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• Heat wave: Death toll reaches 53 in Montreal, but could get higher

  18-07-2018 23:54 via montrealgazette.com
  Fifty-three deaths in Montreal were potentially caused by the record-breaking heat wave that took over the city in early July, says a new report by the public health department released Wednesday. But that number could continue to rise.
  The total presented in the department’s preliminary report does not include deaths that occurred in hospitals, only those that occurred within the community from June 30 to July 8, said Dr. David Kaiser, a physician with Santé Montréal. They s
  
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• Video Center: Watch all of the Gazette's videos in one place

  18-07-2018 22:42 via montrealgazette.com
  Watch the news and interesting video features at the Montreal Gazette’s new Video Center.
  The Video Center organizes all of the Gazette’s videos across all sections and platforms into one easily accessible page.
  So go ahead and binge watch a few.
  Check out the Video Center here.
  
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• REM work compromising service on Deux-Montagnes, Mascouche lines: exo

  18-07-2018 22:17 via montrealgazette.com
  Citing ongoing construction work on Montreal’s electric commuter-train network (REM), exo, the provincial transit agency that oversees Montreal-area commuter-train service, announced this week that it can no longer guarantee the punctuality of its Deux-Montagnes and Mascouche lines.
  The agency notes that since June 25, both lines have been obliged to run on a single rail line between the Montpelier station and access to the Mont-Royal tunnel, “a major operational constraint that the
  
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• Drug recall: Class-action request filed in Montreal

  18-07-2018 22:12 via montrealgazette.com
  A request for a class-action suit filed in the Montreal courthouse on Monday wants the manufacturers of a recalled heart medication, valsartan, to pay damages to Quebecers who took the drug.
  A recall issued by Health Canada on July 9, 2018, announced that several drugs containing valsartan were contaminated with an impurity: a chemical called N-nitrosodimethylamine, otherwise known as NDMA.
  NDMA is a potential human carcinogen, which means long-term exposure to it could cause cancer, according t
  
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• Warning issued for Îles-de-la-Madeleine lobster paste

  18-07-2018 21:38 via montrealgazette.com
  The Quebec Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food is warning consumers not to eat a brand of lobster paste sold from an outlet on the Îles-de-la-Madeleine because safe consumption of the product cannot be ensured.
  The warning issued for “Tomali de homard des Îles-de-la-Madeleine” applies to all items sold until July 16 by the Poissonnerie Unipêche M.D.M. ltée, located at 66 Quai Ave., in Paspébiac. The lobster paste is packaged in glass jars,
  
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• Juliette & Chocolat celebrates 15 years with $100 brownie

  18-07-2018 21:30 via montrealgazette.com
  Montreal’s Juliette & Chocolat has found a glittery way to celebrate its 15th anniversary.
  The chocolaterie will be selling a triple chocolate brownie that has been covered in edible 23-karat gold sheets.
  Gold, which is flavourless (and arguably tasteless), can be safely ingested. Like the rest of the brownie, it is also gluten free.
  The $100 confection will be sold through Juliette & Chocolat’s online store as of July 20.
  This anniversary brownie is but the latest in a wave
  
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• SAQ strike: Six surprisingly good supermarket wines

  18-07-2018 20:58 via montrealgazette.com
  As I drove by my local SAQ Tuesday, I saw a few people staring forlornly through the locked doors. While the SAQ workers were on strike for just the one day, the union has a mandate for employees to walk out for five more. Considering the SAQ’s desire to close stores and reduce costs, there’s a decent chance this labour conflict won’t be resolved without at least a few more strike days.
  My advice is to stock up on a few cases of wine while SAQ stores are open. If you don&r
  
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• SAQ strike: These supermarket wines don't leave a sour taste

  18-07-2018 20:53 via montrealgazette.com
  As I drove by my local SAQ Tuesday, I saw a few people staring forlornly through the locked doors. While the SAQ workers were on strike for just the one day, the union has a mandate for employees to walk out for five more. Considering the SAQ’s desire to close stores and reduce costs, there’s a decent chance this labour conflict won’t be resolved without at least a few more strike days.
  My advice is to stock up on a few cases of wine while SAQ stores are open. If you don&r
  
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• Canadiens and fans celebrate National Tattoo Day

