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• Truck drivers need safety lessons, too, cyclist groups say

  27-07-2018 23:48 via montrealgazette.com
  While the city of Montreal says it’s working on its strategy to mitigate the safety risks of heavy trucks, some advocates for pedestrians and cyclists say the burden to prevent accidents shouldn’t lie with the roads’ most vulnerable users.
  Montreal police held an event Wednesday aimed at educating pedestrians and cyclists on how to stay out of trucks’ blind spots. It was the second such event held in the city this summer: On June 16, the Société de l&rs
  
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• Inside the CFL: Als' Jermaine Robinson put life on line to save another

  27-07-2018 23:15 via montrealgazette.com
  It all happened so quickly, as automobile crashes do, right before the disbelieving eyes of Jermaine Robinson. In an instant, he knew there was only one thing to do: act. And do so without thinking.
  “The odds of you seeing a car accident … ” the Alouettes’ safety said this week. “Usually you drive past (one) and figure that looks bad. We saw the whole thing.”
  It was the afternoon of Sept. 3, 2017. Robinson was in the passenger seat. Behind the wheel was
  
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• Watch: Cooking to keep the stars of Heavy Montreal and Osheaga happy

  27-07-2018 22:24 via montrealgazette.com
  Rock stars — if This Is Spinal Tap and a wealth of other depictions are to be believed — might not be the easiest of demographics to satisfy.
  The stars of Montreal festivals like ’77 Montreal, Heavy Montreal and Osheaga must nevertheless be fed, and that brings us to chefs Chuck Hughes and Danny Smiles.
  The pair, who maintain that 99 per cent of stars are nice to deal with, have been catering these festivals for years. At the height of Osheaga, they feed between 2,000 and 2,500
  
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• Montreal police search for potential fraud victims

  27-07-2018 22:11 via montrealgazette.com
  Montreal police are seeking potential victims of an alleged fraudster.
  Éric Leboeuf, who is said to have used such pseudonyms as Filippo Lucania, would allegedly meet his victims in the north and south ends of the island in public places, a statement released by the police force on Friday says. They report that after long conversations with his victims, Leboeuf would give them fake cheques. Upon depositing the cheques, Leboeuf would allegedly claim a sudden need for money and ask for his
  
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• Buchignani: Tragedy and heartache at Ferrari as F1 heads to Hungary

  27-07-2018 22:00 via montrealgazette.com
  Given the events of the past week, you’d be forgiven for thinking Ferrari is cursed.
  How else would you explain the misfortune that struck the Formula One icon on and off the track, culminating in the shocking death of chairman and CEO Sergio Marchionne in a Swiss hospital?
  Surreal doesn’t begin to describe it.
  And yet the outlook could not have been sunnier just one week ago, when the red cars lined up for the start of the German Grand Prix with Sebastian Vettel occupying the pole p
  
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• Impact caps tough stretch by hosting crème-de-MLS Atlanta United

  27-07-2018 21:59 via montrealgazette.com
  After being eliminated from the Canadian Championship and then seeing a deal for striker Jimmy Briand fall through, the Montreal Impact end the week having to face the first-place team in Major League Soccer.
  The Impact (9-12-1) take on Atlanta United (13-4-5) on Saturday (7 p.m., TVA Sports, TSN 690 Radio) at Saputo Stadium looking to keep up their 6-2-1 form in league play since June 2.
  It will end a string of seven matches in a 22-day span, which included their 2-1 aggregate loss to the Vanco
  
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• Stu Cowan: Supersonic — Vladimir Guerrero's throws left lasting memory

  27-07-2018 21:00 via montrealgazette.com
  Jeff Blair, who was the baseball beat writer for the Montreal Gazette when Vladimir Guerrero broke into the majors with the Expos at the end of the 1996 season, has a favourite memory of the right fielder who will be inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, N.Y., on Sunday.
  “(Michael) Farber and I were standing, talking in the right-field corner during spring training one year and Vladimir was just shagging balls,” recalled Blair, who works for Sportsnet and has a radi
  
