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• 'Start of a new era': Demolition begins at Circuit Gilles Villeneuve

  03-07-2018 23:55 via montrealgazette.com
  Demolition of the paddocks at Circuit Gilles Villeneuve began Tuesday — the first step of a $60-million rebuild that Formula One organizers say will be ready in time for next year’s Grand Prix.
  “It’s the start of a new era,” said Grand Prix CEO François Dumontier, adding that the new building replacing the aging paddocks would enhance Montreal’s international image.
  The Quebec government is contributing $18 million while the city of Montreal is footing
  
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• Olympian Tyler Bjorn to scout talent at TRY Regatta at Pointe-Claire Yacht Club

  03-07-2018 23:49 via montrealgazette.com
  The Pointe-Claire Yacht Club is hosting the TRY Regatta for young sailors and an Olympic sailor will be on hand to scout for talent.
  The regatta runs from July 5-8 and spectators are welcome.
  Olympian Tyler Bjorn competed at the London Olympics in 2012. Since then, he’s been scouting for talent and dedicating his energies to developing Quebec and Canada’s next generation of world-class sailors.
  The TRY Regatta focuses equally on training and competing. The four days of elite tra
  
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• Poll: Would you jump into the St. Lawrence River?

  03-07-2018 23:38 via montrealgazette.com
  On Tuesday Montreal Mayor Valérie Plante jumped into the St. Lawrence River as part of the annual Grand Splash event.
  With this week’s extreme heat warning from Environment Canada still in effect, we’re asking Montrealers if they would do the same.
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• Inmate who escaped from Amos prison arrested

  03-07-2018 23:37 via montrealgazette.com
  An inmate who escaped from Amos prison in Abitibi-Témiscamingue Sunday has been found, the Sûreté du Québec says.
  Dominic Houle.
  Dominic Houle, 38, was arrested Monday night in St-Dominique-du-Rosaire, about 25 kilometres north of Amos. He was then detained by the SQ at their post in Amos until his court appearance.
  Officers at the prison discovered that Houle was missing around 8 a.m. on Monday. Houle was incarcerated in a modular temporary building next to the prison
  
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• Canadiens GM Marc Bergevin will again have leftover salary cap money

  03-07-2018 23:32 via montrealgazette.com
  If you are one of those fans who was upset last season because general manager Marc Bergevin started the season with $8 million in cap space, be prepared to be outraged again.
  The Canadiens have signed 24 players — one above the opening-day roster limit — and they are still nearly $13 million under the cap.
  Bergevin will use some of that money to sign three restricted free agents — Philip Danault, Jacob De La Rose and newly acquired Joel Armia — but even if he is super ge
  
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• Reserved bus lane on Notre-Dame St. E. to open Monday

  03-07-2018 22:40 via montrealgazette.com
  As of Monday, one lane on a section of both Notre-Dame St. E. and René-Lévesque Blvd. will be reserved for buses to ease rush hour commutes from Montreal’s east end.
  The new reserved lanes will be on Notre-Dame St. E. between Georges-V Ave. and Beaurivage St., and on René-Lévesque Blvd., between Papineau Ave. and Berri St. in the westbound direction. They will be in effect from 6:30 to 9:30 a.m. and from 3:30 to 6:30 p.m.
  The lanes are said to impact 10,000 comm
  
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• Turcot project forces Décarie closures beginning July 9

  03-07-2018 21:56 via montrealgazette.com
  Transport Quebec is reminding motorists who use the northbound lanes of the Décarie Expressway that beginning at 5 a.m. on Saturday, July 9, the thoroughfare will be reduced to just one lane where it passes through the Turcot Interchange and to two lanes between the Turcot Interchange and the Notre-Dame-de-Grâce tunnel.
  The closures remain in effect until November.
  Meanwhile, beginning at the same time and date, the access to the northbound Décarie from Sherbrooke St. will be
  
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• Suspect, 52, charged with murder of waitress found in Lanaudière bar fire

  03-07-2018 20:27 via montrealgazette.com
  Daniel Arsenault has been charged with the murder of a waitress Tuesday at the Joliette courthouse.
  The 52-year-old man was arrested Monday in Saint-Gabriel-de-Brandon, Lanaudière, for the murder of 22-year-old Chloé Bellehumeur-Lemay. The woman’s body was found the night before in the ruins of Resto-bar 239, which the Sûreté du Québec believe was set on fire to cover her killing.
  Arsenault, who police say has a lengthy criminal record, will remain&nb
  