  18-07-2018 19:42 via montrealgazette.com
  Tuesday was National Tattoo Day, a day of celebration for some Canadiens players and their fans.
  Defenceman Jordie Benn has sleeve tattoos on both his arms. The first tattoo Benn got were the words “Never Quit.” Benn and his brother, Jamie, heard those words often from their father and grandfather while growing up in Victoria, B.C. Both boys made it to the NHL and Jamie is now captain of the Dallas Stars.
  Benn said in an interview last season that the tattoo that means the most
  
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• SQ divers recover body of Montreal swimmer from Bas-St-Laurent lake

  18-07-2018 19:03 via montrealgazette.com
  Sûreté du Québec (SQ) divers on Wednesday found the body of a 24-year-old Montreal man who disappeared the night before into a Bas-St-Laurent-region lake.
  Police said the body was recovered from Lake Pohénégamook at about 11 a.m.
  The SQ had received an emergency call at about 4:45 p.m. Tuesday that a swimmer in the lake seemed to be having difficulty.
  A search by local firefighters ended at 9 p.m. Tuesday.
  Police will interview witnesses in an effort t
  
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• Drug recall: Class action lawsuit request filed in Montreal

  18-07-2018 18:51 via montrealgazette.com
  A request for a class action lawsuit filed in the Montreal courthouse on Monday alleges the manufacturers of a recalled heart medication, valsartan, should pay damages to Quebecers who took the drug.
  A recall issued by Health Canada on July 9, 2018, announced that several drugs containing valsartan were contaminated with an impurity: a chemical called nitrosodimethylamine, otherwise known as NDMA.
  According to the International Agency for Research on Cancer, NDMA is a potential human carcin
  
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• Saputo sells major asset after $1.3 billion takeover in Australia

  18-07-2018 18:50 via montrealgazette.com
  Saputo Inc. has sold one of its major production plants in Australia to local rival Bega Cheese for $244 million.
  The sale of the Koroit plant in the state of Victoria was a condition set by Australia’s competition regulators in April when it approved Saputo’s $1.3-billion takeover of the Murray Goulburn Co-operative — making the Quebec-based company the largest dairy processor in Australia.
  With the Koroit plant in its arsenal, Saputo would have controlled more than two thirds
  
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• Opinion: Montreal shows the rest of Canada how to save urban trees

  18-07-2018 18:30 via montrealgazette.com
  While much of our national identity is tied to our natural environment, Canadians haven’t always taken the proper steps to preserve, protect and promote the urban forests that breathe so much life into our communities.
  Due to poor city planning, climate change and invasive insects like the emerald ash borer, urban tree cover has been in precipitous decline throughout most of Canada over the past two decades. Making matters worse, our government has been slow to react; Canada is significant
  
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• Quebec launches $8-million defence against 'zombie plant' invasion

  18-07-2018 18:28 via montrealgazette.com
  The provincial government will spend $8 million over five years — funds promised in its last budget — to fight against an exotic species of invasive “zombie” plant that is quickly clogging Quebec’s lakes and waterways.
  Environment Minister Isabelle Melançon made the announcement Wednesday, two days after municipal and environmental groups made a public plea for help in stemming the growth of the Eurasian watermilfoil. The species is believed to have thus far
  
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• Brownstein: Comedian Orny Adams is 'not angry. I'm passionate'

  18-07-2018 17:30 via montrealgazette.com
  When his first name is typed out on my computer, my auto-correct insists on turning “Orny” into “Ornery.” Which is somewhat ironic in that, over the years, Orny Adams has often been labelled “ornery.”
  Irony abounds in the life of Orny Adams. He changed his name from Adam Ornstein, in order that it have less of an ethnic sound. But here he is at the Just for Laughs comedy festival’s Ethnic Show, playing the designated Jew — although his roots are cl
  
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• SAQ stores reopen, but more strike days planned if negotiations stall

  18-07-2018 17:20 via montrealgazette.com
  Société des alcools du Québec stores are open again Wednesday after unionized store workers went on strike Tuesday.
  Simon Desjardins, an SAQ worker and union representative, said Tuesday’s strike showed the employer the union was serious, but said it’s still too early to assess the action’s impact on contract negotiations.
  “There’s another day at the negotiation table” Thursday, Desjardins said. “It’s really then that we’
  
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• Happiness 'stays in my heart': Lottery-winner has mission to help others

  18-07-2018 17:06 via montrealgazette.com
  Money, indeed, can buy happiness, Rachel Lapierre will attest.
  But in a strange twist to that age-old axiom, Lapierre has used her money, acquired from a 2013 lottery win, to benefit others rather than selfishly spending it on herself.
  The 57-year-old Piedmont resident still lives in the same house. Although she did purchase a new Subaru automobile last year, Lapierre did so only after her last car was stolen. And she laughed about it when sharing the experience.
  “Honestly, helping (people
  
