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• Pedestrian dies after being hit by truck in St-Laurent

  22-08-2018 23:52 via montrealgazette.com
  A woman died after being hit by a truck in St-Laurent Wednesday afternoon.
  Montreal police say the woman was attempting to cross Marcel-Laurin Blvd. at Thimens Blvd. around 3:20 p.m. She was believed to have been crossing the street when the truck attempted to turn into a nearby construction site.
  Police say both the pedestrian and the truck had been obeying traffic lights at the time. Inspectors with Montreal police’s collision investigation division were dispatched to the scene to determ
  
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• Canadiens on the bubble: Nikita Scherbak in tough to earn roster spot

  22-08-2018 23:21 via montrealgazette.com
  The Canadiens are going into training camp with more bodies than they need to fill the 23 roster spots when their season begins on Oct. 3 against the Maple Leafs in Toronto. This is the first in a five-part series about players who are on the bubble to earn a roster spot.
  At 22, right-winger Nikita Scherbak is at the crossroads of his career. A first-round draft choice in 2014, Scherbak has played 29 NHL games and it appeared he had made a breakthrough after he was recalled from the AHL’s
  
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• Jack White found a new look on tour thanks to Montreal's Lüz Studio

  22-08-2018 23:08 via montrealgazette.com
  The entire visual design for Jack White’s Boarding House Reach world tour was created in a nondescript building in Rosemont.
  Matthieu Larivée’s Lüz Studio has done the production and lighting design for tours featuring Broken Bells, Panic! At the Disco and Foster the People, but snaring the job to create the visuals for White’s tour is the biggest gig yet for the happening Montreal company.
  White’s tour kicked off in April in his hometown of Detroit and touche
  
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• If elected, Québec solidaire vows to legalize jiu-jitsu competitions

  22-08-2018 22:58 via montrealgazette.com
  On the eve of Quebec’s general election, Québec solidaire has announced its support for the legalization of jiu-jitsu competitions.
  As a result of a 2013 amendment to the Canadian Criminal Code, only combat sports recognized by the International Olympic Committee are legal.
  Provinces, however, can legalize and regulate non-Olympic disciplines. Québec solidaire indicated in a statement on its website Wednesday that it would do just that with jiu-jitsu.
  While promoters have att
  
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• Instead of a campaign bus, Quebec's Green Party is using an old Civic

  22-08-2018 21:59 via montrealgazette.com
  Ahead of the official campaign launch in Quebec’s general election, the province’s parties are releasing details of their slogans and campaign vehicles.
  Generally, that means bus, buses and more buses — all festooned in party colours and logos.
  But the Green Party of Quebec has taken a different tact and announced that its campaign vehicle will be an old, blue Honda Civic.
  “Rather than booking a bus for our tour,” the party wrote on its Facebook page, “we&rsqu
  
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• Former hostage in Montreal Mafia dispute paroled in pot-smuggling case

  22-08-2018 21:54 via montrealgazette.com
  A Montreal man who was once held hostage for more than a month as part of a dispute that involved the highest levels of the Montreal Mafia has been granted parole on a lengthy sentence he received four years ago for smuggling cannabis into the U.S.
  Nicola (Nick) Varacalli, 70, was returned to Canada on June 8 by U.S. authorities after his application for a transfer to continue serving the 10-year prison term he received in 2014 in a U.S. court was accepted. The transfer was very beneficial to Va
  
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• PQ proposing $39-million lunch program for elementary schools

  22-08-2018 21:18 via montrealgazette.com
  Jean-François Lisée informally kicked off the provincial election Wednesday by making a sandwich; he cobbled together ham, cheese, iceberg lettuce, tomatoes and mayonnaise between two slices of whole wheat bread.
  Making lunches for your kids can be fun, he said, but eventually it will drive you crazy. And so, as his first promise of the six-week campaign, the Parti Québécois leader says he wants to liberate parents from the tyranny of sliced bread and juice boxes.
  The
  
