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• Candiac test of self-driving bus the first of its kind in Canada

  10-08-2018 22:21 via montrealgazette.com
  The South Shore city of Candiac announced Friday it will embark on a pilot project to provide an electric, self-driving shuttle bus to take people to one of the city’s park-and-ride lots.
  The project, to which the Quebec government is contributing $350,000, is the first long-term demonstration project of a 100-per-cent electric autonomous shuttle on public roads in Canada, according to Keolis Canada, the company providing the shuttle.
  “This is the first self-driving pilot project we
  
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• Rancour reigns at Pointe-Claire demolition committee meeting

  10-08-2018 19:44 via montrealgazette.com
  At 2 a.m. Friday, the Pointe-Claire demolition committee announced its decisions to a crowd of exasperated, bleary-eyed Pointe-Claire residents and the reaction was immediate and rancourous.
  Shouts of “shame on you” drowned out the formal explanations of the three-member committee’s unanimous decision to approve the demolition of the Pioneer bar and restaurant. At least two citizens marched towards Mayor John Belvedere to yell their discontent in his direction before slamming o
  
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• Duke Blue Devils, R.J. Barrett take on McGill Redmen next Sunday

  10-08-2018 19:42 via montrealgazette.com
  Duke University basketball coach Mike Krzyzewski says it’s just a coincidence that R.J. Barrett is starting his college basketball career in his hometown of Mississauga.
  “It’s not about him,” Krzyzewski said Friday on a conference call to discuss Duke’s three-game visit to Mississauga and Montreal. “I haven’t been able to do an international tour because I’ve been involved  with USA Basketball in the summer and this is our opportunity.”
  
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• Nobody's happier to see Johnny Manziel start than his next opponents

  10-08-2018 19:24 via montrealgazette.com
  You may or may not remember quarterback Johnny Manziel’s debut with the Montreal Alouettes.
  The Ottawa Redblacks, however, definitely remember his four first-half interceptions and the Als putting up only three points before his removal in the fourth quarter.
  They remember, and they’re excited to play against him this Saturday.
  In posting their depth chart, the team asked, “How many of these guys will pick off Johnny 🏈 tomorrow?”
  How many of these guys will pick o
  
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• Can someone please confirm Genie Bouchard didn't steal this child

  10-08-2018 18:48 via montrealgazette.com
  Genie Bouchard’s Rogers Cup adventure is not over.
  The phase that comes after playing apparently involves joking about stealing adorable kids.
  To wit, the Montreal native posed for a photo with a child who appears to be in the Little Aces program and tweeted, “I’m stealing him.”
  That, one surmises, was a joke.
  But also: ummm … has anyone seen this kid lately?
  I’m stealing him pic.twitter.com/3I3R1LrRuL
  — Genie Bouchard (@geniebouchard) August 10, 2018Re
  
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• Macpherson: What's blue and white and lays an egg?

  10-08-2018 18:03 via montrealgazette.com
  If a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound? Or if a Quebec political bombshell drops in July?
  Early last month, in the dead of the political off-season, Mario Dumont reported in his Le Journal de Montréal column that Jean-François Lisée had considered stepping aside as Parti Québécois leader.
  Dumont said “more than one source” had confirmed that Lisée had considered handing over the leadership to his per
  
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• Zacharkiw: France's Roussillon is the bridge to Old World wines

  10-08-2018 18:00 via montrealgazette.com
  I was recently asked by a person who exclusively drinks New World wines where to start when trying European wines. While there’s no lack of choice, I suggested France’s Roussillon.
  It’s the most southern of France’s southern regions, a small area nestled between the western coast of the Mediterranean and the Pyrenees mountain range, not far from the Spanish border. Most of the inhabitants do not identify as either French or Spanish; rather, they are Catalan. And their win
  
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• Bill Zacharkiw's Wines of the Week: Aug. 10, 2018

  10-08-2018 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
  Rioja Blanco 2017, El Coto de Rioja, Spain white, $14.50, SAQ # 13576631. Excellent-value white from Rioja. Shows surprising aromatic complexity, led by pear and grapefruit. Textured but fresh, with a touch of spice on the finish and a comfortable mid-palate. Grape varieties: viura, verdejo, sauvignon blanc. Residual sugar: 3.5 g/L. Serve at: 8-10 C. Drink now. Food pa
  
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• What the Puck: The Canadiens have been mediocre at best since 1993

