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• Bixi to go electric in August with two pilot projects

  24-07-2018 23:29 via montrealgazette.com
  Bixi, Montreal’s bicycle-sharing network, will add 57 electrically powered bikes to its fleet in August as part of two pilot projects to determine whether the demand for vehicles merits their being given a full-time role in the service.
  The bicycles, which can be rented for the same price as their non-powered counterparts, will be battery-powered and have a maximum speed of 29 km/h. If all goes as planned, the bikes will be on the road as soon as Aug. 15, said Bixi Montréal spokespe
  
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• Consumer protection office puts travel agency Sinorama under trusteeship

  24-07-2018 22:15 via montrealgazette.com
  Quebec’s Office de la protection du consommateur has put travel agency Vacances Sinorama under trusteeship, it said on Tuesday.
  The office said it made the decision because Sinorama has not respected legal requirements around how it must manage the money it has collected from clients.
  The OPC said it has named PricewaterhouseCoopers as Sinorama’s temporary administrator, which will ensure that Sinorama customers currently on trips will be able to complete those trips without pro
  
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• Best way for children to be safe in the water? Learning to swim

  24-07-2018 21:59 via montrealgazette.com
  Children don’t yet have the judgment or experience to understand the dangers of water, according to the Lifesaving Society, a national charitable organization working to prevent drowning, citing statistics that show children age six to nine who can’t swim and who are unaccompanied by adults in the water are at the highest risk for drowning.
  And more than 90 per cent of children in Quebec who drowned were either without adult supervision or the subjects of distracted supervision, said
  
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• LEGO may soon fulfill your dream of tripping over Habitat 67 at night

  24-07-2018 21:58 via montrealgazette.com
  A miniature version of Habitat 67 may soon be coming to a LEGO box near you.
  The suggestion for a 500-piece recreation of the Montreal landmark was posted on LEGO Ideas in May. The forum allows building-block enthusiasts to propose new LEGO set ideas and vote for, or “support,” their favourites.
  Ideas that garner 10,000 supporters within a set time frame will be considered for production by the LEGO review board.
  On July 23, the Habitat 67 proposal reached 100 supporters. The idea no
  
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• Longueuil fire department to hold evacuation drill at métro station

  24-07-2018 21:54 via montrealgazette.com
  The Longueuil fire department will hold an evacuation drill at the Longueuil—Université-de-Sherbrooke métro station and at 100 Place Charles-Le Moyne on Wednesday at 10 a.m.
  The fire department is asking everyone in the area at that time to follow their instructions.
  Il y aura un exercice d’évacuation au métro Longueuil–Université-de-Sherbrooke et au 100 place Charles-Le Moyne, demain, le 25 juillet, dès 10 h, coordonné par le Se
  
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• Celine Cooper: Girl's cannabis chocolate mishap shows risks of edibles

  24-07-2018 20:21 via montrealgazette.com
  Last week, a four-year-old girl in Nova Scotia was hospitalized and released after eating 15 squares of a chocolate bar infused with marijuana. The recommended dose for an adult is one square per day.
  As Canada moves steadily toward cannabis legalization, the incident offers up a reminder that information campaigns and regulatory frameworks — including proper labelling of edibles with THC content, intoxicant warnings and strong recommendations for storing the products away from childr
  
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• Poll: How much do you pay your babysitter?

  24-07-2018 19:59 via montrealgazette.com
  The job description for a babysitter can be pretty open-ended.
  Should they take the children on excursions to the local playground or splash pad? Are they expected to keep the kids entertained the entire afternoon? Will there be meals to prepare or baths to give? How closely do the children need to be supervised?
  Different parents may have different expectations for the teenager they leave in charge of their youngsters. You also get what you pay for.
  So, how much do you pay your babysitter?Take
  
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• Pinel Institute investigates alleged conspiracy, attack by teen patients

  24-07-2018 19:32 via montrealgazette.com
  The administration of a Montreal psychiatric hospital is investigating after several employees were allegedly injured by a group of teenage patients who reportedly plotted an attack.
  Karina Cabana with the hospital workers’ union at the Philippe-Pinel Institute said Tuesday her members reported that the teenagers conspired last Friday to stage a fight in a common area of a ward to draw the attention of security guards.
  She says the alleged plan was partly foiled by the guards but a signifi
  
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• The humidex: Canadians didn't invent humidity, but we labeled it