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• PQ in favour of accommodating Muslim students: Jean-François Lisée

  22-08-2018 20:58 via montrealgazette.com
  Jean-François Lisée says he would be in favour of a plan to postpone a province-wide elementary school exam next year because it interferes with a Muslim holiday.
  The PQ leader weighed in Wednesday on a recent spat between a Montreal school board and the education ministry over the timing of a French exam.
  “The goal in this is for kids to succeed,” said Lisée, on the eve of Thursday’s provincial election campaign launch. “When a school board makes its
  
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• Police seek info about woman possibly forced into car in Griffintown

  22-08-2018 20:57 via montrealgazette.com
  Montreal police are asking for the public’s help to explain an event that took place at 8:20 p.m. on Aug. 20 in Griffintown.
  Witnesses saw a woman walking west on Workman St., near Dominion St. when a car pulled up next to her, a man stepped out of the vehicle and put the woman in the front seat of the car. The man got into the back seat of the vehicle, which went south on Dominion St., turned right on Notre-Dame St. and continued westward. According to information obtained by the police,
  
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• Anthony Calvillo's retirement began Alouettes' spiral into CFL cellar

  22-08-2018 19:18 via montrealgazette.com
  These are indeed troubled times for the Montreal Alouettes.
  They’ve lost six straight games and appear destined to miss the playoffs for a fourth straight season. It’s been a quick fall from grace for a club that long ruled the East Division and was one of the CFL’s model franchises.
  From 2000-12, the Alouettes finished atop the East nine times. They appeared in eight Grey Cup games, winning three.
  “(Owner) Bob Wetenhall did a great job of helping to save the CFL and the
  
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• Montreal North borough to euthanize dog that bit six people

  22-08-2018 19:16 via montrealgazette.com
  The Montreal North borough will euthanize a dog that bit six people last weekend.
  Borough officials have signed an order to euthanize the dog and are expected to deliver it to the owner on Wednesday, a press release from the borough said.
  The Montreal SPCA is caring for the dog and making sure he won’t hurt anyone else, the press release noted. Montreal North will assume the costs for euthanizing the animal.
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• Man charged with Laval murder, home invasion begins trial September

  22-08-2018 18:53 via montrealgazette.com
  A man charged with killing a teacher after invading his Laval home more than a decade ago will see his first-degree murder trial begin at the Montreal courthouse next month.
  Septimus Neverson, 55, faces charges related to the death of Jacques Sénécal, a 62-year-old painter and a teacher who was fatally shot inside his home in Laval’s Ste-Dorothée district on July 20, 2006. The accused was in court Wednesday morning for a pretrial hearing held before Superior Court
  
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• P.K. Subban trounced by retired NFL star Terrell Owens in footrace

  22-08-2018 18:49 via montrealgazette.com
  P.K. Subban, like many 29 year olds with Instagram accounts, is wont to post clips of his workouts.
  The nature of those workouts, however, is far from average.
  To pick but one example at not-exactly random, the former Montreal Canadiens star took on retired NFL receiver Terrell Owens in a footrace, because why not?
  As for the outcome on the track, suffice it to say that congratulations are in order for the 44-year-old Hall of Famer.
  #Subbanator vs #HallofFamer …. Hall of Fame always
  
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• PQ kicks off campaign with promise of affordable lunch for every child

  22-08-2018 18:24 via montrealgazette.com
  Jean François Lisée kicked off the provincial elections Wednesday by making a sandwich; he cobbled together ham, cheese, iceberg lettuce, tomatoes and mayonnaise between two slices of whole wheat bread.
  Making lunches for your kids can be fun, he said, but eventually it’ll drive you crazy. And so, as his first promise of the six-week campaign, the Parti Québécois leader says he wants to liberate parents from the tyranny of sliced bread and juice boxes.
  The party
  
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• Fatal shooting shatters peace in quiet N.D.G. neighbourhood

