
  Like many projects planned for Montreal’s 375th birthday last summer, the Verdu
  
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• Montreal will transfer Aboriginal remains for reburial

  22-06-2018 02:16 via montrealgazette.com
  Montreal will hand over Aboriginal burial remains dating back as far as 4,000 years to the Mohawks of Kahnawake for reburial, Mayor Valérie Plante announced Thursday.
  “It’s a request that was made a very long time ago,” Plante said to journalists after making the announcement at a news conference marking National Indigenous Peoples Day.
  “From a historical perspective, and from the perspective of recognition (of First Nations), we have decided that it is a vali
  
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• Montreal bagpiper's ceremonial knife returned, case dropped

  22-06-2018 02:08 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 plan is back, bigger than ever — but without a price tag

  22-06-2018 01:48 via montrealgazette.com
  The city and province have promised a green walkway that will cross over the Turcot Interchange, and link to a new sprawling park on land now occupied by Highway 20.
  On Thursday, the province announced it came to terms with the city of Montreal to revive a pedestrian-friendly portion of the Turcot project that was abandoned in the planning stages, and improve on the original concept.
  Known as the Dalle Parc, the project originally called for the construction of a grassy pathway for cyc
  
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• 'We don't want to be erased': Indigenous Peoples fear for future in Cabot Square

  22-06-2018 01:26 via montrealgazette.com
  Cabot Square came roaring to life on a muggy Thursday afternoon.
  The Buffalo Hat Singers pounded on their drum as a powwow dancer stepped and twirled to the music. Just across the park, a group of Inuit stone carvers taught children how to chisel soapstone into tiny works of art.
  Everywhere you looked, there was living proof of Montreal’s vibrant Indigenous community: dozens of families from Cree, Mohawk, Odjibwe, Inuit, Métis and Algonquin communities. They came to the downtown par
  
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• Weekend road closures: Lane reductions begin on Mercier Bridge

  22-06-2018 01:19 via montrealgazette.com
  Here are the details of road closures this holiday weekend:
  Honoré Mercier Bridge down to one lane until Aug. 20
  Northbound and southbound routes on the Honoré Mercier Bridge will be reduced to one lane starting Friday at 10 p.m. The lanes will reopen two months later on Aug. 20 at 5 a.m.
  Turcot Interchange
  The ramp from Highway 20 East to Highway 15 North (Décarie Expressway) will be closed from Friday at 11:59 p.m. until Monday at 5 a.m.
  The ramp from the Highway 720 West
  
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• 'Barrette has my trust,' premier says after health minister apologizes

  22-06-2018 01:03 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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