Aylmer, Quebec news

• Watch: What makes a great cannoli?

  31-07-2018 23:58 via montrealgazette.com
  Pâtisserie Alati has been using the same cannoli recipe since the bakery was founded more than 60 years ago.
  “They’re the same shells as we made back in 1954,” said Henry Padulo, son-in-law to the shop’s founder, Antonio Alati. “The ricotta filling is the same recipe as back in 1954. We haven’t changed anything; it’s the same cannoli.”
  So, what’s the first sign of a great cannoli? Every cannoli is filled on the spot, not
  
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• Motorcyclist not wearing a helmet dies after hitting tree in Outaouais

  31-07-2018 23:42 via montrealgazette.com
  A motorcyclist died Monday after his vehicle hit a tree on Barrage-Mercier Rd. near Montcerf-Lytton in the Outaouais region.
  The 37-year-old man was driving a motocross-style motorcycle and not wearing a helmet at the time of the incident, around 3 p.m.
  A passenger on the motorcycle was not injured in the crash. The Sûreté du Québec is investigating.
  
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• Two surviving Dionne quintuplets to visit log cabin where they were born

  31-07-2018 23:35 via montrealgazette.com
  The two surviving Dionne quintuplets will be returning this week to the log cabin where they were born 84 years ago for a ceremony marking their birth as an event of national historic significance.
  A spokesman for the sisters said Cécile Dionne and Annette Dionne will be travelling to their birth home in North Bay, Ont., on Sunday. A commemorating plaque will be unveiled during the ceremony at the home, which has been turned into a museum.
  Carlo Tarini said the sisters will be visiting th
  
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• Wild animals in Montreal aren't the problem, experts say, humans are

  31-07-2018 23:07 via montrealgazette.com
  In the past week and a half, three children were bitten by coyotes in Montreal, leading the city to release a statement saying it would take action “on the presence of coyotes on Montreal’s territory.”
  Should Montrealers be alarmed? The Montreal Gazette spoke with three animal experts about coyotes and other wildlife on the island. They say that when it comes to building a peaceful relationship between humans and other animals, it’s people who should be the first to chang
  
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• Murdered St-Isidore woman was in a 'toxic' relationship, father says

  31-07-2018 21:41 via montrealgazette.com
  A 36-year-old man who was charged with murdering a young woman in a South Shore town over the weekend was residing at a halfway house in Montreal and serving a prison term for drug trafficking at the time of his arrest.
  Eugène Morin appeared before a Quebec Court judge at the Valleyfield courthouse on Monday where he was charged with the second-degree murder of 24-year-old Kim Racine. The victim was reportedly in a relationship with Morin for roughly two years. On Tuesday, Racine’s
  
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• Hot damn! July was one of hottest on record in Montreal

  31-07-2018 21:22 via montrealgazette.com
  This July was the hottest the island of Montreal has experienced in nearly 100 years.
  The month’s average temperature of 24.2 C fell just half a degree shy of the all time high of 24.7 C, recorded 97 years ago in 1921.
  “It’s not a record-breaking month, but it’s close to the maximum ever recorded in Montreal,” said Environment Canada meteorologist Simon Legault. “We can definitely say we’re in the Top 3 in the Montreal area.”
  The 2018 average is al
  
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• Als announce Manziel to make CFL debut against Hamilton Tiger-Cats

  31-07-2018 21:11 via montrealgazette.com
  Johnny Manziel will make his Canadian Football League debut against his former team.
  The Alouettes made the announcement Tuesday that Manziel will be their starter Friday night when they host the Hamilton Tiger-Cats.
  Hamilton dealt Manziel to Montreal on July 22, along with offensive linemen Tony Washington and Canadian Landon Rice, for receiver Chris Williams, Canadian defensive lineman Jamaal Westerman and 2021-22 first-round draft picks.
  Manziel made headlines across North America in May when
  
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• Dave Chappelle visited a Montreal brand's pop-up, wore its shirt to JFL