  24-07-2018 18:20 via montrealgazette.com
  If engineer and inventor Willis Carrier was the Thomas Edison of air-conditioning, then J.M. Masterton and F.A. Richardson were the Archimedes of the humidex.
  Although Canadians had coined the term “humidex” in 1965, Masterton and Richardson were the Atmospheric Environment Service scientists who created the formula for it in 1979. The service has since morphed into Environment Canada, but the formulation remains essentially the same, producing a “scale of discomfort” tha
  
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• Revenue Quebec fines Montreal restaurateur $650,000 for tax fraud

  24-07-2018 17:38 via montrealgazette.com
  A Montreal restaurateur has been fined $650,000 and given a suspended sentence of 18 months after pleading guilty to tax fraud, Revenue Quebec announced on Tuesday.
  Giorgio Damiani pleaded guilty on June 11 to “producing false or misleading tax statements for 6152384 Canada Inc. by failing to declare the taxes collected.”
  Damiani and four other restaurateurs were fined a total of $4 million by Revenue Quebec for tax fraud in June 2016.
  Revenue Quebec said the infractions occurre
  
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• Watch: Manziel wants to put past transgressions behind him with Als

  24-07-2018 16:50 via montrealgazette.com
  “This organization has put a lot on the line to get me here,” said Montreal Alouettes newly acquired quarterback Johnny Manziel — and he wasn’t just talking about the terms of his trade from Hamilton.
  During a press conference Monday afternoon, the 25-year-old acknowledged the “past decisions and transgressions” he is looking to put behind him — including a domestic-assault charge that was dropped after an agreement was reached with the court.
  “I w
  
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• I reached out and touched the moon at the Montreal Science Centre

  24-07-2018 15:42 via montrealgazette.com
  As my fingers brushed up against a piece of the moon, I couldn’t help but feel a little crass.
  Here it was, this 3.8-billion-year-old rock; it orbited Earth at the dawn of life, it stood untouched as empires rose and fell, it outlasted beloved TV series like Flipper, The Monkees and Batman.
  I, on the other hand, nearly flunked 10th grade math and once stepped on a rake to see if it would hit me in the face like in the cartoons (it did).
  And so, as I crudely groped at the moon rock, I could
  
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• Montreal heat warning will continue through Wednesday

  24-07-2018 14:11 via montrealgazette.com
  There may be little in the way of sunshine in the forecast for the next 48 hours, but Montrealers will still be feeling the heat.
  Environment Canada reinstated a heat warning for the Montreal area early Tuesday, noting that the “warm and humid airmass covering Southern Quebec today will persist through Wednesday evening. The temperatures combined with the humidity will produce humidex values of 35 to 38 degrees Celsius. Moreover, minimum temperatures will remain above 20 degrees overnight
  
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• West Island Chamber of Commerce pans car-free road to REM

  24-07-2018 13:55 via montrealgazette.com
  The West Island of Montreal Chamber of Commerce (WIMCC) is panning recently announced plans to forgo an urban boulevard through western Pierrefonds as a link to the future Réseau express métropolitain (REM) train station in Kirkland along Highway 40.
  The city of Montreal and the province announced it was building a car-free road reserved exclusively for buses and bicycles connecting Antoine-Faucon St. at the border of Kirkland and Pierrefonds to the future REM station, next to the
  
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• Young: Forty years of doctoring in Hudson

  24-07-2018 13:00 via montrealgazette.com
  It was 40 years ago this summer that young doctors Ron Hyrniowski and Len Welik, fresh from completing their residency at St. Mary’s Hospital in Montreal, moved into Hudson and set up office in what was then the new, paint-still-not-dry Medi-Centre on Cameron St., now just an empty lot. There they launched a practice that today has led to their becoming virtually indispensable in the Hudson region.
  In fact, Dr. Hyrniowski, who preceded Dr. Welik by a few months, actually met his first case
  
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• Pregnant Montreal woman says doctor dumped her over Facebook post

  24-07-2018 12:54 via montrealgazette.com
  Nearly a week after a pregnant woman in Notre-Dame-de-Grâce says her obstetrician-gynecologist dumped her as a patient after she posted a critical message about the doctor on a closed Facebook group, the woman is now fielding offers to be followed by other specialists.
  The case of Courtney Orbin, who is four and a half months pregnant, raises questions about freedom of expression in the age of social media as well the rights of patients and the professional obligations of physicians.
  Orbin
  
