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• Alouettes at Calgary Stampeders: Five things you should know

  20-07-2018 22:59 via montrealgazette.com
  Here are five things you should know about the Alouettes-Calgary Stampeders game at McMahon Stadium on Saturday (9 p.m., TSN, RDS, TSN Radio 690).
  Matchup: Talk about two teams going in opposite directions. The Stamps (4-0) remain the CFL’s only undefeated club and will be attempting to start the season with a fifth successive victory for the first time since 1995, when they went 7-0 with quarterback Doug Flutie. The Als (1-3) are coming off a bye week, having last played on July 6. If not
  
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• Where is Hochelaga? Archaeologists keep digging for the truth

  20-07-2018 22:44 via montrealgazette.com
  Encouraged by the discovery of a 13th century Iroquois village beneath busy downtown streets, archaeologists plan to continue their search for evidence of the elusive Hochelaga settlement on the island of Montreal.
  In 2016, when construction work was set to begin on Sherbrooke St. near McGill University, private archeological firm Ethnoscop was called in to search the ground beneath the site.
  They found the remains of a pre-colonial Iroquois settlement that showed some signs of being the remains
  
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• Robert Lepage's Kanata: Indigenous leaders 'hurt', frustrated after talks

  20-07-2018 22:14 via montrealgazette.com
  Kim O’Bomsawin is getting married Saturday, so spending six hours Thursday evening talking cultural appropriation with Robert Lepage was not part of her original plans for the week.
  But she could hardly say no after signing the open letter by members of Quebec’s indigenous communities and their allies questioning the absence of indigenous actors in the Quebec theatre luminary’s upcoming play Kanata, and then being invited along with more than 30 of her peers to take part in a d
  
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• Montreal police search for hit-and-run suspect

  20-07-2018 22:11 via montrealgazette.com
  Montreal police are asking for the public’s help to find a suspect in a hit-and-run incident that happened June 27 on Pie-IX Blvd, near 56th St.
  They’re searching for a grey, four-door, 2007 or 2008 model Nissan Altima. The vehicle was damaged beneath the passenger side door.
  Police released a video of the man’s car and images of him inside a store. He has white hair and was wearing a Philadelphia Flyers jersey.
  Délit de fuite : le #SPVM demande l'aide du public afin de
  
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• Inside the CFL: Als' Campbell beats narcolepsy, blossoms into top DB

  20-07-2018 22:08 via montrealgazette.com
  CALGARY — Tall, fast and athletic. Tommie Campbell appeared to have it all. He was a multi-sport high school star in football, basketball and track, capturing the Pennsylvania state sprint championship at age 18.
  But he lost his scholarship at the University of Pittsburgh after twice being suspended by Dave Wannstedt — a former Pittsburgh Steelers head coach — because of poor academics. He transferred to Edinboro University, an NCAA Division II school, but skipped too
  
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• Whatever, here's a picture of Jennifer Aniston at a Montreal gym

  20-07-2018 21:48 via montrealgazette.com
  Jennifer Aniston is still in Montreal to film Murder Mystery, and that can only mean one thing: The former Friends star has once again popped up on Instagram.
  Trainer Val Desjardins posted a picture of herself with Aniston.
  “I’ve been fortunate enough to train and support this amazing woman while she was shooting a movie in Montréal this past month,” she wrote.
  Jennifer Aniston and trainer Val Desjardins
  Aniston was previously spotted visiting Mandy’s salad bar and
  
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• What the Puck: Canadiens are rebuilding by accident, not by design

  20-07-2018 20:57 via montrealgazette.com
  There is no plan, Stan.
  For weeks, Geoff Molson and Marc Bergevin have been talking about this famous plan that will somehow turn around the fortunes of the Montreal Canadiens. With the draft and the free-agency sweepstakes long gone, it’s now clear and transparent that in fact there never was any plan.
  In Management 101 — a first-year course, by the way, that no one in the Bell Centre executive suites appears to have taken — we call this “managing via improvisation&rdquo
  