  22-08-2018 18:04 via montrealgazette.com
  Witnesses described a chaotic scene in Notre-Dame-de-Grâce on Tuesday night when Montreal police shot and killed a 23-year-old man who they say threatened officers with a knife.
  About 8:15 p.m., Montreal police were called to the corner of Montclair Ave. and de Maisonneuve Blvd. where two men were fighting.
  Events unfolded right outside Gabriel Cyr’s apartment. Cyr heard screaming: a man’s voice shouting “shoot me,” followed by the sound of someone speaking fra
  
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• Opinion: It's time to get Canada off Saudi oil

  22-08-2018 18:01 via montrealgazette.com
  Canada’s spat with Saudi Arabia raises an obvious question. Why is Canada, sitting on the world’s third-largest oil reserves, importing some 87,000 barrels of oil per day from Saudi Arabia, a country with a terrible civil rights record?
  Saudi Arabia is some 9,625 kilometres from Quebec, where Saudi oil is imported to Canada. Wouldn’t it be nice if Eastern Canada got its oil from a democratic country with an excellent record on civil rights and environmental protection, lik
  
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• The Montreal Canadiens are getting a new centre ice logo this season

  22-08-2018 17:56 via montrealgazette.com
  You may notice something is different at the Bell Centre this season.
  No, not the team; short of swapping Alex Galchenyuk for Max Domi, it’s pretty much the same as last season.
  The change, you see, is not so much happening on the ice as underneath it.
  “We have something special this year,” ice expert François Martindale explained in the team’s Instagram story. “We have a full logo. We used to have two small ones, now we have a big one.”
  Indeed, the ico
  
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• SAQ strike: These are the 19 Montreal stores staying open

  22-08-2018 17:48 via montrealgazette.com
  The Société des alcools du Québec’s unionized workers walked off the job this morning in the second of six possible strike days.
  The union’s contract expired in March 2017. At the end of June, the SAQ’s 5,500 unionized employees voted 91 per cent in favour of the six strike days.
  Seventy-three SAQ stores across the province will be staffed by managers and remain open during the strike on Aug. 22.
  The following Montreal locations are still open:Beaubien
  
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• 'Sérieusement': This isn't an acid flashback, it's the PQ campaign bus

  22-08-2018 17:04 via montrealgazette.com
  Fish, birds, a lighthouse and a construction crane. Hot pink ribbons and streaks of sea-foam green. A woman plays a guitar that could be a rhubarb stalk, while her hair morphs into long streams of water.
  It’s not a game of Exquisite corpse — it’s the Parti Québécois’s new electoral campaign bus.
  The PQ unveiled the bus on Tuesday, and it is colourful.
  “To all those who want to make Quebecers believe that this election is played out in advance
  
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• Hundreds line up for opening of IKEA store in Quebec City

  22-08-2018 15:16 via montrealgazette.com
  QUEBEC — Several hundred people were lined up early Wednesday morning for the opening of the new IKEA store in Quebec City.
  Some had begun to line up on Tuesday afternoon, and spent the night there, despite rain.
  The first 300 people to enter the store were to receive a $50 gift card. After that, draws will be held for $1,000 gift cards.
  IKEA has 14 stores in Canada. The Quebec store is located in Quebec City’s Ste-Foy district.
  The Swedish chain previously had a store in Quebec City
  
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• SAQ: Everything you need to know about today's strike

  22-08-2018 15:13 via montrealgazette.com
  Why are SAQ stores closed today?
  Unionized employees of the Société des alcools du Québec are on strike today. They will be bussed to different protesting locations around the province. In a press release posted to their website Friday, the union that represents SAQ employees said that for this strike they will be targeting the government, not the employer.
  “The message will be clear: we want the government to give the mandate to the SAQ to settle the negotia
  
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• While you were sleeping: New treatments, new support, new homes