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• Quebec ministry issues warning for Îles-de-la-Madeleine lobster paste

  18-07-2018 16:40 via montrealgazette.com
  The Quebec Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food is warning consumers not to eat a brand of lobster paste sold from an outlet on the Îles-de-la-Madeleine because safe consumption of the product cannot be ensured.
  The warning issued for “Tomali de homard des Îles-de-la-Madeleine” applies to all items sold up until July 16 by the Poissonnerie Unipêche M.D.M. ltée, located at 66 Quai Ave., in Paspébiac. The lobster paste is packaged in glass ja
  
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• REM work compromising service on Deux-Montagnes, Mascouche trains: exo

  18-07-2018 16:01 via montrealgazette.com
  Citing ongoing construction work on Montreal’s electric commuter-train network (REM), exo, the provincial transit agency that oversees Montreal-area commuter-train service, announced this week that it can no longer guarantee the punctuality of its Deux-Montagnes and Mascouche lines.
  The agency notes that since June 25, both lines have been obliged to run on a single rail line between the Montpelier station and access to the Mont-Royal tunnel, “a major operational constraint that the
  
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• The end is nigh, but Pioneer bar defenders are holding out for a hero

  18-07-2018 15:48 via montrealgazette.com
  With the clock ticking on the iconic Pioneer bar, efforts to save the 117-year-old building from a wrecking ball continue.
  The Pioneer will hold its final bash this Saturday, July 21, with bands playing one last show for local patrons, before closing its doors.
  The Pioneer (or Le Pionnier) opened in the 1970s, later became Clydes, before reopening as the Pioneer again in 2011.
  The landmark building first opened as the Hotel-Charlebois in 1901, and later became the Pointe-Claire Hotel in the 1960
  
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• Juliette & Chocolat celebrates 15 years by inviting you to excrete gold

  18-07-2018 15:30 via montrealgazette.com
  Montreal’s Juliette & Chocolat has found a glittery way to celebrate its 15th anniversary.
  The chocolaterie will be selling a triple chocolate brownie that has been covered in edible 23-karat gold sheets.
  Gold, which is flavourless (and arguably tasteless), can be safely ingested. Like the rest of the brownie, it is also gluten free.
  The $100 confection will be sold through Juliette & Chocolat’s online store as of July 20.
  This anniversary brownie is but the latest in a wave
  
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• Woman accused of abducting her three children could be in Ontario: SQ

  18-07-2018 15:22 via montrealgazette.com
  A woman wanted for abducting her three young children could be in Ontario, according to the Sûreté du Québec.
  Yanna Mavraganis, 42, was accused of abducting her eight-year-old son and two daughters, aged eight and five, in the Gatineau area in April, according to provincial police.
  Police say Mavraganis might be in Ontario, where she may have gone to a women’s shelter. She could be travelling in a dark blue Toyota Matrix with the licence plate G32 JME.
  Mavraganis i
  
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• They’re quieter than music venues, but are friperies what the Plateau needs?

  18-07-2018 15:20 via montrealgazette.com
  Le Divan Orange, which for 13 years was one of the city’s most vital small live-music venues, is no more. In its place? The millionth friperie to stake a spot in the Plateau Mont-Royal borough.
  Hey, I love wandering through hip used-clothing shops as much as the next person — and was doing just that in Mile End on Sunday among flag-waving French soccer fans — but is that really what the Plateau needs? Divan Orange famously had to deal with years of issues with the city administ
  
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• Montreal weather: Good news is the sun's back, bad news is the high UV index

  18-07-2018 15:07 via montrealgazette.com
  This sunny California weather should last until Saturday.
  Environment Canada predicts a high of 25 Celsius, and a UV index of 8 or very high.
  Tonight: Clear and expect an overnight low of 16 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 @meaubic.
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• Allison Hanes: What happens when fertility treatment is a failure?

