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• Weekend traffic update: Turcot, Victoria Bridge, Highway 20 closures

  26-07-2018 23:56 via montrealgazette.com
  Here’s what you have to look out for on the roads this weekend, from July 27 to July 30.
  Turcot Interchange
  Highway 15 southbound between the Turcot Interchange and the Bonaventure Expressway will be completely closed from Friday at 11:59 p.m. to Monday at 5 a.m. That includes the on-ramp for the highway and the ramp coming from Highway 20 toward the Champlain Bridge.
  Entrances to Highway 15 south from Girouard Ave., Atwater Ave. and Gaétan-Laberge Blvd. will also be close
  
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• Class-action request filed against exo over train service

  26-07-2018 23:37 via montrealgazette.com
  A request for a class-action lawsuit filed at the Montreal courthouse on Monday argues that exo should compensate commuters affected by late or cancelled trains.
  The request contends that the commuter train service provider (formerly known as the AMT and the RTM) failed to provide adequate service to people who purchased tickets and passes in the past three years, causing them and their families “stress and inconvenience, out-of-pocket expenses, loss of income and loss of opportunity for a
  
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• Far away from Habs' hellish 'reset', P.K. Subban's having a great summer

  26-07-2018 22:53 via montrealgazette.com
  P.K. Subban is still having a better summer than the rest of us.
  Previously spotted on a yacht and the cover of Sports Illustrated, the former Montreal Canadien turned up at Wednesday night’s premiere of The Spy Who Dumped Me.
  Far from Montreal’s humidity and from what many call a rebuild (but Habs GM Marc Bergevin calls a “reset” but nevermind!), Subban and girlfriend Lindsey Vonn posed on the red carpet.
  They also had the chance to meet Sharon Stone and were suitably aw
  
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• A career in 90 words: The art of plaque writing at Baseball Hall of Fame

  26-07-2018 22:45 via montrealgazette.com
  COOPERSTOWN, N.Y. — When Vladimir Guerrero and five others are inducted into the Baseball Hall Of Fame on Sunday, they’ll find out just how they’ll be remembered on their small bronze plaque marking baseball’s best.
  What they may not know is just how much care went into crafting the handful of words aimed at summarizing a lifetime of on-field accolades.
  In keeping with the traditions of the game, putting together what’s finally etched on the bronze plaque is very mu
  
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• T'Cha Dunlevy: Robert Lepage's Kanata cancellation is right result, wrong reason

  26-07-2018 22:37 via montrealgazette.com
  Déjà vu, anyone?
  For the second time in less than a month, Robert Lepage has had a theatrical production cancelled. And for the second time, that production has been embroiled in a controversy around cultural appropriation; but once again, the cancellation doesn’t come as a direct response to the controversy.
  Kanata, a collaboration between Lepage and Ariane Mnouchkine of Paris’ Théâtre du Soleil, revisited Canadian Indigenous history including residential
  
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• Impact loss sends Vancouver Whitecaps to Canadian Championship final

  26-07-2018 22:34 via montrealgazette.com
  VANCOUVER — Russell Teibert believes a trip to the Canadian Championship finals may be just what the Vancouver Whitecaps need to turn their season around.
  The Whitecaps put up a 2-0 win over the Montreal Impact in Vancouver on Wednesday, giving them the edge in the tournament’s two-leg semifinal with an aggregate score of 2-1.
  The Impact won the first half of the series 1-0 in Montreal last week.
  Vancouver has been in a slump lately, losing five of their previous six matches, and are
  
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• BEI investigates Longueuil police after man injured by hanging

  26-07-2018 22:33 via montrealgazette.com
  The Bureau des enquêtes indépendantes has opened an investigation into how a 40-year-old man came to be seriously injured during a police intervention on Thursday, according to the agency.
  According to preliminary information that was provided to the agency, Longueuil police went to a residence in the St-Hubert borough around 6 a.m. Thursday. When police went to arrest the man, they found him upstairs, hanged. The man was transported to the hospital, but his life is not in dang
  
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• Surprise! Just for Laughs has announced two Amy Schumer shows

  26-07-2018 22:31 via montrealgazette.com
  If last-minute planning is your thing, Just for Laughs has you covered.
  The Montreal comedy festival announced Thursday that comedian Amy Schumer will host two “up close and personal” shows this week, one Thursday evening at Maison Theatre at 9:30 p.m. and another Friday at Gesù Theatre at 7 p.m.
  Check hahaha.com for tickets: $34.88 plus taxes and fees, for Thursday’s show and $31.85 for Friday.
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• Montreal housing market close to overheating: CMHC