  10-08-2018 17:59 via montrealgazette.com
  Last season was terrible for the Montreal Canadiens.
  So was 1994-1995, when the Habs missed the playoffs for the first time in a quarter century. The next season was pretty bad, too. The one after that kind of sucked, as well. You get the picture.
  When the team missed the playoffs in 2002-2003, it was the fourth time in five years that they didn’t make the postseason. They have had a bit of playoff success since then — making it to the conference final in 2010 and again in 2014. But
  
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• Watch: How Saudi Arabia’s spat with Canada could affect our hospitals

  10-08-2018 17:37 via montrealgazette.com
  Saudi Arabia is currently retaliating against Canada for its calls to free human rights activists.
  It has already expelled Canada’s ambassador, halted new trade initiatives and threatened to recall students studying in our universities.
  That last threat, which involves about 20,000 Saudi students, might seem minor, but could have real implications for hospitals.
  According to the most recent numbers from the Association of Faculties of Medicine of Canada, 750 Saudi Arabian citizens were stu
  
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• The Right Chemistry: Chlorine can save lives or take lives

  10-08-2018 17:30 via montrealgazette.com
  The year was 1774, the place Uppsala, Sweden. Pharmacist Carl Wilhelm Scheele had taken to dabbling in chemistry and had just poured some hydrochloric acid onto pyrolusite, a black mineral. He was taken aback by the sudden evolution of a greenish gas that he described as having “a suffocating smell which was most oppressive to the lungs.” Scheele didn’t know it at the time, but he had just produced chlorine, a gas that would change history. The reaction between pyrolusite and h
  
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• My Montreal: Heather O'Neill's inspiration is right at her doorstep

  10-08-2018 17:30 via montrealgazette.com
  This is the third in an occasional series of profiles in which Montrealers tell us what they love about our city. 
  For Heather O’Neill, it’s a neighbourhood thing.Ask the Montreal novelist about her favourite local places, activities and eateries, and it’s hardly surprising Mile End ends up getting pride of place. As a longtime resident, and having incorporated the area’s streets and landmarks into her work, she’s as closely associated with this district as any
  
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• Candiac to test drive autonomous electric shuttle buses

  10-08-2018 16:46 via montrealgazette.com
  The South Shore city of Candiac announced Friday it will embark on a pilot project to provide electric, autonomous shuttle buses to take people to the city’s park-and-ride lot.
  The pilot project, to which the Quebec government is contributing $350,000, is the first long-term demonstration project of a 100-per-cent electric autonomous shuttle in Canada, according to Keolis Canada, the company providing the shuttle buses.
  The mini-bus has a capacity of 15 people, and it will take a two-kilom
  
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• Fatal accident forces Highway 10 East to close between Exits 74 and 78

  10-08-2018 16:41 via montrealgazette.com
  A collision involving a heavy-duty tow truck and another truck has left one person dead, an undetermined number of injured and eastbound Highway 10 closed between Exits 74 and 78.
  The incident occurred at about 9 a.m., when the tow truck, already in the process of hauling a large truck, was hit by a second truck, the impact then sending the vehicles into a ditch.
  The Sûreté du Québec accident investigators are on the scene and major traffic disruptions are expected with the r
  
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• Update: Full service resuming on Yellow Line in wake of gas leak

  10-08-2018 15:47 via montrealgazette.com
  Full service is being restored to the métro’s Yellow Line after a gas leak near the Jean Drapeau métro station on Île Ste-Hélène forced the shutdown of that station.
  Subway trains were directed at about 9 a.m. to bypass the station and proceed directly to the Berri-UQAM or Longueuil stations. Service was reported as normal as of 9:40 a.m.
  
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• T'Cha Dunlevy: Teen's death after Osheaga raises security questions

  10-08-2018 15:31 via montrealgazette.com
  A young man died after attending Osheaga on the weekend. There’s no going back. And as authorities continue their work to figure out what exactly happened, there are serious questions to be asked regarding the responsibility of major festivals toward the security of attendees.
  What we know so far is that a confluence of heartbreaking circumstances likely contributed to the events leading up to Collins Obiagboso’s body being found in the St. Lawrence River on Monday.
  The 18-year-old O
  
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• Montreal unemployment rate inches up in July

  10-08-2018 15:16 via montrealgazette.com
  The unemployment rate in the Montreal region was 6.2 per cent in July, Statistics Canada said on Friday, up 0.4 percentage points from the previous month.
  It is up 0.1 per cent from July 2017.
  The increase comes as the employment rate declined from 63.5 per cent in June to 63.1 per cent in July, as 11,800 fewer people were employed in the region, according the federal statistics agency’s monthly Labour Force Survey.
  The number of unemployed people in the Montreal area rose 7,200,
  