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• Opinion: Robert Lepage's Kanata and SLĀV have the same major flaws

  20-07-2018 20:46 via montrealgazette.com
  Artistic depictions of history are essential for healthy and informed communities, but as the recent SLĀV debacle demonstrates, this should not give all artists carte blanche to share these stories in any which way they please.
  SLĀV director Robert Lepage is one of Canada’s most esteemed theatre artists, and though his work has garnered international praise, he has been no stranger to criticism about equitable representation and cultural appropriation. Many defended SLĀV by
  
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• Impact’s strong form to be tested during tough West Coast road trip

  20-07-2018 20:46 via montrealgazette.com
  The solid form shown by the Montreal Impact since the start of June is about to be tested on a challenging West Coast road trip.
  The Impact (9-12-0) meet the Portland Timbers (8-3-6), who are unbeaten in their last 12 Major League Soccer games and who are 5-0-2 at Providence Park, on Saturday night. They will stay in Oregon before heading north for the second leg of their Voyageurs Cup semifinal in Vancouver on Wednesday.
  After a 3-10 start, the Impact are 6-2 in their last eight league matches
  
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• Cavalia's Odysseo returns for a final round of elegant horseplay

  20-07-2018 18:20 via montrealgazette.com
  “I’m trying to bring beauty to this planet,” explained Normand Latourelle.
  After 15 years at the helm of Cavalia, the Montreal-based company’s artistic director and founder can recall all the times he’s had to unfold his vision to the doubters who think of it as just a show with horses.
  “You have to explain everything, and at the end of the day you have to say: ‘It’s a show that involves a lot of horses, yes, but it’s a really artistic show,&
  
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• A bus called Nana offers free lifts to Montrealers going to Yamaska Park

  20-07-2018 18:08 via montrealgazette.com
  A free shuttle bus service to Yamaska provincial park is available for Montrealers looking to trade in the bustle and heat of city life for a relaxing day in nature.
  Every Saturday morning, city dwellers can hop aboard a yellow school bus next to Dorchester Square and disembark on the sandy shores of the Choinière Reservoir. The service is offered by La Navette Nature — or Nana, as it’s fondly referred to — a Montreal bus company with routes to several Quebec provin
  
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• Zacharkiw: Five day trips that offer a taste of Quebec wine country

  20-07-2018 18:00 via montrealgazette.com
  Most wine lovers dream of visiting vineyards. Granted, these dream wineries are often in places like Tuscany or Napa Valley, which  involves getting on a plane.
  I’m a big advocate of visiting wineries. It’s an opportunity to taste a wide range of wines, and even if you don’t like every one, for a small fee you will often find a wine or two that you really enjoy. Most important, you learn about how these wines are made.
  A number of Quebec wineries are doing a great job of t
  
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• Bill Zacharkiw's Wines of the Week: July 20, 2018

  20-07-2018 18:00 via montrealgazette.com
  Every week, Bill Zacharkiw identifies his top wine picks available at the SAQ and offers ideas for food pairings.
  Under $16 
  Gard, Sable de Camargue 2017, Le Pive Gris, Maison JeanJean, France rosé, $15.25, SAQ # 11372766. Organic. Can’t ask for any more from a rosé at this price. Floral, with the perfect acidity to keep it fresh without going sour. If you want inexpensive, drink the Pive! Residual sugar: 1.2 g/L. Grape varieties: grenache, merlot, cabernet franc. Serve
  
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• New York bagels are so doughy people are scooping out half the bread

  20-07-2018 17:55 via montrealgazette.com
  Here’s a handy rule for assessing the merits of a bagel: If you have to scoop out half of its contents to enjoy toppings and prevent it from falling to the bottom of your stomach like carbohydrate cannonball, it is not a good bagel.
  In related news, people are scooping out that foodstuff New York City calls a bagel.
  Lifehacker’s Ryan F. Mandelbaum writes, “bagels are an unwieldy vessel, a less-than-optimal way to send food from plate to gullet: unless I scoop out
  