  26-07-2018 21:32 via montrealgazette.com
  Montreal’s housing market is close to the threshold for being considered “overheated,” according to a new report by The Canadian Mortgage and Housing Corporation. However, it still faces a low degree of vulnerability to market instability.
  The seasonally adjusted sales-to-new listings ratio was slightly below 69 per cent during the three-month period ended on March 2018, the Crown corporation said in its quarterly Housing Market Assessment. The threshold for overheating is
  
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• Quebec to force dentists to stay in public health-care system

  26-07-2018 21:04 via montrealgazette.com
  The Quebec government will block the province’s association of dental surgeons from pulling out of the public health-care system.
  Health Minister Gaétan Barrette made the announcement in Montreal Thursday afternoon. Earlier in the day, the dental-surgeons association officially filed the paperwork to withdraw 2,000 of its members from the public health-care system.
  The notices were delivered to the offices of the Régie de l’assurance-maladie du Québec (RAMQ) and
  
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• Free in Montreal, July 27-29: Parades, markets, food fests galore

  26-07-2018 21:00 via montrealgazette.com
  Mother Nature seems to be conspiring to keep us all indoors this weekend. But if you’re willing to dance between the raindrops or want to take advantage of a dry afternoon, there is plenty of free summer fun to be had.
  Music and more at a Mile End open-air market
  Summer isn’t over yet, but this is your last weekend to experience the Marché des Possibles. The festivities at this open-air market run from Friday evening through Sunday, with daily music performances and activ
  
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• French striker Jimmy Briand snubs Impact, refuses to sign MLS contract

  26-07-2018 20:22 via montrealgazette.com
  The Montreal Impact’s tentative deal to sign French striker striker Jimmy Briand fell through on Thursday.
  “French striker Jimmy Briand will not join the Montreal Impact as it was originally planned,” the Impact said in a news release about the former member of French Ligue 1 club Guingamp. “Briand did not want to sign the MLS contract according to the terms negotiated and accepted by himself and his agent. Important additional requests by the Briand side at the last minu
  
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• As Lepage cancels Kanata, both sides of debate express dismay

  26-07-2018 20:22 via montrealgazette.com
  The upcoming play Kanata has been cancelled in the wake of a meeting last Thursday between Robert Lepage, Ariane Mnouchkine and the signatories of an open letter published July 14 in Le Devoir.
  Kanata looks at Canadian Indigenous history, including the residential school system and missing and murdered Indigenous women.
  However, the production has come under fire for a lack of First Nations’ input in the play as well as the decision not to feature Indigenous actors.
  On July 14, Indige
  
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• Things to do in Montreal July 27-29: Mosh pits and celebrating black films

  26-07-2018 19:39 via montrealgazette.com
  Catch Afromentum at the Fantasia Film Festival.
  Fantasia is over in a week, and there’s still plenty to see. One of the most exciting features is the new Afromentum showcase on Saturday, a presentation of four short films from around the world, presenting different views of the black experience through animation, sci-fi and fantasy. The films each look thrilling in their own way, don’t miss it.
   
  Headbang responsibly at Heavy Montreal
  Heavy Montreal is this weekend, and it bring
  
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• Fariha Naqvi-Mohamed: Faith shouldn't be a barrier to success

  26-07-2018 19:26 via montrealgazette.com
  Here in Canada, we are blessed with the opportunity to live our lives without apologizing for who we are; we live in a society that for the most part celebrates our differences. For members of some faith and cultural communities, however, it does not come as easily.For Canadian Muslims trying to get ahead in life, further their careers, provide for their families and create change in society, doing so while proudly practising their religion in a manner that displays their faith can be a challeng
  
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• Rouyn-Noranda's Gina Kingsbury takes over Canada's women’s hockey team

  26-07-2018 19:18 via montrealgazette.com
  CALGARY — Gina Kingsbury twice won Olympic hockey gold for Canada. She’s now in charge of getting the country back atop the women’s hockey podium.
  Kingsbury has taken over management of the women’s national team program at Hockey Canada from Melody Davidson, who stepped out of the general manager’s job after eight years to focus on scouting.
  Kingsbury, 36, retired from the national team in 2010.
  After coaching at the Okanagan Hockey School, she apprenticed under Dav
  
