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• Dunlevy: Post-SLAV and Kanata, let's talk about cultural appropriation

  13-10-2018 23:34 via montrealgazette.com
  The dust may have settled on SLAV and Kanata, but there are still lessons to learn from the outcry surrounding Robert Lepage’s controversial stage productions that engulfed the Quebec cultural scene this past summer.
  So hope the organizers of Cause or Consequence: Cultural Appropriation or Cultural Hegemony, a talk being held at Concordia University on Monday evening.
  The discussion is an opportunity to continue the conversation, according to Rahul Varma, whose Teesri Duniya Theatre concei
  
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• Retailer plans to challenge Quebec cannabis law in court

  13-10-2018 23:07 via montrealgazette.com
  Recreational cannabis will become legal on Wednesday, but for some local business owners, Quebec’s legalization plan — which will ban many products that are currently legal — is only a new form of prohibition.
  Now, the owner of a Laval-based chain of head shops says he’s planning to go to court to fight the Quebec cannabis law.
  Bill 157 establishes the framework for legal cannabis sales in Quebec, but one section of that law will make it illegal for businesses to sel
  
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• Protesters decry winter closing of Jacques-Cartier Bridge bike path

  13-10-2018 20:01 via montrealgazette.com
  About 25 protesters turned out on a damp Saturday to denounce plans to once again close the Jacques-Cartier Bridge bike path during the winter, the only conduit into Montreal for cyclists living in Longueuil. Roughly 4,000 cyclists a day use the route in the summer months.
  “What we are asking for is conditional closures — that the bridge corporation close the bike path when they find it is too icy or slippery, and then reopen it again once the surface is dry thanks to snow-clearing o
  
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• Canadiens Game Day: Carey Price sidelined with a flu virus

  13-10-2018 19:25 via montrealgazette.com
  Canadiens Game Day is a new feature this season in which we will follow the Habs during every home game from the morning skate in Brossard through the post-game interviews at the Bell Centre, updating throughout the day with all the news, quotes, notes and opinion you’re looking for:
  After Canadiens goalie Carey Price missed practice Friday in Brossard for what the team called a “therapy day” coach Claude Julien said: “No reason for concern whatsover.”
  There wa
  
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• Obituary: Linda Kay, a pioneer for female journalists and her Concordia students

  13-10-2018 18:58 via montrealgazette.com
  Linda Kay, a pioneering journalist who broke down gender barriers as one of the first female sports writers of her generation and and would later serve as the chair of Concordia University’s Department of Journalism and a columnist for the Montreal Gazette, has died. She was 66.
  She passed away on Friday, surrounded by family at the Glen site of the McGill University Health Centre. First diagnosed with cancer in 2016, the disease had gone into remission, but returned in March of this year.
  
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• From the archives: In journalism, these women paved the way

  13-10-2018 18:58 via montrealgazette.com
  Editor’s note: This article was published in the Montreal Gazette on March 8, 2012
  By Linda Kay, Special to the Montreal Gazette
  In June 2004, I attended a big party in Ottawa.
  The 100th-anniversary celebration of the Canadian Women’s Press Club sent me on a trip back in time.
  For years I’d been curious about my female predecessors in the field, who, until recent decades, had been erased from journalism history. I had no idea that women were first hired as journalists in C
  
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• Mercier Bridge southbound reopens after emergency repairs

  13-10-2018 18:32 via montrealgazette.com
  The Mercier Bridge southbound, in the direction of Châteauguay, reopened just before noon on Saturday after being closed during the morning for emergency repairs by the Quebec Ministry of Transport.
  The bridge was closed just before 10 a.m. due to a breakup of the road surface, Quebec Transport Ministry spokesperson Émilie Lord said. Workers are placing a steel plate over the affected area.
  “There was a sort of dip in the asphalt, Lord said. “It wasn’t a hole, it&r
  
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• Mercier Bridge southbound closed until noon for emergency repairs

  13-10-2018 16:41 via montrealgazette.com
  The Mercier Bridge southbound, in the direction of Châteauguay, has been closed for emergency repairs by the Quebec Ministry of Transport. It is scheduled to reopen at noon.
  More details to come.
  