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• Absence of life jackets a deadly constant in Quebec drowning statistics

  20-07-2018 17:36 via montrealgazette.com
  As a Quebec coroner was assigned Friday to investigate the drowning death Thursday of an 18-year-old kayaker on Lac St-Louis — the latest in a series of drownings that have made headlines over the past two weeks — public attention has been refocused on the issue of water safety in Quebec.
  But statistics compiled on drowning deaths in this province possess one deadly constant: in 80 per cent of cases the victim wasn’t wearing a life jacket.
  According to numbers compiled between
  
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• Opinion: After 10 years on Twitter, the love is still strong

  20-07-2018 17:35 via montrealgazette.com
  Were my smartphone to catch on fire, the app I would save is Twitter.
  August will mark my 10th anniversary on the fastest-moving social media platform. A friend once described Twitter as a flowing river from which you get to take sips whenever you sign on. Seems like the perfect analogy, though recently Twitter has been more like a burning garbage truck because today’s current events have been so gloomy. Twitter is where news and current events break in real time.
  It is also where culture
  
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• The Right Chemistry: I'll level with you; asphalt is problematic

  20-07-2018 17:00 via montrealgazette.com
  It’s summer and the smell of asphalt is in the air. Road crews are out filling potholes, repaving roads and, of course, breathing the fumes. Pretty foul smelling stuff. Surely can’t be great for the lungs. As it turns out, it isn’t. Polycyclic aromatic compounds, or PAHs, are the problem and there’s no asphalt without these. 
  So, what is asphalt and where does it come from? The source is petroleum, that dark viscous liquid found deep within the Earth, the product of
  
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• Potential victims sought after Verdun osteopath accused of sexual assault

  20-07-2018 16:57 via montrealgazette.com
  Montreal police are looking for potential victims of Laurent Begué, an osteopath accused of sexual assault.
  Begué offered osteopathic services in a private clinic in his Verdun home. On April 11, he was charged with two counts of sexual assault.
  Investigators believe there could be more victims.
  Begué is 35 years old, about six feet tall and weighs 160 pounds.
  Because there could be many more alleged victims, the dossier has been transferred to the Sûreté du Qu&
  
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• Shakespeare's a springboard for Claire Holden Rothman in Lear's Shadow

  20-07-2018 16:05 via montrealgazette.com
  In the summer of 2011, Claire Holden Rothman had just completed the first draft of what was to be her second novel, the Governor General’s Award-shortlisted My October. Exhausted and at loose ends, she found the closest thing to running away and joining the circus: serving as assistant stage manager for Montreal-based Repercussion Theatre’s summertime production of Macbeth.For Rothman, who had never done anything like it, the experience was more than an immersive entrée into t
  
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• Montreal's Lance Stroll to switch Formula One teams?

  20-07-2018 15:40 via montrealgazette.com
  Montreal-native Lance Stroll might be racing for a new Formula One team next season, according to news reports emerging from this weekend’s German Grand Prix.
  Stroll, 19, suggested he’d prefer to stay with the Williams team he joined as a rookie last year but might switch if the struggling outfit isn’t able to turn its fortunes around.
  The speculation is not entirely new. Last summer, reports suggested Stroll’s billionaire father — fashion mogul Lawrence Stroll &mda
  
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• How to cross the U.S.-Canada border without the stress

  20-07-2018 14:40 via montrealgazette.com
  As more than 150,000 Quebecers prepare to enjoy two weeks off when province’s construction holiday begins on Sunday, no small number of them will make their annual pilgrimage to country homes, hotels and resorts in the United States.
  And in anticipation of that southbound migration, CAA-Quebec has issued a collection of tips aimed at crossing the border into the U.S. — and back into Canada — less stressful.
  Travelling with children
  The first tip reminds travellers that all chil
  
