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• Montreal real estate undergoes a millennial-powered rental renaissance

  05-07-2018 23:32 via montrealgazette.com
  A renaissance in rental construction is projected to add tens of thousands of new apartment units in the Montreal area during the next few years, and they’re not your typical cheap urban flats.
  The new building trend is for higher-end — and in some cases, luxury — rentals, designed to appeal to up-and-coming young professionals and downsizing baby boomers. Many of these new projects also aren’t in the city, but in suburban areas like the South Shore.
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• Romeo meets her Juliet in Repercussion’s same-sex version

  05-07-2018 23:30 via montrealgazette.com
  The star-crossed lovers get the cross-gender treatment in the latest production from Shakespeare-in-the-Park specialists Repercussion Theatre, now into their 30th season. Their Romeo and Juliet, which opened on Thursday and tours around Montreal (and beyond) to Aug. 8, sees Shauna Thompson playing the lovelorn swain to Michelle Rambharose’s Juliet.
  It shouldn’t be a complete shock to the system, given the long Shakespearean tradition of mixing it up gender-wise, whether it be Elizabe
  
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• Three face charges in connection with Ministry of Justice contracts

  05-07-2018 23:28 via montrealgazette.com
  Two former public servants and the head of an information technology (IT) firm face charges in connection with contracts awarded by the Quebec Ministry of Justice between 2000 and 2014.
  Investigators from the Unité permanente anticorruption (UPAC) arrested Christian Tessier, former director of client services and technology at the ministry, in Montreal Thursday morning. Sylvain Tremblay, the administrator of a firm that provided IT services to the ministry, was arrested in Quebec Cit
  
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• Shea Weber's knee surgery raises questions about Canadiens

  05-07-2018 23:16 via montrealgazette.com
  There will no doubt be plenty of questions about the Canadiens’ medical staff following Thursday’s news that defenceman Shea Weber had surgery on his right knee on June 19 and will now be sidelined until at least mid-December.
  Weber, who will turn 33 on Aug. 14, already had surgery in March to repair tendons in his left foot. Weber suffered a fracture in his left foot when he was hit with a shot during the first game of the season, but played 26 games before his year came to an end w
  
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• Jean-Talon Market merchants decry plan for public square in parking lot

  05-07-2018 23:10 via montrealgazette.com
  A longtime merchant at the Jean-Talon Market said he will have to close up shop if the city goes ahead with a plan to remove parking spots to build a public square.
  The city announced a plan last month to permanently close Shamrock Ave. to cars and make it a place for people to walk and sit, with several seating areas, a picnic area and newly planted trees and plants. Construction on the project began last month and is expected to be completed by the end of the year.
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• Sexual predator jailed for assault, impersonating a cop

  05-07-2018 22:13 via montrealgazette.com
  A sexual predator who has been under investigation by Laval and other police forces for nearly three years has been sentenced to eight years in prison for sexual assault, forcible confinement and impersonating a police officer, Laval police announced on Thursday.
  Winston Omar Murillo Arizola, 39, who was sentenced June 14, was first arrested by Laval police in December 2015 after he impersonated a police officer and sexually assaulted a woman.
  Arizola was charged the next day and granted ba
  
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• Montreal Comiccon: Five things to do this weekend

  05-07-2018 22:05 via montrealgazette.com
  Montreal Comiccon is arriving this weekend, running from Friday to Sunday at the Palais des congrès, and it’s bringing all the (mildly expensive) joys with it. Whether you’re new to conventions but want to know what all the fuss is about, or a veteran looking for a new thrill, here are five things you can do in nerd paradise.
  See the guests
  The main attraction of cons is always the special guests. You’ve seen them on TV, now pay to have them sign something while you make
  
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• Restaurant review: Some but not all of Le Petit Italien's charms restored

  05-07-2018 22:00 via montrealgazette.com
  There is a certain kind of restaurant that almost inevitably thrives because it checks off so many boxes. Mid-priced? Check. Terrasse? Check. Neighbourhood place? Check. Terrific location? Check. And finally, I’d say, casual French bistro or classic Italian? Check and check. The chances for success rise with every such asset. If you have two or more, you basically have it made. If you have them all, you should have it made in the shade.
  Outremont’s Le Petit Italien is a restaurant wi
  
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• Montreal police seek help identifying man found dead in 2016

