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• 18-year-old struck by train in St-Bruno-de-Montarville

  03-08-2018 22:50 via montrealgazette.com
  An 18-year-old man is in critical condition after being struck by a train Friday morning.
  The incident occurred around 11:30 a.m. in St-Bruno-de-Montarville.
  Longueuil police are investigating. They said they wouldn’t speculate as to how the man ended up on the train tracks.
  Authorities fear for the man’s life.
  
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• PQ's Alexandre Cloutier gets new job at Chicoutimi university

  03-08-2018 22:28 via montrealgazette.com
  Alexandre Cloutier, the Parti Québécois MNA for Lac-Saint-Jean, will become secretary general and vice-rector at the Université du Québec à Chicoutimi.
  Cloutier announced his new position on Twitter, saying that the role combined his interests in education, regional and international development, and law.
  Comment concilier mon intérêt pour l’éducation, le développement régional, le développement international et le
  
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• Bureau to study why 88-year-old died shortly after police intervention

  03-08-2018 22:15 via montrealgazette.com
  The Bureau des enquêtes indépendantes will investigate why an 88-year-old man died in a hospital shortly after Montreal police intervened in a situation involving him and his partner.
  The incident began when police were called to the scene of a “family situation” involving an elderly couple Friday morning, the BEI said.
  When police arrived, the woman’s behaviour did not raise alarm. She told police that her partner had health problems, according to preliminary info
  
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• Montreal gym-goer attacked because his weightlifting was too loud

  03-08-2018 22:14 via montrealgazette.com
  A man was pushed and forced out of a Montreal gym by a stranger who thought his workout was too loud.
  A video posted to YouTube Thursday starts with a man lifting weights at a Buzzfit gym. A stranger walks up, kicks the heavy bar out of his hands and yells at him to leave. An argument progresses and the stranger pushes the man.The video was posted by workout coach Pete Rubish, who wrote in the description that the gym staff “have given my client a hard time in past weeks about deadlifting
  
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• Six players to watch at the 2018 Rogers Cup in Montreal

  03-08-2018 22:12 via montrealgazette.com
  SERENA WILLIAMS
  What she’s done lately: Ignore Serena Williams’s current ranking of No. 26; she’s the player to beat at the Rogers Cup. Williams took time off to give birth to her daughter Alexis Olympia last September, but she signalled her return to elite status when she reached the final at Wimbledon, where she lost to Angelique Kerber. She suffered the worst defeat of her career when she lost in straight sets to Johanna Konta in her return to hardcourts this week in San Jos
  
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• What the Puck: Canadiens management gets a failing grade

  03-08-2018 19:36 via montrealgazette.com
  The haters will hate. With good reason.
  Really. Pretty well every day since the social experiment called What the Puck began almost three years ago, someone writes to tell me I am an obsessive Habs hater and should be locked up somewhere. But I’m not a Canadiens hater. I’m a Habs lover, which is why I so dislike the way the team is being mismanaged into oblivion.
  That’s why it’s kind of nice when reports come from other quarters that are just as devastating in their revie
  
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• Quebec kidney transplant program aims to boost donor rate

  03-08-2018 19:07 via montrealgazette.com
  On the heels of a two-year pilot project, the Quebec Health Department will launch a living kidney donor program.
  Health Minister Gaétan Barrette announced Friday the program will get $1.5 million in recurring funds annually, and will be co-ordinated at the downtown Centre hospitalier de l’Université de Montréal.
  At least 786 people are waiting for a kidney transplant in Quebec, which has the lowest rate of living donations in Canada, Barrette said.
  The progr
  
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• Borough mayor Giuliana Fumagalli sidelined as Plante orders inquiry

  03-08-2018 18:52 via montrealgazette.com
  Saying she was left with no other choice in light of new allegations, Montreal Mayor Valérie Plante announced Friday she has ordered the city’s comptroller general to investigate the workplace climate inside the Villeray–St-Michel–Parc-Extension borough offices.
  Plante also announced current borough mayor Giuliana Fumagalli, embroiled in workplace harassment allegations in May, will be excluded from the Projet Montréal caucus, asked to work from city hal
  
