Aylmer, Quebec news

• Quebec's young Liberals propose financial reward for cultural diversity

  08-08-2018 22:41 via montrealgazette.com
  QUEBEC — The Liberal youth wing is calling on the Couillard government to encourage cultural organizations to show greater sensitivity to ethnic minorities and indigenous people in the wake of recent theatre controversies.
  Saying there has been a lack of dialogue on the issue of cultural appropriation, youth-wing president Stéphane Stril said his generation is in tune with Quebec’s diversity and thinks Quebec can do better.
  He refused to say whether he supports the recent canc
  
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• Increased train delays in July a sign of things to come? Exo hopes not

  08-08-2018 22:32 via montrealgazette.com
  After a disastrous July, the agency that runs the region’s commuter trains hopes it has turned a corner on delays and cancellations on two of its train lines.
  For the first two weeks of last month, delays were so bad on the Deux-Montagnes line that more than one out of every four trains on that line was delayed or cancelled.
  The week of July 1 to 7 saw only 74.3 per cent of trains on the Deux-Montagnes line arrive on time to their final destination, and the following week, it dipped down t
  
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• Travis Scott late to Osheaga festival, upset fan takes legal action

  08-08-2018 22:20 via montrealgazette.com
  A disappointed music fan is pursuing a class action lawsuit against the organizer of Montreal’s Osheaga music festival because the performer she came to see was almost an hour and a half late.
  Megan Le Stum is a university student and avid fan of rapper Travis Scott. She bought a three-day pass to Osheaga expecting to see the mega-star perform Friday night, but Scott was late. Many people, including Le Stum, left the festival before he finally performed.
  The class action request, filed at
  
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• Motorcyclist in stable condition after collision with a truck

  08-08-2018 21:57 via montrealgazette.com
  A motorcyclist is in stable condition after his vehicle collided with a truck in the Mercier—Hochelaga-Maisonneuve borough.
  Montreal police received a call around 11:45 a.m. about the collision near Dickson St. and Notre-Dame St.
  The motorcyclist, who is in his early 60s, suffered injuries to the lower part of his body. He was taken to hospital but his life is not in danger.
  The driver of the truck had no injuries and was not taken to hospital.
  
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• Slow-moving thunderstorms trigger alert from Environment Canada

  08-08-2018 21:17 via montrealgazette.com
  The Montreal area could experience heavy downpours and thunderstorms in the late afternoon or evening, according to a special weather statement issued by Environment Canada.
  The national meteorological agency warned that since the storms are moving slowly, significant amounts of rain could fall locally. Flash floods and ponding — when giant pools of water form — could happen on roads as commuters make their way home.
  The statement was issued for the Montreal, Châteauguay, Laval
  
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• Quebec, Ottawa to give CAE nearly $200 million for aviation training

  08-08-2018 20:38 via montrealgazette.com
  The provincial and federal governments plan to give aviation simulator-maker CAE nearly $200 million over the next five years to help the company develop a new “innovation campus” in Montreal.
  The innovation campus is part of a larger “digital transformation” that will see CAE spend a total of $1 billion over the next five years to develop a new generation of flight simulators and new training services in the areas of aviation, defence and health, the company said on
  
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• Oka Crisis negotiator John Ciaccia, respected by both sides, dies at 85

  08-08-2018 20:32 via montrealgazette.com
  Serge Simon says he can still remember the almost daily police harassment he endured during the 1990 Oka Crisis.
  At the height of the crisis, Simon looked to Quebec Indian Affairs Minister John Ciaccia as the “one government official trying to keep the peace.”
  As armed Mohawk Warriors faced off against the Canadian military and provincial police that summer, Simon was a 29-year-old welder trying to support his family. But to some Sûreté du Québec officers, he was
  
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• Cultural spaces, entrepreneurship to get cash from Montreal, Quebec

  08-08-2018 19:44 via montrealgazette.com
  Montreal’s cultural sector will be receiving a boost to the tune of $153 million following the renewal of the city and provincial government’s cultural development agreement on Wednesday.
  The funding, which will be spread out over three years, will be split among four sectors: cultural spaces and citizen experience, patrimony, digital culture and entrepreneurship.
  It is the first of those four that will see the largest portion of the funds, with a sum of $107 million. Included i
  