  18-07-2018 14:35 via montrealgazette.com
  Infertility is a long, lonely road for the one in six Canadian couples who struggle to conceive with medical help.
  Going through in vitro fertilization is physically arduous, mentally draining and time-consuming, as well as financially onerous now that Quebec has abandoned its publicly funded program. Through it all, clinging to the distant hope of a having a baby keeps many trying again and again — despite the odds stacked against them, the emotional toll and the expense.
  But what happens
  
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• Car-free REM station? Montreal city hall out of touch with West Island: Beis

  18-07-2018 14:26 via montrealgazette.com
  Pierrefonds-Roxboro Mayor Jim Beis said his borough was hosed by a plan unveiled last week to build to build a car-free access road to the future Réseau Électrique Métropolitain (REM) train station in Kirkland.
  “This makes absolutely no sense for people in Pierrefonds and the West Island who want to access the REM by car,“ Beis said after the July 10 announcement by the city of Montreal and the province to use the Highway 440 right‐of‐way, between Ant
  
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• Leaf blower blowup made Beaconsfield a global laughing stock: mayor

  18-07-2018 14:17 via montrealgazette.com
  Beaconsfield is known for its yacht clubs, two-car garages and quiet streets.
  Leaf blower uprisings? Not so much.
  But this normally tranquil bedroom community of Montreal made headlines well beyond its own tidy borders last week when police were called to keep the peace at a raucous city council meeting.
  Voices were raised, insults exchanged before council voted in favour of a bylaw to restrict the use of leaf blowers from blowers from June 1 till Sept. 30, beginning in 2019.
  News of Beaconsfiel
  
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• Pioneer bar set to close as public opposition to condo project mounts

  18-07-2018 14:00 via montrealgazette.com
  With the clock ticking on the iconic Pioneer bar, efforts to save the 117-year-old building from a wrecking ball continue.
  The Pioneer will hold its final bash this Saturday, July 21, with bands playing one last show for local patrons, before closing its doors.
  The Pioneer (or Le Pionnier) opened in the 1970s, later became Clydes, before reopening as the Pioneer again in 2011.
  The landmark building first opened as the Hotel-Charlebois in 1901, and later became the Pointe-Claire Hotel in the 1960
  
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• Billionaire eyebrow shaper is said to seek $650-million loan

  18-07-2018 13:55 via montrealgazette.com
  Billionaire Anastasia Soare is used to raising eyebrows in the world of beauty. Now she’s getting ready to test demand for her rapidly growing cosmetics company in the trillion-dollar leveraged-loan market.
  Anastasia Beverly Hills is seeking a $650 million loan to help fund a partial buyout by TPG Capital, according to a person with knowledge of the plan. The private equity firm agreed to buy a minority stake in Soare’s company last month in a deal that valued it at about $2.5 billio
  
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• Kramberger: Lamborghini dealership revs up Karz 4 Kidz' fundraiser

  18-07-2018 13:00 via montrealgazette.com
  Organizers of a West Island car show set to help sick children are banking on the participation of a luxury car dealership to drive up interest and help surpass their fundraising goals.
  Alexandria and Michael Tremis, a sister and brother who grew up in Kirkland, founded Karz 4 Kidz in 2010 when they were young adults. Thus far, their cause has raised a total of just over $80,000 for the Montreal Children’s Hospital Foundation. Last year, the Kirkland car show raised about $18,000. It might
  
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• Helping brings her happiness: Quebec lottery winner gives it all away

  18-07-2018 13:00 via montrealgazette.com
  Money, indeed, can buy happiness, Rachel Lapierre will attest.
  But in a strange twist to that age-old axiom, Lapierre has used her money, acquired from a 2013 lottery win, to benefit others rather than selfishly spending it on herself.
  The 57-year-old Piedmont resident still lives in the same house. Although she did purchase a new Subaru automobile last year, Lapierre did so only after her last car was stolen. And she laughed about it when sharing the experience.
  “Honestly, helping (people
  
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• While you were sleeping: Lost dog found after police post cute mugshot

  18-07-2018 12:52 via montrealgazette.com
  Here’s what happened while you were getting some restorative rest.
  A 49-year-old man died Tuesday night after being hit by a truck at an intersection in LaSalle. Montreal police received several calls at 5:40 p.m. about the accident, which took place at the corner of Newman Terrace and Newman Blvd. The truck was traveling south on Newman Terrace and made a right turn onto Newman Blvd. when it struck a pedestrian crossing the boulevard. The pedestrian was taken to a hospital
  
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• Update: Pedestrian dies after being hit by truck in LaSalle

  18-07-2018 12:31 via montrealgazette.com
  A 49-year-old man died Tuesday night after being hit by a truck at an intersection in the LaSalle borough.
  Montreal police received several calls at 5:40 p.m. about the accident, which took place at the corner of Newman Terrace and Newman Blvd.
  The truck was traveling south on Newman Terrace and made a right turn onto Newman Blvd. when it struck a pedestrian crossing the boulevard.
  The pedestrian was taken to a hospital suffered serious injuries to his upper and lower body. He died from those in
  