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• Ten highlights on Vladimir Guerrero’s journey to the Hall of Fame

  27-07-2018 20:59 via montrealgazette.com
  COOPERSTOWN, N.Y. — On Sunday, Vladimir Guerrero will become the first position player from the Dominican Republic inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame, and only the third player from that country to make the exclusive club, behind pitchers Juan Marichal and Pedro Martinez.
  Here is a list of 10 memorable moments from his career:
  1. Discovered by Fred Ferreira
  Scouting legend Fred Ferreira discovered Guerrero in 1993. Ferreira was evaluating 30 other Dominican players that day a
  
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• Quebec sailors arrested in Caribbean after drug-laden boat set ablaze

  27-07-2018 20:54 via montrealgazette.com
  Two Quebec men face charges in the Caribbean after a drug-laden yacht in which they had been sailing burst into flames while being escorted by law enforcement.
  During the night of Thursday, July 19, French border agents patrolling the waters off of the French Antilles in the Caribbean Sea intercepted a sailboat with a small blue fleur-de-lys emblazoned on its side.
  The sleek, white yacht pitched and rolled on the open sea in what Jean-Damien Moustier, the head of the French government’s Ca
  
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• Opinion: Elton John is wrong to suggest a social media boycott

  27-07-2018 20:41 via montrealgazette.com
  In June, Sir Elton John accused tech giants of spreading homophobic hate speech online. In response, he called on his fans worldwide to boycott social media.
  Now, with Montreal Pride (Aug. 9-19) around the corner, let’s agree with Sir Elton John on the necessity to react to hate speech.
  “Enough” is, indeed, “enough”!
  We have to stop hate speech in all its forms: homophobic, xenophobic, racist, bigoted or any form of speech that encourages, tolerates or validates vio
  
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• Kanata cancellation: Théâtre du Soleil decries 'unimaginable intimidation'

  27-07-2018 18:52 via montrealgazette.com
  The Kanata controversy continues. Théâtre du Soleil, Robert Lepage’s Paris-based collaborator for the project, issued a statement Friday decrying “unimaginable intimidation” against artistic expression.
  A theatrical production revisiting Canadian Indigenous history, Kanata was cancelled Thursday after the show’s North American co-producers pulled out of the project.
  Much like Lepage’s recently cancelled production SLĀV, “a theatrical odyssey
  
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• 20,000 sign petition for Montreal inquiry into systemic racism

  27-07-2018 18:28 via montrealgazette.com
  A petition launched by a former Projet Montréal candidate calling for the city to hold a public consultation on systemic racism and discrimination has received more than 20,000 signatures, well above the 15,000-signature threshold required to compel city hall to do so.
  Led by Balarama Holness, Montreal in Action, which describes itself as a is a citizen-based group comprised of community leaders, was expected to file the petition at city hall on Friday.
  The petition, which was l
  
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• What the Puck: Have Canadiens descended into NHL's bargain basement?

  27-07-2018 18:27 via montrealgazette.com
  Here is a scary thought for Habs fans. What if the new reality is that the Montreal Canadiens have become a bargain-basement National Hockey League team?
  One of the most contentious discussions surrounding the Habs last season was the fact that management left US$8 million sitting on the table rather than spending that cash to try to make the team better. The team had that amount of money available below the salary cap of US$75 million yet general manager Marc Bergevin didn’t spend it.
  It
  
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• Osheaga heading for another sellout with lucky 13th edition

  27-07-2018 18:01 via montrealgazette.com
  If Nick Farkas were superstitious, he might be worried about the 13th Osheaga Music and Arts Festival, taking place Aug. 3 to 5.
  But Osheaga already had its trial by fire — er, water — at the 12th edition last year. The heavens opened up, unleashing chaos and confusion on the opening day of the fest, causing cancellations, postponements, and dead air as stages were silent for portions of the afternoon.
  All of this while attendees were attempting to orient themselves on a tempora
  
