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• Vanquishing Crew at home Saturday crucial to Impact's playoff hopes

  05-10-2018 23:42
  Midfielder Saphir Taider believes the Montreal Impact need to win their three remaining games this season if they have any hope of making the MLS playoffs.
  With the season on the line, Taider says Montreal can’t drop a single point — starting Saturday at Saputo Stadium (3 p.m., TSN1, TSN4, TVA Sports, TSN 690 Radio) against the Columbus Crew — if the team wants to play playoff soccer in November.
  The playoff race in the Eastern Conference is effectively down to two teams &
  
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• New interim Liberal leader Pierre Arcand takes aim at CAQ and QS

  05-10-2018 23:35 via montrealgazette.com
  QUEBEC — Five days after its historic election loss, Quebec’s Liberals have picked a new interim leader to hold down the fort in the coming months.
  Emerging from a morning caucus meeting, Liberal caucus chairperson Filomena Rotiroti announced Mont-Royal—Outremont MNA Pierre Arcand has been selected. He was elected by a secret vote of the caucus.
  A veteran politician and former cabinet minister, Arcand immediately told reporters the Liberals plan to act as serious oppositio
  
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• Montreal councillor calls on Legault to raise smoking age to 21

  05-10-2018 23:21 via montrealgazette.com
  Montreal city councillor Marvin Rotrand is calling on Quebec’s premier-designate to raise the legal age for purchasing cigarettes to 21 and to increase taxes on tobacco products.
  The push for the age increase coincides with the new provincial administration’s promise to raise the legal age for buying cannabis to 21.
  “It will be very difficult to explain to the population that you can buy tobacco products at a corner store at 18, but you have to be 21 to purchase marijuana in a
  
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• Rosemont is trying to save its 561 tiny shoebox homes from extinction

  05-10-2018 21:48
  “There was an old woman who lived in a shoe … box house.”
  – with apologies to Mother Goose.
  You’ve seen them around, perhaps even done a double take as you passed one by. They seem like mirages, picturesque relics from another era — which is precisely what they are.
  Single-story “shoebox” homes, built at the turn of the 20th century, dot the Montreal cityscape, squeezed between duplexes and triplexes.
  But there are fewer than there used to be, and
  
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• Roast turkey the old-fashioned way (a beginner's guide)

  05-10-2018 21:37
  Editor’s note: This story, an abridged version of which you have before you, was originally published in December 1997 in the runup to Christmas. If you’re fixing your first holiday turkey feast, these timeless basics know no season. Happy cooking and holiday feasting.
  MONTREAL – Danny Pitre’s mouth waters when he reminisces about the turkey dinners at his grandmother’s house. “It was always a festive occasion, a real spread, and my grandmother made this fant
  
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• 18-month jail term for sending bomb threats to Concordia University

  05-10-2018 21:26
  Hisham Saadi, who sent fake bomb threats that caused Concordia University to evacuate three of its buildings last year, has been sentenced to a prison term of 18 months.
  Quebec Court Judge Mélanie Hébert said Saadi — a student at the time — was thinking only of himself and did not consider the consequences of his actions when he sent letters to security at Concordia University and several Montreal media outlets.
  Saadi’s prison term will be followed by a period of
  
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• Québec solidaire ready to be the 'guard dog' against the CAQ

  05-10-2018 20:43
  Still glowing from her party’s election night gains, Manon Massé said Friday she’s ready to act as “a guard dog” against the Coalition Avenir Québec government.
  Massé, Québec solidaire’s co-spokesperson, said that while the Liberals and Parti Québecois are bogged down in leadership races and soul searching, her team is ready to fight the CAQ.
  “Their energy will be focused inward,” said Massé about the Liberals an
  
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• What the Puck: Youthful Habs show promise, but team is short on talent

  05-10-2018 20:40
  O.K., everybody take a Valium!
  That’s a great one-liner from René Lévesque in one of Aislin’s most famous cartoons, published at the height of anglo hysteria after the first election of the Parti Québécois in 1976. But I couldn’t help but think of that phrase Friday morning as the entire city appeared to be preparing for what Habs fans were dreaming was that inevitable Stanley Cup parade next spring. I exaggerate, but only slightly.
  You’d think
  