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• Brendan Kelly: Debate continues over noise from Plateau music venues

  18-07-2018 12:16 via montrealgazette.com
  Le Divan Orange, which for 13 years was one of the city’s most vital small live-music venues, is no more. In its place? The millionth friperie to stake a spot in the Plateau Mont-Royal borough.
  Hey, I love wandering through hip used-clothing shops as much as the next person — and was doing just that in Mile End on Sunday among flag-waving French soccer fans — but is that really what the Plateau needs? Divan Orange famously had to deal with years of issues with the city administ
  
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• Quebec dentists want Gaétan Barrette dropped from negotiations

  18-07-2018 12:00 via montrealgazette.com
  Quebec Premier Philippe Couillard is refusing to intervene in a pay dispute between Health Minister Gaétan Barrette and the province’s dentists who are threatening to withdraw from medicare — a move that could deprive more than 620,000 Quebecers of dental care.
  On Monday, the Association des chirurgiens dentistes du Québec (ACDQ) urged Couillard to drop Barrette from the negotiations, charging that the minister is bargaining in bad faith. But the premier’s press a
  
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• New fees for boaters coming at Jack Layton Park

  18-07-2018 12:00 via montrealgazette.com
  Hudson made headlines throughout the province last week after announcing a total ban on dogs at Sandy Beach as well as the walking trail between the beach and Jack Layton Park.
  But the temporary ban on dogs at a Hudson beach and adjacent walking trails is just one of several notable changes coming to the town’s public waterfront areas.
  The town is also looking at implementing new user fees at the park, offering kayak rentals and adding a new Canadian Coast Guard training station nearby.
  Th
  
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• Montreal weather: Sunny again

  18-07-2018 12:00 via montrealgazette.com
  This sunny California weather should last until Saturday.
  Environment Canada predicts a high of 25 Celsius, and a UV index of 8 or very high.
  Tonight: Clear and expect an overnight low of 16 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 @meaubic.
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• Hygiene 101: Health-care professionals get failing grade for handwashing

  18-07-2018 12:00 via montrealgazette.com
  Patients admitted for care with one illness can sicken and die of another infection swarming their hospital.
  The main culprit? Dirty hands.
  According to the Public Health Agency of Canada, about 80 per cent of common infections are spread by health-care workers, patients and visitors.
  More than a decade since Quebec faced outbreaks of the C. difficile superbug that killed an estimated 1,900 people in hospitals, a Montreal study has found that handwashing rates among health-care professionals rem
  
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• Continuing eduction classes to be offered in English in Hudson

  18-07-2018 12:00 via montrealgazette.com
  No more long commutes to school for continuing education students who live off island.
  The Place Cartier Adult Education Centre is offering evening classes at Westwood Junior High School in Hudson, beginning in September.
  Registration is already underway.
  It’s the first time the Lester B. Pearson School Board has offered a con-ed curriculum off island.
  “A lot of our students come from that part of the world,” PCAEC director Myriam Rabbat said. “It’s not always easy
  
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• Allison Hanes: Montreal artist explores what happens when IVF fails

  18-07-2018 12:00 via montrealgazette.com
  Infertility is a long, lonely road for the one in six Canadian couples who struggle to conceive with medical help.
  Going through in vitro fertilization is physically arduous, mentally draining and time-consuming, as well as financially onerous now that Quebec has abandoned its publicly funded program. Through it all, clinging to the distant hope of a having a baby keeps many trying again and again — despite the odds stacked against them, the emotional toll and the expense.
  But what happens
  
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• Pointe-Claire demolition committee stands firm on strip mall decisions

  18-07-2018 11:00 via montrealgazette.com
  Lakeside Heights neighbours filled Pointe-Claire council chamber last week in a show of solidarity aimed squarely at the Pointe-Claire demolition committee.
  It was the second meeting concerning the fate of the Walton Ave. strip mall which is in Lakeside Heights. Developer David Owen — president of Mondev Construction — had requested a demolition permit to knock down the mall and build 24 townhouses. Last month, the committee convened and made a preliminary rulings on two separate iss
  
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• Gas price watch: Montrealers to pay more to fill up the tank

  18-07-2018 04:30 via montrealgazette.com
  Gas prices jumped late Tuesday at Montreal-area gas stations to hit a high of $1.449 a litre.
  Earlier in the day, prices varied from a low of $1.294 a litre at a Costco in the Sud-Ouest borough, to a high of $1.449 at a Super Gaz station in Pierrefonds, according to essencemontreal.com.
  Midday at most Costco gas bars in the Montreal area, the price of a litre was $1.294.
  The price of a barrel of crude oil was US$67.70 at the end of the trading day on the NYMEX index, in New York on Tuesday.
  