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• P.K. Subban Foundation to host Caribbean Carnival gala Aug. 30

  03-07-2018 19:44 via montrealgazette.com
  P.K. Subban’s days with the Montreal Canadiens may be over, but his foundation continues to raise money for sick kids here.
  The P.K. Subban Foundation gala will take place Aug. 30 at the Jetée Alexandra in Montreal’s Old Port.
  P.K. will host, of course, and this year’s theme is Caribbean Carnival.
  A 10-seat table costs $10,000, with single seats for sale at $1,076 each.
  Subban made the announcement with a video from the coast of Sardinia — which was only slightly w
  
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• Turcot project forces Decarie closures beginning July 9

  03-07-2018 19:36 via montrealgazette.com
  Transport Quebec is reminding motorists who use the northbound lanes of the Decarie Expressway that beginning at 5 a.m. on Saturday, July 9, the thoroughfare will be reduced to:just one lane where it passes through the Turcot Interchange and
  to two lanes between the Turcot Interchange and the Notre-Dame-de-Grâce tunnel.The closures remain in effect until November.
  Meanwhile, beginning at the same time and date, the access to the northbound Decarie from Sherbrooke St. will be closed until S
  
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• Update: 6 Montrealers die of heat-related causes this week, health authorities say

  03-07-2018 19:35 via montrealgazette.com
  Six Montrealers have died of causes related to this week’s heat wave, public health authorities said Tuesday as Montreal Mayor Valérie Plante announced stepped-up measures to help vulnerable residents like seniors and people with chronic diseases.
  Plante said that police and firefighters have started going door to door to visit vulnerable Montrealers to ensure they have access to the services they need during the extreme weather.
  Dr. Mylène Drouin, Montreal’s regional d
  
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• Victor Schukov: Take a tour of history in Le Suroît

  03-07-2018 18:35 via montrealgazette.com
  With the Canadian dollar at a low and the U.S. a pretty expensive side trip, West Islanders don’t have to go far to get away for a brief and inexpensive summer excursion. It all comes with a warm southwesterly breeze called Le Suroît (literally translated as Sou’ester.) There are many historical, natural and culinary treats to discover in the Suroît region (and just a titch beyond), which consists of the off-island’s St-Lazare, Vaudreuil-Dorion and Île Perrot.
  
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• Celine Cooper: Why do Quebecers put up with July 1 moving day hell?

  03-07-2018 18:24 via montrealgazette.com
  Call it an inconvenient custom, one that Quebecers should toss to the curb.
  I’m talking about the July 1 moving day in Quebec.
  You know what what I mean, particularly here in Montreal. Mountains of rotting garbage and discarded junk on the sidewalks. Bottlenecks on narrow streets as moving vans and trucks jostle awkwardly for space, particularly in high-density neighbourhoods like the Plateau or downtown. Movers, up since dawn, some of them on their second, third or sometimes even fourth j
  
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• Grand Splash: Mayor Valérie Plante jumps into the St. Lawrence River

  03-07-2018 18:13 via montrealgazette.com
  Montreal Mayor Valérie Plante jumped into the St. Lawrence River on Tuesday as part of the annual Grand Splash event.
  It’s the fourth time Plante has taken part in the event, but her first as mayor.
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  Montreal heat wave: Police, firefighters to visit vulnerable residentsWatch: Sweltering Canada Day celebrations in Montreal'Bring your own fan': No AC in patient rooms at Verdun General Hospital
  
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• Montreal heat wave: Police, firefighters to visit vulnerable residents

  03-07-2018 17:49 via montrealgazette.com
  Montreal Mayor Valérie Plante announced Tuesday that police and firefighters will go door to door to visit vulnerable residents during the heat wave.
  Certain areas of the city with high populations of seniors and low-income residents will be targeted, she said.
  People suffering from mental illness and chronic illnesses like diabetes, heart disease, kidney disease and respiratory illnesses are also particularly vulnerable to the effects of extremely hot weather.
  “Our teams are on the
  