  05-07-2018 21:50 via montrealgazette.com
  Montreal police are asking for the public’s help to identify a man who was found dead in 2016.
  The man’s body was found in a park in the Mercier—Hochelaga—Maisonneuve borough on June 14, 2016.
  Montreal police have released this image of the man.
  Police say that at the time of his death, the man looked to be about 50 years old, had grey hair, was 6 feet tall and weighed 140 pounds. He had a tattoo on his right shoulder.
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• Fire breaks out at Lanaudière campsite, burning several trailers

  05-07-2018 20:12 via montrealgazette.com
  Several trailers were on fire at a campsite in St-Calixte, about 30 kilometres north of St-Jérôme, after a fire broke out around lunchtime, according to the Sûreté du Québec.
  No one was injured.
  The SQ received a call at 12:15 p.m. Firefighters were sent to Camping Atlantide, which is located on Route 335, and are still at the campsite.
  The SQ does not yet know what caused the fire.
  This story will be updated.
  
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• Canadiens' Shea Weber out until mid-December after knee surgery

  05-07-2018 18:34 via montrealgazette.com
  The Canadiens provided a medical update on Shea Weber Thursday and it’s not good news.
  In fact, it’s terrible news for a team that finished 28th in the overall NHL standings last season when the No. 1 defenceman only played 26 games due to injuries.
  The Canadiens announced that Weber had arthroscopic surgery last month to repair a meniscal tear in his right knee and the veteran defenceman’s recovery period is expected to be six months. Weber also had surgery in March to repair
  
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• P.K. Subban and girlfriend Lindsey Vonn ask: Who wore it better?

  05-07-2018 18:30 via montrealgazette.com
  When it comes to social media, there are few athletes who do it better than P.K. Subban and Lindsey Vonn.
  Now that the Nashville Predators defenceman and the U.S. ski star are dating, it’s a double-whammy.
  Subban and Vonn are vacationing together in Italy and celebrated Wednesday’s July 4 Independence Day holiday back in the U.S. by posing in matching (or the same?) red-and-white striped bathing suits with “USA” on the front and P.K. asking on Twitter: “Who wore it
  
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• Checking In: Anndore House is a laid-back haven in downtown Toronto

  05-07-2018 18:00 via montrealgazette.com
  The Anndore House in Toronto is an amazing find. It’s lightly luxe, loaded with character, brilliantly located and moderately priced, relative to its big-banner neighbours.
  A total regeneration of a mid-20th-century building, this quirky, retro boutique hotel is a new insiders’ getaway with a laid-back, residential air. It’s on a leafy street where you awaken to birds singing. That’s almost a miracle one block from the frenetic corner of Yonge and Bloor Sts. near the asto
  
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• Heat wave: 33 Quebecers have died, 18 in Montreal, health officials say

  05-07-2018 17:45 via montrealgazette.com
  Public-health officials in Quebec say that 33 people have died because of the week-long heat wave in the province.
  They say 18 of those deaths were on the island of Montreal.
  The temperature in Montreal was expected to reach a high of 35 degrees Celsius on Thursday with a humidex value of 45 C, according to Environment Canada.
  The heat wave is expected to break overnight Thursday to Friday.
  Meanwhile, Environment Canada issued a smog warning and maintained its heat warning for the Montreal area
  
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• Construction magnate Antonio Accurso sentenced to 4 years for fraud, corruption

  05-07-2018 17:25 via montrealgazette.com
  Construction magnate Antonio (Tony) Accurso has been sentenced to a four-year prison term for his role in Laval’s system of collusion when it came to awarding municipal contracts.
  While delivering the decision on Thursday, Superior Court Justice James Brunton cited the duration of the conspiracy, the fact public funds were involved and the planning involved as factors that contributed to his decision.
  Following a lengthy trial that began in May, Accurso was convicted by a jury on all five
  
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• Eugenie Bouchard ousted in second round at Wimbledon

  05-07-2018 17:14 via montrealgazette.com
  LONDON — Eugenie Bouchard’s four-match winning streak is over — and so is the Canadian’s run at Wimbledon.
  The 24-year-old native of Westmount lost 6-4, 7-5 to No. 17 seed Ashleigh Barty of Australia in the second round of the grass-court major.
  Bouchard, won three qualifying matches to get into the main draw after seeing her ranking tumble to No. 188, led 5-2 in the second set against Barty and had one set point, but couldn’t pull it off.
  Bouchard converted on only
  
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• Canadiens are a no-fly zone for top-flight NHL free agents | HI/O Show