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• While you were sleeping: Incriminating selfies and pizza wars

  20-07-2018 14:04 via montrealgazette.com
  Selfies snapped on stolen cellphone used to ID thief
  A robbery suspect used a stolen cellphone to snap a selfie and, in the process, gave authorities his identity.
  That’s according to police in Shreveport, La.
  The Shreveport Times reports the victim of a July 10 robbery told police he was held up at gunpoint as he exited his car. The victim said he surrendered cash and two cellphones, and the robber fled.
  Three days later, the victim told police the suspect had taken photos of himself that
  
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• Montreal police question suspect in Verdun shooting

  20-07-2018 12:55 via montrealgazette.com
  A 42-year-old man is in hospital and a 35-year-old man in police custody after an apparent murder attempt outside the LaSalle métro station in the borough of Verdun early Friday.
  The incident occurred at a little after midnight at the corner of LaSalle Blvd. and Rushbrooke St. and police arriving at the scene found the victim on ground, shot at least once in the lower body.
  A 35-year-old man was arrested soon after and is expected to be questioned later on Friday.
   
   
  
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• Two firms vying to build, operate three Montreal organic waste centres

  20-07-2018 12:00 via montrealgazette.com
  Two companies are vying for city contracts to design, build, operate and maintain three of Montreal’s organic waste treatment facilities.
  After leaving the calls for tenders for three separate contracts open for nearly a year, the city received a single bid for two of the facilities and two bids for the third, the city confirmed on Thursday.
  The bids are from SUEZ Canada Waste Services Inc. and La compagnie de recyclage de papiers MD Inc., city spokesperson Gabrielle Fo
  
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• Plateau hot spot Aux Vivres joins Westmount's vegan invasion

  20-07-2018 12:00 via montrealgazette.com
  Elyse Gasco no longer has to make a weekly pilgrimage to the Plateau to get her fix of delicious vegan fare. Aux Vivres has come to her.
  The St-Laurent Blvd. eatery is the latest health-food option to open in the heart Westmount (in addition to a recently added Copper Branch outlet, and gourmet salad mainstay Mandy’s), and Gasco couldn’t be happier.
  “I’ve been here every day since it opened,” the Westmount writer said on Thursday afternoon.
  Aux Vivres had its soft o
  
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• Montreal weather: Soak up the sun

  20-07-2018 12:00 via montrealgazette.com
  Another sunny and humid day, enjoy.
  Environment Canada predicts a high of 31 Celsius, a Humidex of 35 and a UV index of 9 or very high.
  Tonight: Clear and expect an overnight low of 20 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 @kbcasagrande.
  Quote of the day:
  The more I traveled the more
  
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• Lebanese restaurant caught in Montreal's underground pizza war

  20-07-2018 12:00 via montrealgazette.com
  What, exactly, makes a pizza a pizza?
  Is it the dough? The sauce? The cheese? Its Italian origin?
  For Mohammad Eid, the owner Chez Fourna, a Lebanese restaurant in the food court at downtown’s Carrefour Industrielle Alliance, the future of his business might hinge on such questions.
  For about nine years, Chez Fourna had the same menu. Along with a variety of Lebanese pastries, pizza, cooked in large trays, was sold by the square.
  Also on offer is manouchi, a round flatbread
  
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• By the numbers: A look at Quebec's annual construction holiday

  20-07-2018 12:00 via montrealgazette.com
  At the end of their shifts Friday, the majority of the province’s construction workers — and a large number of other Quebecers — will be on vacation for the next two weeks during the province’s annual construction holiday. Here’s a look at what is a unique Quebec tradition, by the numbers.
  47: Years since the Quebec government began including a mandatory two-week paid summer vacation in the construction workers’ collective agreements.
  151,269: Constr
  
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• Greenpeace activists arrested after climbing Montreal's Big O