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• Actor Paul Cagelet sentenced to 15 months for possession of child porn

  03-07-2018 17:18 via montrealgazette.com
  Montreal actor Paul Cagelet has been sentenced to a 15-month prison term for having amassed a large collection of child pornography.
  The prison term was part of a common suggestion presented to Quebec Court Judge Julie Riendeau at the Montreal courthouse on Tuesday. The two charges Cagelet pleaded guilty to carry a 12-month mandatory minimum prison term.
  Prosecutor Anne Gauvin told Riendeau that when the case against Cagelet began in 2016 the Crown considered a longer prison term. She noted that
  
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• Six O'Clock Solution: Feeling scrambled? Serve up this simple sandwich

  03-07-2018 17:00 via montrealgazette.com
  It’s sandwich season, and there is no better inspiration than a new Danish cookbook called Open Sandwiches (Quadrille/Raincoast, $27.99).The Scandinavians are experts in the art of the open-face sandwich, offering good looks and good tastes in one easy combination. Copenhagen chef and food writer Trine Hahnemann has written other valuable cookbooks, but this one — offering 70 ways to enjoy an open sandwich, or smørrebrød (translation: butter on bread) — may be the
  
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• Appealing to vanity: Quebec finally ready for personalized licence plates

  03-07-2018 16:59 via montrealgazette.com
  The Quebec government is poised to announce Tuesday afternoon that after a four-year delay, the province is finally ready to allow drivers to purchase a vanity plate for their car, truck or motorcycle.
  The idea was first broached by then Quebec transport minister Sylvain Gaudreault in January 2014 and was expected to be in place by 2015.
  However once the dust had settled in that year’s general election in April, the only thing in place in 2015 was a Liberal government that didn’t see
  
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• Traffic-easing measures aren't bringing Mercier Bridge commuters much relief

  03-07-2018 14:46 via montrealgazette.com
  Motorists crossing the Mercier Bridge Tuesday morning noticed little difference to the traffic jams they encountered on the span last week despite attempts by authorities to ease congestion.
  Large line-ups — albeit slightly smaller than those seen last week — were already forming to board the Montreal-bound lane of the bridge at 5 a.m. Trucks with more than three axels may no longer cross the bridge during the morning or evening rush hours and are being re-routed to Highway 30, where
  
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• Paul McCartney coming to Montreal to play Bell Centre Sept. 20

  03-07-2018 14:22 via montrealgazette.com
  Paul McCartney will bring his Freshen Up tour to the Bell Centre on Sept. 20, evenko announced Tuesday morning. He plays Quebec City a few days before, on Sept. 17.
  McCartney’s new album, Egypt Station, is set for release Sept. 7.
  Tickets go on sale July 13 at 10 a.m.
  
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• Updated: More than 36,000 Hydro-Québec customers without power

  03-07-2018 13:30 via montrealgazette.com
  More than 36,000 clients of Hydro-Québec were waking up Tuesday morning without power — and air conditioning — as a record-breaking heat wave continued to crush parts of the province.
  As of 7 a.m., Hydro-Québec was reporting that 36,640 customers didn’t have electricity — 6,495 of them in the Outaouais region, 14,209 in the Lanaudière and 8,815 in the the Laurentians.
  The outages were caused by a chain of severe thunderstorms that
  
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• While you were sleeping: Vigil for 3-year-old killed at Idaho birthday party, Iran warns US allies not to boycott oil, Austria vows to 'protect' border from migrants

  03-07-2018 13:23 via montrealgazette.com
  A 3-year-old Idaho girl who was stabbed at her birthday party died Monday, two days after a man invaded the celebration and attacked nine people with a knife, authorities said.
  On Monday evening, roughly 1,500 people turned out at a vigil honouring members of refugee families targeted in the stabbing. Signs were dotted throughout the crowd, some reading “love wins” and “we are all immigrants.”
  Younis Kamel, a 16-year-old who moved to Boise from Iraq, and his 23-year-
  
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• Child dies after being found at bottom of pool in St-Léonard

