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• Montreal woman discovered she won $1 million month after buying ticket

  19-07-2018 23:56 via montrealgazette.com
  A Montreal woman nearly threw a winning lottery ticket into the trash while cleaning her house, according to Loto-Québec.
  July-Chinna Su was at work when she saw Facebook posts saying that no one had yet claimed the winning ticket on a $1 million Loto-Québec draw. The post reminded her she had bought a ticket in LaSalle and that the ticket, still unchecked, was sitting on her kitchen counter.
  After waiting anxiously to get home, Su looked at the number and realized she’d won
  
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• Montreal police arrest man in connection with gunshots in N.D.G.

  19-07-2018 23:54 via montrealgazette.com
  With help from a furry friend, Montreal police arrested a 25-year-old man in connection with gunshots in Montreal’s Notre-Dame-de-Grâce neighbourhood late Wednesday night.
  Police were called to the scene around 10 p.m. Wednesday after the gunfire was heard near de Maisonneuve Blvd. and Regent Ave., but an initial police sweep of the area found no victims or witnesses. Several spent cartridges were found on nearby Melrose Ave.
  The SPVM said Thursday that police dog Mounty was able to
  
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• In this Inuit board game, you can play a human or a force of nature

  19-07-2018 22:37 via montrealgazette.com
  Most of the board games we grew up with teach us of man’s inhumanity toward man.
  In Monopoly, you win by bankrupting your opponents and sending them to debtors’ prison. Risk is about slaughtering rival armies and seizing their land.
  Clue begins with the realization that you attended a party with someone who bludgeoned another human to death with a household item.
  But Inuk designer Thomassie Mangiok wants to change the way we play. He spent years crafting a two-player game where the g
  
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• Quebec cultural milieu hopes new heritage minister imposes Netflix tax

  19-07-2018 22:36 via montrealgazette.com
  It’s all about Netflix.
  Initial reaction is quite positive from Quebec’s cultural milieu regarding the appointment of Pablo Rodriguez as the minister of Canadian heritage. That’s because his predecessor, Mélanie Joly, wasn’t particularly popular with these Québécois arts movers and shakers. They didn’t like Joly mostly because she refused to support the milieu’s desire to impose a sales tax on Netflix and other foreign online entertainment
  
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• Company must pay more to rebuild Longueuil bridge hit by dump truck

  19-07-2018 22:34 via montrealgazette.com
  The city of Longueuil recently won a judgment against a trucking company three years after a dump truck with its bed up hit a footbridge over Rte. 132.
  After the accident, the structure — situated near Normandie St. — was in such bad shape that the city had to demolish it for safety reasons. Entreprise Arguy Inc., the company that owned the dump truck, paid the city an indemnity of about $800,000. Arguy had been subcontracted by Environnement routier NJR Inc. The amoun
  
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• Jennifer Aniston is in Montreal, buying bougie salad like the rest of us

  19-07-2018 22:09 via montrealgazette.com
  Jennifer Aniston is in Montreal to film Murder Mystery, which also stars the likes of Adam Sandler, Gemma Arterton and Luke Evans.
  As work proceeds on the movie, Aniston has repeatedly shown up on social media taking in the sights.
  First she was seen strolling in the streets of Old Montreal.
  Most recently, she was spotted at Mandy’s salad bar. In an Instagram caption, co-founder Rebecca Wolfe wrote that she and her sister “felt like over excited teenyboppers” hosting the former
  
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• Fire department searches for missing boater in Beaconsfield

  19-07-2018 22:09 via montrealgazette.com
  The Montreal fire department is searching the Beaconsfield marina for a boater who capsized Thursday afternoon.
  Spokesperson for Urgences-Santé François Labelle said they received the call about the incident near Centennial Park on Beaconsfield Blvd. just after 3 p.m.
  Intervention de l’équipe de sauvetage nautique en cours – Beaconsfield/Shore road. pic.twitter.com/3sOPZTlTUz
  — Sécurité incendieMTL (@MTL_SIM) July 19, 2018This story will be up
  