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• Montreal police collar suspect in Laval daycare assault

  10-08-2018 14:53 via montrealgazette.com
  A man suspected of having attacked another man outside a Laval daycare last month was arrested Thursday night in Montreal.
  Montreal police arrested the 26-year-old suspect after finding him in a a stolen car. Officers alerted their colleagues in Laval, who in turn arrested the man in connection with a brutal assault that took place July 9 outside the Tic-Tac-Toc daycare centre on Curé-Labelle Blvd.
  Images captured on surveillance cameras show the suspect approaching the 46-year-old v
  
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• While you were sleeping: Cop buys cocaine online and bear gets fishy upgrade

  10-08-2018 14:46 via montrealgazette.com
  Suspended New Jersey police chief accused of buying cocaine online
  Authorities say a suspended police chief in New Jersey has been buying cocaine online.
  Prosecutors say Palisades Interstate Parkway Police Chief Michael Coppola went to a post office box to retrieve the order on Thursday. However, detectives had placed a package containing imitation cocaine in the box. Coppola was arrested during a motor vehicle stop in Ridgefield Park.
  The 43-year-old is charged with attempting to possess cocain
  
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• Apparent road rage case ends with stabbing, arrest in north-end Montreal

  10-08-2018 13:01 via montrealgazette.com
  A 23-year-old man was in custody and a 20-year-old man recovering from a stab wound Friday morning in the wake of what Montreal police suspect was a case of road rage.
  The incident occurred around 11:30 p.m. near de Salaberry and James Morrice Sts. in the borough of Ahuntsic-Cartierville. Police say the victim “made a (driving) manoeuvre that the suspect didn’t appreciate,” which led the suspect to follow the victim and confront him in the parking lot of the Galeries Norma
  
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• T'Cha Dunlevy: Teen's death at Osheaga raises security questions

  10-08-2018 12:05 via montrealgazette.com
  A young man died at Osheaga on the weekend. There’s no going back. And as authorities continue their work to figure out what exactly happened, there are serious questions to be asked regarding the responsibility of major festivals toward the security of attendees.
  What we know so far is that a confluence of heartbreaking circumstances likely contributed to the events leading up to Collins Obiagboso’s body being found in the St. Lawrence River on Monday.
  The 18-year-old Ottawa residen
  
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• Mount Royal pilot project 'having an impact on safety,' group says

  10-08-2018 12:00 via montrealgazette.com
  Inadequate communication, bad planning and a lack of public transit have resulted in an overall loss of accessibility to Mount Royal, says a group charged with promoting and protecting the mountain.
  “Accessibility is reduced, communications are somewhat confused and the pilot project is having an impact on safety,” said Helene Panaioti, the director of communications, advocacy and community engagement for Les amis de la montagne.
  Since June, cars can drive up Camillien-Houd
  
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• Montreal weather: Sun moves in for the weekend

  10-08-2018 12:00 via montrealgazette.com
  Sunny all day, and you’ll have more of the same for the weekend.
  Environment Canada predicts a high of 26 Celsius, a Humidex of 30 and a UV index of 8 or very high.
  Tonight: Clear and expect an overnight low of 16 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 @fawaz_hajj.
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• Montreal real estate: Are shopping malls key to densifying suburbs?

  10-08-2018 12:00 via montrealgazette.com
  The problem with so many suburbs is that there’s just no there there.
  That’s how Vancouver urbanist Brent Toderian, who has worked extensively on transit-oriented development projects in cities across Canada and around the world, described the central problem with ill-considered densification projects in the suburbs.
  As I mentioned in last week’s column, Montreal’s regional plan has identified densification in suburban areas near métro stations, bus loops and futur
  
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• Pharmaprix to start selling fresh produce in Montreal stores

  10-08-2018 11:00 via montrealgazette.com
  Montreal’s grocery market is about to get a little more competitive — pharmacy chain Pharmaprix is starting to sell fresh produce at several Montreal-area stores.
  Six local stores now have the expanded grocery sections and the company plans to increase that to 11 before the end of the year, said Éric Bouchard, a senior vice-president at Pharmaprix.
  After that, the company plans to evaluate the results, “and see if there’s any adjustments that we need to m
  
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• Rogers Cup: Simona Halep pulls double duty to reach quarter-finals