  22-08-2018 14:15 via montrealgazette.com
  Catch up on the latest news while your coffee brews.
  Promising drug trial for rare cancer in young children comes to Montreal
  A promising but experimental therapy for neuroblastoma that was previously only available in the United States will soon be offered at Ste-Justine Hospital and the Montreal Children’s Hospital. The experimental drug, DFMO, is a repurposed medication that for decades has been used to treat African sleeping sickness. Only children whose cancer is in remission are
  
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• New LGBTQ2+ support group to launch in Hudson

  22-08-2018 14:04 via montrealgazette.com
  Last weekend, rainbow Pride flags flew in solidarity with the LGBTQ2+ community in several places Off-Island, including MP Peter Schiefke’s constituency office in Vaudreuil-Dorion and at Hudson town hall.
  Schiefke was joined at the Vaudreuil-Doron ceremony by Très-Saint-Rédempteur Mayor Julie Lemieux, the first known transgender person to be elected as a mayor in Canada.
  Yet despite Pride flag-raising ceremonies and the historic election of a transgender mayor in the region,
  
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• Funeral for John Ciaccia to be held Sept. 7 in Montreal

  22-08-2018 13:51 via montrealgazette.com
  The funeral of longtime Liberal MNA John Ciaccia will take place Sept. 7 at Notre-Dame-de-la-Défense church in Montreal.
  Ciaccia died Aug. 7 at his home in Beaconsfield. He was 85.
  The family of the former politician will receive condolences at the Centre funéraire Côte-des-Neiges the day before the funeral. Burial will be held at Notre-Dame-des-Neiges Cemetery after the service.
  Ciaccia was an influential cabinet minister in the governments of Robert Bourassa
  
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• BEI to investigate after fatal shooting by police in N.D.G.

  22-08-2018 13:17 via montrealgazette.com
  A 23-year-old man died after he was shot by a Montreal police officer in Notre-Dame-de-Grâce Tuesday evening.
  Police received a call at about 8:15 p.m. and were sent to the intersection of Montclair Ave. and de Maisonneuve Blvd. When the officers arrived, they saw two men fighting, a police spokesperson said.
  One of the men involved in the fight turned on an officer with a knife and was shot by police. He was declared dead in hospital late Tuesday night.
  Quebec’s police watchdog
  
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• New LGTBQ2+ support group to launch in Hudson

  22-08-2018 13:00 via montrealgazette.com
  Last weekend, rainbow Pride flags flew in solidarity with the LGTBQ2+ community in several places Off-Island, including MP Peter Schiefke’s constituency office in Vaudreuil-Dorion and at Hudson town hall.
  Schiefke was joined at the Vaudreuil-Doron ceremony by Très-Saint-Rédempteur Mayor Julie Lemieux, the first known transgender person to be elected as a mayor in Canada.
  Yet despite Pride flag-raising ceremonies and the historic election of a transgender mayor in the region,
  
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• Karate for special needs children comes to the West Island

  22-08-2018 12:11 via montrealgazette.com
  When it comes to welcoming children with special needs into his adapted karate classes, André Langevin has one rule. No child will be turned away.
  “Sometimes parents leave with their child after a few minutes because (he or she) is making noise or having a tantrum,” Langevin said. “(Noise and tantrums) don’t bother me at all. It’s normal to be anxious at the beginning. Parents should give me at least one month to work with the child.”
  It’s the fir
  
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• Promising drug trial for rare cancer in young children comes to Montreal

  22-08-2018 12:00 via montrealgazette.com
  An Ontario family whose son has a rare childhood cancer will be travelling to Montreal, joining a handful of Canadian patients who are eligible for a promising but experimental therapy that until now was only available in the United States. 
  For Leslie and Ludger Hacault, whose son Marcus, 6, has been battling neuroblastoma for more than two years, the Montreal site is a blessing following two harrowing years in which their family life was turned upside down.
  “We are so grateful,
  
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• Montreal weather: A bit wet in the morning