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• Editorial: Protecting the right to English-language health care

  03-08-2018 18:42 via montrealgazette.com
  The outrage heard this week over the downgrading of English on signage at St. Mary’s Hospital is about much more than whether it makes life harder for some patients, though it does. Making the English words smaller than the French — not even required under Bill 101 — struck a nerve at least partly because it seems symptomatic of a broader threat to the community’s rightful access to English-language health and social services.
  The provincial government’s Bill 1
  
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• Police suspend search for man who went missing in Rivière Rouge

  03-08-2018 18:21 via montrealgazette.com
  The search for a young man who disappeared into the Rivière Rouge near Huberdeau on Monday has been suspended for the weekend.
  Sûreté du Québec officers searched the shores and shallows of the river just south of Mont-Tremblant without success, said police spokesperson Louis-Philippe Bibeau. An SQ helicopter that had already searched the area earlier in the week was also redeployed.
  Police say an evaluation will be made over the coming days on whether to continue the s
  
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• Macpherson: Guests in their own house

  03-08-2018 18:19 via montrealgazette.com
  “Masters in our own house.” That was the slogan on which the Liberals won the 1960 Quebec election, announcing the Quiet Revolution of Québécois self-affirmation.
  But if the French-speaking majority were to be the masters, then the minorities would be something like guests in what was their own house, too. And it is rude for guests to show a lack of appreciation for the generosity of their hosts.
  As we have seen in the SLAV-Kanata affair, this applies even to the previo
  
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• De Maisonneuve bike path extended to du Havre St.

  03-08-2018 18:05 via montrealgazette.com
  While the permanent version won’t be ready until next year, the extension of the de Maisonneuve Blvd. bike path between Alexandre-DeSève and du Havre Sts. is now open to cyclists, the city of Montreal announced Friday.
  While a permanent barrier separating cyclists from traffic is expected in 2019, the city decided to go ahead with a “transitory” measure – the installation of temporary bollards – that will allow immediate access to the 12-block extension.
  
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• Wine: A great grüner veltliner can get even better with age

  03-08-2018 17:59 via montrealgazette.com
  I did a big cleanup in my wine cellar recently. Hidden in a pile of bottles, I discovered a 2002 grüner veltliner, Loibenberg, from the winery FX Pichler. As I held this dust-covered bottle, I vowed to pay closer attention to the wines at the bottom of the pile. Pichler is one of Austria’s premier wineries, and I had a sinking feeling this bottle was past its time.
  As it turned out, it was one of the greatest whites I have drunk in the last few years. The aromatics were so pretty
  
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• Bill Zacharkiw's Wines of the Week: Aug. 3, 2018

  03-08-2018 17:59 via montrealgazette.com
  Every week, Bill Zacharkiw identifies his top wine picks available at the SAQ and offers ideas for food pairings.
  Under $16 
  Versant Rosé 2017, Coteau Rougemont, Quebec rosé, $14.60, SAQ # 12644153. Delicious. While far from the most delicate rosé on the market, this gives you so much fresh fruit and florals. Red berry ecstasy from the first swirl to the last sip. A touch of spice gives it extra interest. For under $15, a joy to drink, and you get to taste unusual grape
  
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• Osheaga 2018 is going to be one of the hottest in festival history

  03-08-2018 17:53 via montrealgazette.com
  Last year may have been the wettest Osheaga on record — more than 42 mm of rain fell in two days — but this year is going to be one of the hottest.
  As the three-day blowout kicks off its 13th edition, Environment Canada is predicting highs between 31 Celsius and 35 C with the humidex factored in, making this weekend one of the hottest in the music festival’s history — second only to 2012, when the Saturday lineup performed in 40 C weather.
  This isn’t the first time
  
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• The Right Chemistry: Environmental chemicals and children’s health