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• Forest fires: a primer on what not to do on your vacation

  19-07-2018 22:06 via montrealgazette.com
  A Quebec organization has issued a warning to hikers and campers that the dangers of sparking forest fires over the weekend is pegged at “very high, if not extreme, levels” in most of the province.
  Most forest fires are caused by human carelessness, and the beginning of two weeks of summer construction holidays means it will be high season for unwanted fires, said Melanie Morin of the Société de protection des forêts contre le feu (SOPFEU). 
  The con
  
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• First pot store in Montreal will be on Plaza St-Hubert

  19-07-2018 22:02 via montrealgazette.com
  Montreal’s first pot store will open in October on Plaza St-Hubert, wedged between one of the street’s many wedding shops and a jewelry store.
  The Société Québécoise du Cannabis announced Thursday it had signed the lease for its first store in Montreal, in the Rosemont—La-Petite-Patrie borough, as well as for a store in Rimouski.
  SQDC spokesperson Mathieu Gaudreault said that the provincial agency was also well advanced in the process of hiring
  
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• Update: Hydro-Québec restores power to downtown clients

  19-07-2018 20:41 via montrealgazette.com
  Hydro-Québec says power has been restored to almost all of its 9,000 customers that lost electricity in downtown Montreal Thursday afternoon.
  Only about 300 customers were still without power by 2:40 p.m., Hydro-Québec said.
  Customers can use the Hydro app or check the website for updates.
  This story will be updated.
  
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• Naqvi-Mohamed: Mayor Plante, here's why we don't take the bus

  19-07-2018 20:41 via montrealgazette.com
  Last week we learned cars will be banned from a new access road to the future electric commuter train network (REM) in Kirkland. This week we find out bus ridership is down a whopping 13 per cent. From these developments a larger picture seems to be emerging of a political leadership out of touch with its constituents.
  Shortly after Mayor Valérie Plante took office, she announced the purchase of 300 hybrid electric buses. That in itself sounds like a great move — except that fewer p
  
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• Brownstein: The new Nasty Show not as nasty in today's comedy reality

  19-07-2018 20:21 via montrealgazette.com
  It used to be considered the comedy world’s bastion of political incorrectness: the Just for Laughs fest’s Nasty Show series.
  But times have clearly changed, and JFL’s most popular and enduring series is not nearly as nasty as it once was.
  Three decades back, the Nasty Show was pretty much an all-male affair, both in terms of the performers and the audience. But at opening night on Wednesday at the cavernous MTelus, females appeared to have out-numbered the males.
  Whereas there
  
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• Opinion: Why can't we have this life-changing surgery in Montreal?

  19-07-2018 19:49 via montrealgazette.com
  “Blindness separates people from things; deafness separates people from people.”
  — Helen Keller, who was both blind and deaf
  That quote eloquently illustrates the challenges that deaf, or severely hearing impaired, people often face. I know. I was born with a severe hearing loss that eventually progressed until I was profoundly deaf. Then in 2004, at the age of 56, I got a cochlear implant  and my life changed dramatically. I could hear and I used my new ability to run for
  
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• Update: Greenpeace activists arrested after climbing Montreal's Big O

  19-07-2018 19:36 via montrealgazette.com
  Several Greenpeace members climbed the outside of the Olympic Stadium tower in Montreal on Thursday to protest the federal government’s decision to buy the Trans Mountain pipeline project.
  It’s a beautiful day for an action… We’ve got a little suprise for Justin #Trudeau. Stay tuned, we’ll ne back soon… #StopTMX pic.twitter.com/gKwV0zDLDG
  — Greenpeace Canada (@GreenpeaceCA) July 19, 2018 
  The five climbers, who were equipped with cables and harnes
  
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• Montreal real estate: 5 largest condo projects now starting up