  10-08-2018 04:59 via montrealgazette.com
  The forecast for Friday calls for a sunny day and that’s good news for the organizers of the Rogers Cup Canadian Open women’s tennis championships.
  For the second consecutive night, rain threatened to wipe out play, but the light drizzle stopped in time for top-seed Simona Halep to claim the final spot in the quarterfinals.
  Halep defeated 13th-seeded Venus Williams, who provided only token opposition after suffering a left leg injury in the fourth game of the first set. It was clear
  
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• Remembering Fredy Villanueva: 'It's unjust that he was killed'

  10-08-2018 04:54 via montrealgazette.com
  The 23 photographs strung alongside a Montreal North parking lot told the story of Fredy Villanueva, shot and killed by a Montreal police officer in the same place 10 years ago Thursday.
  There’s a baby Villanueva with fat crayons, drawing a red flower. In others he poses while ice skating, or blows out 15 candles on a bright blue and white birthday cake. They are the everyday artifacts of a child’s life that are precious to a family: a teenage Villanueva sits at a computer in a
  
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• Summer camp taught Montreal academic a lifetime of values

  10-08-2018 02:45 via montrealgazette.com
  Montrealer Marina Sharpe tends not to talk much about her work. She says she doesn’t want to be that person in a social situation who takes five or 10 minutes to explain what she does.
  Suffice it to say she’s a distinguished academic doing research into issues of public international law, specifically the human rights of refugees, and that she’s doing her work to help others and “to make a difference in the world.”
  And this month there has been some public recogniti
  
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• Quebec medical specialists' agreement has reduced obstacles: Francoeur

  10-08-2018 02:29 via montrealgazette.com
  With the provincial election approaching, Dr. Diane Francoeur, head of the Quebec medical specialists’ association, said Thursday that she prefers co-operation with the government but isn’t averse to a good fight.
  The president of the Fédération des médecins spécialistes du Québec (FMSQ) defended the specialists’ pay agreement while presenting the second phase of the group’s action plan to increase access to specialized care and ser
  
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• Sinorama Corp. might challenge non-renewal of travel agency licence

  10-08-2018 01:55 via montrealgazette.com
  The parent company of Vacances Sinorama says it is reviewing its options and might challenge the decision by Quebec’s consumer protection office not to renew its subsidiary’s travel agency licence.
  The company made the statement in a short press release issued on Wednesday evening.
  Sinorama Corporation said it is co-operating with the Office de la protection du consommateur and a temporary administrator appointed by the OPC to ensure that consumers who purchased trips throu
  
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• Four Montreal contenders for Canada's Best New Restaurants title

  10-08-2018 01:08 via montrealgazette.com
  Four Montreal restaurants are among the 30 contenders for enRoute’s annual list of the country’s 10 best new restaurants.
  To produce the longlist, Air Canada sent its critic to restaurants recommended by local food scene figures, including Montreal Gazette critic Lesley Chesterman.
  The winners will be announced Oct. 25 in Toronto.
  The Montreal contingent is as follows:
  Bistro Rosie
  Bistro Rosie’s Sophie Duchastel de Montrouge and Jeremy Daniel-Six are familiar to Montreal gourm
  
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• New house prices in Montreal up one per cent in June, StatsCan says

  10-08-2018 00:38 via montrealgazette.com
  The price of a new house rose faster in the Montreal region during the month of June than in any other Canadian metropolitan area, a Statistics Canada index suggests.
  The New Housing Price Index rose one per cent from May to June in the Montreal region after remaining essentially flat for four months, the federal statistics agency said on Thursday.
  The index, which uses December 2016 as a base, was 103.5 for the Montreal region in June. That suggests the price of a new house has risen 3.5 p
  
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• 'We have to be more solid, and it starts with me,' Als QB Manziel says

  10-08-2018 00:16 via montrealgazette.com
  Had Johnny Manziel opened on Broadway, this one-man play might have closed after one performance, given the four interceptions he threw last week against Hamilton.
  Fortunately, that’s not how professional football works. Not only does Manziel, the Alouettes’ starting quarterback, require more assistance from his supporting cast, head coach Mike Sherman has little choice but to continue playing him, given the injuries to Vernon Adams, Matt Shiltz and Jeff Mathews.
  What will the second
  
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• Poll: Would you give an Amazon delivery person access to your home or car?

  10-08-2018 00:05 via montrealgazette.com
  Recently a Montreal couple had an unpleasant surprise when an Amazon delivery person entered their home uninvited to drop off a package.
  The couple was not pleased.
  In the U.S., Amazon has a program called Amazon Key that, once installed, gives delivery people the ability to have keyless entry to a customer’s home and their vehicle’s trunk.
  The system also gives the homeowner a live view of their front door, the ability to create guest profiles for recurring
  
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