  05-07-2018 16:49 via montrealgazette.com
  Welcome back to another summer edition of the Hockey Inside/Out Show.
  Gazette sports columnists Stu Cowan and Jack Todd, CBC Daybreak’s Jessica Rusnak and host Adam Susser take on these topics:Free agents’ snubs reflect Habs’ woes
  Canadiens pay premium to get Plekanec back
  Bergevin inches closer to full-scale rebuild
  GM shows deft touch in deal with Jets
  Canadiens, Leafs a study in contrasts
  
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• Jean-Talon merchants oppose plan to build public square in parking lot

  05-07-2018 15:52 via montrealgazette.com
  A longtime merchant at the Jean-Talon Market said he will have to close up shop if the city goes ahead with a plan to remove parking spots to build a public square.
  The city announced a plan last month to permanently close Shamrock Ave. to cars and make it a place for people to walk and sit, with several seating areas, a picnic area and newly planted trees and plants. Construction on the project began last month and is expected to be completed by the end of the year.
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• Suspect in Pointe-Claire homicide arrested in Ontario

  05-07-2018 15:40 via montrealgazette.com
  The prime suspect in the 12th homicide in Montreal this year has been charged with second-degree murder after being arrested by provincial police in Ontario.
  Montreal police had been seeking 49-year-old Jérôme Latham since June 30, after a man was found unconscious in a hotel parking lot in Pointe-Claire.
  Investigators allege that the 34-year-old victim had intended to meet with Latham for a drug deal, but that a dispute ensued and at least one shot was fired, mortally wounding him.
  
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• Sexual predator jailed for assault, impersonating a cop, Laval police say

  05-07-2018 14:56 via montrealgazette.com
  A sexual predator who has been under investigation by Laval and other police forces for nearly three years has been sentenced to eight years in prison for sexual assault, forcible confinement and impersonating a police officer, Laval police announced on Thursday.
  Winston Omar Murillo Arizola, 39, who was sentenced June 14, was first arrested by Laval police in December 2015, after he impersonated a police officer and sexually assaulted a woman.
  Arizola was charged the next day and granted b
  
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• Hydro-Quebec restores power to most customers in N.D.G.

  05-07-2018 13:49 via montrealgazette.com
  A power failure that left close to 5,000 Hydro-Québec customers in the Notre-Dame-de-Grâce area without electricity — and air conditioning – has been reduced in scope within half an hour.
  The blackout that covered a swath of residences and businesses framed by Cavendish Blvd., Notre-Dame-de-Grâce Ave., De Maisonneuve Blvd. and Grey Ave. has been reduced to three, isolated outages affecting about 200.
  The cause of the outages was not immediately known. Power is expe
  
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• Smog warning issued for Montreal area as heat wave enters last gasp

  05-07-2018 13:34 via montrealgazette.com
  Environment Canada has issued a smog warning for the Montreal area as a record-breaking heat wave enters its sixth and perhaps final day.
  The federal agency says high concentrations of ozone are expected and will result in poor air quality with high concentrations of pollutants expected to persist through Thursday evening.
  The warning notes that smog particularly affects asthmatic children and people with respiratory ailments or heart disease, and recommends these individuals avoid intense
  
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• While you were sleeping: Sinkhole swallows car and airport wants parking for flying taxis

  05-07-2018 13:04 via montrealgazette.com
  Munich officials want train station to have parking spots for flying cabs
  A group of city counsellors in Munich say they want the southern German city’s main train station to have a landing pad for flying taxis.
  Five city council members from the Christian Social Union party submitted a motion Wednesday calling on rail company Deutsche Bahn to consider the space needed for the small, drone-like passenger aircraft in its plans for a future redesign of the station.
  In their motion, they writ
  
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• Quebec ends 'cruel' air ambulance policy of separating kids from parents

  05-07-2018 12:00 via montrealgazette.com
  When Julie Ikey’s youngest child was born premature at 30 weeks, she was forced off the air ambulance that flew her newborn thousands of kilometres away from a remote Inuit community to Montreal for emergency medical treatment.
  The distressed Salluit mother was frantic —  would her baby survive?
  “That was the scary part. I wasn’t sure if the baby would make it. But I had no choice. ‘Hopefully I’ll see you,’ I told her, and then left the plane,&rdquo
  
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• Montreal weather: Sunny and humid

  05-07-2018 12:00 via montrealgazette.com
  Mainly sunny with winds becoming southwest at 30 km/h in the afternoon.
  The warm and humid air mass over Southern Quebec will persist on Thursday.
  Environment Canada predicts a high of 35 Celsius, a Humidex of 46 and a UV index of 9 or very high.
  Tonight: Increasing cloudiness around midnight and then expect showers, possible thunderstorms overnight. Winds will blow southwest at 20 km/h, gusting to 40 with an overnight low of 20 C.
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• Jazz fest picks for July 5: Bonobo, David Myles, Too Many Zooz