  20-07-2018 04:01 via montrealgazette.com
  Several Greenpeace members climbed the outside of the Olympic Stadium tower in Montreal on Thursday to protest against 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 an
  
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• Weekend traffic update: Don't count on a construction 'holiday'

  20-07-2018 03:34 via montrealgazette.com
  Turcot Interchange
  Highway 15 northbound will be completely closed at the Turcot Interchange from Saturday at 7 a.m. to Monday at 5 a.m.
  The Highway 15 ramp coming from the Champlain Bridge toward the Décarie Expressway will be closed during the same period. The entrance to De La Vérendrye Blvd. for Highway 15 northbound will also be closed according to the same schedule.
  The following ramps in the Turcot Interchange will be completely closed between Friday at 11:59
  
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• Body of kayaker who went missing in Lac St. Louis has been found

  20-07-2018 03:10 via montrealgazette.com
  The body of a kayaker who capsized Thursday afternoon in Lac St. Louis has been found, according to Michel Plamondon, spokesperson for the Canadian Coast Guard.
  The Montreal fire department searched the Beaconsfield marina for the man, assisted by the Canadian Coast Guard and the Montreal police. They found the boater’s body Thursday around 7:30 p.m.
  François Labelle, an Urgences-Santé spokesperson, said they first received a call about the incident near Centennial Park on Be
  
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• Watch: Horses of Cavalia's Odysseo trot the red carpet

  20-07-2018 02:36 via montrealgazette.com
  The horses of Cavalia’s Odysseo show were introduced to Montrealers on Thursday in a red carpet walk, and a demonstration of one of the show’s components.
  The show opens under the world’s largest big-top tents in Montreal on July 25th.
   
  Aerials of the world’s largest Big Top tent on Sainte-Catherine St. East just east of the Jacques-Cartier Bridge in Montreal, on Tuesday, June 26, 2018, for the upcoming production of Cavalia’s Odysseo.
   
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• David Byrne cancels Sept. 12 performance at Bell Centre

  20-07-2018 01:36 via montrealgazette.com
  David Byrne has cancelled his Sept. 12 performance at the Bell Centre.
  Byrne is touring the world in support of his American Utopia solo studio album, released this spring.
  Formerly Montreal-based tUnE-yArDs had been slated to open the show.
  The Evenko website advises people who purchased tickets to contact the Bell Centre for information on refunds.
  
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• Montreal's homeless shelters are coping with influx of asylum seekers — for now

  20-07-2018 00:24 via montrealgazette.com
  While Montreal’s homeless shelters are certainly feeling the impact of the unprecedented numbers of asylum seekers arriving in Quebec this spring and summer, the situation is nothing like what is happening in Toronto, shelter officials say.
  Toronto Mayor John Tory announced last month that his city is not equipped to handle more refugee claimants because of the “unprecedented pressure” on its shelter system, with an estimated 40 per cent of the beds in Toronto’s homeless
  
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• Alouettes hand keys to plodding offence back to QB Drew Willy

  20-07-2018 00:08 via montrealgazette.com
  Alouettes head coach Mike Sherman has been around the game long enough, and is smart enough, not to answer hypothetical questions.
  Nonetheless, here’s an interesting question: Would Jeff Mathews have remained the team’s starting quarterback had he not been injured two weeks ago against Ottawa? If there was not so much instability at the position in Montreal — a recurring theme for nearly five years — the question might have been moot.
  “I deal with what’s in fr
  
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• Beaconsfield lake access closed as authorities search for missing kayaker

  20-07-2018 00:00 via montrealgazette.com
  Access to the lake at Centennial Park will be closed through the weekend as the Montreal fire department searches the Beaconsfield marina for a kayaker who capsized Thursday afternoon.
  The city of Beaconsfield announced that the park’s watercraft rental centre will also be closed until at least July 23.
  François Labelle, an Urgences-Santé spokesperson, said they received a call about the incident near Centennial Park on Beaconsfield Blvd. just after 3 p.m.
  The Canadian C
  
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