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• Environment Canada maintains heat warning for Montreal area

  24-07-2018 12:52 via montrealgazette.com
  There may be little in the way of sunshine in the forecast for the next 48 hours, but Montrealers will still be feeling the heat.
  Environment Canada reinstated a heat warning for the Montreal area early Tuesday, noting that the “warm and humid airmass covering Southern Quebec today will persist through Wednesday evening. The temperatures combined with the humidity will produce humidex values of 35 to 38 degrees Celsius. Moreover, minimum temperatures will remain above 20 degrees overnight
  
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• Montreal should welcome solar-panel plant on Anjou golf course: opposition

  24-07-2018 12:34 via montrealgazette.com
  The municipal opposition accused the city Monday of standing in the way of a possible $2.3-billion project that could create 1,000 jobs in east-end Anjou.
  Solargise, a U.K.-based high-tech company, announced two weeks ago it is interested in building a manufacturing plant and R&D centre to produce plastic-free solar panels on the site of the Métropolitain Anjou Golf Club.
  But the opposition Ensemble Montréal party said the Valérie Plante administration’s
  
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• How did 18-year-old kayaker drown so close to Beaconsfield shoreline?

  24-07-2018 12:24 via montrealgazette.com
  How did an 18-year-old kayaker drown so close to the Beaconsfield shoreline?
  That question, and others, will hopefully be answered now that the Coroner’s Office has been tasked to conduct an inquest into the death of a young man who drowned last Thursday in Lake St-Louis only metres from the Centennial Park shoreline.
  Witnesses reportedly heard the man call for help after falling into the water, but he slipped beneath the waves before help could arrive.
  It took several hours before a
  
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• West Island health workers' union reaches tentative agreement

  24-07-2018 12:00 via montrealgazette.com
  The union representing local health workers has reached an agreement in principle with the Montreal-West Island Integrated University Health and Social Services Centre following negotiations for new working terms and conditions.
  The 1,300 members of the syndicat québécois des employées et employés de service union (SQEES-FTQ) which includes office personnel, administrative technicians and professionals, will be called to vote on the agreement in September.
  “Cons
  
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• West Island businesses get financial boost from Quebec government

  24-07-2018 12:00 via montrealgazette.com
  The Quebec government is giving several West Island companies a financial boost. A total of $443,103 has been distributed to help finance four export and 10 research and development initiatives. The money will help absorb export costs, patent costs and salaries for new hires, among other expenses. With monies from the companies as well as the government grants, the combined investment for the 14 projects will top $1.4 million.
  All the businesses are located in the West Island ridings of Marquett
  
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• Montreal this morning: Steamy weather continues

  24-07-2018 12:00 via montrealgazette.com
  Hot, humid and wet is the theme for the next couple of days.
  Today, Environment Canada predicts a high of 28 Celsius, a humidex of 36 and a UV index of 7, or high, with a 60 per-cent chance of showers. A heat warning continues for the Montreal area.
  Tonight: There’s a 40-per-cent chance of showers with a low of 22.
  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
  
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• Dunlevy: Lepage, Mnouchkine resort to stereotypes in defence of Kanata and SLĀV

  24-07-2018 12:00 via montrealgazette.com
  On Sunday morning at 10:23 a.m., Le Devoir columnist Fabrice Vil posted a video to his Facebook page. For the next five minutes and 23 seconds, he talked about language, particularly the language that has been used surrounding the SLĀV and Kanata debates.
  The two theatrical productions by Quebec director Robert Lepage have drawn charges of cultural appropriation. SLĀV, the “theatrical odyssey based on slave songs” featuring a mostly white cast, presented as part of the Mont
  
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• The Montreal Runners cross the finish line in Vancouver

  24-07-2018 11:30 via montrealgazette.com
  They did it. Six young men ran 4,632 km from Montreal to Vancouver in 30 days to raise money for the Terry Fox Foundation.
  They are called the Montreal Runners and they crossed the finish line at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, June 30.
  They ran the seemingly endless flat expanses of the prairies and they conquered the fiercely challenging inclines and descents of the Rockies.
  The schedule was brutal — 180 km a day in 5 km shifts with two runners on the road, separated by 5 km.
  