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• Martin Patriquin: Québec Fier taps into discontent with Quebec politics

  08-08-2018 19:33 via montrealgazette.com
  Éric Duhaime, the Quebec City radio host and noted flesh-and-blood troll, is hardly an appealing messenger. He minimized a probable hate crime against the Islamic Cultural Centre in Quebec City — a pig’s head was placed on its doorstep — about seven months before the mass shooting in 2017. He has long fomented ire toward Muslims, including by portraying halal food as an imposition of minority religious beliefs and traditions on the Quebec majority.
  When Duhaime
  
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• Beyond the Plate: Tuck Shop's Theo Lerikos fed by rich life experience

  08-08-2018 19:28 via montrealgazette.com
  This is the fourth instalment in the monthly series Beyond the Plate, looking at the motivations and passions of local chefs. This week: Theo Lerikos of Tuck Shop.
  The Chinese philosopher Lao Tzu said: “At the centre of your being, you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want.”
  That truly applies to Theo Lerikos of St-Henri’s Tuck Shop (4662 Notre-Dame St. W.).
  We live in a fast-paced world, many of us rushing through each day. Spending time with th
  
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• Impossible to know if Laval students killed magician's dog: judge

  08-08-2018 19:10 via montrealgazette.com
  A Quebec magician has lost his lawsuit against a Laval elementary school where his pet Yorkshire Terrier was crushed to death after a performance. A judge ruled it’s impossible to know for sure if students are to blame for the dog’s death.
  In October 2016, magician Domenico Gatto, who goes by the name Domagie the magician, was performing before roughly 220 students gathered in the auditorium at École Socrates-Démosthène.
  Gatto was hired to perform
  
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• No charges will be laid for death of baby forgotten in car in Montreal

  08-08-2018 18:57 via montrealgazette.com
  No charges will be filed in connection with the death last June of a baby who had been forgotten in a car by its father, Quebec’s Directeur des poursuites criminelles et pénales (DPCP) announced Wednesday.
  The infant was found dead in the vehicle by the father.
  DPCP spokesperson Jean Pascal Boucher said that the prosecutor assigned to the case could not conclude that a criminal act had been committed.
  According to information provided by police last June 22, the father of the baby w
  
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• Osheaga fan appalled by plastic bottles littering festival grounds

  08-08-2018 18:14 via montrealgazette.com
  Osheaga enthusiast Juliana Yang was heartened to learn that plastic drinking straws would not be allowed at the 2018 edition of the music festival. “A step in the right direction,” the Montrealer called it.
  And she was pleased to hear of other green initiatives announced in July by concert promoter Evenko — among them the presence of a tanker truck to supply the festival with free drinking water, to reduce the use of individual bottles and encourage the use of reusabl
  
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• Attempt to suspend Quebec employee for radio interview fails — again

  08-08-2018 17:49 via montrealgazette.com
  A Transport Quebec employee suspended for giving a radio interview without government permission has won again in court.
  Yvan Larochelle, who is also vice-president of his union, gave an interview in 2017 to 107.7 FM in the Eastern Townships during which he complained of the Transport Ministry’s use of sub-contractors and criticized some managers.
  He was later suspended without pay for 10 days, the ministry citing a lack of loyalty as well as alleging his remarks defamed the managers he ta
  
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• CAE expected to get millions from Quebec, Ottawa for aviation training

  08-08-2018 17:39 via montrealgazette.com
  The provincial government plans to give aviation simulator-maker CAE up to $47.5 million in financial aid and the federal government is also expected to announce that it too will be providing millions to the company.
  The money will be used to develop an “innovation campus” in Montreal where CAE will develop a new generation of flight simulators and new training services in the areas of civil and military aviation as well as health, according to a decree published in the province
  
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• Céline Dion's golf cart 'getaway' is the only good Fast and Furious

  08-08-2018 17:35 via montrealgazette.com
  Céline Dion doesn’t just know how to make an entrance; she can also make quite the exit.
  The singer shared footage of her “golf cart post-show getaway” on Twitter this Thursday.
  It comes as she’s in the midst of a summer tour of the Asia-Pacific region.
  As promised, the video shows Dion racing away in a hallway on the back of a golf cart-style vehicle.
  Trying to avoid a speeding ticket on a « golf cart post-show getaway » 😜 // Essayer d'é
  