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• Osheaga: 10 acts to catch, from Blondie to Odesza

  27-07-2018 18:01 via montrealgazette.com
  With over 115 acts performing in three days, Osheaga’s lineup can be dizzying. Here are 10 hot tips to keep you on track.
  Friday, Aug. 3
  Sure shot: Yeah Yeah Yeahs (7:30-8:30 p.m., River Stage): Led by the awesome Karen O, the veteran New York dance-rock trio never fails to ignite. As O shouts on the title track to their 2013 album Mosquito, “I will suck your blood!”Chill out: James Blake (9:45-10:45 p.m., Green Stage): While Travis Scott raps up the day on the main s
  
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• Bill Zacharkiw's Wines of the Week: July 27, 2018

  27-07-2018 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
  Montepulciano d’Abruzzo 2015, Ilico, Illuminati, Italy red, $15.75, SAQ # 10858123. I love a gritty wine, and no other grape is as gritty as montepulciano. The fruit is dark and olive-tinged. The tannins are ripe but stick to your tongue. This is made for meat, so if you want an inexpensive wine that has enough torque for a steak, you have it here. Dry, drinkable and
  
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• Quebec's Glutenberg recalls its non-alcoholic beer for containing alcohol

  27-07-2018 17:47 via montrealgazette.com
  Quebec microbrewery Glutenberg announced they were conducting a voluntary recall for certain packages of their “Glutenberg Sans Alcool” non-alcoholic beer after their tests found it contained alcohol levels up to 3.4 per cent.
  In a press release, the company said it recovered the majority of the affected beers before they were sold, and contacted vendors to remove the remainder from stores.
  The recall affects cans with the code 24606298 and a March 29, 2019 expiration date.
  Consumers
  
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• Montreal suburbs go to court over bill to move Hydro poles in Plateau

  27-07-2018 17:45 via montrealgazette.com
  The association representing Montreal’s 15 demerged suburbs has gone to court to fight an agglomeration council resolution that would see the municipalities pay part of a $285,000 bill to re-arrange 33 Hydro poles on St- André St. in Plateau Mont-Royal.
  The city of Montreal, which holds the majority on the council, contends the work on the sidewalks and Hydro poles is part of a $24 million plan to turn the street into a more bicycle-friendly thoroughfare. But the association se
  
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• The Right Chemistry: Answers about PVC blinds, 'Liquid Oxygen'

  27-07-2018 17:30 via montrealgazette.com
  You wanted to know:
  Do polyvinylchloride (PVC) blinds pose a health risk from lead?
  PVC is one of the most commonly used plastics found in car interiors, window frames, siding, water and sewer pipes, packaging material, medical tubing, transfusion bags, cable insulation, toys and window blinds. The plastic itself is an inert, non-toxic polymer, but issues arise with some of the additives that are used to modify its properties. PVC can be rigid or flexible depending on the use of plasticizers suc
  
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• Jacques Villeneuve will drive for Subaru in Trois-Rivières Grand Prix

  27-07-2018 17:22 via montrealgazette.com
  Former F1 champion Jacques Villeneuve will get behind the wheel in next weekend’s Grand Prix de Trois-Rivières’ Rallycross des Amériques.
  The 47-year-old, who will drive a Subaru WRX STI for Subaru Rally Team USA managed by Vermont SportsCar, told Motorsport that he feels right at home at GP3R. Also on the team are drivers Chris Atkinson and Patrik Sandell.
  The Villeneuve family has long been associated with Trois-Rivières where, in 1976, Jacques&r
  
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• Coffee culture gets its due in Corsé magazine