  22-08-2018 12:00 via montrealgazette.com
  A few showers ending around noon, with a risk of a thunderstorm.
  Winds south at 20 km/h, gusting to 40 km/h. Cloudy early in the afternoon with winds becoming west at 20 km/h, and gusting to 40 km/h.
  Environment Canada predicts a high of 22 Celsius, a Humidex of 30 and a UV index of 4 or moderate.
  Tonight: Clearing around midnight with winds west at 20 km/h, becoming light in the evening. The overnight low is expected to be 13 C.
  Don’t forget to submit your photos of Mo
  
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• Missing children: 13 years later, mom still hopes Mélina will come home

  22-08-2018 12:00 via montrealgazette.com
  FARNHAM — Françoise Algier parks her blue Dodge Caravan next to the park and looks out her window. Pinched between her dashboard and windshield is a photo of her daughter Mélina. A smaller one hangs from her sun visor.
  Stepping out from her car, she motions to the high school across the street.
  “This is where I left her,” Algier, 61, says as she looks around. “They had made a fire pit in the park. There were dog sleds behind the school.”
  Thir
  
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• Living in a multi-generational home is often a question of culture

  22-08-2018 12:00 via montrealgazette.com
  When Faisal Ahmad returned to Montreal after studying and working in the United States, he moved back to his parents’ home. When he got married, his wife joined them. Soon afterward, so did their infant son.
  “I wanted my young children to be close to their grandparents, and for their grandparents to be close to them,” Ahmad said. “And I wanted to be close to my parents. It was this idea of all of us being together.”
  But Ahmad’s parents lived in a compact home,
  
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• Citizens say paid parking in the Pointe-Claire Village not an option

  22-08-2018 12:00 via montrealgazette.com
  Introduce paid parking in the Pointe-Claire Village at your peril. That was the consensus of the 30 residents and merchants who attended a recent consultation on the parking situation in the village.
  “There will be torches and pitchforks in the streets,” resident Ron Williams joked. The comment was made in jest, but message itself was no punch line. 
  Williams reminded people of the all-out revolt in Ste-Anne-de-Bellevue in 2006 when 190 parking meters were installed in an attemp
  
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• Construction begins on 260-unit townhouse complex in Vaudreuil-Dorion

  22-08-2018 11:30 via montrealgazette.com
  Amenity rooms, pools and other community spaces have long been a part of many condominium developments, yet they are less common in townhouse projects.
  But a new project now under construction in Vaudreuil-Dorion will boast not only a clubhouse and pool, but also a private park with a playground — features designed to bring neighbours together.
  Developer Robert Cohen said with Linq, a 260-unit townhouse project between Cité-des-Jeunes Blvd. and Jean-Béliveau St., he aims to o
  
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• Dog that attacked children in Montreal North will be euthanized: reports

  22-08-2018 04:45 via montrealgazette.com
  The dog involved in multiple attacks in a Montreal North home last weekend was known to be aggressive, Radio-Canada reported Tuesday.
  The police report of the incident says the dog, described as a one-and-a-half-year-old American pit bull weighing 70 pounds, was supposed to wear a muzzle 24 hours a day because of its known aggressive behaviour, according to Radio-Canada. The report also reportedly says that during the short time between Saturday and Sunday afternoon when the dog was being c
  
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• Gas price watch: Montrealers to pay more

  22-08-2018 04:15 via montrealgazette.com
  Gas prices jumped late Tuesday at Montreal-area gas stations to hit a high of $1.439 a litre.
  Earlier in the day, prices varied from a low of $1.269 a litre at a Ultramar on Montée de Liesse, to a high of $1.439 at a Petro-Canada station in Ahuntsic-Cartierville borough, according to essencemontreal.com.
  Midday at most Costco gas bars in the Montreal area, the price of a litre was $1.274.
  The price of a barrel of crude oil was US$66.06 at the end of the trading day on the NYMEX index, in
  