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• Max Pacioretty is looking to score big with $3.45M U.S. mansion sale

  08-08-2018 16:55 via montrealgazette.com
  Max Pacioretty is looking to move, but not from Montreal — at least not yet.
  The Montreal Canadiens forward has put his Boca Raton mansion on the market for a cool $3.45 million ($4.5 million Canadian).
  The listing showcases five bedrooms, 4.5 bathrooms and no trophy case.
  The 5,800-square foot property, which is said to have been renovated just last year, also features a basketball court, an outdoor summer kitchen and a saltwater pool with a quartz deck.
  Max Pacioretty’s Boca Raton
  
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• New Champlain bridge may get a first name (spoiler: it'll be Samuel)

  08-08-2018 16:16 via montrealgazette.com
  The bridge under construction to replace the existing Champlain Bridge may well be christened with a first name.
  The federal government is mulling whether to name the new span, expected to be completed in December, the Samuel de Champlain Bridge.
  The addition of the first name has long been called for by historians and other groups, who have argued that a simple, abbreviated “Champlain” does not do justice to the explorer’s contribution to North American history.
  Federal Infras
  
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• Montreal police seek woman suspected of at least two assaults

  08-08-2018 15:49 via montrealgazette.com
  Montreal police are turning to the public in an effort to track down a woman suspected of at least two assaults last May.
  Police say the woman begins the assault by shoving someone and then hitting them violently once they react. Investigators say she is suspected of one assault on the Green Line of the métro and another on Notre-Dame-de-Grâce Ave.
  The suspect stands about five-feet-five-inches tall and weighs about 155 pounds. She has black hair and brown eyes.
  Anyone will any info
  
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• John Ciaccia, former Bourassa cabinet minister, dies at 85

  08-08-2018 15:12 via montrealgazette.com
  John Ciaccia, a Quebec Liberal cabinet minister in the governments of Robert Bourassa and Daniel Johnson Jr., has died at the age of 85.
  Ciaccia’s death on Tuesday at his home in Beaconsfield was first reported in the local Italian-language news website cittadino.ca, and his passing was acknowledged Wednesday morning by Premier Philippe Couillard, who described Ciaccia as having “contributed greatly to the advancement of Quebec.”
  Born in 1933 in the Italian commune of Jels
  
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• The alchemy of art and friendship explored at Hudson Village Theatre

  08-08-2018 14:29 via montrealgazette.com
  When playwright Yasmina Reza won the Lawrence Olivier Award for best new comedy in 1997 for her play Art, she began her acceptance speech by saying she’d thought she’d written a tragedy.
  The comedy about friendships ripped apart following the purchase of a pricey piece of art opens at the Hudson Village Theatre, Aug. 8.
  “It’s really funny, but it’s also so honest,” director Dean Patrick Fleming said. “At the simplest of levels it asks the question &lsquo
  
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• Two die in motorcycle crash near Shawinigan

  08-08-2018 14:06 via montrealgazette.com
  Two motorcyclists died Tuesday night after an apparent loss of control of the vehicle on Highway 55 near Shawinigan.
  The victims are a woman, 18, and a 60-year-old man. The relationship between the two was not immediately clear.
  The incident occurred around 11 p.m. A preliminary investigation by the Sûreté du Québec determined that the motorcycle was headed south on the highway when it grazed a guard rail, then crossed the median to wind up in oncoming traffic.
  Both ride
  
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• Off-Island towns ranked among best in Canada for families, as we already knew

  08-08-2018 13:57 via montrealgazette.com
  When it comes to raising a family, it’s hard to beat Quebec.
  That’s the subheading on the 2018 MoneySense list of the best places to live in Canada for families.
  Speaking as someone who moved across the country to Quebec in search of a better place to raise my kids, I have to say I agree 100 per cent.
  As regular readers of my column know, I came to Quebec from B.C. a few years ago. Unlike many (maybe most) people who brave a cross-country move, we didn’t do it for the lure of a
  
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• While you were sleeping: Man who harassed bison arrested