  31-07-2018 20:58 via montrealgazette.com
  Dave Chappelle appeared on stage at the Bell Centre for his Just for Laughs show last Saturday sporting a T-shirt by Montreal’s Okinx.
  “I’m not cocky I’m confident,” read the text on its front and back.
  It’s the kind of moment fashion upstarts dream of.
  You can spend four years obsessing about your brand or imported cotton or stitching, as Okinx’s Cedric Okitundu and Sam Moghbel say they’ve done, but moments like this usually come down to something
  
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• Editorial: Culture, comedy and 'correctness'

  31-07-2018 20:36 via montrealgazette.com
  The past few weeks have given Montrealers much to think about concerning the nature of artistic and cultural expression, and who can say what, and how, to whom.
  There has been much discussion about Robert Lepage’s missteps, which led to the cancellation of productions of two of the world-renowned theatre artist’s shows.
  At the Just for Laughs festival, too, concerns were raised — not least by comics themselves — about whether “political correctness” is curbing
  
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• Alouettes expected to start QB Johnny Manziel this week

  31-07-2018 20:36 via montrealgazette.com
  If it looks like a duck, swims like a duck and quacks like a duck, then it probably is a duck.
  Johnny Manziel took the majority of reps on Monday with the Alouettes’ starting offence, but not all. Vernon Adams also practiced with the starting offence, after Manziel took his turns. And, although most people expect Manziel to start Friday’s home game against the Hamilton Tiger-Cats — his former team — head coach Mike Sherman refused to declare the obvious when practice conc
  
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• Motorcyclist dies after colliding with ambulance in Villeray

  31-07-2018 20:31 via montrealgazette.com
  A 53-year-old motorcyclist died Tuesday morning after he collided with an Urgences Santé ambulance at the corner of Crémazie Blvd. and St-Hubert St.
  The incident occurred at 6:30 a.m. Preliminary information from the scene suggests the motorcyclist was heading south on St-Hubert and the ambulance heading east on Crémazie Blvd. at the time of the impact.
  The motorcyclist was taken to hospital in critical condition and the ambulance driver was treated for shock. The motorcycli
  
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• Celine Cooper: In this changing world, good journalism matters

  31-07-2018 20:07 via montrealgazette.com
  I began writing a weekly column for the Montreal Gazette back in December 2012.
  Quebec’s 2012 printemps érable — the massive student demonstrations characterized by the banging of pots and pans and those iconic red squares — had contributed to the fall of Premier Jean Charest’s Liberals and the election of Pauline Marois’s minority Parti Québécois government. Stephen Harper was prime minister of Canada, having been returned with a majo
  
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• Update: Murdered Saint-Isidore woman was in a 'toxic' relationship, father says

  31-07-2018 17:52 via montrealgazette.com
  A 36-year-old man who was charged with murdering a young woman in a South Shore town over the weekend was residing at a halfway house in Montreal and serving a prison term for drug trafficking at the time of his arrest.
  Eugène Morin appeared before a Quebec Court judge at the Valleyfield courthouse on Monday where he was charged with the second-degree murder of 24-year-old Kim Racine. The victim was reportedly in a relationship with Morin for roughly two years. On Tuesday, Racine’s
  
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• Updated: Motorcyclist dies after colliding with ambulance in Villeray

  31-07-2018 17:43 via montrealgazette.com
  A 53-year-old motorcyclist died Tuesday morning after he collided with an Urgences Santé ambulance at the corner of Crémazie Blvd. and St-Hubert St.
  The incident occurred at 6:30 a.m. and preliminary information from the scene suggests the motorcyclist was heading south on St-Hubert and the ambulance heading east on Crémazie Blvd. at the time of the impact.
  The motorcyclist was taken to hospital in critical condition and the ambulance driver was treated for shock. The motorc
  
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• Southern stretch of Décarie Expressway to close in both directions this weekend