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• Boil-water advisory: Beauce drinking water tested after hospitalizations

  26-07-2018 18:41 via montrealgazette.com
  Drinking water is being tested in Quebec’s Beauce region after at least 10 people were hospitalized with symptoms of gastroenteritis, according to St-Bernard Mayor André Gagnon.
  About 40 other people in the region have reported similar symptoms of the bacterial infection since the beginning of July.
  A water boil advisory has been in effect in the town of St-Bernard, a few kilometres south of Lévis, since July 17. According to Gagnon, these people became sick before the adviso
  
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• Why Heavy Montréal may be our most entertaining festival

  26-07-2018 17:53 via montrealgazette.com
  So, Limp Bizkit, hunh? That’s … interesting.
  As Heavy Montréal goes Undead-Undead-Undead after a widely mourned one-year absence from the summer calendar, what more fitting return than to resurrect the career of another crew of one-time metal bastards?
  While Heavy Montréal prepared the cannon-amps for this weekend, their mammoth Day 2 headliner Avenged Sevenfold was reluctantly bowing out after singer M. Shadows came down with a viral infection that threatens his futur
  
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• Quebec dentists begin split from public health care system

  26-07-2018 17:41 via montrealgazette.com
  Quebec’s association of dental surgeons on Thursday officially filed the paperwork that will see 2,000 of its members withdraw from the province’s public health care system.
  The notices were delivered to the offices of the Régie de l’assurance-maladie du Québec (RAMQ) and Premier Philippe Couillard. The withdrawal will not take effect for another 30 days.
  Meanwhile, Quebec Health Minister Gaétan Barrette said he was ready to sign an order that would fo
  
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• SLĀV director Lepage cancels Kanata project as co-producers drop out

  26-07-2018 17:35 via montrealgazette.com
  The upcoming play Kanata has been cancelled in the wake of a meeting last Thursday between Robert Lepage, Ariane Mnouchkine and the signatories of an open letter published July 14 in Le Devoir.
  Kanata looks at Canadian Indigenous history, including the residential school system and missing and murdered Indigenous women.
  However, the production has come under fire for a lack of First Nations’ input in the play as well as the decision not to feature Indigenous actors.
  Last Saturday, Ind
  
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• Juste pour Rire: Patrick Rozon to oversee francophone content

  26-07-2018 17:07 via montrealgazette.com
  The Groupe Juste pour Rire announced Thursday that Patrick Rozon, director general of the Zoofest entertainment festival, has been named vice-president for French-language content.
  Rozon, who will maintain his position with Zoofest, will be responsible for the development of all of the Groupe’s French-language content on television, the web, shows, tours and in festivals.
  Rozon is second cousin to Groupe Juste pour Rire founder Gilbert Rozon, who resigned last October in the wake of a seri
  
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• Heart disease kills mostly women, so why are they excluded from drug trials?

  26-07-2018 16:01 via montrealgazette.com
  Is heart disease a man thing?
  Actually, heart disease kills more women than men, many of them elderly. It’s the No. 1 one cause of death in Canada of women over age 55. So why are two-thirds of medical researchers and drug companies testing treatments on youngish men, about age 60?
  Health advocates raised an alarm years ago that women and the elderly tend to be excluded from clinical drug trials.
  For Université de Montréal geriatrician Quoc Dinh Nguyen, that is
  
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• Impact gets international roster spot from San Jose for allocation cash

  26-07-2018 15:54 via montrealgazette.com
  The Montreal Impact picked up an international roster spot from the San Jose Earthquakes for the 2018 season in exchange for $100,000 in general allocation money on Wednesday.
  The move opens a spot for the expected signing of striker Jimmy Briand from French Ligue-1 club Guingamp.
  Guingamp announced last week that Briand was leaving to join the Impact.
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• Quebec dentists prepare to leave public health care system

  26-07-2018 14:38 via montrealgazette.com
  Quebec’s association of dental surgeons intends on Thursday to officially file the paperwork that would start the process of its membership leaving the province’s public health network.
  Association president Serge Langlois is expected to file the forms at 10 a.m. during a brief speech at the group’s Montreal headquarters.
  On Tuesday the association asked Premier Philippe Couillard to intervene in negotiations with the government, contending that the talks with Health Minister G
  