  19-07-2018 19:29 via montrealgazette.com
  Here are the five largest condo projects that have begun construction in Montreal in the last quarter, according to Altus Group.Tour des Canadiens (Phase Three). Location: Mountain and St. Antoine W. This 55-storey building by Cadillac Fairview and Canderel will have 568 units. Prices start at $371,990 for a 320-square-foot unit.
  21e Arrondissement (Phase Five). The final phase of this project in Old Montreal at St. Paul W. and des Soeurs Grises, will include 136 one- and two-bedroom units
  
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• Montreal real estate: Builders can't keep up with demand for condos

  19-07-2018 19:24 via montrealgazette.com
  Despite a record-setting number of new condo projects under construction in Montreal, eager buyers are snapping up condos so quickly that builders are struggling to keep up with demand.
  According to a recent report by Altus Group, a Montreal company that provides market intelligence and other advisory services to real estate developers, the total number of unsold units in projects that were recently finished or in construction dropped 43 per cent in the past year in the greater Montreal area, fr
  
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• Would Tyler Seguin want to play for the Canadiens?

  19-07-2018 18:49 via montrealgazette.com
  Would Tyler Seguin want to play for the Canadiens?
  That’s a question Canadiens fans — and maybe even general manager Marc Bergevin — might be asking now after the team struck out on free-agent centres John Tavares and Peter Stastny this summer.
  Tavares and Stastny made it clear they had no interest in coming to Montreal before signing as free agents with the Toronto Maple Leafs and Vegas Golden Knights, respectively. Tavares signed a seven-year contract worth US$77 million, whi
  
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• First pot store in Montreal will be in Rosemont-La Petite Patrie

  19-07-2018 18:43 via montrealgazette.com
  The Société Québécoise du Cannabis has signed a lease for its first pot store in Montreal, to be located in the Rosemont-Petite Patrie borough. The SQDC has not disclosed the exact location for the outlet, but said it, and three other stores in Montreal, would be open after the legalization of cannabis comes into effect in October.
  The stores in Montreal will add to the four other SQDC outlets already announced, in Quebec City, Lévis, Drummondville and Trois-Ri
  
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• Baseball commish says 'Montreal certainly' is a candidate for expansion

  19-07-2018 18:37 via montrealgazette.com
  Major League Baseball is looking to expand and considering Montreal as a possible destination.
  Commissioner Rob Manfred discussed the league’s plans on Tuesday’s Dan Patrick Show.
  Expansion, he said, would have to wait until the Oakland Athletics and Tampa Bay Rays move to new stadiums. Thereafter, the goal would be to grow the league from 30 to 32 teams.
  Asked about potential expansion cities, he listed a number of American metropolises before adding, “Montreal certainly, mayb
  
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• Eugenie Bouchard reaches Swiss Open quarter-finals

  19-07-2018 18:24 via montrealgazette.com
  Unseeded Eugenie Bouchard of Westmount outlasted Switzerland’s Viktorija Golubic to reach the quarter-finals of the Swiss Open in Gstaad on Thursday.Bouchard faced a double break in both sets, but fought back to upset the No. 8 seed and 2016 Swiss Open champion 7-6 (2), 7-6 (7). 
  In the quarter-finals, Bouchard will face Russian qualifier Veronika Kudermetova, who upset No. 3 seed Viktoria Kuzmova of Slovakia 7-6 (4), 7-6 (5).
  Bouchard, ranked No. 146 in the W
  
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• Things to do in Montreal, July 20-22: Say goodbye to the Pioneer

  19-07-2018 18:09 via montrealgazette.com
  Say goodbye to the Pioneer, for good
  Starting Saturday night and ending well into Sunday morning, the Pioneer bar in Pointe-Claire is hosting its official sending-off party, before the whole lot becomes part of a condominium project. There’s a huge lineup of bands set to perform all night long, so check it out if you’re a long-time patron or if you just want to discover — a little too late — what all the fuss was about.
  Catch a thriller at the Fantasia Film Festival
  The f
  
