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• Brendan Kelly: Bring down the curtain on Serge Losique's film festival

  16-07-2018 23:42 via montrealgazette.com
  This madness must stop now.
  Founder and president Serge Losique has to shut down his Festival des Films du monde (FFM) immediately and allow the city’s film milieu to move on from this dysfunctional event.
  On June 27, Revenue Quebec filed an injunction in Superior Court asking for the film festival to be shuttered as a result of unpaid taxes. Revenue Quebec says the festival owes $499,469 in back taxes, according to a document filed on May 23.
  These issues with the Quebec tax department da
  
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• Poll: Do you ride the bus less now than a few years ago?

  16-07-2018 23:21 via montrealgazette.com
  The Société de transport de Montréal has seen bus ridership plummet in the last few years, according to figures obtained by the Montreal Gazette in an access-to-information request.
  From 2012 to 2017 statistics show a steep overall decline of bus ridership by 13.32 per cent in that period.
  So we’re asking Montrealers if they ride the bus less now than a few years ago?
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• Montreal daycampers learn about dog safety from a furry teacher

  16-07-2018 23:02 via montrealgazette.com
  As a teacher, Albert was clearly having trouble conveying the city’s message about the dangers of dogs.
  The nine-year-old Dutch sheepdog, with long black and white fur, was cuddling and licking his students Monday morning during a workshop about how to identify an aggressive dog and what to do in the event of an attack. When he wasn’t interacting with the children, he was dozing off, lying on the floor of the hot gymnasium of the Point-St-Charles recreation centre or licking his vari
  
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• Mile End fire shuts down intersection of Jeanne-Mance, St-Viateur Sts.

  16-07-2018 22:09 via montrealgazette.com
  A single-alarm fire shut down the intersection of Jeanne-Mance and St-Viateur Sts. Monday afternoon.
  Montreal police were unable to specify how far the safety perimeter put in place by firefighters extends, but they recommend that the area be avoided.
  Feu de bâtiment – JEANNE-MANCE/SAINT-VIATEUR- Première alarme – Coupure de courant possible.Merci d'éviter le secteur. pic.twitter.com/fiJLt4iLlN
  — Sécurité incendieMTL (@MTL_SIM) July 16, 20
  
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• Opinion: Tim Hortons double-doubles down in China

  16-07-2018 20:59 via montrealgazette.com
  Tim Hortons is going where the growth is: east to China. The Canadian institution announced it will expand its portfolio of 4,700 restaurants by signing a joint venture partnership with a Chinese-based equity firm. Tim Hortons currently has locations in the U.S., the Arab Emirates, the Philippines and the United Kingdom, and it intends to open 1,500 new restaurants within the next decade. By 2028, almost a quarter of Tim Hortons restaurants will be in China.
  Cartesian Capital, the equity firm pa
  
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• Brownstein: Emmy-winner Macy to take a stab at standup during JFL gala

  16-07-2018 19:37 via montrealgazette.com
  With the same intonation and choice of words as one of his most memorable screen characters, mid-Western car salesman Jerry Lundegaard in Fargo, William H. Macy softly drawls: “That’s pretty swell.”
  Macy is responding to the news that he has been nominated once again for an Emmy Award for his performance as the feckless Frank Gallagher in the hit TV series Shameless. He has already won the Emmy twice, as well as three Screen Actors Guild Awards, for his work on the show.
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• Montreal day campers learn about dog safety from a furry teacher

  16-07-2018 18:57 via montrealgazette.com
  As a teacher, Albert was clearly having trouble getting out the city’s message to warn children about the dangers of dogs.
  The nine-year-old Dutch sheepdog was cuddling and licking his students Monday morning during a workshop about how to identify an aggressive dog and what to do in the event of an attack. When he wasn’t interacting with the children, Albert was dozing off in the hot gymnasium of the Point-St-Charles recreation centre.
  It was one of hundreds of such workshops being
  
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• Search resumes for swimmer missing in waters near Pointe-aux-Trembles

  16-07-2018 18:40 via montrealgazette.com
  Montreal police will resume their search on Monday for a swimmer who disappeared into the St. Lawrence River Sunday afternoon off the shore of Pointe-aux-Trembles.
  Search boats will be deployed from the Montreal police nautical squad and the Canadian Coast Guard. Police divers will also participate in the search once conditions permit.
  A witness called police at around 4 p.m. on Sunday to say they had seen a swimmer jump into the river but not re-emerge. The missing swimmer is a man in his 60s.
  
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• Lise Ravary: Are francophone Quebecers racist?