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• 'Flagrant disregard' for safety triggers bike ban in Mount Royal cemetery

  26-07-2018 14:13 via montrealgazette.com
  Mount Royal Cemetery, a National Historic Site of Canada and mid-town green space that attracts locals and tourists alike, has announced that bicycles will be banned from its grounds after high-speed training cyclists exhibited “flagrant disregard of the safety of pedestrians and of the character of the cemetery.”
  The ban, which goes into effect Aug. 1 and will reportedly be enforced by security guards at access points to the cemetery, was announced on the institution’s website
  
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• Airbus profit doubles as jet-delivery delays begin to ease

  26-07-2018 13:59 via montrealgazette.com
  Airbus SE’s second-quarter profit doubled as deliveries of its best-selling jetliner picked up, overcoming delays at engine providers.
  The stock rose the most in five months to a record Thursday after Toulouse, France-based Airbus said adjusted earnings before interest and tax rose to 1.15 billion euros ($1.35 billion) from a restated 572 million euros a year earlier.
  Payments for re-engined A320neo narrow-body planes had been held up by a halt in handovers of Pratt & Whitney turbines,
  
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• While you were sleeping: Quebec's youth exodus and microchipped soccer balls

  26-07-2018 13:51 via montrealgazette.com
  Quebec losing young people to interprovincial migration, report shows
  Between 1981 and 2017, Quebec lost 229,700 people below the age of 45 to interprovincial migration, according to a new report published by the Montreal Economic Institute.
  While the number of people under 45 increased in Quebec between 2010 and 2017, the province is still losing people to interprovincial migration, and Boyer warns that if things don’t change, “we’re going to face significant social probl
  
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• Updated: Missing 46-year-old woman found on city bus

  26-07-2018 13:13 via montrealgazette.com
  Montreal police say a 46-year-old woman who went missing Wednesday has been found safe and sound.
  Cindy Thompson was last seen at Du Collège métro station around 11:30 a.m. Police said Thompson has a mental and physical disability and is unable to orient herself.
  An alert STM employee notified police after Thompson was seen on a city bus in the Ahuntsic area.
   
  
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• Three sought after man wounded in north-end shooting

  26-07-2018 12:48 via montrealgazette.com
  A 31-year-old man is recovering from a non-life threatening gunshot wound Thursday morning after an altercation Wednesday night in the city’s north-end.
  The incident occurred at about 11 p.m. on De Salaberry St. near Taylor Blvd. in the Nouveau-Bordeau district. Police were alerted by a 911 call reporting a gunshot.
  Arriving at the scene they found the victim and learned that two men in their 20s and a third in his 50s took part in the attack but had fled the scene.
  A crime scene has been
  
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• Three injured, one of them critically, in overnight fire in the Plateau Mont Royal

  26-07-2018 12:35 via montrealgazette.com
  A woman in her 60s is in critical condition after an apparent explosion triggered a fire in a residence on Marquette St. in the Plateau Mont Royal borough early Thursday.
  The incident occurred at about 2:40 a.m. and the fire broke out on the building’s third floor causing severe damage. Dwellings on the lower floors were also heavily damaged by smoke and fire.
  The woman was discovered unconscious on the third floor by firefighters and taken outside where she was successfully resuscitated a
  
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• Quebec losing young people to interprovincial migration, report shows

  26-07-2018 12:00 via montrealgazette.com
  Between 1981 and 2017, Quebec lost 229,700 people below the age of 45 to interprovincial migration, according to a new report published by the Montreal Economic Institute.
  “Over the last 35 years, there’s been a significant loss of people less than 45 years old,” said Marcel Boyer, the author of the report and a distinguished senior fellow at the MEI.
  While the number of people under 45 increased in Quebec between 2010 and 2017, the province is still losing people to
  
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• Quebec City places second for venture capital investments

  26-07-2018 12:00 via montrealgazette.com
  Quebec City-based companies raised more money from venture capital investors than companies in any other Canadian city except Toronto during the second quarter of 2018, thanks to a couple of large deals, according to a report released by PwC Canada and market research company CB Insights on Thursday.
  Five Quebec City-based companies raised a total of US$147 million from VC investors during the period, according to the report.
  “It’s really interesting because you have C
  
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• Power limitations force MUHC's Glen site to selectively cut off central air