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• New 58-storey residential highrise will challenge Montreal's skyline

  05-10-2018 20:15
  Construction and real-estate development firm Broccolini unveiled more details on Friday of what will appear on the $100-million plot of downtown real estate it purchased last January.
  Dubbed Victoria sur la Parc, the 58-storey highrise that promoters are calling the tallest residential building in the Montreal area will sit within the quadrilateral formed by Robert-Bourassa Blvd. (formerly University St.), and St-Jacques, Notre-Dame and Gauvin Sts. The tower will neighbour the 36-storey head of
  
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• Canadiens' Jesperi Kotkaniemi gets faceoff tips ahead of Penguins game

  05-10-2018 19:52
  PITTSBURGH — While Canadiens head coach Claude Julien said he’ll wait until Saturday morning to confirm his lineup for Saturday’s game against the Penguins, it appears that he will go with the same lineup that played Wednesday night in Toronto and that means Karl Alzner, Tomas Plekanec and Nikita Scherbak will be healthy scratches.
  The Canadiens practised for about an hour at PPG Paints Arena with an emphasis on special teams. There was some extra tutoring on faceoffs for rooki
  
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• Québec solidaire starts the work of 'true opposition'

  05-10-2018 19:49 via montrealgazette.com
  Fresh off its explosion into the political mainstream, Québec solidaire got to work Friday in Montreal.
  The party held its first caucus meeting Friday in Montreal, gathering all 10 candidates swept into office in Monday’s election.
  Though the bulk of QS’s winners hail from downtown, the Mile End and Plateau, it also won two Quebec City ridings, as well as districts in Sherbrooke and Rouyn-Noranda.
  After Monday’s win — which saw QS overtake the Parti Québ&eac
  
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• Watch: Is François Legault’s economic plan good for Quebec businesses?

  05-10-2018 19:33 via montrealgazette.com
  Less than a week after the Quebec provincial election, some business groups are already expressing concern about what the new CAQ government means for the economy.
  Montreal Gazette business reporter Jacob Serebrin talks about Quebec Premier-designate Francois Legault’s economic plan and its implications for the business community.
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• Montreal police seek suspect in St. Michel sexual assault

  05-10-2018 19:15
  Montreal police are trying to track down a suspect in connection with a case of break and enter, sexual assault and gross indecency in the St-Michel district.
  On Aug. 3 at about 12:40 p.m., police say, the suspect tried to kiss his female victim outside her home on 10th Ave., then forced his way inside before fleeing after the woman called out for her husband.
  The suspect was later seen masturbating in an alley.
  Some time later, the victim saw the suspect in a local store.
  He is described as a f
  
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• Macpherson: Quebec is a house divided against itself

  05-10-2018 19:15 via montrealgazette.com
  Quebec society is a house divided against itself, not only in its politics, but between its people. And the divisions, along lines of geography, culture and values, were starkly exposed in this week’s general election.
  In the seat distribution, you can see the divisions between culturally diverse Montreal and French Quebec, non-francophones and francophones, and inclusiveness and cultural nationalism.
  And it’s Montreal, non-francophones and inclusiveness that have ended up on the los
  
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• Quebec Liberal Party chooses MNA Pierre Arcand as interim leader

  05-10-2018 19:01 via montrealgazette.com
  QUEBEC — Five days after its historic election loss, Quebec’s Liberals have picked a new interim leader to hold down the fort in the coming months.
  Emerging from a morning caucus meeting, Liberal caucus chairperson Filomena Rotiroti announced Mont Royal MNA Pierre Arcand has been selected. He was elected by a vote of the remaining 32 members of the Liberal caucus.
  Arcand said the Liberals will be a strong opposition.
  “We will rebuild the party and be strong in all regions
  
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• Quebec ban on religious symbols would be 'catastrophic': anglo groups

  05-10-2018 18:59 via montrealgazette.com
  Disturbing, disruptive, divisive, catastrophic.
  Those are some of the words the head of a network of Quebec anglophone groups used Friday to describe the incoming Coalition Avenir Québec government’s plan to ban the wearing of religious symbols on the job by public employees in positions of authority.
  Under Premier-designate François Legault’s proposed new law, elementary and high school teachers, police officers, prosecutors, judges and prison guards would have to remo
  