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• Canadiens Game Day: Carey Price sidelined with a virus

  13-10-2018 16:41 via montrealgazette.com
  After Canadiens goalie Carey Price missed practice Friday in Brossard for a “therapy day” coach Claude Julien said: “No reason for concern whatsover.”
  There was more reason for concern on Saturday when Price wasn’t on the ice again for the Canadiens’ optional skate in Brossard with the team announcing he has a virus. Goalie Charlie Lindgren was called up from the AHL’s Laval Rocket on an emergency basis. Price is coming off the worst season of his c
  
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• Karl Lohnes: In decorating circles, everything old is on-trend again

  13-10-2018 15:00 via montrealgazette.com
  They say that everything that goes around comes back around again, and I am certainly a believer of that when it comes to home décor and its trends. I’ve seen the return of velvet-flocked wallpaper, shag carpet and brass lighting in my lifetime. Usually, a trend that was traditional is re-invented as modern or vice versa. For instance, velvet wallpaper was originally used in very traditional 1970s homes and it re-appeared back on the decorating scene a few years ago in a hip, modern
  
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• FAQ: Everything you need to know about legalized cannabis in Quebec

  13-10-2018 14:32 via montrealgazette.com
  You’re forgiven for being confused about the rules surrounding marijuana, which becomes legal for recreational use as of Wednesday, Oct. 17.
  There’s a federal law, which sets the framework for legalization. Then there’s a Quebec law adopted by the provincial Liberals in June, which François Legault’s incoming Coalition Avenir Québec government will soon replace with yet another law.
  Quebec could go from being one of the most permissive jurisdictions to one o
  
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• Week in Review: Cabinet, Legion, Martin and Short, Molson, Atlas

  13-10-2018 14:00 via montrealgazette.com
  Catch up on what stories you might have missed this week in Montreal.
  Quebec election: François Legault will announce his new cabinet Oct. 18
  Premier-designate François Legault will announce the composition of his first cabinet Thursday, Oct. 18. The Coalition Avenir Québec leader made the announcement Monday in a statement, putting an end to the mystery of when the new government will get down to work. “We have experienced a historic election,” Legault said in
  
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• Shelter: Well-travelled couple find comfort in Old Montreal apartment

  13-10-2018 14:00 via montrealgazette.com
  Fizza Hameed grew up in Lahore, Pakistan, as did her husband Ali Malik, and when she learned he was being transferred to Montreal — they were living in Geneva at the time — she had no idea what lay ahead.
  She freely admits she knew “nothing at all about Montreal” and thought it was probably a “typical North American city” — not nearly as interesting as a city in Europe, an area of the world that she loves.
  Moving here in 2016 came as a revelation.
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• Félix Auger-Aliassime wins Tashkent Challenger

  13-10-2018 13:46 via montrealgazette.com
  Montrealer Félix Auger-Aliassime won the Tashkent Challenger tennis tournament on Saturday.
  The 18-year-old beat Kamil Majchrzak of Poland 6-3, 6-2 in the final of the US$75,000 event in the Uzbekistan capital. Auger-Aliassime had to win three qualifying matches and four in the main draw for the title.
  Ranked 128th in the world (Majchrzak is 178th), Auger-Aliassime is now 2-1 in ATP Challenger-level finals this season.
  
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• While you were sleeping: Trudeau says Legault could help criminals, Auger-Aliassime wins a tournament

  13-10-2018 13:44 via montrealgazette.com
  Here’s what happened while you were sleeping.
  Justin Trudeau doesn’t like François Legault’s age limit for pot. In Armenia on Saturday, Trudeau said the Quebec government’s plan to set the legal age for smoking cannabis at 21 could leave an opening for organized crime. He said he hopes to discuss the matter further with Legault. Federal law sets the age at 18 or 19, depending on the province. Cannabis becomes legal for recreational use on Oct. 17.
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• Montreal road closings: Might as well stay home today