  26-07-2018 12:00 via montrealgazette.com
  A faulty backup generator at the superhospital of the McGill University Health Centre that plunged the operating rooms into darkness for nearly one hour Monday has prompted authorities to launch an investigation into possible causes.
  But apart from potential issues with at least one generator, there are limitations to the power at the MUHC’s Glen site in Notre-Dame-de-Grâce, the Montreal Gazette has learned. During a heat wave, the Glen site cuts off the air conditioning on purpose i
  
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• Montreal's downtown streets are rich with urban art

  26-07-2018 12:00 via montrealgazette.com
  There is a vitality and a grace about downtown Montreal that is sometimes lost on its sons and daughters: In our purposeful strides along its streets, we sometimes forget to take note of the beauty around us.
  Joanna Abrahamowicz, a guide at Montreal’s McCord Museum, sees the world through the eyes of the artist that she is. She designed a 90-minute walking tour of the neighbourhood of Ville-Marie that incorporates buildings as well as outdoor art. It’s one of three walking tours of d
  
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• Montreal weather: Today's considerably drier than yesterday's clothes

  26-07-2018 12:00 via montrealgazette.com
  Environment Canada forecasts that skies will clear up today en route to a high of 28 degrees and a humidex of 35.
  The nighttime forecast calls for a few clouds and a low of 19.
  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 @arcpixel.
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  There are two kinds of people in the world, those who beli
  
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• Montreal can't ignore safety threat of future composting site: critics

  26-07-2018 12:00 via montrealgazette.com
  Opponents of the site that was chosen by the city to build one of its municipal organic waste treatment centres say the birdstrike threat due to its proximity to Trudeau airport should alone prompt the city to find a different location.
  In fact, businessman Youssef Nakhoul, whose manufacturing plant abuts the site that Montreal expropriated for the future organic waste facility on Henri-Bourassa Blvd. W. in St-Laurent, two kilometres from the airport, said he doesn’t understand how the cit
  
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• Food & drink & rock 'n' roll: Star chefs cater to bands at Montreal fests

  26-07-2018 12:00 via montrealgazette.com
  Star chefs Chuck Hughes and Danny Smiles, partners in the hot Old Montreal resto Le Bremner, feed the rock stars at ’77 Montréal, Heavy Montreal and Osheaga, and they insist 99 per cent of the stars are just fine and dandy. But the musicians’ entourages? That’s another story.
  “The rock stars aren’t (jerks),” said Hughes in an interview with Smiles on Wednesday on Île-Notre-Dame, at Artists World, where the musicians will be hanging and eating at t
  
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• In case you missed it, here's what happened in Montreal on July 25

  26-07-2018 04:13 via montrealgazette.com
  Busy Wednesday? Now’s your chance to catch up on today’s news.
  A 22-year-old woman was expected to be questioned by police Wednesday after a bizarre incident that saw an Urgences-Santé ambulance stolen, apparently by the patient it had been called to assist. Police stopped the vehicle in Notre-Dame-de-Grâce on Tuesday night. While several vehicles were damaged over the course of the ambulance’s route, no injuries were reported. The incident began at about
  
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• Montreal police seek public's help finding missing 46-year-old woman

  26-07-2018 03:34 via montrealgazette.com
  Montreal police are searching for a 46-year-old woman who went missing Wednesday.
  Police say Cindy Thompson was last seen at Du Collège métro station around 11:30 a.m. They say Thompson has a mental and physical disability and is unable to orient herself.
  Thompson is white, five feet tall, weighs 150 pounds, has short black hair and speaks English. She was last seen wearing blue pants, a beige jacket, white running shoes and a purple backpack. Thompson also wears an ID bracele
  
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• Habs lose at losing: Team in 'denial' trounced in ESPN rebuild rankings

  26-07-2018 03:30 via montrealgazette.com
  The good news for Montreal Canadiens fans reading ESPN’s “NHL rebuild rankings” is that the Habs are not the team farthest away from contention.
  The bad news is, well, everything else.
  The team, which was ranked sixth by Greg Wyshynski, is said to be in “denial” about its chances of contending for a Stanley Cup.
  “Look no further than Cayden Primeau and Charlie Lindgren as the encapsulation of Montreal’s plight,” he writes. “They&rsq
  
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• Nearly 475 CAE employees to return to work following strike