  31-07-2018 17:40 via montrealgazette.com
  Décarie Expressway will be a mess this weekend, as the southern stretch will be closed in both directions for work to rebuild the St-Jacques St. overpass.
  The southbound side of the expressway will be closed and motorists will be forced off at the Sherbrooke St. W. exit starting at 10 p.m. on Friday, and all but two of the entrances to get on the expressway will be closed. You’ll be able to get onto Décarie from Highway 40 eastbound, and from the Décarie Blvd./Marcel-L
  
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• Nul, Culinaire, 51: Record number of parties running in Quebec's election

  31-07-2018 17:30 via montrealgazette.com
  With two months left before Quebec’s general election on Oct. 1, the province’s chief electoral officer, or DGE, has announced that at least 20 different political parties — a record — will be vying for votes.
  As of Monday, the DGE website listed 20 registered political parties intending to run in October, a number that could increase since the Parti des sans droits (Party of those without rights) is on the waiting list for authorization.
  Never in the province’s rec
  
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• Six O'Clock Solution: Indian dish finds a use for all that kale

  31-07-2018 17:00 via montrealgazette.com
  Kale is ripening and — as with zucchini, another plentiful vegetable — gardeners will soon be giving it away. Fortunately, it combines well with other foods, as in this subji (vegetable) recipe with cabbage and potatoes from the vegetarian cookbook Fresh India, a user-friendly collection of 130 dishes, by British food writer Meera Sodha (Flatiron Books/Raincoast, $45.50).Sodha prefers using fresh spice seeds and grinding them just before adding them in the recipes. Commercially
  
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• 'No room for hatred': Ariel Kouakou's family forgives possible abductor

  31-07-2018 16:52 via montrealgazette.com
  Still convinced his son was abducted more than four months ago, Ariel Jeffrey Kouakou’s father has written a letter to the person he believes took his child, forgiving them and asking them to come forward.
  “We’re trying to look at this in a positive way,” Kouadio Frédéric Kouakou said in an interview Tuesday morning. “For someone to abduct a child, for one reason or another, it’s because they’re missing something, either affection or a chil
  
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• Mars in opposition: You can still catch the tail end of the Martian flyby

  31-07-2018 16:48 via montrealgazette.com
  Mars has just buzzed the Earth, but don’t despair if you missed the flyby early Tuesday morning.
  The Red Planet hasn’t been this close to us — a mere 54.6 million kilometres away — since 2003, and its orbit won’t bring it this close again for another 15 years or so. You can still see Mars, but the trick is to get up before dawn and find a good view of the horizon — over the water or from high ground outside the city.
  The “blood moon” eclipse seen f
  
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• Eugenie Bouchard has a word, or 10, for the haters

  31-07-2018 16:44 via montrealgazette.com
  Montreal’s Eugenie Bouchard has apparently heard the barbs about her recent results and extracurricular activities.
  She has heard them, but understandably disagrees.
  The tennis pro took to Instagram on Monday to note: “Your bi-monthly reminder that I do, in fact, play tennis.”
  If you’d like to see why such a reminder is necessary and also lose all will to live, you are free to read the comments.Bouchard most recently made the semi-final of the Swiss Open in Gstaad, winnin
  
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• Montreal North serial rapist investigated after alleged sexual assault

  31-07-2018 16:28 via montrealgazette.com
  A man who raped nine women in Montreal North more than a decade ago when he was a teenager faces the possibility of new charges following an investigation into an alleged sexual assault committed last summer.
  In 2009, Wisbens Demosthene, now 29, became the first person in Canada to be designated a long-term offender in a Youth Court case when he was sentenced as an adult to a 10-year prison term for having sexually assaulted nine victims — girls and women between the ages of 14 and 26 &mda
  
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• Montreal stands firm: No street to be named after Daisy Sweeney