  27-07-2018 16:27 via montrealgazette.com
  Justine Belzile is a one-person argument against generational stereotyping. Restless millennial attention-deficit? You’ll have to look elsewhere — this 24-year-old is an adherent of the slow-living movement. Which is not to say she doesn’t know how to get things done.
  Born and raised in Sherbrooke, Belzile came to Montreal five years ago to study journalism at UQÀM. Soon switching her major to culture production — “basically how to finance and manage cultural
  
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• Air Canada posts weaker Q2 adjusted earnings as fuel prices rise 31% from last year

  27-07-2018 14:39 via montrealgazette.com
  Air Canada experienced a 31 per cent increase in the price of jet fuel compared with last year’s second quarter and will offset some of the impact with higher fares and other initiatives, Air Canada chief executive Calin Rovinescu said Friday.
  The Montreal-based airline did well in terms of revenue, which was up 10.4 per cent compared with last year’s second quarter, but adjusted earnings dropped to $114 million or 41 cents per share.
  That was only about half as much as Air Canada&rs
  
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• While you were sleeping: Bears get stuck and judges get flipped off

  27-07-2018 14:26 via montrealgazette.com
  Here’s what happened in Montreal while you were trying to sleep.
  Bear caught in storm drain freed when manhole cover lifted
  Authorities have freed a bear that got caught in a storm drain for about an hour.
  Colorado Springs Utilities workers and Colorado Parks and Wildlife Southeast Region workers arrived to the residential neighbourhood Thursday to work out a strategy to get the bruin out. They didn’t want to handle it because they would have to tag it and it would be euthanized if t
  
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• JFL review: Amy Schumer delivers sharp surprise show from rough notes

  27-07-2018 14:10 via montrealgazette.com
  Serendipity can be a wonderful thing. At about 4 p.m. on Thursday, Just for Laughs announced that Amy Schumer would be doing two surprise shows at the festival, one at 9:30 p.m. that night at Maison Théâtre and another on Friday at 7 p.m. at the Gesù.
  Within an hour, both shows were sold out. Montreal comedy fans — who certainly must have had other plans — are truly resilient.
  JFL had announced Kevin Hart’s show — Friday at 8 p.m. at the Bell Centre &m
  
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• Brownstein at Just for Laughs: Is political correctness killing comedy?

  27-07-2018 14:10 via montrealgazette.com
  It wasn’t his onstage shtick that killed Bill Cosby’s career — it was his criminal offstage behaviour, recently resulting in a conviction for aggravated indecent assault against several women.
  It was also the outrageous offstage behaviour of Louis C.K. — accused by five women of sexual misconduct — that has since stifled his career.
  And allegations of sexual impropriety long dodging Woody Allen and more recently aimed at Aziz Ansari have virtually brought their care
  
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• Noise complaints pit Point St-Charles residents against Téo Taxi

  27-07-2018 13:34 via montrealgazette.com
  Car alarms that go off at 3 a.m., hammering noises loud enough to rouse people in the dead of night and the constant, dull whir of floodlights.
  It isn’t easy living next to a garage that services taxi cabs 24 hours a day.
  Donna Lewzey has been in Point St-Charles for 22 years, and she can’t remember a time when the noise was this constant. Her apartment is wedged against Téo Taxi’s St-Patrick St. repair shop.
  “The workers screaming, the compressors, the loud music
  
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• Fire breaks out in South Shore water treatment plant

  27-07-2018 13:21 via montrealgazette.com
  A water treatment plant in Mont-Saint-Hilaire was the site of a fire early Friday that severely damaged the installation’s offices and briefly interrupted its operations.
  The fire broke out in the plant’s offices at about 2 a.m., completely destroying the wing but sparing the plant itself.
  However the plant’s operations had to be briefly suspended in order to allow the 50 firefighters deployed at the scene to fight the flames.
  The cause of the fire, which was extinguished by 5
  
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• Second Montreal shooting in two days sends one man to hospital