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• Easy win for Peliwo on Day 1 of National Bank Challenger in Granby

  24-07-2018 05:07 via montrealgazette.com
  GRANBY — Seventh-seeded Filip Peliwo, the former No. 1 junior tennis player in the world, was a  easy winner in the opening round of the $100,00 National Bank Challenger tennis tournament Monday.
  Peliwo, who won the Wimbledon and U.S. Open junior titles in 2012,  defeated Joao Menezes of Brazil 6-4, 6-3.
  Montrealer Samuel Monette, a 24-year-old Indiana University grad, lost to American J.C. Aragone 6-4, 6-4.
  In the final round of men’s qualifying, Belgian Joris De Loore def
  
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• Mistakes will follow me, Manziel says, but 'that's not who I am'

  24-07-2018 04:41 via montrealgazette.com
  He has made repeated mistakes in his life, and it would be easy for Johnny Manziel to refuse to discuss his past. Instead, the Alouettes’ new quarterback admits he might never run away from, or escape, the transgressions he has committed.
  “That will follow me for the rest of my career, whether I’m sitting here at 35 or 25. My past mistakes will follow me,” Manziel said Monday, after being introduced to the Montreal media. “I heard, when I got to Hamilton, it was too
  
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• Johnny Manziel is team player, not saviour, Alouettes GM says

  24-07-2018 04:35 via montrealgazette.com
  The three wise men — the head coach, general manager and saviour — walked into the basement hall at Olympic Stadium late Monday afternoon and announced to the assembled masses gathered that quarterback Johnny Manziel wouldn’t be the saviour of this beleaguered Alouettes’ franchise.
  “We didn’t trade for Johnny to be the saviour,” general manager Kavis Reed stated. “We traded for him to be a part of this.”
  Quite frankly, it doesn’t matter
  
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• ICYMI: Today's Montreal roundup includes a reporter's moonwalk

  24-07-2018 02:36 via montrealgazette.com
  In case you missed it (ICYMI) is a daily feature highlighting news in and around Montreal.
  Montreal is appealing a ruling ordering it to bury a contaminated creek on the Meadowbrook Golf Club that is the last remnant of the St-­Pierre River.
  Restoring the creek could be a key feature of a plan for rainwater management in an area stretching from the Blue Bonnets site at Décarie Blvd. and Jean-Talon St. to the Lachine Canal, including a possible green corridor from the Meadowbrook
  
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• Opposition calls on city to welcome solar-panel plant on Anjou golf course

  24-07-2018 01:44 via montrealgazette.com
  The municipal opposition accused the city Monday of standing in the way of a possible $2.3-billion project that could create 1,000 jobs in east-end Anjou.
  Solargise, a U.K.-based high-tech company, announced two weeks ago it is interested in building a manufacturing plant and R&D centre to produce plastic-free solar panels on the site of the Métropolitain Anjou Golf Club.
  But the opposition Ensemble Montréal party said the Valérie Plante administration’s
  
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• Montreal woman says doctor dumped her after negative Facebook post

  24-07-2018 01:13 via montrealgazette.com
  Nearly a week after a pregnant woman in Notre-Dame-de-Grâce says her obstetrician-gynecologist dumped her as a patient after she posted a critical message about the doctor on a closed Facebook group, the woman is now fielding offers to be followed by other specialists.
  The case of Courtney Orbin, who is four and a half months pregnant, raises questions about freedom of expression in the age of social media as well the rights of patients and the professional obligations of physicians.
  Orbin
  
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• Truck crashes into Laval home after driver loses control

  24-07-2018 00:38 via montrealgazette.com
  A truck crashed into a Laval home Monday afternoon after the driver allegedly lost control, Laval police say.
  The crash occurred on Henri-Poitras St. around 3 p.m., a police spokesman said, noting no one was injured and the incident caused only material damages.
  
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• Montreal appeals court order to bury Meadowbrook stream

  24-07-2018 00:21 via montrealgazette.com
  Montreal is appealing a ruling ordering it to bury a contaminated creek on the Meadowbrook Golf Club that is the last remnant of the St-­Pierre River.
  In an appeal presented in the Quebec Court of Appeal Wednesday, the city argues that Quebec Superior Court Judge Chantal Corriveau erred in her June 7 judgment obliging it to turn the creek into a sewer within 18 months. It notes that Quebec’s Environment Quality Act calls for integrated management of wetlands and bodies of water in keep
  
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