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• Opinion: It's time for anglos to belatedly accept the CAQ's outreach

  05-10-2018 18:18
  The Coalition Avenir Québec’s flirt with the anglophone community earlier this year never blossomed into much of a relationship. Despite intentions by the CAQ to broaden its base to include anglo participation, as well as our community’s own frustration with being taken for granted by the Quebec Liberal Party, any initiative to consolidate relations quickly fell apart once the election campaign began.
  This election was free of any angst about separation or the fear of electing
  
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• Centaur Theatre at 50: golden age for a Montreal institution

  05-10-2018 18:15
  Just as it did in its very first production, Centaur Theatre is taking us to school five decades on.
  Inaugurated in 1968, the Centaur launched in 1969 with an adaptation of The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, Muriel Spark’s classic novel set in a posh Scottish girls’ school. Now its golden-anniversary season opens with Tarell Alvin McCraney’s Choir Boy, which is set in a Chicago prep school and tells the story of a young gay student making his way through Obama’s era of hope a
  
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• Bill Zacharkiw's Wines of the Week: Oct. 5, 2018

  05-10-2018 18:00
  Every week, Bill Zacharkiw identifies his top wine picks available at the SAQ and offers ideas for food pairings.
  Under $15
  Catalunya 2016, Sangre de Toro, Torres, Spain red, $12.65, SAQ # 6585. Always one of the better inexpensive reds at the SAQ. The latest vintage of this Torres classic seems even silkier and drier than previous vintages. Loaded with red fruits. Just enough tannin to give it some structure. This drinks so easy. Residual sugar: 2 g/L. Grape varieties: garnacha, cariñena
  
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• Bill Zacharkiw: Visiting Armenia, the cradle of wine culture

  05-10-2018 18:00
  When I told people I was going to Armenia, most asked why. My response was that it was the birthplace of wine.The greater region of the Caucasus, the area between the Black and Caspian seas, is the cradle of vitis vinifera, the grape species used in winemaking. According to Vahe Keushguerian, referred to by some as the godfather of modern Armenian wine, genetic markers show that all vinifera is from this region.
  In 2007, an archeological site was discovered in Armenia that is known as the Areni-
  
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• The Right Chemistry: 'Chemicals' in hot dogs

  05-10-2018 17:30
  Spelling bees can be fun and educational, but the concept shouldn’t be hijacked to push misleading information. That is exactly what Maple Leaf Foods has done with television commercials that promote its line of processed meat products containing only “simple ingredients with names that you can pronounce.” The ads feature youngsters competing in a spelling bee who are stymied by the challenge of spelling “sodium diacetate.” They struggle, but fail. The message to vi
  
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• Montreal real estate sales hit 9-year high for September, extending hot streak

  05-10-2018 17:19
  Montreal’s real estate market is continuing its hot streak.
  The Greater Montreal Real Estate Board says residential sales rose eight per cent in September compared to the same month last year.
  The 3,220 sales represent a nine-year high for the month of September.
  The median price of single-family homes hit $336,000, up seven per cent year over year. Duplexes jumped six per cent to $504,00, while condominiums climbed four per cent to $263,000.
  Real estate board president Nathalie Begin says
  
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• Buchignani: The most hated words in F1 — 'team orders'

  05-10-2018 17:03
  Talk about a race to forget.
  When even the winner is left with a bitter taste, you know it’s been a bad day.
  Happily there is not much time to brood. Instead of the usual two-week break, Formula One gets right back to action this weekend at the Japanese Grand Prix.
  With five races to go, Lewis Hamilton arrives with a commanding 50-point lead in the drivers’ championship thanks to his win in Russia last weekend.
  If he steers his Mercedes to victory again in Suzuka — and who woul
  
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• Rookie Kotkaniemi earned his spot on Habs | HI/O Bonus

  05-10-2018 17:00
  In this bonus episode — Gazette sports columnists Stu Cowan, CBC Daybreak’s Jessica Rusnak, former Canadien Chris Nilan and host Adam Susser — discuss the Montreal Canadiens’ decision to keep Jesperi Kotkaniemi with the team to start the season.
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• Montreal 'a beguiling city,' says Gorillaz' Damon Albarn