  27-07-2018 12:59 via montrealgazette.com
  A man in his 30s is recovering from a gunshot wound to the foot early Friday in the wake of an early morning exchange of gunfire in the city’s Ahuntsic district.
  Police say multiple gunshots were reported at about 12:15 a.m. on Emile-Yelle St. However by the time they arrived on the scene the suspects had fled.
  However they did find one man on site suffering from a gunshot wound to the foot and telling investigators he had no idea what happened.
  Friday’s clash was the second exchange
  
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• Real estate: Montreal is new hot spot for Chinese buyers

  27-07-2018 12:00 via montrealgazette.com
  Foreign buyers have become a kind of real estate industry bogeyman: widely feared, with an influence that many analysts say is more mythic than real.
  According to the Canadian Mortgage and Housing Corporation, the proportion of buyers from other countries remains too small to be the main driver of price increases. The number of foreign buyers in Greater Montreal is estimated at around two per cent, by CMHC’s reckoning.
  However, while the numbers are small overall, it’s disingenuous t
  
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• Old Port corporation ordered to pay woman who lost legs in train accident

  27-07-2018 12:00 via montrealgazette.com
  The Old Port of Montréal Corporation Inc. has been ordered to pay damages to a woman who lost both legs in a train accident in 2013 for failing to ensure the security of pedestrians, a judgment issued Wednesday says.
  Pritie Patel was with three friends on June 12, 2013 when the accident occurred. Patel, 30 at the time, and her friends were trying to leave the Old Port after midnight and were blocked by a train stalled on the tracks that borders its exits.
  To reach their car, Patel and her
  
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• Montreal Weather: There's just, like, way too much weather today

  27-07-2018 12:00 via montrealgazette.com
  Environment Canada’s forecast predicts that the day will begin with a mix of sun and cloud. By afternoon, there’ll be a 60 per cent chance of showers and a risk of thunderstorms.
  The daytime high is forecasted to be 27 degree with a humidex of 33.
  At night, there’ll be a 40 per cent chance of showers and a further risk of thunderstorms to go with a low of 17.
  Don’t forget to submit your photos of Montreal via Facebook, Twitter and Instagram by tagging them with #This
  
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• Author fights to honour Jews who fought for Canada in WWII

  27-07-2018 12:00 via montrealgazette.com
  When Flight Sergeant Nathan Dlusy of the Royal Canadian Air Force died in August 1944 on a mountaintop near Inverness in Scotland at the age of 23, he was fighting for Canada. And yet he was never recognized as Canadian.
  His brother, Jon Dlusy, wants to change that.
  As Jews, the Dlusys managed to escape Berlin in 1938, just before Kristallnacht. “We left everything behind,” recalled Jon, now 91.
  They arrived in Montreal, where they were naturalized as British subjects. Nathan enliste
  
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• Vernon Adams: 'I won’t be answering any questions about Johnny Manziel'

  27-07-2018 06:03 via montrealgazette.com
  At least Vernon Adams knows the incredible odds he’ll be facing for as long as he remains the Alouettes’ starting quarterback — which, given the itchy trigger finger of head coach Mike Sherman, might last only one game.
  Adams, who started a game for the first time in more than a year, led the Als to 23 points Thursday night — equalling the team’s most productive night this season. And from midway though the second quarter, for what seemed like every time Adams ran o
  
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• New quarterback Vernon Adams can't change Alouettes' losing ways

  27-07-2018 05:12 via montrealgazette.com
  New quarterback, same result for the Alouettes.
  In his second stint with Montreal, Vernon Adams got his first start of the season, with both Drew Willy and Matt Shiltz injured. And while he led the Als to 23 points Thursday night, equalling their season high, it was Montreal’s defence that imploded.
  The Edmonton Eskimos outscored the Als 44-23 before 16,654 Molson Stadium spectators — many of whom went home unhappy since Montreal failed to play new pivot Johnny Manziel, acquired in a
  
