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• Former mayor Applebaum appeals his ban from real estate profession

  17-07-2018 23:58 via montrealgazette.com
  Disgraced former mayor Michael Applebaum is going to court to try to get his real estate licence back.
  Applebaum has been trying to be readmitted to his former profession as a real estate agent since he was paroled from prison in June 2017, after serving two months of a one-year sentence for eight counts of fraud against the government, conspiracy to commit fraud, breach of trust and conspiracy to commit breach of trust.
  Last fall, the organization regulating Quebec’s real estate brokers r
  
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• Poll: Will you buy cannabis when it's legalized?

  17-07-2018 23:43 via montrealgazette.com
  Starting on Oct. 17, Canada will become the first major economy in the world to fully legalize marijuana.
  In Uruguay, it has been legal since 2013.
  Consumers, parents, schools and businesses in Quebec will soon have to face the music and navigate our new cannabis-is-legal world.
  We’re asking Montrealers if they will indulge.
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• Two fishermen missing in Beauharnois

  17-07-2018 21:38 via montrealgazette.com
  Authorities are looking for two fishermen who went missing Monday evening near Melocheville in Beauharnois.
  Around 2 a.m. Tuesday, search and rescuers found the boat that the two men, ages 30 and 37, used to go fishing.
  According to the Sûreté du Québec, it wasn’t the first time the men had been fishing in the area.
  The SQ has deployed divers and a boat to try to find the men.
  
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• Surging Impact take first step toward Canadian title against Whitecaps

  17-07-2018 21:33 via montrealgazette.com
  The Montreal Impact and the Vancouver Whitecaps are on the bubble in terms of making the Major League Soccer playoffs this season, but the Voyageurs Cup is a trophy both clubs have an eye on.
  The teams meet Wednesday night at Saputo Stadium in the first leg of a two-game, total goals Canadian Championship semifinal. The second leg is set for July 25 in Vancouver.
  Montreal coach Rémi Garde called it “an important competition,” while Vancouver right-back Jake Nerwinski said one
  
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• SAQ workers walk off the job on Day 1 of 6 possible strike days

  17-07-2018 21:01 via montrealgazette.com
  The Société des alcools du Quebec’s unionized employees walked off the job Tuesday morning, executing the first of six possible strike days they had voted to use in order to pressure management into awarding a better contract.
  The union is in negotiations for a new contract, and the main issues of contention are weekend scheduling and part-time work. Their contract expired in March 2017. At the end of June, the SAQ’s 5,500 unionized employees voted 91 per cent in f
  
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• Brownstein: Ex-NDP leader Tom Mulcair joining CJAD as political analyst

  17-07-2018 20:45 via montrealgazette.com
  Former NDP leader Tom Mulcair will be moving to the other side of the political fence next month when he gives up his seat in the House of Commons. He will be joining the Fourth Estate, commenting on matters political weekdays for CJAD and twice a week on the CTV News Channel.
  Beginning Aug. 28, Mulcair will be heard at 7:35 a.m. and 5:05 p.m. weekdays on CJAD. His last day in Parliament will be Aug. 3.
  Having served both provincially and federally, Mulcair is in an excellent position to analyze
  
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• Alouettes add offensive-lineman Tyler Johnstone to roster

  17-07-2018 20:11 via montrealgazette.com
  The Montreal Alouettes added national offensive-lineman Tyler Johnstone to the roster, the CFL team announced on Tuesday.
  Johnstone, a 6-foot-6, 275-pounder, was selected by the Alouettes in the CFL Supplemental Draft on July 2. The 25-year-old native of Chandler, Ariz., joined the NFL’s Los Angeles Chargers in May 2016 after his career with the University of Oregon Ducks.
  In 2015, Johnstone won the Outland Trophy, awarded to the best U.S. college football interior lineman. He also wo
  
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• SAQ strike: These are the 16 Montreal stores staying open

  17-07-2018 20:09 via montrealgazette.com
  The Société des alcools du Quebec’s unionized workers walked off the job this morning in the first of six possible strike days.
  The union’s contract expired in March 2017. At the end of June, the SAQ’s 5,500 unionized employees voted 91 per cent in favour of the six strike days.
  Sixty SAQ stores across the province will be staffed by managers and remain open during the strike.
  The following Montreal locations are still open:Côte-des-Neiges/Jean-Brillant
  
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• Opinion: Why the Apple Watch might be bad for your heart