  03-07-2018 12:55 via montrealgazette.com
  A six-year-old child has died after being found at the bottom of a pool Monday evening in the borough of St-Léonard.
  The incident occurred at about 7:10 p.m. a private pool located in the courtyard of an apartment complex and when a lifeguard and other swimmers were present in the pool.
  The child was rushed to hospital in critical condition but later succumbed to their injuries.
  Montreal police said early Tuesday they will assist the coroner’s office in its investigation into the de
  
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• Lloydies Jamaican patties move to next generation with Montreal restaurants

  03-07-2018 12:31 via montrealgazette.com
  In the last nine months, Montreal-based Caribbean food company Lloydies — most famous for their Jamaican patties available in grocery stores — has welcomed two additions to the family: new restaurants in Mile End on St-Viateur and now downtown on Crescent St.
  Titular owner Lloyd Tull remains the company’s boss and his smiling mug will forever adorn the logo, but for this retail expansion, he’s entrusted the family-owned three-decade-old brand to son Nathanial Tull. The 29
  
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• Quebec's forgotten dead: 'Something isn't right'

  03-07-2018 12:00 via montrealgazette.com
  Patrice Chavegros approaches the small patch of land, nestled in the back corner of the Laval cemetery, and slides his smartphone out from his pocket. Opening an email from that morning, he shakes his head.
  Chavegros, head of sales and customer service at Magnus Poirier funeral homes, receives similar emails on a near-daily basis. Sent from Quebec’s ministry of health and social services or the provincial coroner’s office, they always trouble him.
  A 64-year-old ma
  
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• Montreal weather: We ran out of ways to tell you it's going to be really hot

  03-07-2018 12:00 via montrealgazette.com
  According to Environment Canada, a heat warning is in effect for the Montreal area. The forecast calls for a daytime high of 32 degrees, a humidex of 37 and a UV index of 9 or very high.
  Environment Canada recommends locals stay hydrated, limit physical activity and wear light clothes.
  Tuesday night is expected to have a low of 22 with some 20km/h winds in the evening.Quote of the day:
  Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike. — J.K. Rowling
  Don’t forg
  
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• Jazz fest picks for July 3: Jessie Reyez brings star power to free blowout

  03-07-2018 12:00 via montrealgazette.com
  Indoors:
  Preservation Hall Jazz Band (7 p.m., Maison Symphonique de Montréal, $51.90 to $69.40). It’s becoming almost an annual rendezvous. Montreal already has something of the French-infused festive spirit of New Orleans, so it only makes sense that the Big Easy’s most fabled jazz ensemble has found a home away from home at our city’s annual jazz celebration. From Dixieland and ragtime to funk and soul, these guys know how to have a good time. With rising British jazz
  
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• Canadiens 2017 draft pick Cayden Primeau proving to be a hidden gem

  03-07-2018 12:00 via montrealgazette.com
  The 2017 NHL Entry Draft was winding down at the United Center in Chicago when the Canadiens announced that they had made a trade to acquire the Philadelphia Flyers’ seventh-round pick.
  It was one of those so-what moments. Seventh-round picks are long shots to earn employment in the NHL, but this pick was intriguing because Cayden Primeau was the son of former NHL player Keith Primeau and, while his father was a rugged centre for 15 seasons before a concussion ended his career, the younger
  
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• Allison Hanes: We're all together in the loneliness epidemic

  03-07-2018 12:00 via montrealgazette.com
  Dying alone is a commonly held fear, but it has perhaps never been more justified than it is today.
  This is the very sad fate that befell Philippe Champagne, a 72-year-old Montreal resident. The Montreal Gazette’s Jesse Feith recently recounted how this virtually invisible senior was discovered in April 2017 when neighbours were drawn to his studio apartment by a putrid stench. His remains were found on the bathroom floor, but Champagne had died so long beforehand — perhaps as much a
  
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• Bergevin will again have leftover money

  03-07-2018 05:49 via montrealgazette.com
  If you are one of those fans who was upset last season because general manager Marc Bergevin started the season with $8 million in cap space, be prepared to be outraged again.
  The Canadiens have signed 24 players — one above the opening-day roster limit — and they are still nearly $13 million under the cap.
  Bergevin will use some of that money to sign three restricted free agents — Philip Danault, Jacob de la Rose and newly acquired Joel Armia — but even if he is super ge
  
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• Singer Moses Sumney pulls out of jazz fest in protest of SLĀV