  16-07-2018 18:10 via montrealgazette.com
  Let me begin by sharing with you what a lower-middle-class francophone Québécois girl was taught about race in the 1960s and ’70s.
  I was raised in Hochelaga-Maisonneuve, where I lived until 1975.
  My mother was born in Scotstown, near Lac-Mégantic, but grew up in the Viauville neighbourhood of Montreal in a poor household where violence was a daily scourge.
  My paternal grandfather farmed in St-Télésphore, near the Ontario border. When my dad was five, the
  
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• Nine out of 10 Quebec drivers admit to distracted driving: survey

  16-07-2018 17:43 via montrealgazette.com
  Denis Talbot took up flying years ago and remembers the day he went to show off his new GPS to his flight instructor.
  “My instructor took the GPS, put it in a locker and closed the door,” Talbot recalled on Monday. “He said: ‘First learn how to figure out your position (in the air) with a map, then you can use the GPS.'”
  The struggle to learn the basics rather than use technology as a shortcut certainly isn’t limited to flying, and Talbot, a technology expert
  
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• Osheaga bans plastic straws; other evenko music fests to follow lead

  16-07-2018 17:31 via montrealgazette.com
  Following the lead of several high profile restaurant chains, concert promoter evenko announced Monday that the 2018 edition of Osheaga, will ban the use of plastic straws at it its venue. The ban will also apply to the 77 Montréal, HEAVY MONTRÉAL and îleSoniq festivals.
  The promoter also announced that a tanker truck will supply festival goers with free drinking water, an initiative implemented in collaboration with the National Bank, which
  
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• 'Godfather' of aircraft leasing takes second look at post-Bombardier A220

  16-07-2018 16:59 via montrealgazette.com
  Steven Udvar-Hazy, Air Lease Corp.’s founder and chairman, is studying his first potential orders of the Airbus SE A220 now that the European planemaker controls the single-aisle jetliner.
  Airbus’s sales and engineering expertise brings greater potential to the aircraft, Udvar-Hazy said Sunday. The program was developed by Montreal-based Bombardier Inc. and formerly known as the C Series before Airbus took over a majority stake July 1.
  “It’s a more attractive prospect,&rd
  
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• Duncan: Common sense should rule whenever using leaf blowers and yard tools

  16-07-2018 13:30 via montrealgazette.com
  I own a leaf blower. Do you? If so, how often do you actually use it? If you are like me, it is used very rarely.
  Would I care if my municipality told me when I could actually use it or told me that I could not use it at all? You bet that I would.
  In fact, whenever a town decides that I can, or cannot perform simple tasks on my property such as mowing my lawn or blowing my leaves, I take exception.
  However, I recognize the reality that a number of tools employed to perform yard work can generate
  
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• One dead, 3 injured after head-on crash on Highway 132

  16-07-2018 13:21 via montrealgazette.com
  A 23-year-old woman is dead and three others injured — two of them seriously — in the wake of a two-car collision Sunday evening on Highway 132 near Saint-Stanislas-de-Kostka south of Valleyfield, the Sûreté du Québec said Monday.
  The incident occurred at 8:35 p.m. and officers arriving on the scene determined the crash happened when one of the vehicles drifted into the oncoming lane.
  The woman who died was the passenger in the car travelling in the wrong directio
  
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• Allison Hanes: Wallowing in World Cup withdrawal? You're not alone

  16-07-2018 13:05 via montrealgazette.com
  Feeling a little lost today? You’re surely not alone.
  After a month straight of dramatic, high-stakes, thrilling soccer, the 2018 World Cup is over. The intense group stage, when as many as three games a day kept us tethered to our televisions, and the more emotionally intense knockout rounds, where hearts were broken or hopes lifted, concluded in an electrifying if controversial climax Sunday that featured everything from Pussy Riot to Putin.
  The golden trophy has been hoisted. The confet
  
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• Schukov: Public service is a thankless job in the West Island

  16-07-2018 13:00 via montrealgazette.com
  The recent storming of the Beaconsfield council castle walls by leaf-blower dispossessed villagers less pitchforks and flaming torches (excuse my sally into poetic licence) tweaks my opinion on the subject of — uh — having an opinion: Everyone has one.
  Before I leave the actual subject of banning leaf blowers: It’s only being banned for summers when the darn things are still in the trees. What are the pro-right-to-blowers fighting for, the privilege of blowing leaves off the tr
  
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• While you were sleeping: Canny lawmaker to hold office hours on beach

  16-07-2018 12:47 via montrealgazette.com
  Here’s what happened in Montreal while you were enjoying some well-deserved shut eye.
  One motorcyclist died and another was injured in a collision with a car in Rigaud. A woman reportedly turned her vehicle off Route 201 toward a campground entrance around 2:30 p.m. when she hit the two motorcyclists travelling in the opposite direction, Sûreté du Québec spokesperson Christine Coulombe said. A man in his 60s succumbed to his injuries while another man in his 2
  
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• Cyclist in serious condition after colliding with SUV in Rosemont

  16-07-2018 12:36 via montrealgazette.com
  A 31-year-old cyclist was in serious condition in hospital Monday morning after colliding with an SUV in Rosemont hours earlier.
  According to preliminary findings by accident investigators, the cyclist was travelling north on Molson St. at about 12:30 a.m. and ran a red light before colliding with the SUV, which was travelling east on St. Joseph Blvd.
  The 72-year-old driver of the car was uninjured and apparently unable to avoid hitting the cyclist.
  Police said Monday morning that while the cycl
  