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• Liberals have chosen candidates for Westmount and Jacques Cartier

  22-08-2018 03:48 via montrealgazette.com
  QUEBEC — Quebec’s Liberals have finally decided the names of their candidates in the ridings of Westmount—St-Louis and Jacques Cartier.
  After several months of behind-the-scenes interviews and discussions, Jennifer Maccarone, president of the Quebec English School Boards Association, is to be named Wednesday as the candidate in Westmount—St-Louis.
  And Greg Kelley, son of former cabinet minister Geoff Kelley, who was responsible for native affairs, will follow in his fathe
  
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• Montreal police shoot man in Notre-Dame-de-Grâce, causing serious injuries

  22-08-2018 03:38 via montrealgazette.com
  A man is in hospital after a Montreal police officer shot him in the Notre-Dame-de-Grâce neighbourhood.
  Police received a call at about 8:15 Tuesday evening and were sent to the intersection of Montclair Ave. and de Maisonneuve Blvd. When they arrived, they saw a fight taking place, a police spokesperson said.
  Police say one of the men involved in the fight faced a police officer and had a knife. Police then fired a gun toward the man.
  The victim, who is in his twenties, was rush
  
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• Baie-d'Urfé fears more traffic because of Ste-Anne-de-Bellevue project

  22-08-2018 02:00 via montrealgazette.com
  Ste-Anne-de-Bellevue has barred drivers from taking a “shortcut” that clogs the village’s streets and increases response times by emergency vehicles, the town’s mayor said.
  In a one-year pilot project, drivers will be prohibited from turning left onto Highway 20 westbound from Anciens-Combattants Blvd. The ban applies between 4 p.m. and 6 p.m. Monday to Friday, starting on Sept. 17.
  Cars travel south on Anciens-Combattants Blvd. and try to turn right onto Highway 20 to ge
  
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• Former police spokesman Ian Lafrenière will run for CAQ in Vachon

  22-08-2018 00:32 via montrealgazette.com
  Montreal police inspector Ian Lafrenière has made it official. He is running for office in the Quebec provincial riding of Vachon, under the banner of the Coalition Avenir Québec.
  CAQ leader François Legault said Tuesday that the former head of the police communications division, along with former prosecutor Sonia LeBel will promote “the maintenance of law, order and of security.”
  “To have elected officials like Ian and Sonia, it will bring people who under
  
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• Dog that attacked children in Montreal known to be aggressive: report

  22-08-2018 00:21 via montrealgazette.com
  The dog involved in multiple attacks in a Montreal North home last weekend was known to be aggressive, Radio-Canada reported Tuesday.
  According to Radio-Canada, the police report of the incident says the dog, described as a one-and-a-half-year-old American pit bull weighing 70 pounds, was meant to wear a muzzle 24 hours a day because of its known aggressive behaviour. It also reportedly says that during the short time between Saturday and Sunday afternoon that the dog was being cared for by
  
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• Public transit users won't be spared gridlock despair in Montreal area

  22-08-2018 00:05 via montrealgazette.com
  Major construction projects will once again cause major gridlock in late summer and fall, but there’s more bad news: those projects are now also hampering public transit users.
  Traffic planners in the region met the media Tuesday to give their annual rundown on major projects before the back-to-school period. This year, there was a new player at the table, the Réseau express métropolitain. The five-year construction period for the city’s new $6.3-billion driverless
  
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• Passenger accuses Air Canada of dangerously poor lost-baggage security

  22-08-2018 00:00 via montrealgazette.com
  An Air Canada passenger is worried about the airline’s safety protocols after he said hundreds of bags were left unmonitored in an open space at Montreal’s Trudeau International Airport.
  Lachine resident Kyle Rougeau said he first noticed piles of uncollected luggage Saturday morning when he arrived in Montreal from Toronto, where his flight had been delayed due to thunderstorms. After waiting for an hour at baggage claim, Rougeau was told by an Air Canada agent that his bags ha
  
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