  31-07-2018 15:01 via montrealgazette.com
  Mayor Valérie Plante said Monday that naming a street after Daisy Peterson Sweeney is not an option, but she is willing to work with the Peterson-Sweeney family to find a compromise.
  “To me, this is not a political decision. You don’t un-name a street to rename a street. This is a very serious process,” Plante said to reporters after a press conference in the Old Port.
  The mayor was responding to a report in the Montreal Gazette revealing that the city has decided not to
  
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• Motorcyclist in critical condition after colliding with ambulance in Villeray

  31-07-2018 14:37 via montrealgazette.com
  A motorcyclist was in critical condition Tuesday morning after he collided with an Urgences Santé ambulance at the corner of Crémazie Blvd. and St-Hubert St.
  The incident occurred at 6:30 a.m. and preliminary information from the scene suggests the motorcyclist was heading south on St-Hubert and the ambulance heading east on Crémazie Blvd. at the time of the impact.
  The motorcyclist was seriously injured and the ambulance driver was treated for shock.
  Police accident investi
  
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• ‘Good area, good schools’ attract Chinese buyers to Kirkland real estate

  31-07-2018 14:17 via montrealgazette.com
  Since the introduction of foreign buyer taxes in Vancouver and Toronto in 2016, Montreal has seen a big increase in interest from house-hunters from overseas — particularly China.
  For some of these buyers, the purchase of a property in Canada is part of a long-term plan to immigrate and make a new life here. Others are buying second or third homes here. And some are looking for an income property or a long-term investment in Canadian real estate.
  But for many of those who choose the West I
  
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• Husband charged with murder after woman dies in Saint-Isidore

  31-07-2018 13:58 via montrealgazette.com
  A 36-year-old man was charged with second-degree murder Monday in connection with the death of his 24-year-old wife a day earlier.
  Eugène Morin was charged at the Salaberry-de-Valleyfield courthouse and will remain in custody until his next appearance.
  Châteauguay police found Kim Racine in cardiac arrest at her home in Saint-Isidore-de-la-Prairie on Sunday. She was later declared dead in hospital.
  The circumstances surrounding Racine’s death have yet to be made publ
  
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• Every horse has a story: Rescues find sanctuary in Vaudreuil-Dorion

  31-07-2018 13:51 via montrealgazette.com
  Would you like to help save a horse? You can do that right here on the Off-Island by supporting a dedicated organization whose mission is to make lives better for our equine friends.
  A Horse Tale is making a difference, not only in the lives of horses that require help and nurturing, but also in the lives of those who support the organization. A Horse Tale has more than 180 dedicated members and volunteers who rescue, rehome and provide a loving and caring environment to horses in need.
  A Horse
  
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• Motorcyclist with no helmet dies after hitting tree in Outaouais

  31-07-2018 13:39 via montrealgazette.com
  A motorcyclist died Monday after his vehicle hit a tree on Barrage Mercier Rd. near Montcerf-Lytton in the Outaouais region.
  The 37-year-old man was driving a motocross-style motorcycle and not wearing a helmet at the time of the incident, around 3 p.m.
  A passenger on the motorcycle was not injured in the crash. The Sûreté du Québec is investigating.
  
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• Bloc Pot ready to campaign in Quebec for full legalization of marijuana

  31-07-2018 13:32 via montrealgazette.com
  Even if Ottawa is preparing to legalize the recreational use of marijuana in October, the Bloc Pot is preparing nevertheless to run in the Quebec general election with what may be its largest ever slate of candidates.
  Party spokesperson Hugo St-Onge says there are already 60 possible candidates who have stepped up and expects many more will do so once the filing period for candidacies officially begins.
  According to statistics compiled on the website of the province’s chief elect
  
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• While you were sleeping: Scientist identify rare whale-dolphin hybrid

  31-07-2018 13:31 via montrealgazette.com
  Here’s what happened during your richly deserved pillow time.
  Mayor Valérie Plante reiterated that naming a street after Daisy Peterson Sweeney is not an option. But she is willing to work with the Peterson-Sweeney family to find a compromise. “To me, this is not a political decision. You don’t un-name a street to rename a street. This is a very serious process,” Plante said to reporters after a press conference in the Old Port. The mayor was responding to&nbs
  