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• Checking In: Farm, birds and B&B are facts of life in Granby

  19-07-2018 17:59 via montrealgazette.com
  My goose was cooked. But in a very good way.
  I visited the unusual Au Gîte des Oies, a B&B near Granby that multi-tasks as a farm specializing in waterfowl, particularly geese and ducks.
  Linda Lazure and Louis-Paul Quérel decided that their second and third careers would be as farmers. They had travelled the world and worked at other métiers, but they both eventually trained to be cooks at Pearson School in LaSalle. She graduated as a pastry chef and he as a butcher. Once
  
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• JFL: Hannah Gadsby's Nanette has changed the comedy conversation

  19-07-2018 17:30 via montrealgazette.com
  The heap of awards Hannah Gadsby’s Nanette has accrued over the last couple of years is most impressive: best comedy show at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival; the Barry Award for best show at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival; best comedy at the Adelaide Fringe Festival; best comedy performer at Australia’s Helpmann Awards.
  On Friday, July 27, Gadsby will be presented with the Comedy Special of the Year honour at the Just for Laughs Awards Show. Later that day, Gadsby will per
  
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• Three arrested after man beaten during home invasion in Ste-Foy

  19-07-2018 17:25 via montrealgazette.com
  Three young men are expected to face criminal charges in a Quebec City courtroom Thursday afternoon in the wake of a home invasion that left a victim with head injuries.
  Local police say the trio were arrested after a residence in the Ste-Foy district was broken into and its occupant beaten at 6:30 a.m.
  Police found the victim suffering from a head wound and his assailants gone. However, three suspects were arrested soon after.
  The victim’s injuries are not believed to be life threatening.
  
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• Quebec woman arrested after allegedly abducting her three children

  19-07-2018 16:33 via montrealgazette.com
  OTTAWA — Police arrested a woman on Wednesday after she allegedly abducted her three young children, according to the Sûreté du Québec.
  An arrest warrant was issued for Yanna Mavraganis, 42, who is accused of abducting her eight-year-old son and two daughters, aged eight and five, in the Gatineau area in April. She was arrested in Ottawa on Wednesday.
  Police say she will appear in a Gatineau court on Thursday.
  
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• SQ officer guilty of dangerous driving causing death of 5-year-old boy

  19-07-2018 16:24 via montrealgazette.com
  Patrick Ouellet — the SQ officer who, while tailing a suspect in a breach-of-trust investigation, drove 134 kilometres per hour in a residential zone and crashed into a car, resulting in the death of a 5-year-old boy — was declared guilty of dangerous driving causing death at the Longueuil courthouse Thursday morning.
  Ouellet was driving over the speed limit in a residential zone in an unmarked Toyota Camry when he collided with a car being driven by Nicholas Thorne-Belance’s f
  
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• Would-be thieves shake victim off their getaway truck, then crash onto a lawn

  19-07-2018 15:53 via montrealgazette.com
  The attempted theft of some construction material in Ormstown Wednesday night ended violently when a pair of thieves lost control of their getaway vehicle, causing the pickup truck they were driving at high speed to flip and crash onto the front lawn of a local residence.
  And the victim of the crime — a local construction contractor — is in hospital with serious injuries after being thrown from the pickup as he tried to foil the theft.
  The Sûreté du Québec says th
  
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• Female comedy duo has faith in the post-Rozon Just for Laughs

  19-07-2018 14:30 via montrealgazette.com
  Jess Salomon and Eman El-Husseini weren’t messing around Wednesday afternoon. After meeting the Montreal Gazette for photos on the Main, the two former Montrealers brought their interviewer straight to … The Main.
  Between mouthfuls of smoked meat, latkes and verenikes, the married comedy couple talked about their special Jewish-Palestinian partnership, Just for Laughs in the post-Rozon era and their new life in New York City, all of which will be worked into their joint off-Just for
  
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• Argument in Sherbrooke apartment ends in homicide

  19-07-2018 14:14 via montrealgazette.com
  A man in his 20s has died of his injuries after being involved in an altercation late Wednesday in an apartment in downtown Sherbrooke.
  The incident occurred at 11:30 p.m. Police arrived at the apartment at the corner of Sanborn and Gordon Sts. and found the victim, who was pronounced dead soon after.
  Police believe the victim and his assailant knew each other. No arrests have been made thus far.
  