  26-07-2018 03:03 via montrealgazette.com
  Nearly 475 unionized employees of the Montreal-based CAE Inc. will be returning to work Thursday, thus ending their month-long strike.
  Wednesday’s announcement came after 83 per cent of Local 522 members voted in favour of a new collective agreement presented by the flight simulator and training company this week. The previous agreement expired on June 19.
  According to the union’s statement, the new agreement will be in effect for four years, with a possible one-year extension on the
  
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• Vernon Adams knows Als' starting QB job will soon be Johnny Manziel's

  26-07-2018 02:11 via montrealgazette.com
  There’s this voice in the back of Vernon Adams’s mind, repeating the same statement — the Alouettes didn’t acquire Johnny Manziel to sit him on the bench.
  Two months ago, when Manziel reported to training camp in Hamilton, Tiger-Cats management said much the same thing. Then Jeremiah Masoli went out and passed for at least 300 yards in four consecutive games, and now Manziel is on his second Canadian Football League team in his rookie season.
  Adams can probably relate. He
  
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• Eskimos receiver Derel Walker expects Johnny Manziel to excel in CFL

  26-07-2018 01:33 via montrealgazette.com
  The last receiver to catch a college pass from Johnny Manziel said he didn’t get the ball enough.
  We think Derel Walker was joking.
  “I’m a competitive guy. I want more,” the Edmonton Eskimos’ wide receiver said upon the team’s arrival in Montreal for Thursday’s night game against the Alouettes.
  The game will correspond with Manziel’s debut in a Montreal uniform after Sunday’s trade from Hamilton, although Vernon Adams will start at quarterbac
  
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• SQ seeks victims of man alleged to have sexually assaulted minors

  26-07-2018 01:24 via montrealgazette.com
  The Sûreté du Québec is asking anyone with information about a Dollard-des-Ormeaux man alleged to have sexually assaulted minors to come forward.
  Korey Foomani, 46, faces 11 charges, including multiple counts of sexual assault. He was arrested on June 20. The SQ says victims were under the age of 16 and that the assaults occurred at a dépanneur on Perrot Blvd. in Notre-Dame-de-l’Île-Perrot between 2015 and 2018.
  The SQ says several people have already
  
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• Frank Dancevic hopes to earn spot in U.S. Open qualifying field

  26-07-2018 01:04 via montrealgazette.com
  GRANBY — Frank Dancevic has good reason to savour his participation in the $100,000 National Bank Challenger tennis tournament.
  The 33-year-old Dancevic has won the event three times — in 2003, 3006 and 2013 — and he opened his 2018 quest for a fourth title Tuesday night when he defeated lucky loser Takanyi Garanganga of Zimbabwe 6-4, 6-4 in a first-round match.
  Earlier this year, Dancevic was named captain of Canada’s Davis Cup team and, while that has created some deman
  
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• Poll: Are electric Bixis a terrifying, terrible idea?

  26-07-2018 00:53 via montrealgazette.com
  This August, Bixi will add 57 electrically powered bikes to its fleet.
  The battery-powered bikes, which will have a maximum speed of 29 km/h, are part of two pilot projects to judge the demand for these kinds of vehicles.
  Some pedal-shy commuters may find this appealing.
  Others, like the Gazette’s T’Cha Dunlevy, view it as “just one more thing to worry about.”
  So where do you stand on the electric Bixi proposal? Let us know by voting in the poll below:Take Our Poll
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• Sinorama didn't respect voluntary agreement, consumer protection office says

  26-07-2018 00:49 via montrealgazette.com
  Quebec’s consumer protection office said it appointed an interim administrator to ensure customers of travel agency Vacances Sinorama were able to complete trips they had paid for after the company violated a voluntary agreement.
  The Office de la protection du consommateur said on Tuesday that it was putting the company under trusteeship effective immediately.
  Charles Tanguay, a spokesperson for the office, said it had been making verifications of Vacances Sinorama finances for s
  
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• 22 things we learned from Mario Lemieux's $22m Quebec castle listing

  26-07-2018 00:08 via montrealgazette.com
  Hockey legend and current Pittsburgh Penguins owner Mario Lemieux is making a minor property transaction.
  His Mont-Tremblant property has been put on the market for a hair under $22 million.
  The listing, like the property itself, is sizeable. It contains a long list of amenities and 97 photos.
  In the interest of efficiency, here are the 22 key points that can be drawn from the listing:
  • It sure seems like Mario Lemieux is living the good life.
  • The precise asking price for his mansio
  
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