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• STM bus ridership has declined by more than 13 per cent over 5 years

  16-07-2018 12:00 via montrealgazette.com
  Despite major investments to improve the reliability and comfort of its buses, the Société de transport de Montréal has seen bus ridership plummet in the last few years, according to figures obtained by the Montreal Gazette in an access-to-information request.
  The findings come as most major cities in North America are also struggling with declining or stagnating numbers. The request was for bus ridership numbers over the last 10 years, but the STM only provided data sp
  
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• In case you missed it, here's what happened in Montreal on July 15

  16-07-2018 04:30 via montrealgazette.com
  A look at the day’s events in and around Montreal:
  Gregory Charles has resigned from Lanaudière Festival
  Gregory Charles, the multitalented musician, actor and television host who was hired by the Lanaudière Festival last year to widen its public reach and spruce up programming, has resigned from the summer music event.
  Lanaudière managing director François Bédard confirmed the resignation Saturday night after a performance of Krzysztof Penderecki’s
  
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• SLAV director Robert Lepage addresses opponents of new show Kanata

  16-07-2018 03:21 via montrealgazette.com
  Quebec theatre director Robert Lepage is inviting those opposed to his upcoming show Kanata to a meeting in Montreal on Thursday.
  Kanata is about the relationship between Indigenous and white people, but does not appear to include Indigenous actors.
  Ariane Mnouchkine of Paris’s Théâtre du Soleil, which is co-presenting Kanata, will also be in Montreal for the meeting.
  The meeting is in response to an open letter published in Le Devoir Saturday, which said that by excludin
  
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• Collision kills one motorcyclist, injures another in Rigaud

  16-07-2018 03:05 via montrealgazette.com
  One motorcyclist died and another was injured in a collision with a car in Rigaud on Sunday afternoon.
  A woman reportedly turned her vehicle off Route 201 toward a campground entrance around 2:30 p.m. when she hit the two motorcyclists travelling in the opposite direction, Sûreté du Québec spokesperson Christine Coulombe said.
  A man in his 60s succumbed to his injuries while another man in his 20s was seriously injured but is reported in stable condition in the hospital. The
  
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• Gregory Charles has resigned from Lanaudière Festival

  16-07-2018 02:36 via montrealgazette.com
  Gregory Charles, the multitalented musician, actor and television host who was hired by the Lanaudière Festival last year to widen its public reach and spruce up programming, has resigned from the summer music event.
  Lanaudière managing director François Bédard confirmed the resignation Saturday night after a performance of Krzysztof Penderecki’s St. Luke Passion. OSM music director Kent Nagano warmed up the crowd — a duty normally undertaken by Charles.
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• One dead, another in custody after a Saturday-night fight

  16-07-2018 02:23 via montrealgazette.com
  A 53-year-old man is dead after an altercation with another man Saturday night in downtown Montreal.
  Around 9:30 p.m., police said they discovered the victim on Union Ave., near Ste-Catherine St.
  According to witnesses, it was an argument that escalated.
  One of them was stabbed in the upper body and was taken to hospital, where he died from his injuries.
  The suspect, 66, was arrested on the scene and taken to a detention centre.
  Investigators analyzed the scene and will try to determine the circ
  
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• Life Stories: Success didn't stop at wrestling mat for David Canadian

  16-07-2018 02:19 via montrealgazette.com
  It was a question that would prove to have a profound effect on Ryan Price for years to come.
  David Canadian was the head coach of the Kahnawake Survival School’s wrestling team, and a relative of Price. Canadian was born in Brooklyn and raised in Michigan. He’d just started a new chapter of his life in Quebec, where he had family.
  Price had played hockey growing up, but never really considered himself a wrestler. Canadian convinced his second cousin to join the team.
  “He didn&
  
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• No trace of man who reportedly tried to swim in St. Lawrence

  16-07-2018 01:53 via montrealgazette.com
  Emergency services unsuccessfully searched for a man reported to have gone under while attempting to swim in the St. Lawrence River in Pointe-aux-Trembles Sunday afternoon.
  Michel Plamondon, spokesperson for the Canadian Coast Guard, said a call was made around 4 p.m. reporting that a man was heard yelling for help from the river after jumping in. The agency was one of four groups, along with the Montreal police, Longueuil police and Montreal fire department, who participated in the initial sear
  
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• Motorcyclist dies at ICAR circuit in Mirabel

  16-07-2018 00:44 via montrealgazette.com
  A 30-year-old man died after apparently losing control of his motorcycle at an event at the ICAR circuit in Mirabel on Sunday morning.
  He was declared dead at the Hôpital du Sacré-Coeur.
  The circumstances surrounding the incident, which took place around 11:30 a.m., are still unknown. A spokesperson for the Service de la police de Mirabel, Nicolas Arbour, said an investigation is underway.
  The accident occurred at an event hosted by Moto Nation, a motorcycle school that organizes tr
  
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