  08-08-2018 13:31 via montrealgazette.com
  Here’s what happened while you were enjoying some restorative shut eye.
  The body of a young man who had been missing since Friday was found in the St. Lawrence River. The man, who was 18, was last seen at the Osheaga Festival on Friday around 7:30 p.m. He was reported missing to the Montreal police on Sunday. People fishing on the St. Lawrence river spotted his body around 1:30 p.m. Monday, on the eastern side of Île Ste-Hélène. They reported the sighting
  
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• Future of Pointe-Claire Village pool is murky if Pioneer bar is demolished

  08-08-2018 13:18 via montrealgazette.com
  The Pioneer bar demolition, if approved, will have a domino effect on the entire Pointe-Claire Village, including nearby Bourgeau Park where numerous recreational facilities face an uncertain future.
  If the contentious demo and luxury condominium project is approved by the city’s demolition committee at a public meeting on Thursday (7:30 p.m.) at the Holiday Inn and Suites in Pointe-Claire, a 35-spot parking lot next to the Pioneer will be sold by the city to the developer for $730,000 as
  
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• Could Pioneer demo spell the end of Pointe-Claire Village Pool?

  08-08-2018 13:11 via montrealgazette.com
  The Pioneer bar demolition, if approved, will have a domino effect on the entire Pointe-Claire Village, including nearby Bourgeau Park where numerous recreational facilities face an uncertain future.
  If the contentious demo and luxury condominium project is approved by the city’s demolition committee at a public meeting on Thursday (7:30 p.m.) at the Holiday Inn and Suites in Pointe-Claire, a 35-spot parking lot next to the Pioneer will be sold by the city to the developer for $730,000 as
  
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• Cyclist in hospital after colliding with car on Lajeunesse St.

  08-08-2018 13:09 via montrealgazette.com
  A cyclist was in hospital Wednesday morning after colliding with a car late Tuesday in north-end Montreal.
  The incident occurred around 11:30 p.m. and witnesses told police the cyclist, travelling south on Lajeunesse St., ran a red light before colliding with the car, which was travelling east on Henri-Bourassa Blvd. on a green light.
  While the cyclist was initially listed in serious condition, police said later his injuries were non-life threatening.
  Police investigators were dispatched to the
  
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• Quebec's surgical wait-times warrior now in fight over his wife's care

  08-08-2018 12:00 via montrealgazette.com
  George Zeliotis — the Anjou resident who waged a successful fight before the Supreme Court of Canada for shorter surgical wait times for all Canadians — is now facing a new battle with Quebec’s health-care system.
  At the age of 87, Zeliotis is fighting for dignified care for his 80-year-old wife, who is suffering from dementia. Zeliotis said he was promised repeatedly by a social worker that his wife would be placed in a public nursing home where the staff could speak to her in
  
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• Montreal weather: Don't forget your umbrella

  08-08-2018 12:00 via montrealgazette.com
  Mainly cloudy and expect a 60 per cent chance of showers in the afternoon, with a risk of thunderstorms.
  Environment Canada predicts a high of 27 Celsius, a Humidex of 33 and a UV index of 7 or high.
  Tonight: Showers with winds becoming southwest at 20 km/h, gusting to 40 km/h. The overnight low is expected to be 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 i
  
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• Missing Inuk woman challenges Montreal police's version of events

  08-08-2018 12:00 via montrealgazette.com
  The Inuk woman who was reported missing by Montreal police last week says the system failed her.
  Police called on Montrealers last Thursday to help them find Mina Aculiak — saying she’d last been seen leaving a police station in St-Laurent on July 27.
  Aculiak, 48, was airlifted from a village on the Hudson Bay to Montreal last spring for emergency surgery. She’s been recovering from her injuries ever since and police say she had expressed suicidal thoughts before she
  
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• Members of ethnic groups top the ranks of Canada's self-employed

  08-08-2018 12:00 via montrealgazette.com
  Canada’s Veterans Affairs Minister found himself in a Twitter imbroglio on the weekend after tweeting that “Immigrants are better at creating new businesses and new jobs than Canadian-born people. Simple.”
  The comment, based in part on a 2016 Statistics Canada study and intended to defend programs in Seamus O’Regan’s province of Newfoundland and Labrador designed to retain immigrant entrepreneurs, created a Twitter backlash that forced O’Regan to retract his s
  