  05-10-2018 17:00
  Ground control to Damon Albarn …
  The Gorillaz leader and former Blur frontman was calling from a studio in London, where he was putting the finishing touches on a new song, but he might as well have been on the line from another planet. The crackly cell reception and overseas delay made for a conversation that drifted in and out of intelligibility.
  Which was fitting for a guy who runs a cartoon band about a group of interstellar explorers wandering through the universe.
  “2018,&rdquo
  
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• Fall Fairs 2018: your annual guide to bazaars, sales and more

  05-10-2018 17:00
  Presenting our annual Fall Fairs roundup, guiding you to bazaars and gift tables where you can start holiday shopping, stock up on homemade treats and support community groups in the process.
  Oct. 5
  Fall bazaar, 9 a.m. to 9 p.m., Madre dei Cristiani Church, 7900 Turley St., LaSalle. New and used clothing, furniture, toys, books, baked goods, homemade pasta.
  Oct. 6
  Fall bazaar, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., Madre dei Cristiani Church, 7900 Turley St., LaSalle. New and used clothing, furniture, toys
  
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• Tough start for Vegas Golden Knights and Max Pacioretty

  05-10-2018 14:55
  After advancing to the Stanley Cup final as an expansion team, the Vegas Golden Knights had a tough start to the 2018-19 season Thursday night, losing 5-2 to the Philadelphia Flyers in front of a sellout crowd of 18,555 at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas.
  Former Canadiens captain Max Pacioretty, making his Golden Knights debut, was held pointless in 16:19 of ice time with one shot on goal and five hits, finishing minus-1.
  Wayne Simmonds scored twice for the Flyers, while Oskar Lindblom, Rob
  
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• While you were sleeping: Drunk birds keep flying into windows

  05-10-2018 13:47
  Here’s what happened while you were counting sheep — or having the time of your life at Elton John’s final show in Montreal.
  The body of a man that was floating in the St. Lawrence River was found Thursday night. Passersby saw the body floating near Macdonald Rd. on Île Ste-Hélène around 7:45 p.m. and called police. The body was fished out of the river by firefighters just after 9 p.m. An investigation is underway to try to determine the circu
  
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• Goodbye, Captain Fantastic: Elton John could do no wrong in his Montreal farewell

  05-10-2018 13:32
  Elton John had the Bell Centre from hello. From before hello, in fact.
  When you’ve had a career like the 71-year-old John’s and you’ve announced that your current tour will be your last, you’ve already won just by showing up. Paul Simon demonstrated it in the same building last June: a couple of dozen songs so popular they’re embedded in the culture, performed in good faith to an audience stoked further still by the thought they won’t be hearing them performed
  
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• Weekend traffic: Be thankful if your plans avoid the Turcot

  05-10-2018 13:00
  Among the many things to be thankful for this holiday Thanksgiving weekend, a break from traffic congestion in the Montreal region will not be among them.
  Transport Quebec and the federal corporation overseeing the island’s bridges are warning of weekend work on the Turcot Interchange and the Champlain and Honoré-Mercier Bridges.
  On the Mercier, lanes will be reduced to one in each direction from Friday at 10 p.m. until Tuesday at 5 a.m.
  Highway 15 northbound, just after the Champla
  
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• What's open and closed on Thanksgiving Monday

  05-10-2018 12:00
  Here’s a partial list of what’s open and closed on Monday, Oct. 8 —Thanksgiving Day.
  Federal and provincial government offices in Montreal will be closed.
  Montreal city offices will be closed, including borough and Accès Montréal offices. The municipal courthouse on Gosford St. will be closed.
  All parking restrictions and automated parking payment machines remain in effect, as usual.
  Canada Post: There will be no mail delivery or collection. However, some pos
  
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• Montreal weather: Sunny and cool

  05-10-2018 12:00
  Sunshine returns today, but it will be chilly.
  Environment Canada predicts it will be mainly sunny. Wind northeast 20 km/h. High 11. UV index 5 or moderate.
  Tonight: A few clouds. Low plus 3 with risk of frost.
  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 @etvoilacoralie.
  Quote of the day:Quebec must re
  