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• West Island Living: Quality schools draw Chinese buyers to Kirkland

  31-07-2018 13:30 via montrealgazette.com
  Since the introduction of foreign buyer taxes in Vancouver and Toronto in 2016, Montreal has seen a big increase in interest from house-hunters from overseas — particularly China.
  For some of these buyers, the purchase of a property in Canada is part of a long-term plan to immigrate and make a new life here. Others are buying second or third homes here. And some are looking for an income property or a long-term investment in Canadian real estate.
  But for many of those who choose the West I
  
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• Patients' group at St. Mary's kept in dark over English signs problem

  31-07-2018 13:09 via montrealgazette.com
  The patient-rights group at St. Mary’s Hospital was kept in the dark over how to resolve concerns about the erosion of English at the Côte-des-Neiges institution following Health Minister Gaétan Barrette’s sweeping reforms, the Montreal Gazette has learned.
  Under Bill 10, St. Mary’s fell under the authority of a newly-formed umbrella organization in 2015. Soon after, the CIUSSS de l’Ouest-de-l’Île-de-Montréal began replacing St. Mary’
  
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• Woman badly injured after being struck by car in Plateau-Mont-Royal

  31-07-2018 13:07 via montrealgazette.com
  A woman in her 40s was in serious condition early Tuesday after being struck by a car late Monday night in the Plateau-Mont-Royal borough.
  Police say the incident occurred at 10:20 p.m. on Sherbrooke St. near City Councillors St. and that the woman tried to cross Sherbrooke between intersections, entering the road from between two parked cars.
  The vehicle, heading west on Sherbrooke and in the middle lane, was unable to avoid the woman and the impact threw her to the ground, and causing sev
  
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• Montreal weather: Some sun, some rain and, of course, some humidity

  31-07-2018 12:00 via montrealgazette.com
  There will be a mix of sun and cloud today, with a 30 per cent chance of showers this afternoon and winds blowing southwest at 20 km/h.
  Environment Canada is predicting a high of 28 Celsius, though it will feel like 33 C with the humidex. The UV index is 8 or very high.
  Tonight: Becoming increasingly cloudy, with 30 per cent chance of showers overnight. A low of 20 C.
  Don’t forget to submit your photos of Montreal via Facebook, Twitter and Instagram by tagging them with 
  
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• In case you missed it, here's what happened in Montreal on July 30

  31-07-2018 04:00 via montrealgazette.com
  Busy day? Here’s what you might have overlooked.
  Projet Montréal’s pledged new hybrid buses will cost more than $1 million each, according to the minutes of the June meeting of the Société de transport de Montréal’s board of directors.
  During the election campaign last fall, Mayor Valérie Plante said she would add 300 hybrid diesel-electric buses to the city’s fleet of 1,800 buses at a cost of $225 million — about $750,000 eac
  
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• Le Cagibi settling into Little Italy, after being forced out of Mile End

  31-07-2018 03:47 via montrealgazette.com
  Le Cagibi is settling into its new digs.
  Most tables were occupied and the clientele was gamely putting up with the A/C-free humidity and mid-afternoon heat, Friday on the edge of Little Italy, four blocks and an underpass up from Le Cagibi’s old stomping grounds.
  The former Mile End mainstay has had a busy year so far since being forced out of its previous location at the corner of St-Laurent Blvd. and St-Viateur St., where the vegan café-restaurant-showbar carried the flag for art
  
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• SQ search for man in the Rivière-Rouge

  31-07-2018 03:32 via montrealgazette.com
  The Sûreté du Québec is searching for a man in his early 20s who went missing while swimming with friends in the Rivière-Rouge in Huberdeau, just south of Mont-Tremblant, Monday.
  The SQ said they were called around 3 p.m. about the young man who had been swimming with four of his friends when he disappeared under the water and did not resurface. By Monday evening, the search was still underway. As of a part of their efforts, the SQ has sent out a helicopter to search f
  