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• Kramberger: No sense scrimping on outdoor summer facilities

  08-08-2018 12:00 via montrealgazette.com
  While travelling home from Toronto along Highway 401 this past weekend, an afternoon stopover at Cobourg Beach got me thinking about outdoor recreation facilities here in the West Island.
  Cobourg Beach is about 120 kilometres east of Toronto and offers a sprawling public beach on the shores of Lake Ontario. It was packed with visitors the hot and sunny Sunday we stopped by. The family had planned this day trip and so we had packed a beach bag at the ready. You pay for parking, but admission to t
  
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• Future Deux-Montagnes REM station means end of the line for daycare

  08-08-2018 12:00 via montrealgazette.com
  Simon Briscoe moved to his house in Deux-Montagnes last year in part because its proximity to a train station and daycare centre allowed the family to sell one of its two cars.
  “That was the whole appeal: I could get downtown door to door in an hour, so it was very convenient,” Briscoe said.
  But on June 30, the daycare that his son James attended closed because the building is being expropriated for the future Réseau express métropolitain — a driverless electric l
  
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• Comedy studies the nature of friendship and the impact of art

  08-08-2018 11:55 via montrealgazette.com
  When playwright Yasmina Reza won the Lawrence Olivier Award for best new comedy in 1997 for her play Art, she began her acceptance speech by saying she’d thought she’d written a tragedy.
  The comedy about friendships ripped apart following the purchase of a pricey piece of art, opens at the Hudson Village Theatre, Aug. 8.
  “It’s really funny, but it’s also so honest,” director Dean Patrick Fleming said. “At the simplest of levels it asks the question &lsqu
  
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• Vaudreuil-Soulanges was the top choice to raise our family: Tomkins

  08-08-2018 11:30 via montrealgazette.com
  When it comes to raising a family, it’s hard to beat Quebec.
  That’s the subheading on the 2018 MoneySense list of the best places to live in Canada for families.
  Speaking as someone who moved across the country to Quebec in search of a better place to raise my kids, I have to say I agree 100 per cent.
  As regular readers of my column know, I came to Quebec from B.C. a few years ago. Unlike many (maybe most) people who brave a cross-country move, we didn’t do it for the lure of a
  
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• Review: Smashing Pumpkins bring epic three-hour show to Montreal

  08-08-2018 10:46 via montrealgazette.com
  Half an hour into Smashing Pumpkins’ Bell Centre marathon Tuesday, Billy Corgan was huddled in a silver druid cloak, praying to wiggy galactic projections and growling Bowie’s Space Oddity as if the rocket hatch opened prematurely. So, no, this was not the most tightly paced show. And yes, it was a fitting 30th-anniversary gala for a band and frontman whose virtues include excess.
  Many of the headlines generated by the Shiny and Oh So Bright tour (that title is even more painful to t
  
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• Rogers Cup: Françoise Abanda thrills hometown crowd with upset win

  08-08-2018 05:46 via montrealgazette.com
  Françoise Abanda wasn’t supposed to receive a wild card into the main draw at the Rogers Cup, but when she was given the opportunity, she made the most of it.
  Abanda was the lone Canadian to survive the first round of singles play Tuesday, upsetting Belgian Kirsten Flipkens 6-3, 6-2 Tuesday night. The win earned her an appearance in IGA Stadium Wednesday afternoon against third-seeded Sloane Stephens of the U.S.
  “I expected to play (in the qualifying) Saturday and I wind up pl
  
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• Gas price watch: Montreal motorists forced to pay more, but they should shop around

  08-08-2018 04:15 via montrealgazette.com
  Gas prices jumped late Tuesday at Montreal-area gas stations to hit a high of $1.449 a litre.
  Earlier in the day, prices varied from a low of $1.229 a litre at a Ultramar station on Montée de Liesse, to a high of $1.449 at a Petro-Canada station in Ahuntsic, according to essencemontreal.com.
  Midday at most Costco gas bars in the Montreal area, the price of a litre was $1.259.
  The price of a barrel of crude oil was US$69.24 at the end of the trading day on the NYMEX index, in New York
  
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• Analysis: Liberals aim for longer election campaign to destabilize the CAQ