  17-07-2018 19:50 via montrealgazette.com
  Given that I’m not someone who is overly fond of new gadgets, the arrival of the new Apple Watch 3 didn’t really make that much of an impression on me. But a new feature of this latest Apple Watch is interesting because, unlike other devices, it can measure the electrical activity of your heart.
  Heart rate monitors are not new, of course. A study in JAMA Cardiology found that four of the commercially available wrist-worn heart rate monitors (Apple Watch, Fitbit Charge HR, Mio Fuse an
  
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• Crappy news: Montreal shut out of Canada's Best Restroom shortlist

  17-07-2018 19:36 via montrealgazette.com
  Montrealers’ hopes that 2018 would be the year their city laid claim to the title of Canada’s Best Restroom are now circling the drain.
  The contest, which has been run annually since 2010, solicits nominations before submitting five finalists to a public vote.
  Nary a Montreal establishment features on this year’s list of finalists.
  Montreal does not have a great history in this contest. In the contest’s previous eight iterations, only four shortlisted businesses — N
  
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• Brownstein: Ex-NDP leader Tom Mulcair to join CJAD as new political analyst

  17-07-2018 19:28 via montrealgazette.com
  Former NDP leader Tom Mulcair will be moving to the other side of the political fence next month when he gives up his seat in the House of Commons. He will be joining the Fourth Estate, commenting on matters political, weekdays for CJAD and twice a week on the CTV News Channel.
  Beginning Aug. 28, Mulcair will be heard at 7:35 a.m. and 5:05 p.m. weekdays on CJAD. His last day in Parliament will be Aug. 3.
  Having served both provincially and federally, Mulcair is in an excellent position to analyz
  
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• Watch: How to avoid a dog attack

  17-07-2018 19:03 via montrealgazette.com
  Children at Montreal day camps have an especially furry teacher this summer.
  His name’s Albert, and he’s visiting to teach them about safely interacting with dogs.
  He’s also a nine-year-old Dutch sheepdog.
  Albert’s presence at camps is part of an awareness program that aims to teach kids how to deal with dogs.
  Participants also learn how to respond if they are ever faced with an aggressive dog.
  The city of Montreal has paid Zoothérapie Québec to give these w
  
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• Montreal police officer to face trial in 2016 death of Montreal North man

  17-07-2018 18:15 via montrealgazette.com
  A Montreal police officer charged with manslaughter in the death of a 46-year-old black man in 2016 will finally go to trial.
  Quebec Superior Court Judge Pierre Labelle announced in a decision Tuesday that there was enough evidence to warrant a trial for Christian Gilbert, a police officer charged in connection with the death of Jean-Pierre Bony.
  Bony was killed during a police raid in a Montreal North apartment complex on March 31, 2016. He had been hit by a rubber bullet. During the raid, Fred
  
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• Air Canada holds onto Best Airline title; Air Transat named best at leisure

  17-07-2018 17:58 via montrealgazette.com
  Two Montreal-based airlines were among the winners at the Skytrax World Airline Awards.
  Air Canada was named Best Airline in North America, while Air Transat was named Best Leisure Airline in the World.
  This is the second consecutive year Air Canada has won the Best Airline in North America award.
  “This is the seventh time in nine years Air Canada has been honoured with this award, demonstrating our successful transformation into a leading global carrier,” Calin Rovine
  
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• Céline Dion is richer than Beyoncé, Taylor Swift, you: Forbes

  17-07-2018 17:14 via montrealgazette.com
  Quebec singer Céline Dion has placed 46th on Forbes Magazine’s 2018 list of the richest women in the United States.
  Dion’s fortune is estimated at $430 million U.S., or about $565.1 million Canadian, placing her at the same level of the Forbes standings as U.S. interior designer Adi Tatarko.
  The No. 1 spot on the list is occupied by Wisconsin businesswoman Diane Hendricks, whose wealth is estimated at $4.9 billion U.S. Editor and television mogul Oprah Winfrey holds sixth
  
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• Six O'Clock Solution: Say yes peas to this open-face chicken sandwich

  17-07-2018 17:00 via montrealgazette.com
  You don’t have to serve them with the traditional Danish aquavit or cold beer, but you should definitely upgrade your summer sandwiches by trying one of the 70 open-face combinations offered in Open Sandwiches, a new cookbook by Danish food writer and chef Trine Hahnemann (Quadrille/Raincoast, $27.99).Chicken is the base for this recipe, topped with puréed frozen peas and coriander. Although the recipe begins with cooking fresh chicken, leftover roast chicken may be used as a substi
  
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• SAQ workers have walked off the job on Day 1 of a possible 6-day strike

  17-07-2018 16:57 via montrealgazette.com
  The Société des alcools du Quebec’s unionized employees walked off the job Tuesday morning, executing the first of six strike days it had voted to use in order to pressure management into awarding a better contract.
  While neither SAQ management nor its employees’ union provided immediate confirmation of the work action, calls to three Montreal-area SAQ outlets confirmed the strike had begun and it was not immediately clear how any outlets could be kept open by mana
  
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• Check your tickets: Are you one of Loto-Québec's mystery millionaires?