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• Cyclist, 16, seriously injured in collision in Rosemont

  31-07-2018 01:50 via montrealgazette.com
  A 16-year-old cyclist is suffering from a serious head injury after colliding with car in Rosemont–La Petite-Patrie Monday afternoon.
  Montreal police said they received a call about the collision at 16th Ave. and St-Joseph Blvd. E. around 12:30 p.m. Witnesses told police the cyclist was traveling south on 16th Ave. and possibly failed to make a mandatory stop before she collided with the car, which was travelling eastbound on St-Joseph. Police could not confirm whether the cyclist was wear
  
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• City stands firm: No street to be named after Daisy Sweeney

  31-07-2018 01:09 via montrealgazette.com
  Mayor Valérie Plante said Monday that naming a street after Daisy Peterson Sweeney is not an option, but she is willing to work with the Peterson-Sweeney family to find a compromise.
  “To me, this is not a political decision. You don’t un-name a street to rename a street. This is a very serious process,” Plante said to reporters after a press conference in the Old Port.
  The mayor was responding to a report in the Montreal Gazette revealing that the city has decided not to
  
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• Montreal Trudeau airport sees more passengers, greater earnings in 2018

  31-07-2018 00:58 via montrealgazette.com
  Montreal’s Pierre Elliot Trudeau International Airport continued to see an increase in passenger traffic and earnings before taxes during its second quarter.
  The airport welcomed 4.8 million passengers during the second quarter, which ended on June 30, for a total of 9.2 million passengers during the first six months of 2018. That represents a 7.1 per cent increase over the same period from 2017, the airport announced Monday. This year’s numbers are a part of an upward trend for the
  
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• Far-right group and anti-fascists embroiled in Montreal 'turf war'

  31-07-2018 00:58 via montrealgazette.com
  A man and woman were attacked outside a Montreal bar late Saturday while trying to remove fascist propaganda from a street sign, witnesses say.
  Jonathan Turcotte Summers said he was walking along Ontario St. that night when he saw a young couple who appeared to be shaken up.
  “They seemed very agitated,” Turcotte Summers said. “They just happened to see a sticker from a neo-fascist group and when they went to take it down, they were attacked.
  “It was three men, two women &
  
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• Motorist charged after deadly hit and run in Bas-Saint-Laurent

  31-07-2018 00:53 via montrealgazette.com
  A 35-year-old man was charged with two counts of hit and run causing death at the Rivière-du-Loup courthouse Monday in the wake of an incident early Sunday that saw two people die while walking along a rural road near Packington, a town near the Maine and New Brunswick borders in Quebec’s Bas-Saint-Laurent region.
  The suspect, a resident of nearby St-Marc-du-Lac-Long, was arrested several hours after a 78-year-old man and 77 year-old woman were struck and killed at 10:15 a.m. b
  
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• BEI to probe motorcycle accident during police chase in Trois-Rivières

  31-07-2018 00:24 via montrealgazette.com
  A police chase in Trois-Rivières that left a motorcycle driver seriously injured Monday is being investigated by Quebec’s Bureau des enquêtes indépendantes.
  The accident took place around 1:50 p.m. Monday when a Trois-Rivières police officer in an unmarked car tried to pull the motorcyclist over for an infraction. According to Luc Mongrain, a spokesperson for the police force, the motorcycle driver refused.
  During the chase, Mongrain said the motorcyclist began d
  
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• Controversy drowned out Lepage's goodwill: Kanata co-author

  31-07-2018 00:06 via montrealgazette.com
  Michel Nadeau, co-author of the controversial and recently cancelled play Kanata, said he is disappointed that the understanding and consensus achieved between director Robert Lepage, producer Ariane Mnouchkine and Indigenous activists has been overshadowed by the opinions of people who did not attend the meeting on July 19.
  “What I find unfortunate, in this whole situation, is that the people who expressed goodwill at the meeting were not able to voice their point of view louder than
  
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