  08-08-2018 03:13 via montrealgazette.com
  QUEBEC — The province’s fixed date law was supposed to take the suspense out of elections and level the playing field between the parties.
  But as the province girds for an Oct. 1 vote, a lesser understood clause of the law — one that allows wiggle room on the length of the actual campaign — has suddenly become a factor on the big political chessboard.
  On Tuesday, Liberal insiders confirmed the party is seriously examining a possible early election launch — it c
  
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• Body of man last seen at Osheaga Festival found in the St. Lawrence River

  08-08-2018 02:58 via montrealgazette.com
  The body of a young man who had been missing since Friday was found in the St. Lawrence River on Monday.
  The man, who was 18, was last seen at the Osheaga Festival on Friday around 7:30 p.m. He was reported missing to the Montreal police on Sunday.
  People fishing on the St. Lawrence river spotted his body around 1:30 p.m. Monday, on the eastern side of Île Ste-Hélène. They reported the sighting to Longueuil police.
  Montreal police were able to confirm that it was the mis
  
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• Quebec Court of Appeal reduces Indigenous woman's sentence for killing her father

  08-08-2018 01:37 via montrealgazette.com
  The Quebec Court of Appeal has reduced the sentence for a young Indigenous woman in prison for killing her father.
  Stacey Sikounik Denis-Damée pleaded guilty to manslaughter and received a sentence of six years in May 2017.
  The Court of Appeal decided on Monday to change the length of her incarceration to two years, describing the conditions of her life as “on the edge of human dignity.”
  A member of the community of Opitciwan, Denis-Damée’s life was marked by
  
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• T'Cha Dunlevy: Post-Kanata, how about Montreal First Peoples Festival?

  08-08-2018 01:05 via montrealgazette.com
  The dust has settled on the controversy surrounding Robert Lepage’s Kanata — an issue on which, much like the SLĀV controversy that preceded it, seemingly everyone had an opinion. Now that things are dying down, what are we going to do about it?
  One concrete thing that you could do, whatever your opinion about Lepage and Théatre du Soleil’s Ariane Mnouchkine’s staging of a show looking at Canadian Indigenous history without casting any Indigenous actors, is to
  
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• Governments to inject $1 billion into CAE: report

  08-08-2018 00:45 via montrealgazette.com
  The federal and provincial governments will inject $1 billion into research and development at CAE, TVA Nouvelles has reported.
  The money will be spent over five years and will create 400 jobs, said a tweet from TVA reporter Michelle Lamarche.
  Primeur TVA Nouvelles. CAE, le fournisseur de simulateurs de vol, le fédéral et Québec injecteront 1milliard/5ans en recherche et développement. Création de 400 emplois. Annonce demain, à Montréal. #pol
  
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• More than 40 Quebec firefighters to join fight against B.C. fires

  08-08-2018 00:42 via montrealgazette.com
  More than 40 Quebec firefighters are headed to British Columbia to help fight fires.
  On Wednesday morning, 42 Quebec forest firefighters will fly to Prince George in the province’s interior.
  Rain in Quebec over the past week lowered the risk of forest fires “significantly,” said a statement from the Société de protection de forêts contre le feu (SOPFEU). That made it possible to send the firefighters west.
  This is the second time this summer that SOPFEU has
  
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• 'You flush it and move on,' Als' Johnny Manziel says after horrid debut

  08-08-2018 00:38 via montrealgazette.com
  Four days removed from the Friday Night Massacre — one of several the Alouettes have endured this season, but the first of Johnny Manziel’s career in Montreal — the quarterback said it’s ancient history.
  And the 25-year-old Canadian Football League rookie believes he still has the faith of his teammates. He certainly has head coach Mike Sherman’s, who announced following the game Manziel remains the team’s starter.
  “I feel this team has faith in me. I ho
  
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• Poll: Do you need to take a vacation from your screens?

  08-08-2018 00:04 via montrealgazette.com
  They are everywhere — people staring down at the screens on their smartphones or tablets.
  You can see them on buses, the métro and downtown on Ste-Catherine St. They often walk into other people or lampposts, then look up in a daze. At home, it’s more of the same, constant devotion to numerous screens.
  Sometimes, devices are dropped and it’s not uncommon to see an owner’s tears if the screen is cracked.
  We’re asking our readers if it’s time for people t
  
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