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• Message for Trudeau: Greenpeace activists climbing Montreal's Big O

  19-07-2018 14:08 via montrealgazette.com
  Greenpeace Canada activists posted a video on Twitter Thursday morning saying they were at the Olympic Stadium to “send a strong message to [Prime Minister Justin] Trudeau to not buy or build the Trans Mountain expansion project.”
  It’s a beautiful day for an action… We’ve got a little suprise for Justin #Trudeau. Stay tuned, we’ll ne back soon… #StopTMX pic.twitter.com/gKwV0zDLDG
  — Greenpeace Canada (@GreenpeaceCA) July 19, 2018Soon after, activi
  
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• Uganda Airlines considers Bombardier, Airbus jets as part of revamp

  19-07-2018 13:37 via montrealgazette.com
  Bombardier Inc. said Uganda Airlines signed a firm order for four new CRJ900 jets as the East African nation seeks to resuscitate its moribund carrier after two decades.
  The country also signed a memorandum of understanding for two A330neo, Airbus SE said in a statement on its website, without providing cost details.
  “Based on the list price for the CRJ900 aircraft, the firm order is valued at approximately $190 million,” Montreal-based Bombardier said in a statement on its website.
  
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• While you were sleeping: California stays together and a failed bike jump

  19-07-2018 13:29 via montrealgazette.com
  Voters won’t decide in November whether to split California
  A measure that would divide California into three parts won’t appear on the November ballot, the state Supreme Court decided Wednesday, marking the latest defeat for a long-shot push to reimagine the nation’s most populous state.
  The justices ordered the secretary of state not to put the ballot initiative before voters, saying significant questions have been raised about its validity. The court now will consider a chal
  
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• Countdown is on for construction holiday as 150,000 vacation cheques issued

  19-07-2018 13:24 via montrealgazette.com
  The Commission de la construction du Québec (CCQ) says it has issued nearly 152,000 vacation paycheques as the countdown begins to Quebec’s obligatory two-week construction holiday.
  About 38,400 cheques were destined for the Laval-Laurentian-Lanaudière region, 31,000 for the Montérégie and a little over 25,200 for the Quebec City region.
  Those cheques total up to more than $420 million, about five per cent higher than the amount issued in 2017. The CCQ explains
  
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• Montreal police probe gunshots overnight in N.D.G.

  19-07-2018 12:48 via montrealgazette.com
  Gunfire broke out in a residential and commercial sector in Montreal’s Notre-Dame-de-Grâce neighbourhood late Wednesday night, but a police investigation has thus far only yielded several spent cartridges.
  Police were called to the scene after the gunfire was heard near the corner of De Maisonneuve Blvd. and Regent Ave. at about 10 p.m.
  But a police sweep of the area found no victims or witnesses. However several spent cartridges were found on nearby Melrose Ave.
  Police are questioni
  
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• Swimming with MS: Former Montrealer taking on extraordinary challenge

  19-07-2018 12:00 via montrealgazette.com
  Only seven people have swum the frigid length of the Juan de Fuca Strait, a 33-km channel between Washington state’s Olympic Peninsula and Vancouver Island, without a wetsuit. One of them is former Montrealer Susan Simmons, an open-water ultra-marathon swimmer. When she swam the strait last summer, she clocked the shortest time on record: 10 hours, six minutes.
  Early next month, the 53-year-old Victoria resident will be the first to attempt a double crossing of the strait. The wind, the cu
  
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• Montreal weather: Time to work on your tan