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• Montreal real estate: Development offers a balance of ‘magic’ and math

  05-10-2018 12:00
  For Montreal real estate developer Benjamin Sternthal, the ideal building project is a marriage of logic and vision: not just financially successful, but also, in some way, remarkable.
  “We believe in magic, and we believe in logic,” Sternthal said. “You can’t look at real estate development as an Excel model. You can’t forget you’re building for people.”
  To Sternthal, whose development company Kodem has spearheaded a wide variety of projects including sk
  
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• Body found in St. Lawrence River near Île Ste-Hélène

  05-10-2018 04:26
  The body of a man that was floating in the St. Lawrence River was found Thursday in Montreal.
  Passersby saw the body floating near Macdonald Rd. on Île Ste-Hélène around 7:45 p.m. and called police.
  The body was fished out of the river by firefighters just after 9 p.m.
  An investigation is underway to try to determine the circumstances of the man’s death.
  
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• Québecor launches new internet radio station QUB

  05-10-2018 03:39
  Radio listeners will have a new option to accompany them in the mornings: They can listen on their smartphones to Benoît Dutrizac, host of the morning show of the new digital radio platform QUB.
  Media giant Québecor launched, with great ceremony Thursday afternoon, this new platform that will broadcast live programming Monday to Friday only on the internet and via an app. Podcasts will also be available.
  The tone of the show should please a “Québecor audience&rdquo
  
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• Analysis: Couillard quits politics refusing to sell out minorities

  05-10-2018 03:09
  QUEBEC — As Quebec Liberals faced the stark reality of life in opposition and their once noble party lays in tatters, Philippe Couillard had a blunt yet statesman-like message for them and anyone else who governs Quebec society.
  The way Quebec (and, for that matter, any government elected by a majority) treats its minorities goes to the very heart of democracy, he said.
  In fact, as with the rights of women, the issue reveals whether a society is advancing morally or regressing. The issue c
  
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• #ICYMI: Protest against CAQ hijab ban, Couillard steps down, more news

  05-10-2018 01:40
  In Case You Missed It (#ICYMI) is a daily feature highlighting news in and around Montreal.
  Groups opposed to what they contend is the systemic racism that exists in Quebec and Canada will take to the streets in protest on Sunday, saying they are expecting “at least 1,000 people.”
  Read more here: As furor grows over CAQ hijab ban, anti-racism protest set for Sunday
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  Famed civil rights lawyer Julius Grey would help any groups or individuals fight an eventual law on r
  
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• Brendan Kelly: Time Out brings its entertainment guide to Montreal

  05-10-2018 01:17
  Time Out is coming to Montreal to launch an online and print publication.
  Time Out, which has alternative culture and entertainment guides in cities around the world, will be coming into the Montreal market near the end of 2018 with what a company spokesperson is calling “a soft launch”, meaning a low-key start. It will be only in French to begin but English content will eventually be added.
  Like all of the Time Out publications, Time Out Montreal will be focused on providing informa
  
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• Healthy infants, seniors to be excluded from free flu shots this year

  05-10-2018 01:03
  Quebec has become the first province in Canada to stop providing free seasonal flu shots to healthy infants from six months to 23 months as well as to healthy adults from the ages of 60 to 74 following the recommendations of a panel of immunization experts.
  This year, however, the health ministry will make a one-time exception and offer the free shots to individuals in both age groups if parents and adults request the vaccinations.
  The panel made the recommendation in December, but the health mi
  
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• Trois-Rivières family's battle to recoup lost, then found, cat goes to Appeal Court

  05-10-2018 00:53
  A Trois-Rivières man went all the way to Quebec’s Court of Appeal to try to get back his cat named Sundae.
  Last April 13, the feline went missing, and wasn’t wearing a collar or tag, the Appeals Court ruling released this week reads.
  The man’s wife and four children searched in vain. A sociable cat, Sundae was known to go visiting at all the neighbours. Sometimes he was invited in to eat, or sleep over.
  “Sundae likes to vocalise. He likes to make you part of his li
  
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