  03-07-2018 05:30 via montrealgazette.com
  Singer-songwriter Moses Sumney has cancelled his Montreal International Jazz Festival show, scheduled for Tuesday at Club Soda, citing the festival’s continuing support and defence of the controversial show SLĀV.
  In a Twitter post Monday, Sumney wrote that he was disappointed that the jazz fest was presenting SLĀV, “in which a majority-white group of singers, led by a white Québécois director (Robert Lepage), sings African-American slave songs.&rdquo
  
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• Man stabbed in Westmount on Monday evening

  03-07-2018 03:10 via montrealgazette.com
  A man is in critical condition after being stabbed in his upper and lower body in Westmount Monday evening.
  Police say the man was in an altercation with another person in Park Place near Ste-Catherine St.
  The man, who is in his 50s, was taken to a hospital just after 7:40 p.m.
  Police are investigating the incident.
  
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• Video: Montreal’s community gardens teach locals to grow for themselves

  03-07-2018 02:45 via montrealgazette.com
  The Depot Community Food Centre in NDG has offered support to the community’s most vulnerable with emergency food baskets for more than 30 years. It has grown in that time to offer programs that address the root causes of hunger and poverty. 
  Those programs include community gardens in which locals grow their own produce and learn tips from experts, and satellite markets in low-income areas where produce harvested from the Depot’s urban farm is sold at affordable prices.
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• More than 150,000 Hydro-Québec customers without power

  03-07-2018 02:43 via montrealgazette.com
  On the hottest day of the year, more than 150,000 clients are without power — and air conditioning — in Quebec.
  As of Monday at 8:30 p.m., Hydro-Québec was reporting that 50,000 customers didn’t have electricity in the Laurentians and the Lanaudière regions, while 50,000 customers were without power in the Outaouais region. Another 30,000 lost power in the Quebec City area and 20,000 were without it in Montérégie.
  The outages were caused by a ch
  
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• More than 100,000 Hydro-Québec customers without power

  03-07-2018 00:57 via montrealgazette.com
  On the hottest day of the year, more than 100,000 clients are without power — and air conditioning — in Quebec.
  As of Monday at 6:30 p.m. Hydro-Québec was reporting that a combined 50,000 customers didn’t have electricity in the Laurentians and the Lanaudière regions, while, 50,000 customers had lost power in the Outaouais region.
  The outages were caused by a chain of severe thunderstorms that swept through early Monday evening, Hydro-Québec said.
  By contra
  
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• Update: Thunderstorm warning over for Montreal and surrounding areas

  03-07-2018 00:41 via montrealgazette.com
  Environment Canada issued a severe thunderstorm warning for the Montreal, Laval, Châteauguay, and Longueuil areas just before 5 p.m. Monday. By 6 p.m. the organization ended the warning.
  According to their website, meteorologists were tracking a line of severe thunderstorms capable of producing very strong wind gusts, up to nickel size hail and heavy rain.
  This warning comes after Environment Canada issued a severe heat warning for the same areas earlier Monday.
  “Lightning kills
  
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• Tomas Plekanec thrilled to be back with the Canadiens

  03-07-2018 00:17 via montrealgazette.com
  After the Canadiens dealt Tomas Plekanec to the Toronto Maple Leafs at the NHL trade deadline in February, the veteran centre made it very clear he wanted to return to Montreal as a free agent after the season.
  That’s exactly what happened Sunday when Canadiens general manager Marc Bergevin signed the 35-year-old to a one-year contract worth US$2.25 million and the possibility of earning another $1.25 million in bonuses. It’s a big pay cut from the $6 million Plekanec earned in each
  
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• Inmate escapes from Amos prison

  03-07-2018 00:17 via montrealgazette.com
  The minister of public security confirmed Monday afternoon that a detainee at Amos prison escaped Sunday night.
  Earlier in the day, Mathieu Lavoie, president of the union of Quebec correctional officers, said an inmate in a temporary modular building had escaped.
  Dominic Houle.
  Police spokesman Louis-Philippe Bibeau said Dominic Houle, 38, was reported missing from the Amos facility around 8 a.m. Monday.
  According to Lavoie, Houle tricked guards into believing he was in bed, and he climbed the t
  
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