  19-07-2018 12:00 via montrealgazette.com
  Sunny with winds becoming southwest at 20 km/h in the morning.
  Environment Canada predicts a high of 27 Celsius, a Humidex of 29 and a UV index of 8 or very high.
  Tonight: Clear with winds blowing southwest at 20 km/h, becoming light in the evening. The overnight low is expected to be 17 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&rsq
  
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• Mind of her own: Montreal neuroscientist Brenda Milner on turning 100

  19-07-2018 12:00 via montrealgazette.com
  Almost every day of the week, a kindly woman makes her way from her apartment on Aylmer St.  up a short walk to the Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital on University St.
  Her silver hair is coiffed immaculately as she steps into the institute where she has conducted groundbreaking research on human memory since the 1950s. Brenda Milner has been credited for almost single-handedly creating the field of cognitive neuroscience, and on Sunday, she celebrated another milestone: turning 1
  
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• Launch date for Montreal composting centres delayed again

  19-07-2018 12:00 via montrealgazette.com
  The launch date for Montreal’s composting centres, already postponed from 2019 to 2020, is now shifting into 2021 with a higher estimated price tag and no less controversy over the location of at least one of the facilities.
  Civil servants are at this moment evaluating two bids that were received in May to award a “turnkey” contract to design, build, operate and maintain the centre that’s planned for St-Laurent borough, a city spokesperson said this week.
  The bid deadline
  
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• Hitched on and off the stage: Former Montrealers return to do JFL shows

  19-07-2018 12:00 via montrealgazette.com
  Jess Salomon and Eman El-Husseini weren’t messing around Wednesday afternoon. After meeting the Montreal Gazette for photos on the Main, the two former Montrealers brought their interviewer straight to … The Main.
  Between mouthfuls of smoked meat, latkes and verenikes, the married comedy couple talked about their special Jewish-Palestinian partnership, Just for Laughs in the post-Rozon era and their new life in New York City, all of which will be worked into their joint off-Just for
  
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• Hanes: Excuses, excuses infuriate Deux-Montagnes train commuters

  19-07-2018 12:00 via montrealgazette.com
  First, it was the cancellation of weekend service.
  Then, it was the elimination of four weekday departures.
  Starting in 2020, passengers on the Deux-Montagnes commuter rail line won’t even be able to get all the way downtown to Montreal’s Central Station without having to disembark for part of the journey and take a shuttle bus. The interruption will last two years.
  Now, to add insult to injury, the agency that oversees regional train service said this week that — oops, sorry!
  
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• Dangerous intersections: Zero action by Projet Montréal, advocates say

  19-07-2018 12:00 via montrealgazette.com
  More than nine months ago, then-candidate Valérie Plante stood at the intersection of St-Michel and Rosemont Blvds. and pledged to give pedestrians more time to cross the street.
  She said Projet Montréal’s borough mayor for Rosemont—Petite–Patrie, François Croteau, had repeatedly asked the Coderre administration to improve the safety at the intersection, especially after schools and daycares had complained it was unsafe — but had been ignored.
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• Breakfast Television Montreal host has unique take on potty humour

  19-07-2018 12:00 via montrealgazette.com
  Breakfast Television Montreal co-host Derick Fage has joked that doctors made him an asshole.
  Thing is, though, they did. He was born without one — the condition is known as a high imperforate anus — and, despite surgery to create an anal opening, he has contended all his life with fecal incontinence.
  That means, among other things, that if he goes to a restaurant, he makes sure to know where the washroom is — because if he needs it, he needs it right away. If he is, say, hosti
  
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• All forms of nicotine implicated in SIDS, study says

  19-07-2018 11:00 via montrealgazette.com
  Previous studies have shown a clear link between prenatal smoking and SIDS, sudden infant death syndrome. Now, new research suggests exposure to nicotine by any route, whether patches or electronic cigarettes, might also be implicated in crib or cot death.
  Sudden infant death syndrome is one of the leading causes of infant death during the first year of life, although the reasons are still unknown. SIDS is a diagnosis that’s given for the sudden and unexpected death of a seemingly healthy
  