  03-08-2018 17:22 via montrealgazette.com
  “Children are not small adults” is one of the tenets of toxicology. Some substances that may be totally innocuous in adults can affect children dramatically. Young livers and kidneys are less adept at removing toxins, and susceptibility to hormone-like chemicals is greater during development than in adulthood. Children also inhale more air, and consume more liquids and food per kilogram of body weight than grownups and therefore are more prone to the effects of air pollution and pote
  
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• Runaway dump truck extricated from back door of Quebec City area duplex

  03-08-2018 16:35 via montrealgazette.com
  The dump truck that on Thursday crushed the rear of a duplex on Royale Ave. in Château-Richer after its driver lost control of the vehicle was towed away Friday morning.
  However, the operation was intricate, since the multi-tonne, 12-wheeled vehicle was jammed between the duplex and a bluff almost immediately behind it.
  Meanwhile, road department employees replaced the guardrail that had been torn away as the driver of the truck tried to use it slow his vehicle’s speed when he l
  
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• Borough mayor Giuliana Fumagalli suspended from Projet Montréal caucus

  03-08-2018 16:30 via montrealgazette.com
  Montreal Mayor Valérie Plante says complaints of harassment have forced her to ask the city’s comptroller general to open an investigation into the workplace climate at the borough offices of Villeray—Saint-Michel—Parc-Extension.
  In May, borough mayor Giuliana Fumagalli was accused of harassing a city employee.
  In November’s election, Fumagalli, a union activist and political neophyte, beat Anie Samson, the incumbent borough mayor who had been a
  
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• Ventilation problems close down Matane hospital — again

  03-08-2018 15:22 via montrealgazette.com
  For the second time in a week, the operating block of Matane’s local hospital has been shut down — this time until further notice. And those requiring emergency surgery will be directed to the closest hospital, 100 kilometres away.
  The health authority for the Bas-Saint-Laurent region (CISSS) announced that the decision was made because of a malfunctioning ventilation system that had already caused a three-day shut down a week earlier.
  Despite work carried out last week, problems wit
  
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• While you were sleeping: Toddler pulled over, given 'cuteness warning'

  03-08-2018 14:03 via montrealgazette.com
  Here’s what happened while you were getting some shut-eye. 
  Eight workers employed at Canada Post’s distribution centre in north-end Montreal were placed in isolation early Friday when two of them apparently fell ill after handling an open envelope. Montreal firefighters on the scene at 1:50 a.m. found the two people suffering from headaches. They were treated by Urgences Santé paramedics but not sent to hospital. The envelope in question was examined, and a liq
  
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• Zombie Boy, Montreal model Rick Genest, dies at age 32

  03-08-2018 13:49 via montrealgazette.com
  World-renowned Montreal model, Rick Genest, better known as Zombie Boy, died Wednesday at the age of 32 in Plateau Mont-Royal, his agency, Dulcado Management, reported on Facebook Thursday.
  In the post, the agency said it was “shocked and saddened by this tragedy.” The post paid tribute to Genest, calling him an “icon of the artistic scene” who “charmed everybody’s hearts.”
  Genest was struggling with mental health problems and took his own life on W
  
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• Woman fatally struck by VIA train in Quebec City

  03-08-2018 13:26 via montrealgazette.com
  A woman died Thursday night after she was struck by a VIA passenger train in Quebec City.
  CN police notified their Quebec City colleagues of the incident, which occurred near Plante St. in the city’s Vanier district, at 8:30 p.m.
  The woman was declared dead at the scene and police have opened an investigation, although one theory is she may have deliberately jumped in front of the train.
  The train was carrying 96 passengers as well as VIA personnel, none of whom were injured in the in
  
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• Canada Post workers placed in isolation after envelope leaks suspicious liquid

  03-08-2018 12:54 via montrealgazette.com
  Eight workers employed at Canada Post’s distribution centre in north-end Montreal were placed in isolation early Friday when two of them apparently fell ill after handling an open envelope.
  Montreal firefighters on the scene at 1:50 a.m. found the two persons suffering from headaches. They were treated by Urgences Santé paramedics but not sent to hospital.
  The envelope in question was examined and a liquid was found to have leaked from it. However, a quick analysis of the substance
  