  17-07-2018 16:21 via montrealgazette.com
  If you have any lottery tickets in your wallet, purse or desk that you haven’t yet checked, do it now.
  Loto-Québec announced on Tuesday that it is looking for two millionaires and several winners of prizes of $100,000 or more who have simply not bothered to check their tickets.
  A $1.75-million Lotto 6/49 ticket sold in the Côte-des-Neiges—Notre-Dame-de-Grâce neighbourhood and a $1 million Lotto Max ticket sold in LaSalle are among the unclaimed prizes.
  Th
  
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• Sûreté du Québec arrest a dozen suspects in counterfeiting, fraud ring

  17-07-2018 16:08 via montrealgazette.com
  A dozen persons were arrested Tuesday as provincial police launched a series of Montreal-area raids aimed at breaking an alleged fraud and counterfeiting ring aimed at government and financial institutions.
  The operation, dubbed Projet Optique, contends the criminal network also had accomplices in certain of the institutions targeted.
  The investigation, launched in 2016 by the Sûreté du Québec, alleges that the suspects engaged in identity theft. The high-quality counterfeiti
  
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• Céline Dion makes Forbes list of wealthiest American women

  17-07-2018 15:13 via montrealgazette.com
  Quebec singer Céline Dion has placed 46th on Forbes Magazine’s 2018 list of the richest women in the United States.
  Dion’s fortune is estimated at $430 million U.S., or about $565.1 million Canadian, placing her at the same level of the Forbes standings as American interior designer Adi Tatarko.
  The No. 1 spot on the list is occupied by Wisconsin businesswoman Diane Hendricks, whose wealth is estimated at $4.9 billion U.S. Editor and television mogul Oprah Winfrey holds s
  
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• Cryptocurrencies aren't running out of steam, Quebec's Rivemont fund insists

  17-07-2018 14:28 via montrealgazette.com
  Cash is king for Canada’s only actively managed crypto fund.
  The Rivemont Crypto Fund, run by Rivemont Investments, had about 91 per cent of its $3 million of assets in cash as of July 13, with the remaining 9 per cent in Bitcoin, according to its latest weekly update on Facebook.
  “I would say that the cryptocurrency market right now is not really in a bull market so people are waiting to see if it’s going down further,” president and portfolio manager Martin Lalonde said
  
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• After $55-billion dead heat, Airbus and Boeing chase more deals

  17-07-2018 14:12 via montrealgazette.com
  Boeing Co. and Airbus SE battled to a stalemate as the Farnborough air show kicked off Monday, tallying more than $55 billion in jetliner sales. The second day may well signal a winner, with a flurry of more deals expected at the biggest event of its kind this year.
  Airlines and leasing firms committed to taking about $29 billion of planes from Airbus, including dozens of the European manufacturer’s top-selling A320neo family of narrow-body jets. Boeing was close behind, with about $26 bil
  
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• Motorist in custody after cyclist injured in Bois-des-Filion hit and run

  17-07-2018 13:41 via montrealgazette.com
  A 21-year-old man is  in custody after being arrested by Terrebonne police in the wake of a hit and run in Bois-de-Filion that sent a 54-year-old cyclist to hospital early Tuesday.
  The incident occurred at 5 a.m. at the intersection of Adolphe-Chapleau and Des Laurentides Blvds. when a car collided with a bicycle and then continued without stopping.
  The cyclist suffered injuries to his head and lower body buy his life is not danger. The suspect was arrested in Terrebonne minutes a
  
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• Albert has something to teach Montreal kids about strange dogs

  17-07-2018 13:38 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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• No signs of cooling in hot housing market

  17-07-2018 13:30 via montrealgazette.com
  The West Island area is now among the hottest real estate markets in Canada, according to a new report looking at price fluctuations nationwide.
  According to Royal LePage’s House Price Survey and Market Forecast Survey, released last week, the increase in prices in the West Island over the past year is among the highest in Canada.
  In the West Island, overall prices rose 15.3 per cent over the same period, compared to 7.1 per cent downtown and 5.9 per cent in Greater Montreal. Nationally, p
  