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• Good day for Polansky, Dancevic at National Bank Challenger in Granby

  27-07-2018 04:02 via montrealgazette.com
  GRANBY — Veterans Peter Polansky and Frank Dancevic led a Canadian charge into the quarterfinals of the National Bank $100,000 ATP men’s Challenger tennis tournament Thursday.
  Thirty-year-old Polansky was a 6-4, 6-3 winner over China’s Zhe Li, while 33-year-old Dancevic, a Niagara Falls native who lives in La Prairie, defeated Austrian Lucas Miedler 6-4, 6-4.
  “The courts are a little faster than the ones I’ve been playing on lately, but I’ve been making the ad
  
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• Motorcycle passenger in critical condition after crash in Rawdon

  27-07-2018 02:24 via montrealgazette.com
  The passenger who was riding on the back of a motorcycle is in critical condition after a collision with a car in Rawdon, in the Lanaudière region, Thursday afternoon.
  The Sûreté du Québec says the accident took place around 5 p.m. on Kildare Rd. when the motorcycle attempted to pass a car that was stopped to turn left and collided with a car travelling in the opposite direction.
  Christine Coulombe, spokesperson for the SQ, said the driver of the motorcycle s
  
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• Bombardier Transportation wins Singapore contract worth US$607 million

  27-07-2018 02:18 via montrealgazette.com
  Bombardier Transportation will deliver more than 396 new trains for Singapore’s metro system after winning a contract worth US$607 million, the company announced Thursday.
  The contract includes the option for long-term maintenance service, which would increase its value to US$881 million.
  The Movia metro cars will be on two lines on Singapore’s Mass Rapid Transit system, which covers 102 kilometres and serves 61 stations and 1.8 million passengers a day. 
  Once the new trains are
  
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• Homicide probe launched after body found in Akwesasne

  27-07-2018 01:59 via montrealgazette.com
  The Sûreté du Québec launched a homicide investigation Thursday after a body was found in Akwesasne, on Île-St-Régis just north of the Canada-U.S. border in the Montérégie region.
  The police say the body was found on Wednesday and that they will be working with Akwesasne Mohawk Police during the investigation. In a statement, the SQ said it has not yet been able to identify the body or determine the cause of death.
  Anyone with information possibly r
  
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• Watch: A guided tour of Montreal's urban art

  27-07-2018 01:55 via montrealgazette.com
  Montrealers are surrounded by art.
  As we rush to get from one place to the next, we may be missing out on treasures that are effectively hiding in plain sight.
  Enter artist and McCord Museum guide Joanna Abrahamowicz.
  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 downtown Montreal being offered by the museum on Tuesdays and Saturdays through September.
  In this video, she shows
  
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• Modernization project will lift Montreal General out of 'Dark Ages'

  27-07-2018 01:02 via montrealgazette.com
  Prominent Montreal thoracic surgeon and trauma specialist David Mulder didn’t hold back in describing the Montreal General Hospital’s emergency room and operating block.
  On Thursday, Mulder, for whom the MGH trauma centre is named, said the hospital is “an embarrassment, absolutely Dark Ages, Third World.”
  Mulder spoke after a press conference Thursday where the Quebec Health Department announced the MGH is to get a $300-million modernization project, expected t
  
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• Stu Cowan: Canadiens' Max Domi inspired by fellow diabetic Bobby Clarke

  27-07-2018 00:18 via montrealgazette.com
  Imagine being a 12-year-old boy and a doctor tells you that you have diabetes. Now, imagine if that boy’s dream is to play in the National Hockey League, just like his father.
  That’s what happened to new Canadiens forward Max Domi.
  Domi, the son of former Maple Leafs tough guy Tie Domi, was in the car with his mother, Leanne, driving home to Toronto from Detroit 11 years ago when he kept asking her to stop at gas stations so he could urinate. He was also incredibly thirsty. After the
  
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