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• Montreal Impact wins opening game of Canadian Championship semifinal

  19-07-2018 05:39 via montrealgazette.com
  The Impact held up its end of the bargain Wednesday night, winning the first-leg of the two-game aggregate Canadian Championship semifinal and, arguably, holding serve in the process.
  Montreal defeated the Vancouver Whitecaps, 1-0, at Saputo Stadium — winning at home, which was to be expected. While no attendance was immediately available, there were large pockets of empty spaces at the 20,801-seat venue.
  Impact goalkeeper Clement Diop, playing for the first time this season in place of Ev
  
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• Herb Zurkowsky: 1-0 is a win for Montreal Impact, but a weak one

  19-07-2018 05:39 via montrealgazette.com
  Some would view the glass as being half full. Others, half empty following the opening leg of the Canadian Championship semifinal.
  The Impact scored the opening salvo Wednesday night at Saputo Stadium, defeating the Vancouver Whitecaps, 1-0, before 13,386 spectators in the two-game, aggregate series.
  But Montreal might rue its failure to produce what would have been an all-important second goal when this half of the bracket concludes, next Wednesday, at BC Place. At least the Impact didn’t
  
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• Montreal software company relocates to escape city's commuting hell

  19-07-2018 04:49 via montrealgazette.com
  He used to stare out his office window at the end of every day, watching the congestion on the highway and dreading the commute home to Dorval.
  Now, Brad Olsthoorn’s commute time has been cut in half, and he’s home in time to have dinner with his wife and two children.
  “I used to be home just in time for them to go to bed and they were exhausted,” said Olsthoorn, the general manager of Silent Partner Software, which provides software for non-profit companies such as Youth
  
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• Stu Cowan: Former Canadien Torrey Mitchell headed to Switzerland

  19-07-2018 03:22 via montrealgazette.com
  Torrey Mitchell’s NHL career has come to an end, but the former Canadien isn’t ready to hang up his skates just yet.
  The 33-year-old centre agreed this week to a one-year contract to play next season with Lausanne HC in the Swiss National League.
  When asked over the phone Wednesday what he knows about Lausanne, Mitchell said: “I wish I could tell you a lot. Small city on Lake Geneva in the southwest part of Switzerland. Maybe 150,000 people live in the city. And it’s supp
  
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• Update: Woman sought in kidnapping of her children is in custody

  19-07-2018 02:33 via montrealgazette.com
  A 42-year-old woman who was wanted for the kidnapping of her three children was found by Ottawa police on Wednesday afternoon and taken into custody.
  Ottawa police confirmed that they had located Yanna Mavraganis on Wednesday, along with her three children, Maximos, Maya and Marina. The Sûreté du Québec had announced on Tuesday they believed Mavraganis was in Ontario and had been staying in shelters in the area.
  All three children are “in good health,” accord
  
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• Montreal man, 66, charged with first-degree murder in stabbing

  19-07-2018 01:54 via montrealgazette.com
  Jean Gauthier, 66, was charged with first-degree murder at the Montreal courthouse on Monday in connection with the death of Réjean Charron.
  Police responded to reports of an argument Saturday at approximately 9:30 p.m. on Union Ave., near Ste-Catherine St., where Charron, 53, was found stabbed. He was taken to a hospital where he died from his injuries.
  Gauthier was arrested on the scene and taken to a detention centre.
  The killing was the 14th homicide recorded in Montreal this yea
  
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• Regulation at the heart of crane operators' strike to be re-examined

  19-07-2018 01:46 via montrealgazette.com
  Quebec will be launching a committee to re-examine the regulation at the heart of the conflict between crane operators and the province’s construction commission that led to a week-long illegal strike in June.
  Quebec’s labour minister, Dominique Vien, announced that the “security aspect” of the regulation respecting the vocational training of the workforce in the construction industry will be studied, following a meeting with the president of the Fédération
  
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