  13-10-2018 13:00 via montrealgazette.com
  Construction work on the Champlain and Mercier bridges will make it difficult to get off the island on Saturday.
  Turcot Interchange
  Because of work on the new Champlain Bridge and its corridor, access to Highway 15 South off the southbound Décarie Expressway will be closed. The Atwater Ave. and Gaétan-Laberge Blvd. entrances to Highway 15 South will also be closed. The highway will be accessible from Nuns’ Island and from Highway 20 East, coming from Lachine and LaSalle.
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• Montreal weather: Cloudy, crisp, maybe damp, and blustery

  13-10-2018 12:30 via montrealgazette.com
  Mainly cloudy with a 40-per-cent chance of showers in the morning.
  Wind becoming west 20 km/h, gusting to 40 in the morning.
  Environment Canada is calling for a high of 9 and the UV index will be 2, or low.
  Tonight: Partly cloudy and cold with a low of 5.
  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&nbs
  
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• Penguins at Canadiens: Five things you should know

  13-10-2018 12:00 via montrealgazette.com
  Here are five things you should know about the Canadiens-Penguins game at the Bell Centre Saturday (7 p.m., CITY, TVA Sports, TSN 690 Radio).
  The rematch: These teams are meeting for the second time in a week. The Canadiens’ aggressive forechecking caught the Penguins off-guard last Saturday in Pittsburgh and Montreal skated to a 5-1 victory. Penguins coach Mike Sullivan described the Canadiens as hard to play against and Montreal will have to duplicate that performance at home. The Canadi
  
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• Josh Freed: Technology and Big Data are taking the mystery out of life

  13-10-2018 12:00 via montrealgazette.com
  The one thing I was happy about on Quebec election night was the pollsters were completely wrong. Nowadays, I like to see people outwit the predictions.
  Everywhere you look, Big Data and technology are making things more predictable — and the unexpected more expected. They’re taking the mystery out of life.
  Weather forecasts once seemed like random entertainment, but today’s satellite weather sites are so accurate about approaching showers, you can almost count down the seconds
  
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• Joël Bouchard quickly putting his stamp on Laval Rocket

  13-10-2018 05:26 via montrealgazette.com
  New Laval Rocket head coach Joël Bouchard is definitely a straight shooter.
  “If a guy sits in the office and tells me his dream is to play for the Laval Rocket, I’ll either start laughing or tell him: ‘You’re a moron,’ ” Bouchard said during an interview Thursday on TSN 690 Radio’s The Morning Show. “Because he has to want to be a Montreal Canadiens player, right? That’s the goal.”
  Bouchard is quickly putting his stamp on the Rocke
  
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• #ICYMI: Religious symbols and smoking pot, more news

  13-10-2018 04:30 via montrealgazette.com
  In Case You Missed It (#ICYMI) is a daily feature highlighting news in and around Montreal.
  A close look at the positions of Quebec political parties and the Bouchard-Taylor Commission tells a nuanced story about how state neutrality should be achieved.
  Read more here: Breaking down Quebec parties’ positions on religious symbols, crucifix
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  Regarding the National Assembly crucifix, they said: “Politicians put the crucifix there, it’s up to politicians to decide what
  
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• Dogs destined for meat market in Asia to be adopted in Montreal

  13-10-2018 02:22 via montrealgazette.com
  They were destined to be sold for meat, but now about 200 dogs from South Korea will be adopted by loving families, many of them in the Montreal area.
  Earlier this week, Humane Society International shut down a farm that had been set to slaughter and sell its dogs in the meat market in Asia. It was the 13th dog-meat farm HSI has helped shut down in the past three years. The operation was funded in part with a $42,000 donation from former American Idol judge Simon Cowell.
  On Friday, Rebecca
  
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• Équiterre founder steps down, won't rule out running for office

  13-10-2018 01:57 via montrealgazette.com
  One of Quebec’s best-known environmentalists is leaving the organization he helped found 25 years ago.
  Steven Guilbeault announced Friday that he is stepping down as senior director and spokesperson for Montreal-based Équiterre.
  Guilbeault and a group of environmentalists founded the citizens’ group in 1993. It now has more than 20,000 members. He left the group to work with Greenpeace for 10 years, but returned to assume the leadership of Équiterre in 2007.
  “Over
  