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• Two men injured in wake of domestic abuse call

  17-07-2018 12:53 via montrealgazette.com
  Two men were injured in the wake of an altercation sparked by alleged case of domestic abuse early Monday.
  Montreal police say the incident occurred at about 1 a.m., when they received a 911 call that a man had assaulted his spouse while in their home on Hochelaga St. in the city’s east-end Mercier district.However police say the alleged attacker was then assaulted by an 18-year-old man — a member of the woman’s family — and both men suffered injuries in the fight that en
  
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• While you were sleeping: City wants to evict ravenous catfish from pond

  17-07-2018 12:42 via montrealgazette.com
  Here’s what happened while you were enjoying some pillow time. 
  A six-year-old was killed after being hit by a van at a campsite in St-Félix-de-Valois, in the Lanaudière region. The girl was reportedly playing behind a tree before she suddenly jumped out and was hit by the van. She was declared dead in a hospital. The three occupants in the van were also taken to a hospital to be treated for nervous shock. The Sûreté du Québec and a cor
  
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• Cannabis countdown: Paradoxes and peculiarities of legalizing pot

  17-07-2018 12:16 via montrealgazette.com
  This fall, the CEGEP de l’Outaouais will become the first college in Quebec and one of only two in Canada to offer a degree in how to grow and harvest cannabis. Students in Gatineau will also learn how to turn it into oil or brownies, and navigate the complex and ever-changing legal framework around the plant.
  But they won’t be able to touch the stuff in class. That will still be illegal.
  It’s just one of the many paradoxes that consumers, parents, schools and businesses in Que
  
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• It's a good time to be a "Canna-preneur"

  17-07-2018 12:15 via montrealgazette.com
  Meet Mary. She’s four feet tall, is very low-maintenance, looks like a work of art in your living room, and will produce a full-grown pot plant out of a seed within weeks.
  Also known as an “automated growing system,” Mary, which will retail for $499, is just one of the new products being engineered and marketed in anticipation of cannabis legalization in October, by “canna-preneurs” eager to cash in on green profits.
  At CannabisFest in Montreal last week — par
  
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• Montreal weather: A wet morning

  17-07-2018 12:00 via montrealgazette.com
  Showers and a risk of thunderstorms ending around noon, then expect a mix of sun and clouds.
  Winds becoming southwest at 20 km/h, gusting to 40 around lunchtime.
  Environment Canada predicts a high of 28 Celsius, a Humidex of 36 and a UV index of 8 or very high.
  Tonight: Clearing late in the evening with winds blowing northwest at 20 km/h, and becoming light. The overnight low is expected to be 14 C.
  Don’t forget to submit your photos of Montreal via Facebook, Twitter and Instagra
  
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• Harwood Blvd. revitalization plan

  17-07-2018 11:30 via montrealgazette.com
  The city of Vaudreuil-Dorion is planning the revitalization of Harwood Blvd.
  The revitalization committee is chaired by District 1 Councillor Josée Clément.
  “This committee was created to ensure that every effort is made to revitalize Harwood Boulevard unfolds smoothly and that its development is coherent,” she said.
  “Our role will be to make recommendations to the municipal council to carry out the objectives mentioned in the Harwood-De Lotbinière Special
  
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• Concert review: Radiohead in a class of its own at Bell Centre

  17-07-2018 08:35 via montrealgazette.com
  If you closed your eyes and walked into the Bell Centre blind Monday, you could have guessed you were at a Radiohead show even before the first sign of Thom Yorke’s addictive upper-register murmur. The clues were in what wasn’t there: no bombast, no big entrance — just the uncommonly fragile piano of Daydreaming, then Yorke casting a spell with a chilling, warming embrace. This simply was not music you expect to hear in an arena.
  As shafts of mirrorball light pierced the dark a
  
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• In case you missed it, here's what happened in Montreal on July 16

  17-07-2018 04:30 via montrealgazette.com
  A look at the day’s events in and around Montreal:
  Nine out of 10 Quebec drivers admit to distracted driving: survey
  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 l
  
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• Hydro-Québec allowed to charge cryptocurrency miners increased rates

  17-07-2018 04:00 via montrealgazette.com
  Hydro-Québec is allowed to charge cryptocurrency miners and blockchain promoters increased rates until regulations for the industry are introduced, the Régie de l’énergie has decided.
  In a 45-page decision released on Friday, the Régie accepted the majority of Hydro’s demands.
  At 15 cents per kilowatt hour (kWh), the tariffs are double the rate paid by Hydro’s residential clients. The rate would be applied in the event that a promoter connects t
  