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• Phillips Square vendors struggle to grasp why they were asked to leave

  03-08-2018 12:00 via montrealgazette.com
  When Lioudmila Zoueva bought the flower stand at Phillips Square in the spring of 2017, she thought the city of Montreal’s plans to redevelop a downtown stretch of Ste-Catherine St. W. would only bring improvements to her business.
  Instead, Zoueva got a letter last November saying the city would not renew the lease that allows her and another Phillips Square vendor — Stéphanie Voghell, the seller of maple syrup treats — t
  
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• Montreal's composting centre project will be financial debacle: critics

  03-08-2018 12:00 via montrealgazette.com
  The mantras of city officials for the past decade that Montreal must treat its own organic waste within the boundaries of the island and that it must build waste processing centres in different neighbourhoods for the sake of “geographic equity” will lead to a financial debacle for Montreal, critics are predicting, as the city prepares to award contracts for the first three processing facilities.
  A clause in the call for tenders for the first three centres is also being blamed for dis
  
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• Montreal weather: Hot, but the nighttime rain might cool you off

  03-08-2018 12:00 via montrealgazette.com
  Expect a hot start to an even hotter weekend and a chance of nighttime rain.
  According to Environment Canada, today is forecasted to reach 28 C with a humidex of 35 and a UV index of 7, or high.
  Tonight: 40 per cent chance of rain and a low of 19 C.
  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 @maria2980.
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• Montreal real estate: Developers should put pedestrians before transit

  03-08-2018 12:00 via montrealgazette.com
  Until recently, transit-oriented development, also known as TOD, was a term familiar only to those who enjoy geeking out on urban planning concepts. (Let’s just say it’s a fairly limited audience.)
  But Montreal’s Plan métropolitain d’aménagement et de développement, which sets a course for how Montreal will grow and evolve as a city in the near future, has identified 155 TOD zones in the Greater Montreal area. So as geeky as TOD might sound, it’
  
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• Hamilton Tiger-Cats at Alouettes: Five things you should know

  03-08-2018 12:00 via montrealgazette.com
  Here are five things you should know about the Hamilton Tiger-Cats-Alouettes game at Molson Stadium on Friday (7:30 p.m., TSN, TDS, TSN Radio 690).
  Matchup: This game wouldn’t be much of an attraction were it not for the Canadian Football League debut of quarterback Johnny Manziel. The Ticats are a better team than their 2-4 record suggests, but are on a three-game losing streak. Meanwhile, the Als are fully deserving of their 1-5 mark, having defeated only Saskatchewan on the road. Montre
  
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• A year ago today, Quebec said it was 'close to the limit' for refugees

  03-08-2018 04:51 via montrealgazette.com
  A year ago today, as officials scrambled to open Montreal’s Olympic Stadium as a temporary shelter for asylum seekers, fears over the province’s ability to cope with the influx peaked.
  “We’re doing our best, but obviously there’s going to be a limit,” said Francine Dupuis, who oversees PRAIDA, a government-funded program to help asylum seekers get on their feet. “And we’re close to that limit.”
  This was part of the fallout of U.S. President D
  
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• City announces pilot project for self-driving shuttle buses

  03-08-2018 03:30 via montrealgazette.com
  The city of Montreal announced a new pilot project Thursday to test the viability of self-driving shuttle buses on the island of Montreal.
  The $390,000 project is expected to begin before the end of the summer. Electric, autonomous buses will operate around the Olympic Park and the nearby Space for life.
  In a statement released Thursday, the city said that in summer 2017 over 800 visitors used a self-driving shuttle that was being tested at the Olympic Park.
  Montreal received $5 million to condu
  
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• Defensive-back T.J. Heath learned of his trade to Alouettes on Twitter

  03-08-2018 02:16 via montrealgazette.com
  The first time T.J. Heath played for Toronto, he was traded to Winnipeg after intercepting two passes in a game. Then last week, after intercepting one pass against the Blue Bombers, the Argonauts traded him to Montreal.
  We can only assume the veteran defensive back has the Double Blue out of his system?
  “I guess, at this point, I’d have to,” Heath quipped. “It’s nothing personal. It’s part of the game. I always get traded on a high note, which is a good thing
  