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• Air conditioners in short supply after Montreal's weeklong heat wave

  18-07-2018 03:22 via montrealgazette.com
  Heat-weary Montrealers who are finally breaking down and trying to purchase an air conditioner may be in for more frustration as they find many local retailers are out of stock.
  “We are out,” said Pierre Gagnon, manager of the electrical department at Montreal’s largest Home Depot store, in St-Henri.
  The store normally orders enough air conditioners to satisfy customer demand throughout the summer, stocking brands like LG, Toshiba, Danby and Comfort-Aire, normally only running
  
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• Pedestrian in critical condition after being hit by truck in LaSalle

  18-07-2018 02:28 via montrealgazette.com
  A 49-year-old man is in critical condition after he was hit by a truck at an intersection in the LaSalle borough.
  Montreal police received several calls at 5:40 p.m. about the accident, which took place at the corner of Newman Terrace and Newman Blvd.
  The truck was traveling south on Newman Terrace and made a right turn onto Newman Blvd. when it struck a pedestrian crossing the boulevard.
  The pedestrian was taken to a hospital. He has serious injuries to his upper and lower body.
  The driver of t
  
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• Man stabbed in St-Léonard, three others flee the scene

  18-07-2018 02:03 via montrealgazette.com
  A man is in serious condition after he was stabbed Tuesday in the St-Léonard borough.
  The man in his 20s was assaulted with a knife close to the intersection of Terbois St. and Viau Blvd.
  Police say a conflict arose between the victim and three other men. Police do not know what the conflict was about, but say the three suspects assaulted the victim with a knife and then left the scene in a car.
  The victim has injuries on his upper body. He was conscious when taken to a hospital.
  Police d
  
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• Rogers Cup qualifying draw's strong field includes Puig, Giorgi

  18-07-2018 01:14 via montrealgazette.com
  A Grand Slam champion and an Olympic gold medallist are among the players who will have to qualify for a spot in the main draw of the Rogers Cup Canadian Open women’s tennis championships, Aug. 3 to 12 at the Jarry Tennis Centre.
  The qualifying events will be played Aug. 4 and 5, and with free admission on the IGA Family Weekend, fans will get an opportunity to see some of the world’s best tennis players.
  Tennis Canada previously announced that 38 of the top 42 players in the WTA Tou
  
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• Rising Quebec rocker Hubert Lenoir up for prestigious music prize

  18-07-2018 01:00 via montrealgazette.com
  Hubert Lenoir is on fire. The 23-year-old Quebec rocker released his debut solo album Darlène in February. He wears makeup, likes a raunchy guitar line as much as a sentimental piano ballad, and he doesn’t care what you think.
  Following his meteoric rise in his home province over the past several months, Lenoir seems set to break into English Canada. He was the subject of a feature interview in Canadian music magazine Exclaim! last week, and on Tuesday Darlène appeared on the
  
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• SAQ workers walk off the job on Day 1 of six possible strike days

  18-07-2018 00:58 via montrealgazette.com
  The Société des alcools du Québec’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 ce
  
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• Chez Doris seeks clothing donations to meet asylum seekers' needs

  18-07-2018 00:41 via montrealgazette.com
  Chez Doris needs clothing donations to keep up with an increased number of asylum seekers using the organization’s services.
  The daytime shelter that provides services to women in need posted a call for clothing donations to their Facebook page on Friday. That prompted one donor to come by with 20 bags of clothes. At the rate they’re going, however, Chez Doris executive director Marina Boulos-Winton said they’ll be out of clothes again by Friday.
  Chez Doris distributes clothing
  
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• Montreal's industrial real estate availability lowest since 2002

  18-07-2018 00:21 via montrealgazette.com
  The amount of industrial space available for sale or lease in the Montreal area reached its lowest level in 15 years, during the second quarter of 2018, according to a report released by real estate firm CBRE on Tuesday.
  The industrial availability rate in Montreal was 5.3 per cent during the period, down from 5.6 per cent the previous quarter and the lowest rate since the second quarter of 2002.
  “More and more tenants are expanding,” said Avi Krispine, an executive vice-preside
  
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