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• At least two witnesses have placed Septimus Neverson at home invasions

  13-10-2018 01:52 via montrealgazette.com
  Two witnesses who testified late this week in the trial of Septimus Neverson, charged with carrying out 13 home invasions, were able to place the accused at the scene of two of the more violent robberies of which he stands accused.
  Neverson, 56, is alleged to have carried out the home invasions, between 2006 and 2009, in various parts of the Montreal Island and in Laval. He faces a total of 54 charges including the first-degree murder of a man who was killed in Laval and three attempted murders.
  
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• Quebec extends Uber pilot project, infuriating taxi drivers

  13-10-2018 01:48 via montrealgazette.com
  The Uber pilot project, scheduled to end Sunday, is being extended for another year by the new Legault government.
  The Transport Ministry said the extension is intended to allow the collection and analysis of additional information on the services offered by Uber Canada, as well as to continue the study of the impact on taxi transportation services.
  The announcement displeased taxi drivers.
  Taxi groups from Quebec, Montreal and the South Shore say they were not consulted. They say that duri
  
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• Broken Spirit: Sad saga of a rotting cargo ship in Beauharnois is over

  13-10-2018 01:46 via montrealgazette.com
  BEAUHARNOIS — The Kathryn Spirit is no more.
  The federal minister of transport, Marc Garneau, made the announcement on Friday, ending the sad saga of an old rotting cargo ship at the edge of Lac Saint-Louis in Beauharnois.
  Built in 1967, the Kathryn Spirit has not had an owner since 2015, at which point the federal government took control. The ship was towed to Beauharnois in 2011 by Groupe St-Pierre, which wanted to dismantle it in the St. Lawrence River to then sell the scrap metal. 
  
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• Quebec marijuana supplier Hexo Corp. prepares for big day

  13-10-2018 00:41 via montrealgazette.com
  Marijuana will become legal in Canada on Wednesday, but operations were already in full swing this week at Quebec’s biggest supplier.
  There were pot plants as far as the eye could see during a media tour Thursday through one of several warehouses at Hexo Corp.’s expansive Gatineau facility.
  Truckloads of the soon-to-be-legit product are en route to Société québécoise du cannabis (SQDC) outlets to ensure that shelves will be stocked on opening day.
  “I
  
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• 550 trains a day: TMR residents fear the coming of the REM

  13-10-2018 00:29 via montrealgazette.com
  Town of Mount Royal residents used to seeing 62 suburban trains a day pass through their self-described “garden city” are up in arms over the realization that the number will rise to 550 a day with the coming of the REM rapid-transit light-rail line four years from now.
  Since the rail line running through their community of 19,500 people will serve as a feeder line to four separate branches of the rail network once the project is completed, trains will be passing through TMR at the r
  
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• Stu Cowan: Life is just about perfect for Canadiens' Phillip Danault

  13-10-2018 00:13 via montrealgazette.com
  Life is pretty good right now for the Canadiens’ Phillip Danault.
  In fact, it’s just about perfect.
  In July, Danault got married to his longtime girlfriend, Marie-Pierre Fortin, less than a week after signing a new three-year contract worth US$9.25 million. On Wednesday, Danault announced on Twitter and Instagram that his wife is pregnant with their first child, a boy who is due in February.
  “It’s all positive,” Danault said after practice Friday at the Bell Sports
  
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• Impact eyes options to mitigate $11-million annual shortfall

  13-10-2018 00:13 via montrealgazette.com
  While the Impact is clinging to the final playoff spot in the MLS Eastern Conference, team owner Joey Saputo is searching for ways to cut the team’s deficit, which is averaging $11 million a year.
  “It’s doable if we approach things in a more intelligent manner,” said Saputo, who invited the media to discuss the team’s financial problems over lunch at Saputo Stadium.
  Saputo outlined a number of initiatives that could improve the bottom line, starting with some help f
  
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