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• Life Stories: Michael Spears kept Montreal's Irish close to his heart

  29-07-2018 23:24 via montrealgazette.com
  Michael Spears loved a good prank. Spears, a retired police officer who died of cancer on July 15 at the age of 76, enjoyed messing with people he knew.
  Spears often spent winters in Florida. One year, he brought an American phone book with him back to Montreal. He tore the front off the phone book and carefully glued a Montreal cover on instead.
  “He had people look up phone numbers for him,” said a friend, Tim Furlong. “And you can’t find the numbers because, of course,
  
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• JFL review: Gadsby's farewell to Nanette. Who needs a hug?

  29-07-2018 22:29 via montrealgazette.com
  “I’ve told this story more than 200 times and it never gets easier,” Hannah Gadsby said at the final performance of her acclaimed world tour of the show Nanette, at the Olympia on Friday as part of Just for Laughs.
  The show was threaded through with additional material, but hit most of the beats from the Australian comic’s virally popular 2017 Sydney Opera House performance, streaming on Netflix.
  The show is extremely funny, but it also deconstructs the one-two appar
  
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• Jack Todd: Step aside, Rodgers, there's a new Johnny in town

  29-07-2018 22:01 via montrealgazette.com
  A dazzling Heisman Trophy winner with a bad-boy past and charisma to burn heads north of the border to play football for the Montreal Alouettes, where he’s instantly hailed as the face of the franchise.
  If that narrative seems familiar, it is: when Johnny Manziel (a.k.a. Johnny Snowball now that he’s north of the border) was traded from Hamilton to the Alouettes, I thought back to the glory days of one Johnny Rodgers, the Ordinary Superstar who lit up this town in the early 1970s.
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• Montreal responds to coyote attacks with bait, cameras, patrols

  29-07-2018 21:22 via montrealgazette.com
  The city of Montreal is implementing measures to reduce coyote attacks after three were reported this week, two of them involving small children.
  In a statement sent to the Montreal Gazette, the city said it’s working closely with the Ministry of Forests, Wildlife and Parks “to take action on the presence of coyotes on Montreal’s territory, in response to the situation as it evolves.”
  The latest attack occurred Saturday night around 6:30 p.m. in Parc des Hirondelles
  
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• Marc Richardson: Why does time off feel so out of reach?

  29-07-2018 20:00 via montrealgazette.com
  Apparently, I’m supposed to value experiences over things — at least, that’s the trope that’s associated with millennials. Which is interesting, since it would go against much of what people actually seem to value.
  I say that because, for as long as I can remember, we have valued — and even fetishized — working long hours and putting off the vacation time we get far too little of. And if we, collectively, now value experiences over things, then what we need mo
  
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• Coyote bites child in Ahuntsic-Cartierville park

  29-07-2018 15:18 via montrealgazette.com
  A coyote bit a young girl in a park in the Ahuntsic-Cartierville borough Saturday evening.
  Police responded to a 911 call placed around 6:30 p.m. on Saturday from Parc des Hirondelles.
  The coyote was already gone once police arrived. Police do not yet know the circumstances surrounding the attack, but said that bystanders they interviewed said the animal seemed to come out of nowhere.
  The girl’s father took her to the hospital. Police could not confirm the seriousness of the chil
  
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• Fitness: Warm-ups can put a chill on performance

  29-07-2018 15:00 via montrealgazette.com
  When it comes to warm-ups, every team has a slightly different way of preparing for the match ahead.
  At the elite level, teams tend to follow a similar structure, largely due to a training staff that stays abreast of current research. The commonalities end, however, as access to professional trainers becomes more limited. Most club teams follow the lead of a coach or captain rather than warm-up protocols based in science.
  Yet even a top-notch training staff can get it wrong; old-school warm-up p
  
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• Chappelle and Mayer: Simply surreal

  29-07-2018 13:56 via montrealgazette.com
  And just when you think you’ve seen about everything imaginable in a concert … well, you ain’t ever seen anything quite like Dave Chappelle and John Mayer together on a stage. They call their show Controlled Danger, and anyone at the Bell Centre Saturday night who might have been unclear as to this choice of title is not any longer.
  Mind you, the danger was just barely controlled.
  The event was a trip. And surreal. And edgy. And perhaps mostly improvised. And dark. And funny.
  
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• Montreal Weather: It's nice out, so you'll need a new excuse to stay in

  29-07-2018 13:00 via montrealgazette.com
  Environment Canada’s forecast calls for a mainly sunny day with a high of 27 degrees and a humidex of 30.
  At night, skies will get cloudier and the low is expected to be 20 degrees.
  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 @designfred.
  Here is what traffic looks like right now:
  
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• In case you missed it, here's what happened in Montreal on July 28

  29-07-2018 04:08 via montrealgazette.com
  Busy Saturday? Here are the day’s big stories.
  CAQ leader François Legault visited the West Island in an attempt to win support in an area long considered a Liberal stronghold. He was accompanied by Laura Azéroual, the CAQ’s candidate for the Robert-Baldwin riding that includes DDO and part of Pierrefonds. The pair walked through the Marché de l’Ouest in Dollard-des-Ormeaux, past flowers and fresh fruit, speaking to residents and posing for television
  
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• Granby National Bank Challenger: Canada's Peter Polansky reaches final

  29-07-2018 03:34 via montrealgazette.com
  GRANBY — Veteran Peter Polansky will carry Canada’s hopes into the finals of the National Bank Challenger tennis tournament on Sunday.
  Polansky, the third seed in the $100,000 ATP men’s event, reached the final with a 7-6, 6-4 win over unseeded Frank Dancevic. One extra service break was the only thing separating the combatants in an all-Canadian semifinal. Polansky, a 30-year-old from Toronto, and Dancevic, a 33-year-old Niagara Falls native currently based in La Prairie, each
  
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• Coyote bites boy in Ahuntsic-Cartierville park

  29-07-2018 03:02 via montrealgazette.com
  A coyote bit a boy in a park in the Ahuntsic-Cartierville borough Saturday evening.
  Police responded to a 911 call placed around 6:30 p.m. on Saturday from Parc des Hirondelles.
  The coyote was already gone once police arrived. Police do not yet know the circumstances surrounding the attack, but said that bystanders they interviewed said the animal seemed to come out of nowhere.
  The boy’s father took him to the hospital. Police could not confirm the seriousness of the boy’s
  
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• Watch: This veteran Montreal cop trains women in self-defence

  29-07-2018 01:27 via montrealgazette.com
  George Manoli spends his off-hours swaddled in 40 pounds of protective gear, teaching women self-defence to ward off would-be sexual predators.
  The veteran Montreal police officer and former phys-ed teacher has black belts in all sorts of martial arts, but the lessons he teaches at schools, CEGEPs, church and synagogue basements and even in his own home have more to do with down-and-dirty street fighting.
  He urges his pupils to scream, kick, scratch and gouge their attacker in their most vulnera
  
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