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• Meteorologist shrugs off Montreal's dry July as 'a normal variable'

  17-07-2018 02:52 via montrealgazette.com
  Despite sweat-inducing humidity, July has been an exceptionally dry month in Montreal.
  By Sunday, Montreal received 0.4 mm of rain — a far cry from the monthly average of about 90 mm. By the same date last year, the island had received 50.6 mm of rain, according to historical data from Environment Canada.This year’s dryness is the result of cooler weather systems passing northwest of the city, said Simon Legault, a meteorologist with the agency. It’s nothing more than a normal
  
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• Eurasian watermilfoil: Quebec urged to help fight the 'zombie plant'

  17-07-2018 02:48 via montrealgazette.com
  The Quebec government must act immediately to protect the province’s lakes and rivers from a particularly nasty invasive species called Eurasian watermilfoil, nicknamed the “zombie plant,” before it’s too late, a coalition of municipalities, businesspeople, scientists, tourism groups and environmentalists said Monday.
  The Union of Quebec Municipalities and a recently formed group called the Alliance for a National Program to Manage Eurasian Watermilfoil called a news conf
  
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• Stu Cowan: 'Playing the right way' pays off for Canadiens' Phillip Danault

  17-07-2018 02:33 via montrealgazette.com
  You often hear NHL coaches and players talk about “playing the right way.”
  It can mean a lot of different things and doesn’t really have an exact explanation. But Phillip Danault definitely plays the right way and the Canadiens rewarded the 25-year-old centre on Sunday with a new three-year contract worth US$9.25 million that comes with an annual salary-cap hit of $3.083 million.
  It’s a big raise from the two-year, US$1.825-million contract Danault completed last season w
  
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• Workers to strike at five Montreal-area seniors' residences Tuesday

  17-07-2018 02:26 via montrealgazette.com
  Three hundred workers at five Résidences Soleil in and around Montreal will begin an unlimited strike on Tuesday.
  Résidences Soleil are seniors’ residences owned by Groupe Savoie.
  The workers include attendants, kitchen employees and maintenance workers, and the facilities affected are those in Granby, Laval, Pointe-aux-Trembles, St-Laurent and St-Hilaire. The workers are members of Local 106 of the Teamsters union, which is affiliated with the Fédération d
  
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• Girl, 6, dies after being hit by van at campsite in Lanaudière

  17-07-2018 02:19 via montrealgazette.com
  A six-year-old was killed after being hit by a van at a campsite in St-Félix-de-Valois, in the Lanaudière region about 90 kilometres north of Montreal, on Monday.
  The girl was reportedly playing behind a tree before she suddenly jumped out and was hit by the van. She was declared dead in a hospital.
  The three occupants in the van were also taken to a hospital to be treated for nervous shock.
  The Sûreté du Québec and a coroner will be investigating the situation.
  
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• Petition for public consultations on systemic racism shy of signature goal

  17-07-2018 01:01 via montrealgazette.com
  A petition for public consultations on systematic racism and discrimination in Montreal has amassed 13,000 signatures, just 2,000 shy of the 15,000 needed to force the city to hold them.
  The petition, which was announced by former Projet Montréal candidate and Montreal Alouettes player Balarama Holness in February, needs to collect the remaining signatures by July 29 to meet the city’s requirements, which are outlined in the “right of initiative” in the city&rs
  
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• National Drowning Prevention Week: Numbers falling, but we can do better

  17-07-2018 00:26 via montrealgazette.com
  Three confirmed drownings and a possible fourth heralded a grim run-up to National Drowning Prevention Week in Quebec.
  Fifteen-year-old Mohamed Ndimurwanko scaled a fence and jumped into a public swimming pool in Cartierville late on Saturday night. He died in a hospital on Sunday. A 75-year-old Quebec City man fishing with another man in the Saguenay–Lac-St-Jean region on Friday, in the Zone d’exploitation contrôlée Martin-Valin, drowned after their boat tipped. A 34-ye
  
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• Allison Hanes: Almost anything beats taking the bus

  17-07-2018 00:05 via montrealgazette.com
  As Montreal’s traffic hell worsens and people contemplate their options, does taking the bus top anyone’s list of alternatives?
  Crowded, frequently late, stuck in traffic, inefficient, sweltering in the summer (and often in the winter, too, when passengers are bundled up to brave the elements outside), the bus can be a miserable experience many days.
  For those who have no other choice, it is a fact of life. But for those who do, almost anything beats the bus — even if that mean
  
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