  05-07-2018 12:00 via montrealgazette.com
  INDOOR: 
  Bonobo, Milk & Bone (7:30 p.m., Salle Wilfrid-Pelletier, Place des Arts, $51.30 to $79.05)
  British chillout electronica master Bonobo is a Montreal and jazz fest favourite, beloved for the musicality and stirring sweep of his funky compositions. Originally slated as part of a double bill with French jazzy-house DJ St-Germain (who recently cancelled), Bonobo will be joined by blissful Montreal down-tempo duo Milk & Bone. 
  OUTDOOR:
  David Myles (8 and 10 p.m., Rio Tinto S
  
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• Allison Hanes: Soaking up the World Cup in a hockey town

  05-07-2018 12:00 via montrealgazette.com
  Summer has finally arrived and Montreal is in the middle of a heat wave, but I’m tethered to the television.
  It’s the middle of the World Cup, which only comes around every four years, and it’s getting down to the wire. After 32 teams were whittled down to 16 for the knockout round, we’re now on the verge of the quarter-finals. Is your team still in the competition?
  That’s the thing about Montreal. Canada doesn’t have a horse in this race, so when it come
  
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• Cirque du Soleil targets kids with acquisition of VStar Entertainment

  05-07-2018 06:01 via montrealgazette.com
  The Cirque du Soleil continued its expansion outside its core circus business this week with the acquisition of Minnesota-based VStar Entertainment Group and its Florida-based circus arts subsidiary, Cirque Dreams. VStar is primarily a producer of live children’s and family shows, many of them based on properties from the Nickelodeon TV network and the Spin Master toy company.
  One of the most popular VStar Entertainment Group offerings is PAW Patrol, a live show based on the animated TV pr
  
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• Some Plateau merchants upset about homeless centre's move to Parc Ave.

  05-07-2018 03:34 via montrealgazette.com
  A church basement on Parc Ave. will soon become the new home for the Open Door, a drop-in centre for the homeless that has been operating out of a former Anglican church in Westmount since 1988.
  Renovations on the basement of Notre Dame de la Salette Church, located on Parc just north of Milton St., are to begin any day now, said David Chapman, acting director of the Open Door. The church basement will need showers, an updated kitchen, offices, lighting and a new ventilation system to accommodat
  
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• Heat wave: Death toll in Quebec climbs to 18

  05-07-2018 03:18 via montrealgazette.com
  The number of deaths in southern Quebec linked to the ongoing heat wave climbed to 18 as of Wednesday night.
  In Montreal, the heat wave had claimed 12 lives, doubling the total from the day before. The victims were all between the ages of 50 and 80.
  Urgences-santé pleaded with the public to call 911 only in case of a genuine emergency, and Mayor Valérie Plante called on Montrealers to look out for neighbours vulnerable to the effects of the record-breaking temperatures.
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• Quebec City newspaper Le Soleil to cut 25 jobs: report

  05-07-2018 02:50 via montrealgazette.com
  Quebec City daily newspaper Le Soleil is cutting 25 jobs — 14 in the editorial department — before the new year, La Presse reported Wednesday evening.
  The remaining job cuts will be made in the advertising, production and administrative departments.
  On the editorial side, some of the cuts will be the result of not replacing employees who have already resigned. A voluntary retirement program will also be open until Sept. 1.
  
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• Jeff Mathews is the next man up on Alouettes' quarterback carousel

  05-07-2018 01:29 via montrealgazette.com
  The backup quarterback often is the most-popular guy on a team — especially when he comes off the bench in the second half and preserves a victory.
  Jeff Mathews has experienced mixed results during his Canadian Football League career, which has included stops in Hamilton and Toronto. But he was methodically effective in the second half last Saturday at Saskatchewan.
  With the Als clinging to a 13-6 third-quarter lead, Mathews replaced the injured Drew Willy immediately following an intercep
  
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• Poll: Did the jazz fest make the right call by cancelling SLĀV?

  05-07-2018 00:12 via montrealgazette.com
  The Montreal International Jazz Festival, after more than a week of heated controversy, has cancelled the remaining performances of SLĀV, “a theatrical odyssey based on slave songs,” by director Robert Lepage, his company Ex Machina and singer Betty Bonifassi.
  Lepage’s show has been accused of cultural appropriation and cultural insensitivity.
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  Dunlevy: Jazz fest cancels SLĀV, but questions remainSinger Moses Sumney pulls out
  
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