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• Montreal model Rick Genest, better-known as Zombie Boy, dies

  03-08-2018 02:00 via montrealgazette.com
  World-renowned Montreal model, Rick Genest, better known as Zombie Boy, died Wednesday at the age of 32 in Plateau Mont-Royal, His agency, Dulcado Management, reported on Facebook Thursday.
  In the post, the agency said it was “shocked and saddened by this tragedy.” The post paid tribute to him by writing and called him an “icon of the artistic scene” who “charmed everybody’s hearts.”
  Genest was struggling with mental health problems and took his own
  
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• In case you missed it, here's what happened on August 2

  03-08-2018 01:30 via montrealgazette.com
  Truck rolls down hill, crushes duplex near Quebec City
  A truck driver lost control of his vehicle, crashed through a guardrail and rolled down a hill into a duplex in Château-Richer, near Quebec City, just before noon Thursday.
  The 12-wheeled truck smashed into the home, trapping a woman inside. Firefighters had to remove her from the building, but she was not injured.
  The Sûreté du Québec said the driver, a man in his 60s, sustained only minor injuries.
  Police said it
  
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• TVA blames its financial woes on Canadiens' poor performance last season

  03-08-2018 01:03 via montrealgazette.com
  The Montreal Canadiens’ poor performance this past season hurt TVA’s bottom line.
  On Thursday, Groupe TVA announced a net loss of $9.7 million during the second quarter of the 2018 fiscal year. The amount comes out to a $0.22 loss per share. The TVA Sports channel saw it’s revenues drop by 60 per cent.
  In a statement, the company that holds the team’s primary broadcast rights, said that the Canadiens missing the playoffs “resulted in a decrease in advertis
  
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• Weekend traffic update: Southern stretch of Highway 15 will be closed

  03-08-2018 01:00 via montrealgazette.com
  Avoid the Décarie Expressway this weekend, Transports Quebec warns. Construction on the St-Jacques St. overpass will close the the southern stretch of the Highway 15 in both directions. Here’s what you need to know:
  Highway 15 / Turcot Interchange
  From Friday at 10 p.m. until Monday at 5 a.m. Highway 15 North will be closed between the exit for the Highway 20 West and Édouard-Montpetit Blvd.
  From Friday at 10 p.m. until Monday at 5 a.m. the Highway 15 South will be
  
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• Dr. Penfield, University road closures creating chaos, say residents

  03-08-2018 00:58 via montrealgazette.com
  It may be construction holiday, but there is once again no holiday from construction for residents and drivers in the downtown core.
  Two construction projects that began in the last week are having a major impact on traffic. Peel St. and Dr. Penfield Ave. are closed where the two streets meet, as is University St. north of Sherbrooke St.
  The work on University St. is expected to last until next week, but a notice to residents about the Peel St. work did not say how long that intersection would b
  
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• Enough talk. It's time to see what Johnny Manziel can do on the field

  03-08-2018 00:39 via montrealgazette.com
  On the night news broke of the Johnny Manziel trade in Canada, it was the most read story on American-based website ESPN. This week, Sports Illustrated also posted a small story on its site.
  Everyone — save for Vernon Adams last week — wants to talk about Manziel and has made this Alouettes story about the former Heisman Trophy winner and one-time first-round draft choice of the Cleveland Browns.
  When TSN has advertised Friday night’s game (7:30 p.m., TSN, RDS, TSN Radio-690) b
  
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• G7 summit: Police deployment deemed excessive in La Malbaie

  03-08-2018 00:00 via montrealgazette.com
  The deployment of police forces at the G7 summit in La Malbaie was excessive and may have violated protesters’ freedom of speech and right to peacefully protest, according to independent observers hired by the Quebec government.
  Public Security Minister Martin Coiteux hired the observer group to “objectively and impartially examine the deployment of various security measures by the police, taking into account the overall situation.” The group’s report was made available T
  
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